The adage “wherever there may be energy, greed and cash, there may be corruption,” appears to ring true for Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
As The Post reported last week, Black Lives Matter World Community Basis tax paperwork filed (years late) with the IRS present Cullors used BLM funds to pay her graffiti-artist brother a whopping $840,000 for “safety” companies to the nonprofit and $970,000 to an organization owned by her youngster’s father for “artistic companies.” Nepotism a lot?
Oh, and the inspiration’s largest single payout, over $2.1 million, went to a consulting agency owned by one other of its present board members, Shalomyah Bowers.
Cullors admitted on an MSNBC podcast that she “made errors” after $90 million in “white guilt money” flooded to the group after George Floyd’s loss of life, however complained that these errors are actually being “weaponized” towards her.
But she doesn’t take into account it a mistake that the nonprofit purchased a near-$6 million property in Los Angeles. Certainly, she immediately referred to as the criticism of that buy “racist and sexist.” It additionally gave $8 million to an allied Canadian charity (run partially by Cullors’ life associate), which spent $6.3 million on a downtown Toronto property. (Each nonprofits insist the posh areas are getting used to ahead the trigger.)
Hmm: Cullors, a professed Marxist, additionally used BLM funds to e book chartered flights all through the pandemic and herself collected $120,000 from the charity for undisclosed “consulting charges.” Mysteriously, Cullors additionally went on a real-estate-buying binge herself, snagging 4 high-end properties for $3.2 million throughout the nation.
She totally denies the money for that got here from the charity, however nonetheless opted to step down as the foundation’s executive director after the news broke in May 2021. (Unusually, although, it appears nobody has changed her to date.)
The tax docs present BLMGNF spent at the least $37 million on grants, actual property, consulting and different undisclosed bills this previous 12 months, leaving it nonetheless with tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} of that “white guilt” money.
Unusually, it seems like an outfit based after the loss of life of Trayvon Martin solely gave $200,000 to the Trayvon Martin Basis, far lower than it paid to Cullors’ brother and her son’s father.
To be clear: Cullors isn’t essentially flawed to make use of the sneering time period “white guilt cash:” As Adam Coleman noted for The Publish, Company America panicked after Floyd’s loss of life at police palms in the summertime of 2020; it was trying to purchase “woke” credibility, plainly with out worrying how a lot precise good the donations would do.
Briefly, there’s not numerous honor to go round right here, and we’d seemingly not approve of a lot {that a} bunch of Marxists determined to spend their windfall on.
The bigger lesson applies to actions all throughout the spectrum: An enormous inflow of cash will tempt leaders to spend massive on priorities which have much more to do with themselves than the trigger.
