This is what happens when you donate to a lib organization, they’ve definitely done a few good things w the money but really weird uses including basically a content house, paying consultants millions who were family / closely related to the people in charge of the $ and having a ton of money in stonks
This is what happens when the original activists/founders of the movement all "mysteriously die" in a series of unresolved murders. The movement gets hijacked by a bunch of profit-seeking libs.
Imagine the media outrage if this had happened to the Hong Kong protest leaders lmao
Coin Lives Matter
Black Coins Matter
Black Lives Coin
I... I don't think it works. Or maybe it works realy well.
Unsurprising, the leadership are all major libs who don't do shit.
The Los Angeles chapter repeatedly has pocketed the money for years now.
Unsurprising, the leadership are all major libs who don’t do shit.
the ones who did are dead :weird-bolshevik:
Oh I'm aware.
A lot of the leadership are suspiciously tied to the Democratic Party apparatus prior to their coopting.
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During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
Man, all these black activists being killed in the same way in the same area and the cops haven't found anything (and are NOT talking to the public).
Crazy how that just 'happens', but I'm sure the police are working hard and definitely not committing modern day lynchings
it's really shitty cause there is quite a lot of the smaller, local orgs that are out there every fuckin day fighting to keep people housed and fed and the national org isn't giving shit to them. they've been put on blast quite a few times by the mothers of dead black men and women.
I'm not sure I've ever seen the "Official" BLM on the ground at anything related to street level BLM.
Do they literally do anything other than generate bad press and shower money on themselves? Are they even the same people as the ones who run the website claiming they're Marxists that CHUDs like to point to as indicative of the entire movement's nature?
Our local was actively fighting with more radical activists and literally handing people to cops. The head of it was even a landlord (this is just the "official" menshevik style one)
yeah I remember seeing Patrisse Cullors on therealnewsnetwork and she claimed she was a Marxist, and about a year later, she's out buying mansions lol
The progressive grifter space in the US is really weird as a foreigner. Surely you can make more money scamming libs and Chuds, but maybe there's too much "competition" in that field? So the progressive grifter space is an "untapped market" (eww) for fraudsters.
normally rightwing grift would be where the $$ is, but BLM was such a huge social phenomenon that was at the top of the news for months. Corporations, Sports Teams and other wealthy entities had to find an easy way to show that they "cared" about injustice so they just poured millions into the most toothless lib BLM org.
Idk... reading the article, I have mixed feelings. I do think there is something to be said for the idea of "decolonizing philanthropy" and letting people organize, even if it's a bit rough around the edges. And it does sound like a lot of money is going to local orgs, which is a good thing.
But it also sounds like there is probably some amount of overcompensation and self dealing... but, bigger and whiter orgs often get more of a pass for the same thing... but, that also doesn't excuse it...
Becoming part of the NGO-industrial complex won't "decolonize" anything, it just means you either sell out or start scamming the people who actually care.
Not trying to sound harsh but this is essentially how the system absorbs genuine grassroots activists and turns them into cogs. I think Adam Johnson has made comments this was his experience working for some prison abolition/reform NGO in San Francisco as well.
Philanthropy is a part of colonization. You have to eliminate philanthropy through decolonization.
Always seems to happen is that libs swoop in like hawks to set up what ever they can to get things directed their way at what ever level above what grass roots organizing is capable of, therefore immediately outside of their control or accountability.
Of course everyone will think it’s helpful at first, cause how can we know? How can we check? Usually they move in faster than on-the-ground people even know is happening.
How would a group such as this make it explicit from the beginning that being co-opted by liberals is against their ideology and forbidden?
Is this the one that has the person my friends call "talcum x" involved?
I remember he started a "fundraiser" for Tamir Rice without telling the family, and that caused issues between him and BLM. Also various people accusing him of grifting and fraud though various fundraisers and some website he started.
I googled to find out his name, it's the Shaun King guy. While I obviously can't comment on his racial identity (it is definitely possible for mixed race people to look very "white"), the numerous accusations of fraud and being a progressive grifter are very concerning.
No idea how involved he is with BLM after the fallout regarding the "fundraisers" he did.
puts hand to earpiece I'm getting some very unfortunate news about Bernie's campaign.
It was filled with progressive grifters unfortunately.
I've been following Shaun King for years and yet to see any accusations that really stick. Like he's totally a lib and you shouldn't expect anything but lib shit from him but he doesn't seem to be trying to rip anyone off and he amplifies a lot of the acab energy out there.
turns out if you give someone that is unprincipled, unregulated, yet oppressed a lot of money they will use that money for personal gain :thinkin-lenin:
cant say i wouldnt do the same, really. if someone plopped 50k in my lap right now id use it for surgeries immediately
I'm not gonna read the article, but a ~$5 million dollar setup in a major city wouldn't be unusual. That multiplied by ten cities is already $50 million, right?
This's the thing about populists - they see the establishment is feeding at the trough, and whenever they finally get some influence, they want a place at the trough. They are then shocked to see the establishment use its weapons to point out that they've got a place at the trough and how this is a very bad thing.
