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There are a lot of things in this video that could be considered controversial this is for the sake of investigation towards the end it gets into the scam and how the communities are living now and how BLM has not helped the communities.  Although the speaker is very harsh about some things he does share some insight.

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TK Kirkland on Marxist BLM Co-Founder Buying $3.2M in Real Estate (Part 3)

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BLM under scrutiny for allegedly failing to disclose details of $60 million in donations

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BLM co-founder labeled a 'fraud' after buying luxury homes

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The claim: Black Lives Matter donations helped bankroll co-founder's home purchases

Real estate purchased by a co-founder of Black Lives Matter was put under the spotlight this month after the New York Post reported on what it called a "buying spree" Patrisse Khan-Cullors began in 2016.

Social media users seized on the report as an indication that Khan-Cullors was being enriched by the Black Lives Matter movement.

"Unbelievable. Big pay day coming soon after the (Derek) Chauvin trial," read one Facebook post from April 11.

That text accompanied a picture of Khan-Cullors holding up her right fist, and the text "Black Lives Matter co-founder Khan-Cullors reportedly bought four luxury homes." The post generated hundreds of shares and comments, including from users who suggested that Khan-Cullors was profiting from donations to Black Lives Matter.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has taken in about $90 million in 2020, when racial unrest exploded nationwide after the killing by police of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, according to the Associated Press.

But there is no evidence to support the idea that Khan-Cullors used donations that poured in amid nationwide protests in 2020 to bankroll the purchase of four homes.
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The account that shared the Facebook post did not respond to a request for comment.

Real estate purchased

The New York Post reported that Khan-Cullors has purchased four properties in recent years, though two came before 2020 brought a swell of attention and donations to Black Lives Matter. Three of those properties were in the Los Angeles area, and one was in suburban Atlanta, according to the Post.

One of the Los Angeles properties cost $510,000 when Khan-Cullors purchased it in 2016. A second Los Angeles home ran her $590,000 in 2018, the Post reported. A suburban Atlanta property was purchased for $415,000 in 2020.

Public records searches by USA TODAY found Khan-Cullors linked to all three of those properties.

The New York Post story links back to the real estate blog Dirt for information about the purchase of a fourth property. The blog reported that Khan-Cullors purchased the home in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon for $1.4 million on March 30 through a limited liability company.

USA TODAY was unable to verify the Topanga Canyon property purchase.

Were purchases connected to BLM?

The core question here is whether Khan-Cullors' purchases are linked to her BLM role, as the post implies.

For this claim, like any others we fact-check, the burden of proof is on the speaker. The post provided no proof of such a connection, the author did not respond to provide any, and we found none in our research, though documents are limited given the nature of the organization and Khan-Cullors' employment history.

The New York Post report, which cited the real estate blog Dirt, touched off a cascade of criticism about the real estate purchases, including from the conservative nonprofit National Legal and Policy Center.

National Legal and Policy Center Chairman Peter Flaherty said in a prepared statement provided to USA TODAY that "donors to any nonprofit group should know how the organization spends its funds" and pointed out that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has not filed public IRS disclosures.

The foundation received its official non-profit designation from the Internal Revenue Service in December, according to the Associated Press, and will be required to file public tax documents in the future. No public financial filings have yet been made.

Khan-Cullors said there's no connection between the home purchases and her BLM role.

"To be abundantly clear, as a registered 501c3, BLMGNF cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of my personal property," Khan-Cullors said in a prepared statement . "Any insinuation or assertion to the contrary is categorically false."
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In a cease-and-desist letter responding to a press release from the policy center, the BLM foundation responded to demand the National Legal and Policy Center remove the "insinuation" that "funds from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation's funds have been used, directly or indirectly, to purchase real estate."

Khan-Cullors said in a prepared statement she has been paid a total of $120,000 from the organization since 2013 for acting as spokesperson and "political education work," but she has not been paid since 2019.

Khan-Cullors pointed out the myriad jobs she has held. She has two book deals, including authorship of a New York Times best-selling memoir. The Los Angeles Times reported last year that Khan-Cullors signed a production deal with Warner Brothers "to develop scripted dramas and comedies, docuseries and animated programming for children, young adults and families."

Khan-Cullors also noted that she is a public speaker, owns a gallery, has a deal with YouTube and teaches at a private liberal arts college in Arizona.

Our rating: Missing context

The Associated Press, Feb. 23, AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter opens up about its finances

Instagram, April 14, Patrisse Khan-Cullors post

National Legal and Policy Center, April 10, Black Lives Matter Founder Patrisse Cullors Owns Expensive Real Estate

The New York Post, April 10, Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real estate buying binge

Patrisse Collors website, accessed April 19, About Patrisse Cullors

The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15, 2020, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors lands Warner Bros. TV production deal

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The claim that Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors bought four luxury homes is MISSING CONTEXT, because without additional information it could be misleading. While some social media users suggested that the purchases were evidence that Khan-Cullors had been enriched by the movement, our research revealed no evidence that Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation funds were used to purchase property. Khan-Cullors has held several other jobs in addition to her work as the organization's volunteer executive director, including writing a memoir and developing content for Warner Brothers.

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Fact check: Missing context in claim about Black Lives Matter co-founder's property purchases

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Real estate purchased by a co-founder of Black Lives Matter was put under the spotlight this month after the New York Post reported on what it called a "buying spree" Patrisse Khan-Cullors began in 2016. Social media users seized on the report as an indication that Khan-Cullors was being enriched by the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) moved millions of dollars to a charity in Canada run by the wife of co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors to buy a 10,000-square foot mansion, reports show.

M4BJ, which is a non-profit based in Toronto that was set up in part by Janaya Khan, bought the house for $6.3 million in July 2021. Khan is the wife of Khan-Cullors, a self-professed Marxist who helped found Black Lives Matter Global Foundation Network.

Cullors stepped down from her role as executive director of the activist group's central foundation last year amid questions about her finances. Cullors was questioned intensely on a series of real estate investments and property purchases, leading to criticism for her perceived opulence while claiming to be a Marxist.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters said on his show Monday that the IRS declined to comment on whether the transaction was flagged by the agency at the time.

"Usually the IRS pays a lot more attention," Scott Walter, president of the charity watchdog group Capitol Research Center told Watters during an appearance on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

"They should have filed an IRS disclosure form before the end of last year, as far as anybody knows they haven't done that nobody has been able to get it out of them," he said.

"[There's] No accountability. All these people doing these amazing things without accountability. I mean, presumably, eventually, it will catch up to them."

Watters said it appears the group is getting off scot-free despite running a "pure scam.

"I think they figured out how to make a quick buck, say 'Black Lives Matter' and then just buy a bunch of lavish properties," he said. "It's unbelievable they are getting away with it right in plain sight. We won't let them."
Fox News' Jon Brown contributed to this report.

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BLM 'scam' exposed by pricey real estate purchases: Watters

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) moved millions of dollars to a charity in Canada run by the wife of co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors to buy a 10,000-square foot mansion, reports show. M4BJ, which is a non-profit based in Toronto that was set up in part by Janaya Khan, bought the house for $6.3 million in July 2021.

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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation did not raise a single penny for the first six years of its existence. It couldn't.

The foundation wasn't even registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a charity. But after George Floyd's murder in May of 2020, tens of millions of dollars were given to this organization from major corporations and celebrities. And now, no one even knows where all that money has gone. Even worse, there doesn't appear to be anyone in charge of the organization who can provide that information.

Founded in 2013 after the death of Trayvon Martin, Black Lives Matter was little more than a hashtag and a website that loosely coordinated activism in communities across the country to "intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes."

For years, there did not appear to be a lot of outside resources directed to the organization. But that all changed in 2020.

Unable to accept the avalanche of money sent its way, BLM channeled donations through Thousand Currents and the Tides Foundation until the IRS approved its application for nonprofit status in December 2020. Around that time, Thousand Currents transferred $66.5 million to BLM - a transaction personally signed off on by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors.

Cullors later issued the organization's first-ever "impact report" in February 2021, claiming that the organization had raised over $90 million in 2020, spent $8.4 million on operating expenses, and given out $21.7 million to local BLM chapters and affiliated organizations. But these were just top-line numbers in a flashy communications product. No details were given on who was specifically paid what.

Just three months later, Cullors left BLM, claiming that she wanted to focus on other projects. She adamantly denied charges that she left the organization due to media reports that she had recently purchased millions of dollars' worth of real estate for herself.

When Cullors left BLM, she announced that activists Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele would replace her as senior executives. But Themba and Bandele later released a statement that they "were not able to come to an agreement with the acting Leadership Council about our scope and work authority."

Asked who is now in charge of BLM, Themba told the Washington Examiner, "We never actually started in the position, so we never received any detailed information."

Donors to BLM should have received some much-needed insight into how their money was being spent this November, when BLM was required by law to file a Form 990 tax return. It is now February, and there is no evidence that BLM ever filed its form.

CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron described BLM as "a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernable crew, and no clear direction."

According to Candid, a website devoted to tracking nonprofit donations, groups like BLM, which claim to be devoted to racial "equity," have raised over $25 billion since George Floyd's death.

What exactly have these billions accomplished? Are black lives any safer? Quite the opposite. Thanks to activism from groups like BLM, police budgets have been slashed in major cities across the country, and the number of arrests has plunged by 24%. As police were being defunded, murder rates skyrocketed, with black lives hardest hit.

In 2019, before the "defund the police" movement, 7,777 black people were murdered, making up 53.5% of all homicide victims. That was already bad, but in 2020, both of those numbers rose; 9,941 black people were murdered the year George Floyd died, accounting for 55.8% of all murders. That is an additional 2,000 black lives lost to violent crime last year. In contrast, only 60 unarmed men were killed by police in 2020, and only 18 of those were black.

The people who donated to BLM deserve to know where their money went. So do the people who live in communities that have been devastated by violence. Congress should investigate, and perhaps it will starting next January.

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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation did not raise a single penny for the first six years of its existence. It couldn't. The foundation wasn't even registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a charity. But after George Floyd's murder in May of 2020, tens of millions of dollars were given to this organization from major corporations and celebrities.

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Black Lives Matter as a Scam Organization - Brightwork Research & Analysis

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Black Lives Matter’s background and what they stand for are not sufficiently researched by those that support the movement. We cover the scam nature of BLM.