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Originally Posted by dleung

^^Lol I was gonna say that, plus the thousands of posts about the "threat" of wokism and how bad BLM is

That's hilarious. You wanna get ugly? Have a look into BLM's finances. If you can, that is. It's looking like the greatest grift in history.

On 20 December 2020, The Economist noted that $10.6 billion had been pledged to causes and organisations affiliated with BLM.

As far as I can tell, no comprehensive or even partial audit of what happened to this staggering sum of money has ever taken place. Indeed, given the sheer number of corporate and NGO players involved, conducting one would be incredibly difficult. However, taking a look at the experience of just one BLM-affiliated organisation – BLMGNF – could give us an insight into what went on more broadly. The foundation’s story is truly remarkable.

BLMGNF received more than $90 million in 2020, the year George Floyd was killed. According to the New York Post, by the end of 2020 the group had ‘an approximate balance of $60 million’ after spending $8.4 million on undefined expenses and costs, and committing ‘$21.7 million to local chapters’.

This is where the picture gets complicated. A group of 10 Black Lives Matter chapters known as the #BLM10, which includes the organisation’s sizeable New Jersey and Hudson Valley branches, publicly criticised BLMGNF in November 2020 over ‘financial transparency, decision making and accountability’. ‘To the best of our knowledge’, a spokesperson for #BLM10 stated in an open letter, ‘most chapters have received little to no financial support from BLMGNF since the launch in 2013’.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/0...sing-billions/

"Undefined expenses." Yeah, those words are doing a lot of heavy lifting here!