Posted on 02/03/2022 9:32:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron commented to New York magazine about Black Lives Matter’s $60 million in cash left over from fundraising in 2020, saying BLM was like a “giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernible crew, and no clear direction.”
Indeed, no one — including any of the so-called “leaders” at Black Lives Matter — knows who’s in charge of that money.
That $90 million is an impressive total. But according to multiple media reports, two-thirds of it—$60 million—remain unspent. What was spent, and how it was spent, also raises serious questions. And then there’s the biggest mystery of all: Who is currently in charge of BLM? No one, it seems, has any idea. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is, as far as anyone can tell, leaderless. The founders are no longer involved, and the people they supposedly installed to succeed them never actually took the job.
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors came under fire for purchasing several homes in California just as the George Floyd protests began to ratchet up. The California real estate market being what it is, the homes cost Cullors several million dollars.
When questions began to be asked, Cullors film flam was exposed.
In a statement, BLM said that all of this was on the up and up: “Patrisse Cullors is the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF). She serves in this role in a volunteer capacity and does not receive a salary or benefits. Patrisse has received a total of $120,000 since the organization’s inception in 2013, for duties such as serving as spokesperson and engaging in political education work. Patrisse did not receive any compensation after 2019.”
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But who’s in charge of all that cash she and the other BLM founders left behind? Your guess is as good as mine.
Why not call it a “war chest”?
NBC alone gave $100 million.
There was an oddly worded statement by the folks who turned down the job....that the money issue just laid there with the departing ‘boss’ wanting them to bless her departure. They all refused to participate.
Somewhere out there....there’s probably $100 million in some Bahamas account.
What sixty million? The person in charge of that left a few weeks back and did not leave a forwarding number...(Joke).
Surely their courageous reporters will have read David Horowitz's description of what happened to Betty Van Patter, bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party back in in 1974, and gone ahead anyway, and bravely pressed on with their investigative journalism stuff and gotten the story just the same. Their Pulitzer Prizes will surely make them feel better.
Accounting is racist.
$60 million ? What $60 million ,LOL
Who is charge of the money?
I bet if you do a really deep dive, its a couple of white dudes.
If all they do is about it and poof ! it’ll be gone before our very eyes.
cripes....
If all they do is talk about it...
As I said in the earlier post. 2 things
1) We don’t know where the money went, we didn’t keep track. Sorry
2) Any attempts to prosecute anyone are racist.
BLM! Just another great leftist lie repeated ad nauseam until the public believes it.
ONLY Civilized Lives Matter and Uncivilized lives do not and must not be tolerated on any level.
Civilized Lives includes ALL races, cultures, religions, sexes, occupations, political ideology as long as they behave in a Civilized Manner as defined by society’s laws.
Uncivilized lives must never be allowed to interfere in any way with the day to day lives of Civilized people. Remove them.
For those not up to speed in the Accounting profession, the term “Accounting Irregularities” means money either embezzlement or stealing (same thing).
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