If you were a journalist, how would you file charges of financial misconduct suffered by the organization Black Lives Matter (BLM)?
With Sure you could ignore these financial issues regarding Global Black Lives Matter Network Foundation. Or maybe he could present the accusations as “New York Magazine” did in a recent article: with absurd statements from people saying that the organization’s corruption proves that its leaders are capitalists.
Just in case, you might also suggest that the founders of Black Lives Matter – Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Melina Abdullah – did not lead the barbarism of recent years and that, instead, they just exaggerated their own role within the institution. . It was all just an invention of the press. These ladies do not represent a big, beautiful movement fighting for social justice.
No kidding, this is how investigative reporter Sean Campbell is peeling this pineapple in his article for the “New York Magazine”. After all, reports of wrongdoing cannot be swept under the rug, even though the New York Times and the Washington Post have tried hard.
Of all In all places, it was precisely California that suspended the tax exemption of the Black Lives Matter Global Global Network Foundation, according to the Politico Pro website.
The apologists of the main Black Lives Matter organization can having to evade the facts regarding the alleged wrongdoings, but ignore the very well-documented Marxist background of the founders and blame capitalism for their greed.
Campbell did not even have the courtesy to mention that who gave the scoop was investigative journalist Andrew Kerr of the “Washington Examiner”. Kerr’s discovery included the disappearance of millions of dollars, the absence of anyone in the foundation’s leadership for nearly a year, and the fact that she spent 8 million Canadian dollars to buy the former HQ of the Communist Party of Canada in Toronto.
Between thieves and journalists, so much the worse for honesty. But first, let’s give him credit: Campbell has done many noble things. He is frank in reporting that the Global Black Lives Matter Network Foundation has not helped victims of any police action and that the organization is not very transparent with finances. It’s the first time I’ve seen a major publication assert these realities.
Campbell quotes Tory Russell, an activist from Ferguson, Missouri: “The movement that was catapulted into the spotlight forgot to Ferguson and the freedom fighters who literally gave their lives for the cause.”
Campbell cites yet other activists being quite honest about a “disturbing lack of financial transparency” at the Global Network Foundation. Black Lives Matter, and he himself writes: “The Global BLM Network Foundation has never been a model of fiscal clarity.”
It takes courage for a journalist, in a major leftist publication, to write these things. So much so that Campbell felt obliged to explain that he is a black man raised by a single mother and that “the police pointed guns at me”.
But the virtues end here. , Campbell engages in revisionist history, leading the reader to believe that Garza, Cullors, and Tometi simply stole the spotlight from the Black Lives Matter movement.
For example: his article in “New York Magazine” quotes Ashley Yates, a furious former BLM activist. In 2015, at a conference at Cleveland State University organized to discuss the future movement, she said: organizers confronted Cullors, saying that she and her co-founders needed to do more to correct press versions that their organization was orchestrating the movement.”
Campbell writes: “Yates says that she later privately pressured Cullors, Garza and Tometi on the matter.’They said, “It’s not us, it’s the media that does this.” I was like, ‘Okay, but that came out of your mouth.’”
According to this version, the key work of Cullors, Garza and Tometi in organizing socialist groups in Ferguson in year of 2014, after a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, it was indeed accidental.
Apparently , the three sprang up in Ferguson “labeling their achievement Black Lives Matter,” writes Campbell, who quotes Yates: “No one really knew why they were there. Nobody really knew who they were.”
This article by 2014, in a publication called “In These Times”– the communist magazine founded by Herbert Marcuse, Julian Bond and Noam Chomsky – provides a very good account of Garza’s role in using Brown’s death to launch a national and global network that makes us less free today.
Still, even the founding of BLM in 2013 seems open to question now.
” Garza is said to have been drinking whiskey when the news revealed that George Zimmerman was completely acquitted of the murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, and took to Facebook to express his grief: ‘Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. .”, she wrote. Her friend Cullors replied with a missive of her own, closing with #BLACKLIVESMATTER [#VIDASNEGRASIMPORTAM]”, writes Campbell.
“They have a very inflated sense of importance, in terms of the movement”, in the words attributed to Howard University law professor Justin Hansford.
Campbell still quotes another angry activist, Keyanna Celina: “I think it is important, as far as Black Lives Matter is concerned, let them be more or less identified as capitalists.”
And so the article in “New York Magazine” goes on, for almost 4.200 words. Nowhere does the deep Marxism of Garza, Cullors and Tometi appear. Nowhere will the reader find his formative years in centers established by the likes of Eric Mann and Harmony Goldberg: the former an apologist for Mao and the Soviet Union; the other, a specialist in the strategy of the Italian Marxist philosopher, which consists of making the revolution through ideological indoctrination.
And it is still Marxism that brings it all together.
For years, people like me have been writing exactly what Campbell shows: the creators of the Global BLM Network Foundation are not interested in social justice or black lives. We know this not only because of what Russell and others have been saying.
BLM leaders are also insensitive to the thousands of black lives lost to violence in the same cities as the BLM did demonstrations and riots, because of something called “the Ferguson Effect”.
Social justice and racial equity are, in fact, a mere facade for a project. much bigger: to destroy capitalism and the American system, including representative democracy.
That is why Garza tells the people that “we all have a lot of work ahead of us to continue dismantling the organizing principle of this society”, and that Cullors says that she and Garza are “trained Marxists”, and that Tometi praises Venezuela’s “participatory democracy”.
This is why the socialist organizations sent Garza, Cullors, and Tometi to Ferguson to strategize with other socialists.
From the beginning, the mainstream media covered rather than clogged. open, the BLM Global Network Foundation. Campbell’s surrender to the BLM scandal is yet another example of this.
Ultimately, journalists will have to report on the BLM Foundation’s financial misconduct. But at least we already know how it could happen: because its leaders are capitalists.
Mike Gonzalez is a member of The Heritage Foundation, as well as an international correspondent , analyst and editor.