Some things are so predictable. For instance, take Black Lives Matter. This is their “about us” statement
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
It’s also very lucrative for those at the top. Last year BLM raised $90 million dollars, some of which was used to fuel a spending spree for one of BLM’s founders, Patrisse Cullors. The self-described “trained Marxist” socialist spent more than $3 million purchasing high-end homes some of which were in largely white neighborhoods.
The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles, according to a report. The 2,370-square-foot property features “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views. The Topanga Canyon homestead, which includes two houses on a quarter-acre, is just one of three homes Khan-Cullors owns in the Los Angeles area, public records show.
Cullors apparently has a interest in spreading the movement into the Bahamas
Last year, Khan-Cullors and Khan were spotted in the Bahamas looking for a unit at the Albany, a real estate source who did not want to be identified told The Post. The elite enclave is laid out on “600 oceanside acres” and features a private marina and designer golf course. Current homes for sale include a nearly 8,000-square-foot, six-bedroom townhouse with a media room and marina views. The price is only available upon request, according to the resort’s website.
In 2015 Cullors called for the end of “imperialistic” Israel.
In the face of the spending uproar, Cullors is departing BLM. CNN puts it this way- she’s “transitioning”:
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has announced that she’s transitioning out of her role as executive director. On Thursday, she said on her YouTube channel, “… I feel excited for me, and my next journey.” Cullors revealed that at the end of 2019 she had stepped back from the organization, but people within BLM asked her to come back during last summer’s uprising.
But CNN left out something rather important- Cullors is transitioning to book and movie deals.
The embattled co-founder of Black Lives Matter announced on Thursday that she’s resigning as executive director amid criticism over her lavish lifestyle. Patrisse Cullors, 37 — who has been at the helm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for nearly six years — said she is leaving to focus on a book and TV deal.
I’m putting down a marker now. Part of that transitioning will be to the Hollywood red carpet and bashes. She’s already primping for that new role.
Fancy accouterments for a trained Marxist, no?
The trained Marxist Cullors has gone full capitalistic glam while trying to maintain the veneer of dedication. But what has BLM actually done for anyone?
“Cullors and the foundation have said they do support families without making public announcements or disclosing dollar amounts.”
Mothers who have lost their sons during police shooting incidents are criticizing Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who recently announced that she was parting ways with the group. “They are benefiting off the blood of our loved ones, and they won’t even talk to us,” Samaria Rice, the mother of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by Cleveland police in 2014, told the New York Post. “I don’t believe she is going anywhere.”
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Rice described the announcement as a “façade” and predicted that Cullors was “only saying that to get the heat off her right now.” “They are benefiting off the blood of our loved ones, and they won’t even talk to us,” said Rice. Lisa Simpson, who claims she never received funds that the Black Lives Matter Los Angeles chapter raised after Los Angeles Police Department officers shot and killed her 18-year-old son Richard Risher in 2016, similarly said that the director was personally profiting from BLM’s fundraising.
A former BLM activist became disenchanted with the organization:
In a video published Wednesday by TakeCharge, a Minnesota-based, black-led movement that rejects Critical Race Theory (CRT) and woke culture, Rashad Turner described how he became a founder of BLM in St. Paul, but came to realize, after only a year on the inside of the organization, that caring for black lives, black children, and black families was the least of the radical group’s concerns.
Turner learned “the ugly truth”:
In 2015 I was a founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul. I believed the organization stood for exactly what the name implies, black lives do matter. However, after a year on the inside, I learned they have little concern for rebuilding black families, and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis. That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools, alongside the teachers’ union. I was an insider in Black Lives Matter, and I learned the ugly truth: the moratorium on charter schools does not support rebuilding the black family, but it does create barriers to a better education for black children.
BLM joins the pantheon of organizations like NAN and PUSH that proport to help black people but have little to show for all the money they collect. They seem best at buying mansions, expensive suits and seats on private jets for their leaders.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, this seems like a tale told by a Marxist, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing other than the pursuit of the trappings of capitalist wealth. BLM, like its predecessors, is not interested in healing and making lives better. It’s consumed with the pursuit of wealth and power, which it derives from division and hatred, especially of America.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
It appears the racist victim culture has it’s own establishment, just like the US government. They invent a problem with which they can raise vast amounts of money, then the leadership elite siphon off as much as they can to live like what they would call “capitalist pigs”, living off the misery of the little guys.
BLM is a worthy extension of the Democrat party (and vice versa). All they care about is duping the weak minded and easily fooled people they supposedly represent out of money to steal. They have to keep creating victimizing tragedies and crises to maintain their relevance and leadership.
Their one overriding point is that a black person can commit any crime and pose any threat and law enforcement is not allowed to react to them.
Used to be we saw globalists (commies) pushing NAFTA which was a disguised “Race to the Bottom,” when it came to wages.
Later we heard globalists (commies) desiring to “Manage the Decline.”
Today, with this commie, the scales are really off the eyes: commies (globalists) only want the most they can skim while they destroy the goose (capitalism) that lays the golden egg ($$$$).
She’s got the Swiss bank account of a kleptocrat without ever being bothered by having to rule over anyone.
Black Lives Matter – Sometimes
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As of noon on July 4, 2022, nine people had been shot and killed in Chicago over the July 4th weekend. A total of 57 had been shot altogether.
The corporate media barely noticed.
In Akron, a black man fleeing from police was shot and killed. The media exploded with fury. The streets filled with the usual suspects.
Seems black life only matters when it fits a particular narrative.
Nine people have been shot and killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago. They are among at least 57 people shot, according to police.
Friday night in Chicago a woman was killed and two others wounded in a shootout in Chinatown.
In the 2200 block of South Wentworth Avenue that same evening a man and woman engaged in a gunfight. The woman was struck in the abdomen, taken to the hospital, and died of her injuries.
Another man that same night was shot and killed in Englewood.
A man was killed in a shooting Saturday in South Shore. He was riding his bike when he was shot by someone in a passing car.
Three people were shot, one fatally, in a backyard early Sunday morning in Grand Crossing on the South Side.
During an eight-hour span surrounding that incident, a total of 16 people were shot in Chicago.
A man was fatally shot sitting outside a residential building Sunday morning in West Humboldt Park on the West Side.
Hours later, a man was shot walking in Chicago Lawn on the South Side.
Nine people were wounded in separate weekend mass shootings on the West and South Sides.
A 10-year-old was wounded while sitting inside his bedroom Sunday night when bullets were shot through the side of his home in Englewood.
These are anecdotes only. Right now in Chicago, a person is shot every two hours and 45 minutes. A person is killed every thirteen hours. Almost 80% of the victims are black. The same applies to the shooters. Overwhelmingly the people doing the dying are young black males.
No one cares.
In Akron, though, there is outrage. The mayor just declared a state of emergency, canceled July 4th celebrations, and imposed a curfew. Police are clashing with angry mobs.
Why? You know why. A black man was killed by police. Kids getting shot in the head for no reason in Chicago is no big deal, but the life of this one guy is something to go to the mat about.
The man killed was named Jayland Walker. Police attempted to pull him over in a traffic stop. He drove away at high speed. While attempting to escape from the police Walker shot at a police car following him. When he was finally pulled over Walker fled the vehicle and attempted to escape on foot. When he exited the car Walker was wearing a ski mask covering his head and face.
Bodycam footage of Walker’s shooting shows police officers firing dozens of times. Following the release of the bodycam footage showing the shooting of Walker, the Fraternal Order of Police’s Akron Lodge #7 said that the car being driven by the victim was involved in a ‘felony fleeing police chase’ the previous morning. The press release from the FOP added, ‘We believe the independent investigation will justify the officers’ actions, including the number of shots fired. The decision to deploy lethal force as well as the number of shots fired is consistent with use of force protocols and officers’ training.’
What happens every day in Chicago and many other American cities is a tragedy. Law and order no longer exist. Armed gangs rule the streets. The young men and women, most of them black, who are born into these areas are doomed from birth. If they somehow avoid being shot, they will be pushed out of necessity to become involved in criminal activity and ultimately become murderers themselves.
If groups like Black Lives Matter truly cared about any of this they would be on the South Side of Chicago demanding an end to the violence, telling young black men to put down their guns, and doing everything humanly possible to provide an alternate path for them. These social justice warriors would be fighting to end a culture of death and bring hope to those who have none.
Instead, these charlatans and conmen shamelessly seize on every opportunity to divide the nation along racial lines, demonize the police and spread violence and hate. Their true objective is not justice. They seek to destroy and tear down and wage war on society.
Black lives matter – sometimes – when it suits the purposes of the revolutionaries in our streets.
Instead, these charlatans and conmen shamelessly seize on every opportunity to divide the nation along racial lines, demonize the police and spread violence and hate. Their true objective is not justice. They seek to destroy and tear down and wage war on society.
They are not in the streets in any revolution. They are straight up blackmail artists living in mansions paid for by shaking down corporations for donations.
Perhaps what infuriates the left is when police stop a crime?