I certainly remember when Kamala Harris did exactly this:
Posted on 12/14/2025 2:23:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
There’s a quote, attributed to the intellectual Eric Hoffer, that describes much of what happens in Washington and the activist world: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Now the Justice Department has given us new evidence that Black Lives Matter, the cause that was so prominent in 2020, in what was sometimes called the great “racial reckoning,” actually began as a racket and went downhill from there.
Do you remember when BLM was raising money that it said would be used to post bail for protesters unjustly arrested in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd? Well, on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Oklahoma announced that Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, the executive director of Black Lives Matter in Oklahoma City, known as Black Lives Matter OKC, has been indicted on 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering related to those bail funds.
This is from the Justice Department’s announcement: “Beginning in late spring 2020, Black Lives Matter OKC raised funds to support its social justice mission from online donors, as well as from national bail funds. In total, Black Lives Matter OKC raised more than $5.6 million, which included grants from national bail funds, including the Community Justice Exchange, Massachusetts Bail Fund, and Minnesota Freedom Fund. Most of those funds were routed through the Alliance for Global Justice, as fiscal sponsor to Black Lives Matter OKC.”
That last sentence is a reference to the fact that Black Lives Matter OKC did not have the IRS’s designation as a charity, known as 501(c)(3) status, so it routed contributions through an affiliated group, the...
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BLM is a scam, so any reporting of said group, is pointless. It is what it is.
BLM started out as a racket - a devious leftist political one.
They were formed in the White House, by Obama, with the protection of Holder and Lynch’s DOJ
They were Obama’s brownshirts/red guards - formed to go out and cause leftist mayhem on the streets, to push Obama’s race-marxist narrative, and radical anti-police DOJ policies.
Exactly
BLM is just one of many NGO slush fund scams bilking taxpayers and gullible progressives.
Exactly twice.
I do not know who first stated the below. I would gladly give them all the credit.
Buy
Large
Mansions
BLM skipped the first two steps. It was an opportunistic scam from the get go.
Good one!
I call them “Burn, Loot, Murder.”
I’ll bet that those who started BLM laughed and called it that when they were setting it up.
I certainly remember when Kamala Harris did exactly this:
FAFO
I shouldn’t have to click on the link to find out if the headline is referring to the Bureau of Land Management or Black LIES Matter.
“BLM started out as a racket - a devious leftist political one.
They were formed in the White House, by Obama, with the protection of Holder and Lynch’s DOJ
They were Obama’s brownshirts/red guards - formed to go out and cause leftist mayhem on the streets, to push Obama’s race-marxist narrative, and radical anti-police DOJ policies.”
A very good and accurate description of this shakedown operation.
I shouldn't have to give information that is right there in front of your eyes if you bothered to read it.
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