Black Lives Matter - Using Socialism to buy Million Dollar Homes

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Greenman

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Didn't bother to read her response did you? Even if she was making a few 100K/year the head of the Red Cross makes $694,000. You sure your beef isn't because she is black in light of that?
Nope. My beef is with nonprofits. The head of the red cross you mentioned is a perfect example.
 
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Vic

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Nope. My beef is with nonprofits. The head of the red cross you mentioned is a perfect example.
The head of the American Red Cross is CEO of a corporation with 19,000 full-time employees and 300,000 regular volunteers. That salary you have a beef with is actually well below market rate for a similar position in a for-profit corporation.
 

Vic

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So is it a good or a bad thing that BLM isn't a marxist/socialist organization? Or are we just complaining about a random black woman making some solid real estate investments?
 
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HomerJS

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Nope. My beef is with nonprofits. The head of the red cross you mentioned is a perfect example.
Since she isn't making the money why is it brought up? Maybe just to smear BLM?

It's not like the people running BLM are embezzling money to get life size portraits of themselves.

Gee, wouldn't it be nice to live in a country where it's not necessary to remind people black lives are treated like they don't matter.
 

cytg111

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lol keep dreaming



The fact that it isn't simply paid out in a check with the exact person's name on the check doesn't mean that funds aren't funnelled to them lol. But you would know that if you were reading a story about corrupt politicians, wouldn't you?

Critical thinking is clearly haaaaaaaaard stuff for you eh cutie?
So if you cant prove you didnt do something you guilty. Someone is coming apart in front of our eyes tiger blood style...
 
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Isn't the power of Socialism great? Using the funds from hundreds of thousands of idiots to buy wealthy property? All through the power of SOCIALISM!

She's definitely enjoying life with her people. And by her people, I don't mean the black people she proclaims to be for - I mean the 98% white people in her neighborhood lol ;)




A fool and their money are soon parted though - it's just sad idiot lefties can't help themselves lol. Doesn't matter if it's idiots like Shaun King (Talcum X), BLM, Rachel Dolezal, etc.. etc... They keep exploiting idiot lefties that think their oppression payments are going to help anything for black people lol. Maybe some day you guys will learn - but it seems doubtful. You haven't learned from the last 50 times you tried it with the likes of Al Sharpton, so why now?

Those who don't learn from the past are damned to repeat it, etc.. etc...
Look at you pretending to care.
 

BonzaiDuck

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Isn't the power of Socialism great? Using the funds from hundreds of thousands of idiots to buy wealthy property? All through the power of SOCIALISM!

She's definitely enjoying life with her people. And by her people, I don't mean the black people she proclaims to be for - I mean the 98% white people in her neighborhood lol ;)




A fool and their money are soon parted though - it's just sad idiot lefties can't help themselves lol. Doesn't matter if it's idiots like Shaun King (Talcum X), BLM, Rachel Dolezal, etc.. etc... They keep exploiting idiot lefties that think their oppression payments are going to help anything for black people lol. Maybe some day you guys will learn - but it seems doubtful. You haven't learned from the last 50 times you tried it with the likes of Al Sharpton, so why now?

Those who don't learn from the past are damned to repeat it, etc.. etc...
Did you bother to find out her financial status before she co-founded BLM? Are there any claims, by anyone from anywhere, that she's taken non-profit money or embezzled it to buy her real-estate?

The other day I was at the auto-repair lounge, and someone had tuned in FOX. My jaw dropped as I watched the discussion about the item of the moment.

"There were 59 police killings of black suspects in [a recent year], and 109 police killings of white people during the same period. Consequently, there couldn't be any systemic racism problem, because fewer blacks were killed."

If idiots believe this stuff, there may be a lot of idiots. The numbers prove the opposite, since the black percentage of the general US population is south of 14%. Oh! This requires a little inferential logic. But it is so little, that the inability to see it is either simple denial, or complete retardation.

But let's review the New York Post article a bit.

Here is a relevant excerpt:

Last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a “custom ranch” on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot “paved/grass” community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.

The three-bedroom, two-bath house, about 30 minutes from Atlanta, has an indoor swimming pool and a separate “RV shop” that can accommodate the repair of a mobile home or small aircraft, according to the real estate listing.

The Peach State retreat was purchased in January 2020 for $415,000, two years after the publication of Khan-Cullors’ best-selling memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”

In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.

It is not known how much Khan-Cullors received in compensation in either deal.

Khan-Cullors began her buying spree in LA in 2016, a few years after the civil rights movement she started from a hashtag — #blacklivesmatter — with fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi began to gain traction around the world."


She has book royalties. She has a spouse. What is the spouse's net-worth? She has a Warner-Brothers contract.

[I'll continue this in a minute after I check an Ebay bid I'm watching . . . ]
 
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HomerJS

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Did you bother to find out her financial status before she co-founded BLM? Are there any claims, by anyone from anywhere, that she's taken non-profit money or embezzled it to buy her real-estate?

The other day I was at the auto-repair lounge, and someone had tuned in FOX. My jaw dropped as I watched the discussion about the item of the moment.

"There were 59 police killings of black suspects in [a recent year], and 109 police killings of white people during the same period. Consequently, there couldn't be any systemic racism problem, because fewer blacks were killed."

If idiots believe this stuff, there may be a lot of idiots. The numbers prove the opposite, since the black percentage of the general US population is south of 14%. Oh! This requires a little inferential logic. But it is so little, that the inability to see it is either simple denial, or complete retardation.
Of course he didn't. Because she is black couldn't have possibly have earned any serious money absent something nefarious
 
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I mean it seems like she has five or six gigs/jobs. Not completely outrageous.
The area she bought has Uber high values so it probably isn’t that much of a house.
 

uclaLabrat

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She bought a 2370 Sq foot lot in Topanga canyon? Are you familiar with Topanga canyon? She bought an entire lot thats smaller than my house. Granted my house is two story so it's probably a lot the size of my lot. Soaring ceilings? Yeah no shit, they'd have to be.

And even if she's making $250k per year that's practically poverty level for that area 😂

So where is your outrage stemming from? She spent a relatively large sum on a house and she's a self described socialist? Or you think you should take a vow of poverty as part of BLM?

Cause I got some church pastors who make her seem like a pauper.
 
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BonzaiDuck

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Of course he didn't. Because she is black couldn't have possibly have earned any serious money absent something nefarious
Yes -- assumptions based on stereotypes. I'll continue where I left off in my post, because my brain -- like a gun -- was already loaded.

First, if Khan-Cullers took donations for BLM to finance a high lifestyle and uptown real-estate, that has nothing to do with "Socialism". It would be a crime. In fact, I had made sure that a fellow member and former officer of a PAC in which I served was charged with just that crime. Am I "holier than thou?" You betcha -- "thou" meaning the Right who always say "everyone does it."

Second, a BLM affiliate also came forward asking for an investigation. That's fine by him, and fine by me. I was fine with the audit of the Clintons' foundation. It's important, when allegations have some traction in the sieve of possibilities, that successive attempts at fact-gathering occur. And how did that turn out? No crimes committed.

There's an entire history of this habit of the Right to concoct fictions to present as fact for character assassination of opposition politicians and activists. Again, the Clintons give another example, and I could go on with a litany stretching back ten years after I finish with it, but I'll spare everyone the time.

Let's start with the Benghazi fiasco and the GOP-led House committee that spent millions over the longest running set of hearings --- a year or more -- to our recollection. It helps define the notion of Witch-Hunt, which Trump and the Repubs throw around like spare pop-corn. They had "a Witch" -- Hillary was their witch. They needed a crime. So they started looking for a crime, in an investigation of a minor tragedy in which four or five people lost their lives for a reasonable diplomatic gamble for a post-Qaddafi Libya. By contrast, Bush lost more than 4,000 American lives in Iraq, and the Repubs still continue to say the war was justified. But the House committee failed to find a crime. And generally, in serious criminal investigations, the authorities have evidence of a crime and know that a crime was committed at the beginning of inquiry. Their investigation seeks to find the criminal. With Hillary, they were looking for the crime over a year's period.

So they turned to "the home server and the e-mails". Guess what? I've got a home-server. I had a classified document on my home server -- I can explain later how it was acquired from NARA without the required accession stamp on it. I have deleted [Carl Sagan mode here] -- Millions . . . and MILLIONS . . . . and MILLIONS of e-mails from my server and other computer.

If I had a large estate home in Chappaqua, New York, with a dozen people on the household staff and a "home-server", I would get a lot of e-mails. I would get e-mails just as I actually have over decades. I would get these e-mails from Home-Depot, Lowe's, Macy's, CVS, grocery stores, department stores -- just about every kind of entity for which I myself have received e-mails. And I would've deleted them.

It can now only be a matter of speculation that every time Trump asked the Russians publicly to find Hillary's 30,000 e-mails, they would have found just the sort of e-mails I already described.

Nonsense, fabrication, lies, propaganda, illogical arguments, personal attacks, character assassination -- you can call it all "free speech". I personally think there should be a way to criminalize it, but detection and enforcement would become quickly politicized, and it would be a Constitutional issue. Yet, those tactics do nothing -- NOTHING! -- to pursue good government according to the Founders. Good government requires a commitment toward the search for the Truth. If one side has no concern for the Truth, those tactics are instead a source of enormous costs born by everyone.
 
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brandonbull

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So is it a good or a bad thing that BLM isn't a marxist/socialist organization? Or are we just complaining about a random black woman making some solid real estate investments?
I didn't think BLM was an organizationing at all. Much less one that uses violence and harassment to advance their political and ideological views. If BLM wore polo or hawaiian shirts, they would be called a domestic terrorist organization.
 

cytg111

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I didn't think BLM was an organizationing at all. Much less one that uses violence and harassment to advance their political and ideological views. If BLM wore polo or hawaiian shirts, they would be called a domestic terrorist organization.
You mad cause your circle IS denoted a t organization and those pesky blm's are not? No fair?... Hahahahahaha
 

Viper1j

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Isn't the power of Socialism great? Using the funds from hundreds of thousands of idiots to buy wealthy property? All through the power of SOCIALISM!

She's definitely enjoying life with her people. And by her people, I don't mean the black people she proclaims to be for - I mean the 98% white people in her neighborhood lol ;)




A fool and their money are soon parted though - it's just sad idiot lefties can't help themselves lol. Doesn't matter if it's idiots like Shaun King (Talcum X), BLM, Rachel Dolezal, etc.. etc... They keep exploiting idiot lefties that think their oppression payments are going to help anything for black people lol. Maybe some day you guys will learn - but it seems doubtful. You haven't learned from the last 50 times you tried it with the likes of Al Sharpton, so why now?

Those who don't learn from the past are damned to repeat it, etc.. etc...

And this is different from Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robinson, and Jerry Falwell how?
 
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MrSquished

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There are corrupt people everywhere in every type of organization. I applaud the activists asking for black accountants and black lawyers to go in and investigate how the money at her for profit enterprise is being spent. Investigate and see what it uncovers.
 

Commodus

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And this is different from Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robinson, and Jerry Falwell how?

Among other things, she isn't corrupt to her core like those three. Buying a posh place while claiming to be far-left may be hypocritical, but it's not being done at the expense of innocent people.
 

1prophet

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And this is different from Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robinson, and Jerry Falwell how?

All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others.

It's not different, one claims to be a Christian the other a Marxist and both are grifters using the devil, the world or racism to amass wealth, and they will rationalize and defend it like the pigs in Animal Farm.

As for what Marxism is really about,



anyone telling you otherwise is no different than those that say the confederate flag and statues are about southern heritage not slavery.
 
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All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others.

It's not different, one claims to be a Christian the other a Marxist and both are grifters using the devil, the world or racism to amass wealth, and they will rationalize and defend it like the pigs in Animal Farm.

As for what Marxism is really about,



anyone telling you otherwise is no different than those that say the confederate flag and statues are about southern heritage not slavery.

Well of course, was ANYONE from that time not a racists, homophobe, sexist or anti Semite?
 
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sandorski

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All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others.

It's not different, one claims to be a Christian the other a Marxist and both are grifters using the devil, the world or racism to amass wealth, and they will rationalize and defend it like the pigs in Animal Farm.

As for what Marxism is really about,



anyone telling you otherwise is no different than those that say the confederate flag and statues are about southern heritage not slavery.

Evidence of Grift?