BLM Co-Founder Lashes Out At ‘Racist’ Media For Exposing $6 Million Mansion Purchased By Donations

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors lashed out at “racist” media coverage that exposed her $6 million mansion in Los Angeles, California that was purchased with donor funds.

The report was published by investigative journalist Sean Kevin Campbell, a black man, in New York Magazine on Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported. Cullors called Campbell’s reporting a “racist and sexist” attack against BLM.

Yesterday’s article in New York Magazine is a despicable abuse of a platform that’s intended to provide truthful information to the public,” she said Tuesday on Instagram. “Journalism is supposed to mitigate harm and inform our communities. That fact that a reputable publication would allow a reporter, with a proven and very public bias against me and other Black leaders, to write a piece filled with misinformation, innuendo and incendiary opinions, is disheartening and unacceptable.

Daily Caller report: Cullors quietly purchased the property in October 2020 in the Los Angeles Studio City neighborhood, and provided in donor funds to Dyane Pascall, who has close ties with Cullors, the outlet reported. The co-founder made the purchase just two weeks after the organization received a $66.5 million cash infusion from a former fiscal sponsor.

BLM board member Shalomyah Bowers told the Examiner that Cullors used Pascall for the property purchase to “avoid exposing” the organization to liability. Cullors said that the property purchase was undisclosed because it needed “repairs and renovation.”

The seven bedroom home, renovated in the 1930’s, has a “custom wrought iron staircase,” bathrooms with “calcatta gold stone,” three fireplaces, and “carrara marble,” the outlet reported.

Cullors has criticized the report, noting that it stems from a “long history of attacking black people.” She denied ever misappropriating funds given to BLM.

This is bigger than me, it’s about a long history of attacking Black people and Black women specifically, creating unsafe conditions for us and our families, scrutinizing our every move publicly and privately in ways that are unfair and unjust,” she said on Instagram. “It’s dangerous and we should all be trying to stop it, interrupt it, protest it.”

I have never misappropriated funds, and it pains me so many people have accepted that narrative without the presence of tangible truth or facts,” she continued.

Cullors said she does not own or reside in the mansion, the outlet reported. The home was used to film videos for her personal YouTube account. She deleted all videos on the account Tuesday.

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7 Comments

  1. Aaahhhh, the race card. What’s $6m of a $66m donation guys? C’mon, do you think champagne, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo’s, all those weaves, fake nails and make-up is CHEAP??? And don’t stop the donations folks, repairs need to be done… BLM se moer, lol.

  2. JOHANNESBURG – Police Minister Bheki Cele has dismissed claims that the interventions made to deal with crime in Diepsloot have failed – just a day since their implementation.

    Cele, accompanied by National Police Commissioner Sehlahle Masemola, was in Diepsloot to visit the scene where a man was killed in an apparent mob attack on Wednesday night.

    The 43-year-old Elvis Nyathi was reportedly pelted with stones and dragged onto Thubelihle Street in Extension 1 by a mob that demanded residents produce IDs and passports to prove they weren’t undocumented nationals.

    Cele said more than 100 members of the special forces had been deployed to the crime ravaged area following violent community protests calling for better policing.

    “The fact that there is somebody who died does not mean that the situation is out of control. We have deployments in this area, there are police and we have made more than 24 arrests,” he said.

    While neighbours expressed fear and shock at the attack on Nyathi it has emerged that another man was assaulted by the same mob that murdered the father of four.

    Standing near the bloodstained ground where the second victim was beaten, neighbour Eclick Mphalle said she feared for her life.

    “They must send _amaberethe _to protect and guard us 24/7 because we aren’t safe here – we don’t sleep.”

    With extra boots on the ground residents said they still feared for their lives.

    They said police had failed to prevent or even stop crime in the area but Cele disagreed, saying, “I hear some people saying there were no police but 24 people were arrested here. Now, I don’t know who arrested them if there were no police.”

    Masemola confirmed no arrested had been made in connection with the murder.

    “Police were not phoned to come out, police were patrolling, they came across this group of people. You see the area yourself. If someone runs away, police couldn’t find them.”

    Cele would return to the township on Friday when he was expected to give feedback on more permanent solutions to the situation in the area but this has brought little comfort for the community.

    Where is BLM when you need ’em. Blacks killing blacks but the Police Minister (appointed last week) says its under control. Remember when they were all howling and screaming about humanity, dignity and all that other mandela crap?

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