Posted on 06/02/2022 11:12:18 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Stacey Abrams serves as a board member of a UPS family foundation that awards millions of dollars to professors and scholars who advocate anti-capitalist and prison abolitionist views, Fox News Digital has learned.
Abrams, who is taking another shot at running for Georgia governor, is currently listed as a board member at the Seattle-based Marguerite Casey Foundation, a private grant-making foundation named after Marguerite Casey, the sister of UPS founder Jim Casey.
The far-left foundation has repeatedly voiced support for defunding and abolishing the police.
Abrams, who has tried to distance herself from the hardline rhetoric of the #DefundThePolice movement in the past, has received at least $52,500 in income from the foundation, according to her financial disclosures.
Abrams' campaign told Fox News Digital last week that Abrams, who joined the foundation's board in May 2021, does not hold the same views as the foundation.
In December, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation announced the recipients of the 2021 Freedom Scholars Awards, which gave $250,000 to each of six professors who are "leading research in critical fields including abolitionist, Black, feminist, queer, radical, and anti-colonialist studies."
The $1.5 million annual award, established in 2020, "counters the limited financial resources and research constraints frequently faced by scholars whose work supports social movements," the foundation said.
One of the professors who received an award was Robin D. G. Kelley, who teaches African American history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has argued that capitalism is inherently racist.
In a February NPR segment, Kelley said, "The secret to capitalism's survival is racism."
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Abrams, who has tried to distance herself from the hardline rhetoric of the #DefundThePolice movement in the past, has received at least $52,500 in income from the foundation, according to her financial disclosures.
Abrams' campaign told Fox News Digital last week that Abrams, who joined the foundation's board in May 2021, does not hold the same views as the foundation.
Of course she holds the same views and that should help towards her loss. Then go away!
I just hope she gets a fair election.
And lose by an even bigger number.
I’m no fan of Kemp but the thought of this Marxist vat of goo running GA is just a horrible outcome.
“prison abolition”
Take away prisons and lawbreakers will be punished by their fellow citizens, especially by their victims and friends of the victims.
The only thing about Stacey Abrams that's "down for the struggle" are her floorboards.
So they close the prisons and abolish the police. The hordes of obama’s boys run loose and destroy what’s left of our civilization.
She, of course, will be protected by armed guards.
This is why she wants to be president.
Better the inequalities of a free society than the equalities of socialism.
The longevity of fools in the Rat party never ceases to amaze.
“Victims and friends? Their called vigilantes, Maverick 😎
Stacie Abrams’ personal wealth has increased 3100% over the last 2 years.
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How do people like this end up in places of power?
She’s a commie, Jim.
“Their called vigilantes”
Vigilantes take the law into their hands but if there is no law, and there effectively is no law if there’s no punishment, then perhaps they are “the law” and not vigilantes.
Stacey Abrams
Legion inhabits her soul.
Imho.
5.56mm
STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!
Enough is enough bitch!
That foundation is on many commercials of scuzzball NPR. Cut tax payer funding.
So how should we handle crime when there are no more prisons?
In my suburban town several of the houses on my exercise route have yard signs that say “Support Bill # 12345” on one side and “Building Up People,Not Prisons” on the other.
But Kemp doesn’t kowtow to Trump! We must elect the gap toothed water buffalo to punish Kemp, or something.
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