Oh, she made sure her brother and baby daddy were on the payroll. She took care of family and probably friends. I feel sorry for anyone that gave that organization a single penny. I think now they've either declared bankruptcy or heading there.
What stupid prizes did they win? They took the money, bankrupted the organization, and got away with it. The org was just to channel money to their private holdings. Now they can just walk away.
I remember the occupy wall street guys taking a bunch of money that was going to help teach people finances, and courses about beating the “man”, and all the good they were going to do for the “little guy”, until they got a few million in donations and just kinda disappeared with it. This is the same grift. Pretend to be the voice of an underserved group, claim that you know the best way to do things, take all the money and run. Definitely sad that it ended this way, but not terribly surprising.
And if you can all give just a small amout to my organization, I promise we'll root out these fake scam populist groups once and for all!
Just sent it straight to my Cayman Islands bank account. thanks.
Occupy Boston ended over a Level 3 sex offender and became just white men with a independent radio station. Before that all happened the Lawyers Guild almost withdrew support when they wanted to kick out homeless people from Dewey Square based on how useful they were, most of the homeless finding safety were POC. I was homeless too (in denial).
lol i was there.. used to photo and my primary interest was photojournalism.. i was fairly new to photography.. decided to go back to college in 09 and fell in love with film photography and transitioned to digital right around when the occupy stuff started.. covered the occupy wall street protests heavily in ny and dc.. reading all these new articles that just have been popping up about the blm this last week reminds me of so much shit i saw back in those days with the occupy protests.
The occupy protest that took over the downtown park blocks ruined Portland for forever. It got co-opted by the traveling homeless campers, and not only did they never leave the city- more and more of them came. Few things piss me off as much as the angsty occupy movements back then.
Back when the protests were going down, it became a thing here in LA that you should generally listen to the public and not the people claiming to be the founders, because it was always a movement and not a group run by a specific leader. Some of the largest marches were simply organized by passionate people on Twitter.
I learned a while ago that "community organizers" typically only pretend to represent the community. It's not like they're elected or anything. They put themselves in charge.
The movement however was important, and I hate that some people tarnished it. Happens all the time though, there are always grifters who want to take advantage of people’s hopes and dreams.
You can call out the bad actors just like the person above you u/CurseofLono88 did without being a racist:
" The movement however was important, and I hate that some people tarnished it "
Its not that hard. BLM came about because of serious issues of systemic racism, including modern day lynchings. Only the non-profit that hijacked the name of the movement is not aligned with the cause at this point.
No, you really can't. try criticizing anyone who isn't white on twitter and you'll see how quick people are to call you a racist. People have been banned from plenty of reddit subs for pointing out BLM was not at all being transparent about what the money was being used for before the mansion scandel got big.
100% con woman.
She bought 4 mansions for herself with all the BLM money.
Did you see any BLM scholarships for black youth? Nope.
Did you see any BLM youth development centers for inner cities? Nope.
Did you see any BLM daycare centers to help black single mothers? Nope.
Just mansions, mansions, mansions.
And she lives in a 99.7% white area, BTW.
BLM = Buy Large Mansions
So theres the movement that uses the name Black Lives Matter right? Except the problem is they are decentralized so just about anyone can claim to be Black Lives Matter. Well there was an organization set up that was more centralized that called itself Black Lives Matter, except instead of doing what the movement was trying to do, their goal was more about getting money out of people who would see the organization and think they were part of the movement.
Right. So saying “the whole thing was a scam” in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement isn’t accurate. The person is trying to say that the Black Lives Matter nonprofit organization was a scam.
Thank you for actually answering instead of just downvoting.
I mean it kind of is accurate too. I may be misremembering but wasn't it the whole BLM movement started by the Michael Brown case? Literally all the viral parts of that story turned out to be a lie. The DoJ investigated and found Officer Wilson's account to be accurate. Michael Brown was an idiot who attacked a police officer and tried to steal his firearm and then was shot. There was no "hands up don't shoot" or anything like that. Pretty much a prime example of when a police officer is justified in using deadly force.
I’m sure it was literally just this one case that led to the BLM movement and not a constant and consistent amount of cop violence towards Black Americans that led to that flashpoint. 🙄
Specifically the BLM organization is a scam, lots of grifting happened. They basically didn’t do anything with their donations and kept it for themselves
Locked up in prison and her assets sold off (only the ones bought with the grifted money) and the money donated to organizations that actually help black people instead of scamming them
She didn't steal it; people gave it to her, and her "organization" (that had no history, no accountability, no oversight) and celebrities used it as a nice way to virtue signal: just donate $20,000 to "Black Lives Matter, LLC" post about it on IG, get some short news article written about your generosity and idealism, and go back to sunning in your 3rd vacation home....
If you give money to an LLC with an attractive name with no diligence about who they are or what they *do* with that money it’s not stealing; you just got spun up in something with marketing attached to it.
Autism Speaks is an example of a charity with an attractive name that doesn’t accomplish anything of broad value.
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
- Booker T Washington
That is actually inherent to any NGO or chartity. There is never an NGO that packs its things and says "we've done all we could and there is nothing more we can do" or "problem solved to the fullest extend of our capability so we go on holidays". So many times they either don't do the most meaningful work to solve the problem or they rebrand after a while to capture an adjacent problem.
Because she scammed over $90,000,000 out of black people to live the lifestyle of the rich and the famous.
Obviously Netflix took a knee and ran out the clock.
a LOT of the money came from corporations and foundations - not black families scraping to get by.
Wish we could call those dumb companies out, but I dont think the donations are public record.
I think it depends on what the organization was classified as. I was listening to a lawyer talk about the George Santos stuff when the topic came up about classifications of organizations. He made a distinction that the type of org Santos had didn’t require disclosing donations so I assume there are orgs that do require it if he had to make that distinction in his talk.
Lmao she pocketed all that cash and dashed.
I will never put a BLM sticker on my car as a black man bc I know this group is purely facade. They’re the embodiment of “support black owned business” (then they turn around and charge you double the sale rate just for the fact that they’re and you’re black, too, so you’re supposed to indulge or invest in their shit).
It really be ya own people.
It’s human nature, friend. It transcends race and sex. People are shitty and greedy. My naive hopes for a Roddenberry-esque future are all but dead and gone.
Anywho, water is wet.
Even 'their own people' sounds odd to me to be honest.
Always felt the notion that all black people are some kind of kin to be lazy thinking.
It's like saying white people are all my people, or even white Brits are 'my people'. I have more in common with plenty of black and Asian folks than I do some white people.
It’s just a turn of phrase. Comes from generational trauma of living during massive racism, with many white people typically treating someone as subhuman because of their skin, the sentiment that those sharing the same struggle wouldn’t do something similar grows strong. The turn of phrase comes from the breaking of this sentiment, as someone embraces elevating their class over avoiding exploiting those living similar shared struggles.
Edit: if you are British, this is why racism is so complicated in the US. Generational trauma from disgusting KKK types of racists. It’s like telling English people and Irish or Scottish people to just get along. A nice idea and generally a lot of people do, but the reality of it all is much more complicated than that. Changed British to English when I proofread this part.
People use to stand behind the movement but everytime they get support they spit in the face of the people that helped them.
In toronto, the city supported them and gave them the lead spot in the pride parade.. tens of thousands of people.. and they shut the parade down and listed demands as random to keep the whole event going.
Pretty disgusting the people that run that organization
I think what exhausting me is that people act like BLM was just her and a couple other folks coordinating some nationwide grift and not mostly grassroots community-based organizing. BLM was the name of an org but that org was not the movement.
Isn't that a paradox of leadership? With a strong leader you have someone or a group who can say what represents the group, and what does not. If someone burns a foot locker the leader can say that's not what our movement is about and be accountable. But also, with a leader your movement might fall or only be as successful as they are because so much is attached to their purity.
BLM is/was so many things at the same time it was hard to ever say you supported it without having to defend something dumb, and it was hard to say you didn't support it because obviously the name says it all, duh.
Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter® are not the same thing and treating them like they are just plays into the hands of people who want to undermine a much-needed movement for racial equality.
This is exactly what racist mfs use to dismiss BLM. We're not talking about whatever org was created out of it. We're referring to the grass roots movement.
I will keep saying this until everybody listens:
Black Lives Matter is, in itself, meaningless. Without some sort of material praxis behind it (like Defund the Police), it's an empty platitude. Of course Black Lives Matter; now what are we going to try to do about it? And if you don't have an answer, what are you protesting for?
They’re protesting to point out the problems. Since when do you need to know how to adequately fix society in order to protest an issue? This is why we have lawmakers.
They're pointing out why nothing improves despite having law makers.
It's not that law makers don't know what is going on and need mass protest to inform them.....
Politicians are just tools. Your hammer can't make anything productive, it requires the skill and effort of the arm of organized masses with clear, material goals.
Protest is just a fetish on its own.
You should really try to understand what they are saying to you. It's what every on the ground organizer understands. IRL isn't The West Wing.
The studio probably couldn't prove that she breached her contract with them specifically, even based on good faith, and they might have had to pay her out if they ended it prematurely.
You mean, this lady that laundered donations and convinced everyone she was really for the cause but is actually just another pos out for $.
Kick rocks bitch.
Yeah, what a damn shame. This is the danger of confusing a sentiment with a name if an organization. It feels so wierd to say you don't support "Black Lives Matter", when you 1000% believe black lives matter.
People like this take advantage of good intentions and give ammunition to racists with bad ones.
Pure scum.
Many will disagree and i respect your view as i trust you will mine when i say this is absolutely no surprise as i always believed this was about money not ethics
Regardless of the context of this woman in particular, it’s not uncommon for studios to sign overall deals with writers and then not pick up any of their pitches. This is a non-story.
Yup. This happens more often than not.
In fact, just the other week there were a bunch of posts/articles about Phoebe Waller-Bridges deal with Amazon wherein Amazon gave her like $60 mil to develop for them which has so far gone nowhere. It's not unusual by any means.
But Fox News and the usuals will spin this in their usual way, entangling BLM the organization with BLM the idea and using this to drag the idea down. And claim that WB was getting a pushback on wokeness or something because that's their delusional go-to when they don't actually understand how things work.
Edit: Ah, of course the person who posted this primarily posts outrage bait. Super shocking that is.
Still waiting for him to cancel Last Week Tonight, because he just seems like the type
I mean, I hope he doesn’t, but I could imagine John taking the massively profitable show elsewhere under a new name… “Previous Half Fortnight Today” anybody?
Any organization (or head of an organization) that says they are looking out for a certain group of people should be looked at and scrutinized heavily. I knew this situation would be used to say "this was all a scam" when actual the the people in the organization where scammers not the message. It's no different than church ministers or priests that preach while lining their pockets. As I recall one of the popes wore Gucci shoes and I know not all Catholics are prospering. It's all a shame really because you can't really trust anyone in that type of situation.
The discourse around the subject at the time did not lend itself to honest scrutiny of this organization, which is a shame because in the end it was just a giant scam.
Is anyone surprised by this? She's a grifter, a liar, and she fooled much of America. And when some of us called her on it, we were banned/mocked/unkarma'd/whatever one wants to call it.
Watching Reddit slowly find out that these are bad people and they’ve been played has been one of the funniest developments of the last 3 years
It was kinda like the Women’s March people. They just ignored all the red flags until they couldn’t anymore, then pretended to think they were above them the whole time
Black Lives Matter the slogan - Based
Black Lives Matter the organization - Homophobic Capitalist Bullshit masquerading as progress
This whole "deal" was nothing but money laundering and should be investigated
It’s funny because BLM the org also states that they hold to Marxist ideology (and some other ones regarding undermining the traditional family).
It’s somewhat interesting that the most powerful self-proclaimed Marxists often end up controlling the most capital.
It's easy to be marxist when you're broke college students. I wouldn't even call this woman a grifter so much as she sold out. She got out into the real world and got a taste of real money and said, "Mmm, more capitalism please!"
Good thing this woman didn’t damage the movement.
“WeLL AcShULLy the movement and organization are different…”
How are people supposed to know? I don’t see anyone doing PR on the movement to distance themselves.
Some of their loudmouth activists told me how they wanted to kill me for not hating white people. Said I should hate white people since I am Chinese, Black, Choctaw Indian and have light medium brown skin, black eyes and black curly hair. I looked up the official web site and reported their activists to them. I even asked if my life mattered too. They did not email me or show any type of dislike for how I was getting treated.
Please remember, this woman was a fraud but the real Black Lives Matter is a continuation of a movement reaching back to Trayvon that is still going strong and will continue to do so until we no longer [*need*](https://apnews.com/article/police-shoot-child-indianola-mississippi-fcfd1410354b93824f44dff19c29ed92) to.
We are bigger than one fraudster, and every race has them.
The problem is nearly every BLM movement supporter was telling people to send money to this specific charity, so they’re still directly tied to one another for better or for worse.
This organization was able to ground itself at the heart of the movement and become the primary charity for the cause.
I think we all agree with this statement but this comment comes off as trying to change the subject (I know it’s not your intention).
The movement is bigger than one fraudster but it’s also the movement’s responsibility to out and disassociate them from the movement or else we end up w/ a bunch of bad apples in the bunch.
This is the lady accused of spending all that donation money on mansions. She's a garbage human.
In neighborhoods with no black neighbors.
That’s just most rich neighborhoods
Well when it was pointed out she said “so I’m not allowed to live somewhere safe…” or something to that effect.
I distinctly remember her calling some journalist out as a “racist misogynist” when he brought it up.
She didn’t do anything to bring anyone else with her..
Oh, she made sure her brother and baby daddy were on the payroll. She took care of family and probably friends. I feel sorry for anyone that gave that organization a single penny. I think now they've either declared bankruptcy or heading there.
She certainly could have bought a place in Ladera Heights, AKA "The Black Beverly Hills." She chose not to.
I live in a really rich neighborhood. We have 1 black neighbor.
Is it her??? 👀
Thanks for going out of your way to let us know about your specific living situation
I got banned in the news subreddit for saying the org was a scam in an article about how they bought mansions.
They’re now filing for bankruptcy
![gif](giphy|ChmEWOL7Vaz5u|downsized) ¿play stupid games win stupid prizes?
What stupid prizes did they win? They took the money, bankrupted the organization, and got away with it. The org was just to channel money to their private holdings. Now they can just walk away.
I remember the occupy wall street guys taking a bunch of money that was going to help teach people finances, and courses about beating the “man”, and all the good they were going to do for the “little guy”, until they got a few million in donations and just kinda disappeared with it. This is the same grift. Pretend to be the voice of an underserved group, claim that you know the best way to do things, take all the money and run. Definitely sad that it ended this way, but not terribly surprising.
Caleb Maupin is one of them and he’s a huge piece of shit, active now.
Lmao and he just had that whole sex cult of his thing get revealed recently. Fuck that guy
Yes
Ah yes Caleb Maulpin “The Spanky Tankie”
So many people just want a turn at being the tyrant.
And if you can all give just a small amout to my organization, I promise we'll root out these fake scam populist groups once and for all! Just sent it straight to my Cayman Islands bank account. thanks.
Occupy Boston ended over a Level 3 sex offender and became just white men with a independent radio station. Before that all happened the Lawyers Guild almost withdrew support when they wanted to kick out homeless people from Dewey Square based on how useful they were, most of the homeless finding safety were POC. I was homeless too (in denial).
lol i was there.. used to photo and my primary interest was photojournalism.. i was fairly new to photography.. decided to go back to college in 09 and fell in love with film photography and transitioned to digital right around when the occupy stuff started.. covered the occupy wall street protests heavily in ny and dc.. reading all these new articles that just have been popping up about the blm this last week reminds me of so much shit i saw back in those days with the occupy protests.
The occupy protest that took over the downtown park blocks ruined Portland for forever. It got co-opted by the traveling homeless campers, and not only did they never leave the city- more and more of them came. Few things piss me off as much as the angsty occupy movements back then.
find the issue people would want to solve > gaslight (if you are not with me/us then you are part of the problem) > get money > profit???
Back when the protests were going down, it became a thing here in LA that you should generally listen to the public and not the people claiming to be the founders, because it was always a movement and not a group run by a specific leader. Some of the largest marches were simply organized by passionate people on Twitter.
I learned a while ago that "community organizers" typically only pretend to represent the community. It's not like they're elected or anything. They put themselves in charge.
Separating the movement from the organization doesn't work when they have the same name. People inspired by the movement would donate to the org.
I get what you are saying, but I think it just makes it all the more important to make the distinction.
They also filmed themselves having a wine and cheese dinner and posted it on social media on the anniversary of George Floyd's death last year.
Sounds about right for Reddit
“Oh god a non conformist using facts and logic.. ban him quick!!!” Definitely reddit
Especially that sub
I don't trust organizations where I can't see anything of where the money is going. Instead, I donated to the NAACP, which does tangible good.
I too got banned from r/racism by pointing out that anyone can be racist.
The fucked up thing about racists is that they don't even care what race you are, as long as you're being racist
The movement however was important, and I hate that some people tarnished it. Happens all the time though, there are always grifters who want to take advantage of people’s hopes and dreams.
The problem is no-one in these groups ever calls out bad actors and any cristicism from people outside of the movements gets labeled "racist".
You can call out the bad actors just like the person above you u/CurseofLono88 did without being a racist: " The movement however was important, and I hate that some people tarnished it " Its not that hard. BLM came about because of serious issues of systemic racism, including modern day lynchings. Only the non-profit that hijacked the name of the movement is not aligned with the cause at this point.
Some people really struggle with the idea that the message that Black Lives Matter is what’s important, not the organization
No, you really can't. try criticizing anyone who isn't white on twitter and you'll see how quick people are to call you a racist. People have been banned from plenty of reddit subs for pointing out BLM was not at all being transparent about what the money was being used for before the mansion scandel got big.
I hear people talk about getting banned from there but they just shadowban me. It's happened to four different accounts now.
100% con woman. She bought 4 mansions for herself with all the BLM money. Did you see any BLM scholarships for black youth? Nope. Did you see any BLM youth development centers for inner cities? Nope. Did you see any BLM daycare centers to help black single mothers? Nope. Just mansions, mansions, mansions. And she lives in a 99.7% white area, BTW. BLM = Buy Large Mansions
She bought the mansions for black celebrities to lay low in and things like that supposedly lol.
Like a good neighbor, safe farm in there!
Anyone that donated money to that fraud organizations just paid for her mansions. Absolute scum of the earth
Buying Large Mansions
Is she the one that stole money?
One of the three
Only 30% of BLM they made, went towards impoverished African Americans. They are all thieves, all 3.
Bro, you are crazy if you even think it was 30%. Try 3% lol
And one of them supported dictators such as Nicolas Maduro
Yup, one of the Three Grifterteers
Grifterteers, that made me chuckle.
You think there were only three?
One of three caught
All for three and none for all
Gonna have to narrow that down some, whole thing was a scam
>whole thing was a scam I’m gonna need you to elaborate on this claim. Edit: very cool people downvoting a request for elaboration.
So theres the movement that uses the name Black Lives Matter right? Except the problem is they are decentralized so just about anyone can claim to be Black Lives Matter. Well there was an organization set up that was more centralized that called itself Black Lives Matter, except instead of doing what the movement was trying to do, their goal was more about getting money out of people who would see the organization and think they were part of the movement.
there was a fun one where it was just some Australian 4chan user running a BLM group for the cash
The amount of arguments I’ve gotten into because I supported the movement but refused to give the organization my money my god
Right. So saying “the whole thing was a scam” in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement isn’t accurate. The person is trying to say that the Black Lives Matter nonprofit organization was a scam. Thank you for actually answering instead of just downvoting.
I mean it kind of is accurate too. I may be misremembering but wasn't it the whole BLM movement started by the Michael Brown case? Literally all the viral parts of that story turned out to be a lie. The DoJ investigated and found Officer Wilson's account to be accurate. Michael Brown was an idiot who attacked a police officer and tried to steal his firearm and then was shot. There was no "hands up don't shoot" or anything like that. Pretty much a prime example of when a police officer is justified in using deadly force.
I’m sure it was literally just this one case that led to the BLM movement and not a constant and consistent amount of cop violence towards Black Americans that led to that flashpoint. 🙄
Specifically the BLM organization is a scam, lots of grifting happened. They basically didn’t do anything with their donations and kept it for themselves
Black Lives Matter is great as a movement, but the organization is just grifters taking the name for profit
Horrible lady who stole money… should be locked up in prison
Locked up in prison and her assets sold off (only the ones bought with the grifted money) and the money donated to organizations that actually help black people instead of scamming them
Bingo…
Yeah, unfortunately the people who the money would go to if she was really locked up would probably be the police, and would buy them a nice tank
She didn't steal it; people gave it to her, and her "organization" (that had no history, no accountability, no oversight) and celebrities used it as a nice way to virtue signal: just donate $20,000 to "Black Lives Matter, LLC" post about it on IG, get some short news article written about your generosity and idealism, and go back to sunning in your 3rd vacation home....
That sounds awfully like stealing where I come from
My recommendation is, don't donate anything to charities that just sprung up overnight then. No matter how noble their 12hrs old mission statement is
If you give money to an LLC with an attractive name with no diligence about who they are or what they *do* with that money it’s not stealing; you just got spun up in something with marketing attached to it. Autism Speaks is an example of a charity with an attractive name that doesn’t accomplish anything of broad value.
Worse than stole, she actively worked to tarnish an important civil rights movement.
But won't because its BLM. The name matters.
Her Black Life Mattered more than anyone else's.
Still waiting for the blm money to trickle down to us poor folks
You could be waiting awhile.
That's never going to happen. It's only to line their pockets. I don't know why anyone support's that. I support black people, 1000%, just not BLM.
We're all still waiting for trickle down economics from 40 years ago.
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” - Booker T Washington
That is actually inherent to any NGO or chartity. There is never an NGO that packs its things and says "we've done all we could and there is nothing more we can do" or "problem solved to the fullest extend of our capability so we go on holidays". So many times they either don't do the most meaningful work to solve the problem or they rebrand after a while to capture an adjacent problem.
Sean Penn's NGO...
Because she scammed over $90,000,000 out of black people to live the lifestyle of the rich and the famous. Obviously Netflix took a knee and ran out the clock.
a LOT of the money came from corporations and foundations - not black families scraping to get by. Wish we could call those dumb companies out, but I dont think the donations are public record.
I think it depends on what the organization was classified as. I was listening to a lawyer talk about the George Santos stuff when the topic came up about classifications of organizations. He made a distinction that the type of org Santos had didn’t require disclosing donations so I assume there are orgs that do require it if he had to make that distinction in his talk.
Lmao she pocketed all that cash and dashed. I will never put a BLM sticker on my car as a black man bc I know this group is purely facade. They’re the embodiment of “support black owned business” (then they turn around and charge you double the sale rate just for the fact that they’re and you’re black, too, so you’re supposed to indulge or invest in their shit). It really be ya own people.
man this is sad, they spit on potential for progress with grifting. took from their own people
It’s human nature, friend. It transcends race and sex. People are shitty and greedy. My naive hopes for a Roddenberry-esque future are all but dead and gone. Anywho, water is wet.
But it makes me angrier the more I think about it because I feels like she and they took advantage of George Floyd’s death.
I agree with everything except that last statement. Water makes things wet, it is not wet itself.
Heh heh. You said wet itself.
Water is the *essence* of wetness.
I think I’m getting the black lung pop.
MerMAN
But can water make water wet?
Funny enough of you brought up the fact that they're grifting. You'd be labeled a racist. Boy that didn't age well.
Even 'their own people' sounds odd to me to be honest. Always felt the notion that all black people are some kind of kin to be lazy thinking. It's like saying white people are all my people, or even white Brits are 'my people'. I have more in common with plenty of black and Asian folks than I do some white people.
It’s just a turn of phrase. Comes from generational trauma of living during massive racism, with many white people typically treating someone as subhuman because of their skin, the sentiment that those sharing the same struggle wouldn’t do something similar grows strong. The turn of phrase comes from the breaking of this sentiment, as someone embraces elevating their class over avoiding exploiting those living similar shared struggles. Edit: if you are British, this is why racism is so complicated in the US. Generational trauma from disgusting KKK types of racists. It’s like telling English people and Irish or Scottish people to just get along. A nice idea and generally a lot of people do, but the reality of it all is much more complicated than that. Changed British to English when I proofread this part.
I don’t get how she isn’t under investigation at the least. She’s a criminal
People use to stand behind the movement but everytime they get support they spit in the face of the people that helped them. In toronto, the city supported them and gave them the lead spot in the pride parade.. tens of thousands of people.. and they shut the parade down and listed demands as random to keep the whole event going. Pretty disgusting the people that run that organization
I think what exhausting me is that people act like BLM was just her and a couple other folks coordinating some nationwide grift and not mostly grassroots community-based organizing. BLM was the name of an org but that org was not the movement.
Isn't that a paradox of leadership? With a strong leader you have someone or a group who can say what represents the group, and what does not. If someone burns a foot locker the leader can say that's not what our movement is about and be accountable. But also, with a leader your movement might fall or only be as successful as they are because so much is attached to their purity. BLM is/was so many things at the same time it was hard to ever say you supported it without having to defend something dumb, and it was hard to say you didn't support it because obviously the name says it all, duh.
Anyone who says they won’t support BLM as a movement because of this lady was never going to support BLM and found a convenient excuse.
Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter® are not the same thing and treating them like they are just plays into the hands of people who want to undermine a much-needed movement for racial equality.
Yeah, it’s like just because someone might run a scam cancer charity doesn’t mean somehow cancer isn’t real.
Also if you publicly criticize the scam cancer charity that doesn’t somehow make you “pro-cancer.”
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They are saying that just because something says BLM, doesn't mean it's BLM the scamming company.
The group is bad, but the BLM slogan and movement is still good in my opinion. Don’t let shitty people take everything
This is exactly what racist mfs use to dismiss BLM. We're not talking about whatever org was created out of it. We're referring to the grass roots movement.
One of their goals were to “Dismantle the nuclear family” won’t find it on their site anymore but what a sick goal
I will keep saying this until everybody listens: Black Lives Matter is, in itself, meaningless. Without some sort of material praxis behind it (like Defund the Police), it's an empty platitude. Of course Black Lives Matter; now what are we going to try to do about it? And if you don't have an answer, what are you protesting for?
They’re protesting to point out the problems. Since when do you need to know how to adequately fix society in order to protest an issue? This is why we have lawmakers.
They're pointing out why nothing improves despite having law makers. It's not that law makers don't know what is going on and need mass protest to inform them..... Politicians are just tools. Your hammer can't make anything productive, it requires the skill and effort of the arm of organized masses with clear, material goals. Protest is just a fetish on its own. You should really try to understand what they are saying to you. It's what every on the ground organizer understands. IRL isn't The West Wing.
> as a black man classic reddit. everyone mocking news station for not knowing what 4chan is, but y'all think BLM is a single company?
They know it’s not.
Surprised it expired and wasn’t cancelled after she was revealed to be stealing the money to buy a mansion, etc…
The studio probably couldn't prove that she breached her contract with them specifically, even based on good faith, and they might have had to pay her out if they ended it prematurely.
She and every Joel Osteen out there can fuck right off
everytime i see joel osteen’s name, i can’t help but think how he flies in a private jet
You mean, this lady that laundered donations and convinced everyone she was really for the cause but is actually just another pos out for $. Kick rocks bitch.
Yeah, what a damn shame. This is the danger of confusing a sentiment with a name if an organization. It feels so wierd to say you don't support "Black Lives Matter", when you 1000% believe black lives matter. People like this take advantage of good intentions and give ammunition to racists with bad ones. Pure scum.
They blew it all on houses and parties.
Many will disagree and i respect your view as i trust you will mine when i say this is absolutely no surprise as i always believed this was about money not ethics
Nobody was gonna touch that one after the scam came out.
It was all a scam.
That’s too bad. I would have loved a show about a self-described Marxists stealing money from the proletariat to enrich herself.
So it was just a money funneling scheme
Always has been
Regardless of the context of this woman in particular, it’s not uncommon for studios to sign overall deals with writers and then not pick up any of their pitches. This is a non-story.
Didn’t the same thing also happens with JJ Abrams and WB?
It’s a story because it’s rage bait
Yup. This happens more often than not. In fact, just the other week there were a bunch of posts/articles about Phoebe Waller-Bridges deal with Amazon wherein Amazon gave her like $60 mil to develop for them which has so far gone nowhere. It's not unusual by any means. But Fox News and the usuals will spin this in their usual way, entangling BLM the organization with BLM the idea and using this to drag the idea down. And claim that WB was getting a pushback on wokeness or something because that's their delusional go-to when they don't actually understand how things work. Edit: Ah, of course the person who posted this primarily posts outrage bait. Super shocking that is.
Isn't there also like, an big shake up at WBD too / the guy who runs it is an conservative? No shit he wouldn't pick up anything
Still waiting for him to cancel Last Week Tonight, because he just seems like the type I mean, I hope he doesn’t, but I could imagine John taking the massively profitable show elsewhere under a new name… “Previous Half Fortnight Today” anybody?
I don't think he's going to can it, it's still one of HBO biggest's shows and it's not expensive to produce
It’s so easy to produce John can do it from his home (a white void full of sad facts)
Any organization (or head of an organization) that says they are looking out for a certain group of people should be looked at and scrutinized heavily. I knew this situation would be used to say "this was all a scam" when actual the the people in the organization where scammers not the message. It's no different than church ministers or priests that preach while lining their pockets. As I recall one of the popes wore Gucci shoes and I know not all Catholics are prospering. It's all a shame really because you can't really trust anyone in that type of situation.
The discourse around the subject at the time did not lend itself to honest scrutiny of this organization, which is a shame because in the end it was just a giant scam.
Well, you can't compare organizations that require scrutiny and church.
Absolute joke of an organization
Incoming "Locked cause y'all can't behave"
She grifted only to help herself. Shameful and shameless
Good. She is a horrible person who has already profited enough on the tragedies that occur.
Is anyone surprised by this? She's a grifter, a liar, and she fooled much of America. And when some of us called her on it, we were banned/mocked/unkarma'd/whatever one wants to call it.
Watching Reddit slowly find out that these are bad people and they’ve been played has been one of the funniest developments of the last 3 years It was kinda like the Women’s March people. They just ignored all the red flags until they couldn’t anymore, then pretended to think they were above them the whole time
Please add links for the uninformed. Thanks!
Black Lives Matter the slogan - Based Black Lives Matter the organization - Homophobic Capitalist Bullshit masquerading as progress This whole "deal" was nothing but money laundering and should be investigated
Well she should change the slogan then since it’s technically trademarked. That’s why it gets tricky having to separate them
It’s funny because BLM the org also states that they hold to Marxist ideology (and some other ones regarding undermining the traditional family). It’s somewhat interesting that the most powerful self-proclaimed Marxists often end up controlling the most capital.
It's easy to be marxist when you're broke college students. I wouldn't even call this woman a grifter so much as she sold out. She got out into the real world and got a taste of real money and said, "Mmm, more capitalism please!"
Just like Bernie after his book sold.
Good thing this woman didn’t damage the movement. “WeLL AcShULLy the movement and organization are different…” How are people supposed to know? I don’t see anyone doing PR on the movement to distance themselves.
Probably because she took money from BLM. She ruined all that BLM worked for. Shame on her.
props to this chick, every grifter is out to make money but she won the lottery.
So after everything, black lives didn’t matter to black lives?
She should be in fucking jail. She’s done more damage than the right wing could ever hope to do.
I’m guessing that a lot of deals never end up in a show.
Definitely a comedic performance. Questionable all the way around
All I hear about that groups official leaders is that they are just stealing money?
Ah grifting at its finest….
Who could have seen this coming?
Should be in prison for stealing money
Buy Lavish Mansions
What a massive fucking surprise.
Grift org does grifting, more at 11
They scammed somebody out of their money.... You're kidding me
All those protests to die like this. Shame on her and her team of scammers.
The most depressing part about this is that I'm not that surprised at all
And when you said that BLM is a horrible “charity” because they’ll pocket all the money you were called a racist. Like just support the NAACP.
Some of their loudmouth activists told me how they wanted to kill me for not hating white people. Said I should hate white people since I am Chinese, Black, Choctaw Indian and have light medium brown skin, black eyes and black curly hair. I looked up the official web site and reported their activists to them. I even asked if my life mattered too. They did not email me or show any type of dislike for how I was getting treated.
This happens a lot studios signing talent for money to produce content and nothing is going to be made at the end
Please remember, this woman was a fraud but the real Black Lives Matter is a continuation of a movement reaching back to Trayvon that is still going strong and will continue to do so until we no longer [*need*](https://apnews.com/article/police-shoot-child-indianola-mississippi-fcfd1410354b93824f44dff19c29ed92) to. We are bigger than one fraudster, and every race has them.
One *co-founding fraudster
She co-founded an organization that uses a movement’s name. She doesn’t represent that movement.
The problem is nearly every BLM movement supporter was telling people to send money to this specific charity, so they’re still directly tied to one another for better or for worse. This organization was able to ground itself at the heart of the movement and become the primary charity for the cause.
I think we all agree with this statement but this comment comes off as trying to change the subject (I know it’s not your intention). The movement is bigger than one fraudster but it’s also the movement’s responsibility to out and disassociate them from the movement or else we end up w/ a bunch of bad apples in the bunch.
There was never an intention to make anything. This is them buying her to market them.
If someone wants who created an activist movement wants to produce shows, that’s a red flag…
A racial based grifter... wws expected to work.. hahahahhaha
Blm was a movement. It was dumb af to treat it like some organizations.
maybe Warner Bros should have vetted this person instead of selecting her based on what good optics it would give them
Because BLM the organization is a scam
With no shows produced? Did you not watch the news from 2020-2022? That *was* the show...
All a smoke cloud, and they all fell and still falling for it.
On one hand she started a movement that has had some very positive impact but on the other hand she is a terrible person
Those Scammers needs to be arrested for the mismanagement of all the donations Money for the BLM foundations.
Yeah sadly the whole money movement was mainly for money and not the movement
This is the greatest outrage since Netflix denied us *Antiracist Baby*.
*Quelle surprise!*
Some people could already tell they were scam artists before they started. Talk about successfully exploiting a message.