“Marxist Patrisse Cullors, founder of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, originally had at least four properties to his name, including three mansions in white neighborhoods. After the revelation, New York Black Lives Matter leaders called for an “independent investigation” to find out how the BLM global network spends its money.
According to figures released by the Associated Press last month, Carlos’ organization took in a staggering $90 million in donations last year. But no one is sure what the BLM has done beyond organizing frequent disruptive protests. What the leftist media portrays as “peaceful protests” have caused billions of dollars of damage in dozens of cities across the United States.
According to the Wikipedia entry “Violence and controversy during the George Floyd protests,” at least 27 people have died in protests in 2020 as of August 29. Damage to small businesses in Minneapolis is estimated at about $200 million. An estimate obtained by the news site Axios puts the cost of property damage from arson, vandalism and looting at “at least $1 billion to $2 billion in paid insurance claims” nationwide.
The communist revolutionary is amassing a sizable real estate portfolio, according to the New York Post. Carlos purchased a $510,000 home in Inglewood in 2016 that is now worth about $800,000. She also purchased a home in South Los Angeles worth $590,000, which is worth $720,000 today. She also bought a property with a pool in rural Georgia last year for $415,000, “complete with a private hangar and runway.
According to Dirt.com, her latest $1.4 million home is located in Los Angeles’ Topanga Canyon, an idyllic rural community on a quarter-acre lot just a 15-minute drive from Malibu Beach. The mansion has high vaulted ceilings, skylights and a “politically incorrect” maid’s quarters. The next three are all white neighborhoods, except for her first purchase in 2016, which was in a black neighborhood.
In addition to the four homes, Carlos was spotted last year looking to buy property in a Bahamian resort. This is an elite gated community on 600 acres with a private marina and a celebrity-designed golf course.
The home currently for sale is a six-bedroom townhouse of nearly 8,000 square feet. Luxury condominiums and townhouses in the Marina’s Albany resort are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local real estate agent.
Carlos’ disparity of heart and mouth has left fellow African-American Jason Whitlock, a black sports commentator for Forsyth Sports, looking the other way. He retweeted a related story on Friday (9), sarcastically saying, “BLM founder bought a $1.4 million home in Topanga, where the black population is 1.4%. She’s with her people!”
Social justice activists on social media immediately argued with Whitlock: “Should she live in a shelter?” Whitlock responded unabashedly, “She has a lot of options and she chooses to live in the whitest part of California and she’s going to pick white cops and white people to complain about. Dude, that’s a choice.”
Soon after, Whitlock, who has 436,000 followers on Twitter, was blocked from Twitter and asked by Twitter to remove the link in question. On Tuesday (13), however, Whitlock was released “after a few days in Twitter jail,” which Twitter said was a “false lock.
But a growing number of people have begun to criticize the BLM for not sharing its vast revenues with the black community.
Hawk Newsome, a leader of the New York City-based BLM, has called for an investigation into Carlos’ finances. He told the New York Post, “We need black firms and black accountants to get in there and find out where the money is going.” He added that the New York City BLM has never received a single penny from Carlos’ “BLM Global Network Organization.
Last Nov. 30, a group of 10 chapters known as #BLM10 said in an open letter that most chapters have received little to no financial assistance resources from the BLM Global Network since its launch in 2013, arguing that “public accountability has become necessary.”
Local chapters also said that the BLM Global Network Foundation appointed Carlos as executive director without their knowledge, which makes her leadership illegitimate. “We, the undersigned chapters, believe that all of these events took place without democracy.”
Regarding Carlos’ ownership of multiple properties, the BLM account 13 publicly clarified on Twitter that Carlos, as a director of the “BLM Global Network Fund,” “volunteered for this position and does not receive a salary or benefits. Since its inception in 2013, Carlos has received a total of $120,000, and her duties have included serving as a spokesperson and doing political education work. However, no compensation was received after 2019.” The Twitter account added that these attacks on Carlos are “continuing a tradition of white supremacist terror against black activists.”
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