Newly released tax filings revealed how Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her friends and family large sums for various ‘consulting’ services, as well as charter a private flight.
According to reports, the Black Lives Matter Foundation paid nearly $4 million in consulting payments to its board secretary, co-founder Patrisse Cullors‘ brother, and the father of Cullors’ child. The former leader previously said that her sister, mother, and brother were employed with the Black Lives Matter Foundation. But new financial filings revealed Paul Cullors is paid more than dozens of other employees.
According to tax documents, the co-founder’s brother, Paul Cullors, was paid $840,000 for allegedly providing security services to the nonprofit organization.
It has also been revealed that the organization paid a company owned by Damon Turner–with whom Patrisse Cullors shares a child–almost $970,000 to help “produce live events” as well as other “creative services.” Patrisse told sources last week.
Cullors resigned from BLM after she was exposed for acquiring $3.2 million worth of real estate assets.
As the co-founder of an organization that demands accountability, it’s pretty ridiculous that Cullors refuses to hold herself accountable for any of her wrongdoings.
BLM Global Network reportedly brought in $77 million in contributions during its 2021 fiscal year, and it ended it with $42 million in assets. It also handed out $25 million in grants. According to a board member, the foundation had an operating budget of about $4 million. More than $37 million was spent by the foundation on grants, real estate, and charter on private flights, according to the tax filings.
Despite all of the incriminating evidence, Cullors chalks her major theft up to ‘human error.’
Cullors said on Monday’s podcast:
“I’m a human being that has made mistakes that want to change, want to challenge those mistakes and want to learn from those mistakes. And I think what’s been hard is feeling like there isn’t room and space for that.”
“When you make movements, when you build movements, it takes thousands of people to do it. And that often means lots of mistakes are being made, lots of amazing decisions as well.”
100 Percent Fed Up noted:
Cullors then continues, blaming everyone else but herself for the consequences of her actions and condemning her critics for not simply ‘forgetting’ about what she has done.
“And I think one of the things that I’ve been thinking about in this last year specifically is how do you make mistakes in public without being crucified for them. Because we’re human beings, I’m a human being, and we make mistakes. And then I think the job of making a mistake is actually learning from it, and being called in and say, ‘Hey, like, this is the way to do this better. Here’s the team to help you do that.’”
Currently, our country is permitting an attitude of deflecting blame and playing the victim, to the point that if someone is found responsible for a crime, they are comforted instead of punished for their actions.
Source: 100percentfedup
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