Remember when BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors dropped over a million on a mansion (in a mostly white neighborhood) in California. Well, her ‘Non-profit’ has raked in at least 90 million, and inquiring minds want to know what they did with the money.
What they are doing.
Neither Cullors nor BLM ever filed any 990s, and now she’s saying that requirement – the transparency – is a being used against her people or something.
Asking for that level of transparency makes her uncomfortable. She doesn’t feel safe. The people in the movement don’t feel safe. It feels like some sort of weapon.
“People’s morale in an organization is so important. But if their organization and the people in it are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout. that leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma,” Cullors said.
Cullors, who left BLM without a leader after she resigned in May 2021 amid scrutiny of her personal real estate purchases, said media scrutiny of the charity is an “experiment,” that, if successful, will be used to take down other black-led activist groups.
“They know what they’re doing: how to create the infighting, how to create the distrust,” she said. “We have to stop it before they do it. We have to shut it down. We have to be showing up against it.”
Just say it. The IRS and form 990 are racist.
Not that Cullors needs to say it (she never goes quite that far). And she’s not in charge of BLM anymore, but that’s not going to protect her. “Authorities” want to know what’s up with the millions.
The report at PJ Media suggests that the mansion is not being used for the purpose stated by the so-called non-profit. Were millions more dollars were appropriated for taxable uses because the greedy folks running California and at the IRS (is the ‘R’ for racist?) will want their piece.
BLM could stand for Black Laundromat Millionaires, but they/them don’t care.
The FBI will happily raid your residence at 5 am and perp walk you in front of CNN’s conveniently present cameras to get their slice of your action.
In other words, if the form doesn’t make you feel safe, just wait. You’re about to feel a lot less safe after a Grand Jury Indictment. Or did you forget? And you cry racism or whine about safe spaces and weaponized bureaucracies all you want. Those are also your people, and you are only useful to that regime while you are useful.
The moment any advantage tips away from you and toward them, your usefulness evolves.
There is not a single victim class face on the Identity politics totem poll that makes you immune to that.
And your movement spent an entire summer burning down minority neighborhoods and looting minority businesses, even ending black lives, to advance the sort of government that does that. It is a state that inevitably ignores the law when it suits them because it does not apply to them.
The way you claim that the 990 reporting rules do not apply to you. Ironic, right?
I guess you should have converted your little group into an LLC, paid taxes on the donations, and then you could have kept that privacy to which you now claim to be entitled.
But you didn’t.
Say hi to your lawyers for me, and you’ll need to pay them too, but at least you can claim that as a legitimate expense.
