Black Lives Matter Marxist malefactor Patrisse Cullors wants right wing white supremacists to know y’all got your nerve attacking her for a 3.2-million-dollar real estate buying binge.
Trained Marxist much Patrisse? Nah.
Cullors, who believes in location, location, location seems to have a shaky foundation when it comes to being a self-trained Marxist.
Those homes of hers purchased over the last four years, however, seem to be on solid ground. Their foundations are built on a bed rock of grift, greed, anti-racism racism and hypocrisy.
Happy home buyer Cullors built BLM Global Network along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Building a black movement, however, does not mean building a real estate portfolio.
Capitalists buy McMansions. Hostility to capitalism and the acquisition of individual wealth is the essence of Marxism. When Marxists like Cullors morph into high-end home buyers, something stinks.
By now Cullors’ real estate shopping spree is old news.
Criticism of her property purchases started surfacing after an article was published last week in the New York Post, which revealed that Cullors had just forked over $1.4 million on a new Los Angeles home which would be her overall fourth property and third property in LA.
Immediately after the story broke, Facebook turned into Twitter and blocked the editorial. Facebook decided the New York Post article about the property-buying habits of one of the founders of Black Lives Matter was best kept from their users.
(This might have something to do with the fact that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna are part of one of the grantmaking foundations that have funded Cullors in the past.)
All this press attention gave good reason for BLM critics to begin wondering whether Cullors was using some of the $90 million dollars donated to BLM to help herself to some pretty pricey properties.
Black Lives Matter Greater New York City leader Hawk Newsome, who is not associated with BLM Global Network, felt something fishy might be going on with Cullors. He called for an audit of BLM with “black firms and black accountants to find out where the money is going.”
“It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement,” he said.
Cullors reacted to the brewing brouhaha by quickly pulling out a race card to say absolutely not to any accusations.
In an interview with Black News Channel (BNC) Cullors claimed she, her organization, and her career was being targeted and framed by the right wing media.
“I have never taken a salary from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation,” Cullors stated. “That’s important because the right-wing media is trying to say donations for BLM went toward my spending. That is categorically untrue and incredibly dangerous.”
Naturally, BLM stood by Cullors who happens to be their co-founder.
“Any claim that she is a grifter is simply a tradition of terror by white supremacists on Black activists. “
Grifting is an art that good opportunists turn into a great way of life. When it comes to Marxism, Cullors is a particularly gifted grifter who is good at not practicing what she preaches.
Cullors said all her income “comes directly from the work that I do.” However, she stressed that aside from being the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, she also is a college professor, a TV producer, an author with two book deals – including one New York Times bestseller – along with having a deal with YouTube.
Book contracts and YouTube deals aside, what Cullors did not say was whether she was paid through BLM’s network of similarly named for-profit entities which keeps secret its spending and executive pay.
One place Cullors could be culling her big bucks from are warehouses for criminals, specifically LA County jails.
If racism is big business, mass incarceration is a money-making machine. Cullors’ organization, Reform LA Jails appears to be a major cash cow.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors raked in upwards of $20,000 a month serving as the chairwoman of a Los Angeles jail reform group in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Reform LA Jails disbursed a total of $191,000 to Cullors in 2019 through her consulting firm, Janaya and Patrisse Consulting, according to financial records submitted to the California Fair Political Practices Commission. The description for each of the seven reported payments to the Cullors’ firm that year read: “P. Cullors, Principal Officer, Business Owner.”
Follow the money. Cash payments for Reform LA Jails seem to come from the Open Philanthropy Action Fund.
The Open Philanthropy Action Fund (OPAF) is the political arm of the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP), a grantmaking foundation that gives to numerous left-of-center organizations concerned with criminal justice policy. The OPP began as a project of GiveWell, a group which seeks to improve philanthropy, and Good Ventures , the private grantmaking foundation of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna. Nearly all OPP’s funding comes from Moskovitz and Tuna. The OPP also has a donor-advised fund, the Open Philanthropy Project Fund (OPPF). Combined, the three organizations have given almost $1.2 billion in grants since their founding.
Reform LA Jails, run by Cullors, in turn paid Cullors’ consulting firm, Janaya and Patrisse Consulting or JNP Consulting, a total of $191,000 in 2019, according to campaign finance data cited by Fox News and The Daily Caller.
Amid reports of Cullors’ real estate buying binge, not surprisingly, her consulting website JNP Consulting went offline. As of last weekend, the web site could still be accessed with Google Cache. As of today, however, that too has disappeared as well.
The grift and greed of Cullors is overshadowed only by her hypocrisy.
For example, on BLM’s website, the organization openly advocates defunding the police.
We know that police do not keep us safe — and as long as we continue to pump money into our corrupt criminal justice system at the expense of housing, health, and education investments — we will never be truly safe. That is why we are calling to #DefundPolice.
In her interview with Black News Channel Cullors said the news coverage regarding her real estate properties and white supremacists finding out where those properties are has made her family less safe.
Her recourse?
(Cullors) choked up as she described having to hire “security” after the negative backlash.
The watch dogs covering all this deceit and deception may be barking. Cullors, however, may be convinced nobody is bothering to listen especially when it comes to her con job story about her real estate portfolio. Anyone who is listening and does not believe her, she says, can only be – wait for it – a racist.
“The fact that the right-wing media is trying to create hysteria around my spending is frankly racist, and sexist,” Cullors said. “The way that I live my life is in direct support of black people, including my black family members first and foremost,” she said.
Buying million-dollar gated community real estate listings with vaulted ceilings, sky lights and ocean views may not exactly be the best way to build a movement to better the lives of black people.
But for fake Marxist grifters like Patrisse Cullors, it is a particularly good way to say her life matters more than others.
