BLM Raked In $90 Million In Donations, Local Chapters Claim They Haven’t Seen Any Money
The leaders of Black Lives Matter disclosed finances for the first time in donations last year and local chapters have said they are not being given any of the money.
BLM Global Network Foundation revealed and noted that the group received $90 million in donations and the nonprofit shared its financials exclusively with The Associated Press after accusations from local chapters.
On Tuesday BLM said reported by AP the foundation is ‘now building infrastructure’ to meet with the speed of its funding and also plans to use its funding to be more known than protests erupting after a Black American dies after police incidents.
“We want to uplift Black joy liberation, not just Black death. We want to see Black communities thriving, not just surviving,” from a report the foundation shared with AP before its release.
This is the first time in the eight-year history that BLM leaders decided to reveal their finances and the foundation gained a lot more attention after the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
AP said the foundation is committed to a $21.7 million in grant funding to other official and unofficial BLM chapters and also 30 other ‘Black-led local organizations’. They said 2020 ended with a balance a little more than $60 million after spending a quarter of its earnings on grant funds and charitable giving.
“In its report, the BLM foundation said individual donations via its main fundraising platform averaged $30.76. More than 10% of the donations were recurring. The report does not state who gave the money in 2020, and leaders declined to name prominent donors.”
After eight years, BLM co-founder told the AP the foundation is focused on a ‘need to reinvest into Black communities’.
“One of our biggest goals this year is taking the dollars we were able to raise in 2020 and building out the institution we’ve been trying to build for the last seven and a half years,” she said in an interview to AP.
Which some have to wonder how much money was donated the previous years and where did that money go?
The chapters released a letter to the AP and said, “In a letter released Nov. 30, the #BLM10 claimed most chapters have received little to no financial resources from the BLM movement since its launch in 2013. That has had adverse consequences for the scope of their organizing work, local chapter leaders.”
Candace Owens heavily criticized the BLM ‘movement’ since 2016 showing a chart how the topic peaks every 4 years.
This chart reveals how much the topic “black lives matter” receives airtime in the media every year. You will see it peaked in 2016 and it is now peaking again in 2020.
How are black people still falling for this election time narrative?
(Credit: @Cernovich for chart) pic.twitter.com/n6DwD3u81w
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 5, 2020
In a clip with TPUSA she said, “I always love election season because it’s when the heat is on. When the media thinks they can bully people into groupthink and submission. Protests. Riots. Fake Headlines. But lions survive the hunt like truth survives the lies.”
I always love election season because it’s when the heat is on. When the media thinks they can bully people into groupthink and submission.
Protests. Riots. Fake Headlines.
But Lions survive the hunt like truth survives the lies. pic.twitter.com/eMwJpvTxDS
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) May 27, 2020
In 2018 she called out the hypocrisy from BLM, “Funny. There seems to be no outrage from @Blklivesmatter when an unarmed black man gets killed by an illegal alien.”
Funny. There seems to be no outrage from @Blklivesmatter when an unarmed black man gets killed by an illegal alien.https://t.co/lgXTX1FP4a
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) February 6, 2018
