The Washington Post estimates $50 billion was pledged by giant corporate donors alone to address racial inequality between mid-2020 and mid-2021. There were megafunders like George Soros, who dropped $220 million into fancy nonprofits that sprang up like mushrooms
The woman who invented the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, had just bought a $1.4 million home in the chichi hills of Topanga Canyon, California. She bought it through a limited liability company called Abolitionist Entertainment.
Her group Reform LA Jails racked up a $26,000 bill at a luxury Malibu beach resort, then a “summit + day party” in Pasadena, then hosted a party at Jane Fonda’s house. She had a Hollywood agent, a multi-year deal with Warner Bros Television Group and a bestselling memoir.
over the years, just $120,000 in consulting fees — though they did in 2020 pay more than $800,000 to a company owned by her brother for security services. (Plus $969,459 to a company owned by the father of her child to “produce live events” and provide other “creative services.”)
Some of the Black Lives Matter movement’s spending became so egregious that it turned, for me personally at least, aspirational. BLM Global Network gave enough money to a nonprofit run by Khan-Cullors’s former spouse, Janaya Khan, to buy a 10,000 sq ft mansion — the former headquarters of the Communist Party — in Toronto for $6.3 million. The city contributed another $250,000 for renovations.
BLM Global Network had made another purchase it didn’t want to tell anyone about. The group called this Los Angeles property “Campus” Campus cost $5.88 million and is a 7,400 sq ft “farm house style compound” with seven bedrooms and 6.5 baths, 24 parking spaces and a 2,300-square-foot sound stage. Very Los Angeles. Khan-Cullors’s mother was hired as a cleaner, even as her daughter began a YouTube cooking show in the expansive kitchen.
“$3 million of ‘stimi’ [stimulus] Covid relief funding given directly to Black people.” There’s no explanation beyond that. Some people, somewhere, during Covid, were given $3 million.
BLM Global Network became a zombie bank account without a known leader. Two prominent figures stepped up to guide the organisation: Minyon Moore and Marc Elias, old hands from the Clinton political machine.
recreate the plaza in Canada they seem to be onboard