As I previously reported, BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors just dropped $1.4 million through a corporate entity she controls on a mini-compound in the very white Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles.
But as we also reported, it turns out that wasn’t the only real estate she’d invested in; in fact, she had three other homes in her name, according to the NY Post, two of those also in the Los Angeles area and another one in that horrible evil racist state of Georgia — that one, a “custom ranch,” came complete with an airplane hangar and an indoor swimming pool, not to mention the use of a runway for planes. The New York Post also said that she was checking out places at a resort in the Bahamas where the homes run between $5 and $20 million but it wasn’t clear if she’d actually bought anything.
According to the NY Post, there are two BLM entities connected to Cullors, a non-profit and a for-profit. She doesn’t have to declare details of the for profit. But the non-profit claimed that they made $90 million in 2020 and that they doled out $21.7 million of that to various black-led groups. It’s not clear what money Cullors gets from the non-profit. But she bought the house in Georgia in January of last year after her book “When They Call You a Terrorist” came out. She also cut a multi-platform deal with Warner Brothers Television Group to produce pieces showing “black voices who have been historically marginalized.” For a trained Marxist she certainly appears to be a pretty good capitalist. It would appear she’s making her social justice BLM leadership role pay off.
That wasn’t all, as author and journalist Asra Nomani pointed out in a Twitter thread. According to Nomani, Cullors also formed a consulting firm with her non-binary spouse, Janaya Khan who’s also a BLM organizer.
🧵How did anti-capitalist, self-described Marxist Patrice Cullors #BlackLivesMatter monetize her activism? I wondered. Here’s what I found. She created a consulting firm with her wife Janaya Khan, an early BLM leader. https://t.co/g2XY7G0SHc “Janaya & Patrisse Consulting.” pic.twitter.com/fUWkboV7kh
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
“Transforming Organizations One Strategic Planning Session at a Time.” In the time honored tradition of (capitalist) consulting firms, they monetize “strategic planning,” “media + narrative building,” 🤮 and “intervention” and “cultural shift work.” 🤑 Or gobbledygook. pic.twitter.com/iH1bFuGO0w
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
They “help you succeed” with “one on one coaching” (Who needs hyphens? That’s white supremacy.), “anti-bias training,” “racial + gender justice training,” “long- and short-term consulting.” On + on. They monetize protest photos to sell services, inc “creative content creation.” pic.twitter.com/x9rM4MKhZq
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
“Freedom fighter” Patrice Cullors and “staunch Afrofuturist” Janaya Khan exploit their association with Black Lives Matter to monetize themselves…as capitalists. pic.twitter.com/8zfhgsumcW
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
Aside: what’s “Afro-futurism”? It’s critical race theory meets science fiction. It argues the “Jetsons” show was racist because it featured a white family. Fix that, they say, with movies like Black Panther. pic.twitter.com/vkiLTX2Toq
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
Like a good capitalist consulting firm, they monetize buzzwords they invent. They will create a “joyful organization,” realize “better performance,” chart a “sense of purpose.” All empty words but virtue signaling leaders eat it up. 🤑 pic.twitter.com/j71DGSXovH
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
Cullors and Khan formed the consulting firm in 2016.
Here are examples of money this “consulting” business got. In 2018, the Annenberg Foundation paid her $35,000 for the “Chora Prize.” She won for her “Reform LA Jails” work. But was that a labor of love?
The prize: https://t.co/TYdE8Y4pse
The IRS 990: https://t.co/kFYaTvoaml pic.twitter.com/6llHhUP0W2
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
Janaya & Patrice collected at least $76,995 through 19 payments in 2019 from “Real Justice PAC,” where she was a leader along with controversial Shaun King. They led “Reform LA Jails” and opened jails.
Real Justice PAC: https://t.co/bDT1nBbkz0
Fees: https://t.co/2AM7Ct25TS pic.twitter.com/OblvycDcTi
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 10, 2021
Some of Cullors’ supporters then attacked Nomani for her thread.
But other folks are upset with her actions.
As I mentioned in my prior story, BLM grassroots activists in the streets want more transparency as to where all the money is going and they want to see more help. Hawk Newsome, who runs BLM Greater New York, is calling for “an independent investigation” as to how the global BLM network spends its money. Moreover, mothers of Tamir Rice and Richard Risher are disturbed about how their sons’ names and likenesses have been used by activists. They said they want the activists to stop capitalizing on their dead children and among the people they name is Cullors.
Mothers Samaria Rice + Lisa Simpson asked Tamika Mallory, Shaun King, Benjamin Crump, …Patrisse Cullors,…and the Black Lives Matter Global Network to step down and “stop monopolizing and capitalizing” on their “fight for justice and human rights.” https://t.co/f7x3dgRfbV
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) April 11, 2021
HT: Twitchy
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