Sounds very much like the Department of the Inferior...I mean Interior...
National Protest and 'disband the cops' discussion (please review page 1)
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The links you provided collectively explain the thing that seems confusing.
Here's my abridged version from the links.
1. BLMGM, like any non-501(c), requires fiscal sponsorship in order to receive charitable donations.
2. Its initial fiscal sponsor was Thousand Currents, and the next was Tides Foundation.
3. There is an actual 501(c) unaffiliated with BLMGM entitled "Black Lives Matter Foundation", which was stood up in CA by a man in 2015 and designed to bridge the police and local community together. Around the time of the June 2020 unrest, it was inadvertently receiving donations from people who didn't do their research before clicking on the first thing that looked right.
The outcry from some BLM chapters about how BLMGM is managing the donations received from its fiscal sponsors is a separate issue.
Hopefully that helps.
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Most charitable organizations maintain their own corporate organization. Use of a sponsor is typically a temporary arrangement until this is established. Seven years later and BLMGN still hasn't done so is strange.
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Interesting, but apparently not compelling enough for the chapters that already have reasons to decry them to challenge.
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It should absolutely make anyone looking at the organization question exactly what's going on and where the money is going.
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I think the real eyebrow raising part is that BLM has been able to successfully market “white guilt” yet who benefits?
Baltimore, a city with heavy minority population, is full of crime, low literacy, unemployment, terrible housing, etc.
BLMs coffers are FULL yet blacks lives don’t seem to be improving. Why?
In the 70's, I spent a lot of time very close to an indian reservation in WA state. The majority of housing on that "res" was terrible...3rd world terrible. Sometime after the turn of the century (ish), they constructed casinos and within just a few years, housing on the reservation was drastically improved because of the influx of cash from casino ops going to the tribe. Next the tribe built a HUGE school with all the latest stuff for sports and academics. Graduation rates soared because of increased education requirements for good workers in the casinos and within tribal offices. The Muckleshoot tribe was taking care of themselves.
If an indian tribe can do it, why cannot BLM? Where are the college scholarships? Where are the community projects? Where are local private security forces so the kids of Baltimore can just go to school without gang intervention?
In my opinion, BLM seems more like a Homeowners Association paid for by others (homeowners) to benefit others (lawyers who manage the HOA) who don't live in the neighborhood.
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Winner, winner, smoked turkey dinner!!!
That's so blatantly obvious. They don't want to use their new found money. They want your money and to put you in the poor house, for equality and shit.
This country has a pretty shitty history of killing black people when they try to do community projects
In 1969, charismatic Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton was killed in a hail of gunfire. 50 years later, the fight against police brutality continues
Or banning weapons when black people start carrying arms.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons
A point I'd like to make about all the "where's all the BLM people at now?" comments:
Just because you aren't aware of it on your preferred "mainstream media source" doesn't mean that it isn't happen. It just means that the people who run those news organizations don't see anymore value on covering it.
I guarantee that if you live in or near a decently large city, there are still a bunch of minority ran organizations still trying to tackle community issues. They may not be connected to the "Marxist" HQ of BLM, but I they are there and functioning.
Just because you aren't aware of it on your preferred "mainstream media source" doesn't mean that it isn't happen. It just means that the people who run those news organizations don't see anymore value on covering it.
I guarantee that if you live in or near a decently large city, there are still a bunch of minority ran organizations still trying to tackle community issues. They may not be connected to the "Marxist" HQ of BLM, but I they are there and functioning.
If the media doesn't see any value in covering it, is there any value left to the movement? My point was they went so hard in the paint, then one day it was over like the problems were no more. Just like in 2016. And we're not talking about other minority run organizations, we're talking about BLM actual.
And to the NRA comment above, ain't nobody care about the NRA these days. They're clowns and I would say the majority of gun owners would like to see them gone and replaced.
Cross thread points awarded!
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Race relations in 2020 are nothing like they were coming out of the Jim Crow era.
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Like what? Seriously, there is the chance to influence or inform.
I'm more curious where the money has gone. Same feeling when I see my HOA statement and see 80% of the money goes to running the HOA.
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I'm pretty sure that sentiment right there is one of the exact criticisms being made: The inherent 'value' of any movement or the lives it is highlighting isn't defined by the media (despite the media serving a functional role in trying to tell people what to care about) , and it shouldn't take that degree of civil unrest or number of lives lost for a society and its leaders to suddenly start caring, much less having nation-wide discussions like this one in the first place.
But it did, and it's remains in the public consciousness well after people removed from more vocal areas began asking, "Where are they now?"
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For being the history channel, that article is missing so much context. Colion Noir did a great video on that. The Black Panthers basically just followed every Oakland Patrol car, whilst armed for months on end. Even interfered with police work. What got the Mulford Act passed with the overwhelming majority was the Black Panthers showing up to the State Capital with firearms.
This video has been posted at least once on the board, it came out after that Chappelle set.
For being the history channel, that article is missing so much context. Colion Noir did a great video on that. The Black Panthers basically just followed every Oakland Patrol car, whilst armed for months on end. Even interfered with police work. What got the Mulford Act passed with the overwhelming majority was the Black Panthers showing up to the State Capital with firearms.
This video has been posted at least once on the board, it came out after that Chappelle set.
He was the leader of a criminal/terrorist organization.
I am saying this as someone who lived in Cook County/Chicago from birth to college.
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Ah, no. I was lectured...at work...that my aloof attitude about BLM was because I was a bad person and I didn’t care about human life.
As a result of my retort “If this (BLM movement) is about human life, why isn’t there a movement highlighting that black men are dying at the hands of other black men*?”, the federal employees repeatedly labeled me a “racist and bigot” for citing data.
*per CDC, the leading cause of death for young black males is homicide. Per UCR, the overwhelming number of victims of murder are black men attacked by other black men.
The “discussion” NEVER involves black women abortion rates OR death from drug overdose, poverty, etc but MUST remain focused on cops killing unarmed blacks. Yet what does the data show??? More unarmed whites were killed by cops than blacks. <— Racist, yes, I know...hear it all the time. The “problem“ is IDGAF which names I’m called. Liberals burned that after 4 years of deplorable crap.
The criticism of the BLM movement is its all based on a false narrative (aka...a lie) in order to grab power or money which begets power.
This is what they want
This pisses them off when We don’t comply
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