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BLM sets up student relief fund as loan forgiveness stalls
The Associated Press ^ | December 12, 2022 | By AARON MORRISON

Posted on 12/12/2022 12:24:44 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation launched a new relief fund Monday aimed at Black college students, alumni and dropouts overburdened by mounting education costs and the student loan debt crisis.

The foundation said it set aside $500,000 for the fund and plans to award more than 500 recipients with relief payments ranging from $750 to $4,500.

“The fact of the matter is that Black people who work to get an education are struggling right now,” BLM foundation board chair Cicley Gay said.

Foundation board secretary Shalomyah Bowers, who runs the consulting firm that the movement organization hired to build out its philanthropic capacity, said Student Solidarity Fund applicants do not have to prove they are Black. But fund administrators will be working to weed out scammers.

That initiative launched just as the foundation opened up about the tens of millions in donations it took in after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a case that helped spark racial justice protests across the U.S. and around the world. Earlier this year, the foundation revealed in a nonprofit tax filing that it had nearly $42 million in net assets at the end of the last fiscal year.

The financial revelations set off a fresh wave of criticism from the left and right in the political world and from both inside and outside of the broader BLM movement. Several months after the disclosures, the foundation’s structure remains the same. It is run by a three-member board of directors, including Gay and Bowers.

In August, a group of local chapters and activists known as BLM Grassroots filed a lawsuit in a California Superior Court against Bowers.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackthievesmatter; blm; blmgn; cicleygay; corruption; fraud; scam; shalomyahbowers
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1 posted on 12/12/2022 12:24:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What did we do to deserve that gang of con artists?!


2 posted on 12/12/2022 12:26:16 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BLM = domestic terrorism


3 posted on 12/12/2022 12:26:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: No name given

I was being sarcastic.


4 posted on 12/12/2022 12:26:46 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I imagine that a few BLM leaders will get million dollar mansions out of this. Other than that, not much will happen.


5 posted on 12/12/2022 12:30:35 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They took in billions from guilt ridden corporations. Where did all the money go? The founders jumped ship and bought mansions, leaving their useful idiots behind.


6 posted on 12/12/2022 12:31:34 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Burn, loot and murder. Anyone or any company contributing money or is a member of bLM deserves to convicted of terrorism or material support of a terrorist organization.


7 posted on 12/12/2022 12:33:38 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So it’s ok to make a strictly white globalist organization again that caters only to white people and helps them to succeed?


8 posted on 12/12/2022 12:34:03 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ROTFL! The St. Georgie Student Memorial Fund. LOL.


9 posted on 12/12/2022 12:38:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the student’s name is anything like Aiko Yamamoto or Ivan Popov, BLM will not help you at all.


10 posted on 12/12/2022 12:44:23 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If BLM sold off a few of their multi-million Dollar mansions that they bought with 2020 ‘Summer of Love’ corporate bribe money, I’m sure they could retire a lot of Black student debt.


11 posted on 12/12/2022 12:46:58 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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“Studies” degrees that only make people more dumberer don’t come cheap


12 posted on 12/12/2022 12:50:43 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apparently, someone (or several folks) needs new mansions.


13 posted on 12/12/2022 12:55:45 PM PST by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Relief fund of a different color


14 posted on 12/12/2022 1:02:24 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will Biden and Congress be funding this vile venture?

You borrowed money, pay it back.


15 posted on 12/12/2022 1:03:52 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re spending money on others rather than their own mansions?


16 posted on 12/12/2022 1:10:31 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: BenLurkin

“BLM = domestic terrorism”

And this is exactly how groups like the Taliban, Al Qaida, Hezbollah, ISIL, and many other Islamic terrorist groups gain support in their countries. They build roads, schools, medical facilities, shopping centers, and supply money to the accepted government for maintenance. And the people there are not that well educated about the outside world and think it’s great. Simple comparison.

wy69


17 posted on 12/12/2022 1:12:32 PM PST by whitney69
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Assuming that it actually happens, I’m okay with this. Let relief organizations raise these funds and distribute them out however they want. Better that than the fed trying to convince us they can do it as efficiently.

Who knows, maybe there are a few chapters of BLM that actually had good intentions and would try to give it to whom they promised.


18 posted on 12/12/2022 1:17:18 PM PST by Marko413
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To: Fungi
"...Khan-Cullors tearfully defended her $3.2 million real estate empire,..."

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19 posted on 12/12/2022 1:18:22 PM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can smell the fraud from West Palm Beach!


20 posted on 12/12/2022 1:31:06 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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