Tuesday, February 8, 2022

FUKED UP BIG TIME! CELEBRATE GEORGE FLOYD??? - “He was not a hero, but a drug addict and criminal.”

Hendry and Laseski are not alone in their sentiments. Another alum expressed his concerns more starkly: “So, after 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, they wish to honor him?,” queried another friend who heard the news about the George Floyd scholarship. “This is now the standard of an honorable person?  A roll model? Are these the qualities the recipient will be required to have?”

University of Minnesota Alums Protest Scholarship in George Floyd’s Honor

“He was not a hero, but a drug addict and criminal.”

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To mark the one-year anniversary of his death, the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota announced that they are endowing a new scholarship to honor George Perry Floyd Jr.—the drug addict and criminal who became famous through his death at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin.

“This is an important step for our community,” said Carlson School Dean Sri Zaheer, who added that the scholarship “will enhance the diversity of the student body and has a preference for black and African-American students as well as those who have financial need or are victims of police violence, for as long as they are underrepresented at the Carlson school.”

Dean Zaheer noted that at George Floyd’s memorial service, “Universities nationwide were called upon to create scholarships in his honor to help create a more just and equitable world,” and called Carlson’s scholarship a “clear message” of their intentions to promote racial justice. But does George Floyd—repeat criminal, drug addict, and unwitting martyr for a movement—deserve the immense honor of a scholarship in his name?

Bruce Hendry, a prominent alumnus of the University of Minnesota, is one of many who object to the honor their alma mater has bestowed on Floyd. Hendry has devoted significant time and resources to the betterment of the University, both serving on the Carlson Board of Overseers for 10 years and joining the university’s “Century Club” which consists of those who gave more than $100,000 to the University more than twenty-five years ago. 

Hendry wrote to Dean Zaheer and University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel to express his concerns about the George Floyd scholarship. “I want to add my name to what must be a chorus of protest for establishing a scholarship for a despicable person like George Floyd. He was not a hero, but a drug addict and criminal,” Hendry wrote. “The University in general has gotten off tract to their mission and it saddens me greatly.”

When Dean Zaheer responded that the scholarship was funded by private donations, Hendry found that a poor excuse. “If I were to ask you to establish a scholarship to honor the Ku Klux Klan for deserving students, all with private money, would you do it?,” he queried. “The George Floyd scholarship may be funded by private money, but it is a black mark on the Carlson School and the University of Minnesota and will remain a black mark as long as you support it. My guess is that if you continue embracing the scholarship, it will eventually cost CSOM millions of dollars in withheld donations to the school.”

“My advice to you is to send back the money to the donors, or at least change the name of the scholarship to something less offensive,” he concluded.

Another alumnus, Wes Laseski, also wrote to express his objections to naming the scholarship for Floyd. “While I support diversity and inclusion for all,” he wrote, “I do not believe that Carlson establishing a George Floyd scholarship is the best way to accomplish this objective. What about establishing scholarships recognizing great Americans or great student accomplishments in the name of bringing our country together” Let's build around positives rather than negatives.”

Laseski went on to note that George Floyd’s personal history should make him starkly ineligible for the namesake of a scholarship: “Combining his terrible personal history, including imprisonment, drug abuse, and physical assault with the absence of any commitment such as fatherhood, makes me question how Carlson can establish a scholarship in his honor.”

“The message that Carlson should convey to incoming students is that America is great and with an education you can improve your lives while making our country even greater,” Laseski concluded. “The establishment of the George Floyd scholarship does not convey this message.”       

Hendry and Laseski are not alone in their sentiments. Another alum expressed his concerns more starkly: “So, after 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, they wish to honor him?,” queried another friend who heard the news about the George Floyd scholarship. “This is now the standard of an honorable person?  A roll model? Are these the qualities the recipient will be required to have?”

George Floyd’s death was a travesty and Officer Derek Chauvin has paid the price. But honoring Floyd—the unwitting and clearly undeserving martyr for a movement—taints the ideals espoused by the University of Minnesota and other institutions of higher education. Scholarships should be named for individuals or institutions who embody the highest ethical and moral standards. George Floyd is not among them. 


Tony school in D.C. forces 5 year-olds to parade around chanting 'Black Lives Matter' for the cameras

What is it about radical leftists and getting their hands on people's kids?

Libs of Tik Tok (Hat tip: Daily Wire and We Love Trump) found this one, posted on the ritzy Lowell School's site, showing very small schoolchildren, all around age 5, marching in their masks, with signs chanting "Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter..." I suppose we're supposed to say 'aww, aren't they cute,' but the normal response is: Who is forcing them to do that against their will?

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I remember singing 'ring around the rosies' at that particular age.

What's more, as a five-year-old in the '60s, I remember seeing Black Panther and Symbionese Liberation Army violence, riots, and gun-waving parade-arounds, Charles Manson and his leftist fangirls, and hippies spitting at troops in airports, on the television set as a kid. I recall viewing those things as vile, hateful, threatening, something never to get involved with. More to the point, it would have been unthinkable to force any five-year-old at that time to go around chanting for those causes as they are for today's similar ones. It simply would not have been done.

But here we are today, with near-toddlers being forced to march and parade around for the cameras chanting for an organization that is characterized by its cause and effects-- violence, burning cities, dead police officers, police defunding, zero response to 9/11 calls and big death spikes in the black community based on unchecked violent crime, corporate kowtowing to the crocodile, and humongous piles of money engulfed in colossal corruption.

Sound like a cause anyone should force a five-year-old to chant for? Not to normal people.

The radicals at the cossetted tony, $40,000 a year school, so insulated from normal people, think otherwise - here's some dreck the Daily Wire located from their website.

We firmly believe that we cannot expect children to engage in fluent conversations around identity, equity, and inclusion if these topics are, in any way, “off limits” for young children. Instead, we believe that if we normalize difference and teach children how to share and appreciate difference, the groundwork for equity and inclusion conversations will be that much more firmly laid. …
 
Part of helping children develop a strong sense of self includes showing them that they each have a voice and they can use that voice in service of a cause they are passionate about. This lays the groundwork for teachers to begin addressing issues of “fairness” and ways that children can make a difference in the world. …

How is this 'education'? Are these children learning to read and write? This is the kind of garbage that goes on in the Cuban Castro regime, every word delivered in education a word of propaganda for the vile and detested regime. Children are pawns in this scheme, deprived of real education in favor of fist-waving, with the idea that they stay radical activists for life.

Why are they such targets now? Because leftists know they can't persuade the larger public anymore. Only innocent little children who know nothing of politics have become a palimpsest upon which to engrave their hostile, hateful, useless, ideas. Black Lives Matter has fallen into total discredit with the public, according to polls.

It's sad because it's not just this ritzy school that is trying to turn five-year-olds into angry, radical leftists. Bari Weiss has investigated wokesterism in all kinds of tony, elite private schools around the country, getting her information from anonymous parents who are afraid of being bullied, blacklisted, doxxed or labeled, and who also fear that leftists will take their hate out on their children. She's written about that here.

There is little parents can do, other than pull their kids from the ritzy private schools and lose the old boy's network that such institutions offer. Most won't do it, and those who object might write it off as acceptable since everyone thinks black and all lives matter. On the surface, it might be O.K.

But kids grow up. Some may stay radical as their indoctrination and warm memories of naps and milk and cookies stays with them. But others will discern the gaslighting about critical race theory, which tells white kids who never did anything racist that they are oppressors, and black kids that despite that $40,000 their parents laid down for that fancy education, that they are victims. What happens when such kids get older and learn the actual history of Black Lives Matter, either through the ruinous effects of its 'defund the police' advocacy, or its corrupt money dealings? It's a recipe for cynicism.

The bottom line here is that children do not have choices in this matter and shouldn't be forced to participate in activism for any cause, really. Would leftists like it if their kids were forced to march against abortion at some other tony private school? Kids should be should be learning to read and write and do math and sing children's songs together as normal children do.

The fact that this particular cause is highly discredited at this point as Democrats scramble to 'refund' the police, and in disfavor by the majority of the American people makes the whole thing even worse.

These people are indoctrinators, and they've got America's elite kids under their thumb, so they're going to force-feed them leftwingery of a very destructive type. What a sorry specter this is. It's time to defund these destructive establishments, both federally and through parents. Education shouldn't be this bad. This is not Cuba.

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STAGGERING BLACK CRIME

Arrest made in Costco carjacking



At Least 140 Carjackings in Philadelphia Already in 2022

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There have been at least 140 carjackings in Philadelphia already in 2022 and we are still in the first week of February.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported police put the number of carjackings at 140 on February 3, 2022, and there have been over two days since then for other carjacking crimes to occur in the city.

One-hundred-and-forty carjackings through February 3 was “double the year-to-date total from 2021.”

Breitbart News noted that there were at least 90 carjackings in Philadelphia during the first two weeks of 2022, and over 100 during the first three weeks of the year.

Last week, CBS Philadelphia explained that police believe “it’s a small group of criminals that are responsible for the majority of carjackings in the city, and they say social media is a driving force.”

Police indicated that the age of Philadelphia carjackers ranges “from 14 to 24.”

Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Ben Naish said, “Some carjackings that are getting social media attention are leading to other carjackings and that’s predominantly where a lot of juveniles are coming into play. We think they have been making somewhat of a spectacle or game at keeping score outta something like this.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

Report: Texas Woman Allegedly Kills Pastor Mother by Sitting on Her in ‘Prayer Position’

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A Texas woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her roommate, who is reportedly her mother, by sitting on her in what she allegedly called “prayer position” until the victim stopped breathing.

Gloria Ann Jordan, 41, of Wichita Falls, was arrested Tuesday on a manslaughter charge in connection to the death of Gloria Farmer, which occurred on November 21, 2021, according to KAUZ. The alleged killing took place in a home the two women shared with a third woman on Las Cruces Lane in Witchita Falls.

Citing Farmer’s obituary, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the victim was a pastor and the mother of Jordan.

The Witchita Fall Police Department first believed Farmer’s death was of a medical nature, but a family friend came forward with concerns in the days after the alleged incident, the Star-Telegram reports. On November 24, police embarked on a follow-up investigation.

Authorities questioned the third roommate about the incident, and she allegedly said Jordan may have been responsible for Farmer’s death, adding that she did not say anything earlier as she was scared of Jordan, KAUZ reports.

The roommate explained that Jordan placed her hand on Farmer’s forehead during a prayer as the victim sat in an office chair and pushed the victim backward, causing Farmer and the chair to fall over, the outlet reports, citing an affidavit.

KAUZ reports:

Court documents say that Jordan then straddled Farmer’s body, sitting on her chest while Farmer told her to get off because she couldn’t breathe. The roommate reportedly tried to move Jordan off of Farmer, but the other woman is said to have stayed in her position until Farmer stopped breathing.

An autopsy report found Farmer’s death to have been caused by mechanical asphyxia, and said the manner of death was homicide.

Police reportedly questioned Jordan on Nov. 24 at the hospital, where she had been admitted for an unrelated medical condition. Jordan allegedly admitted to pushing Farmer over and straddling her body in a “prayer position” with her hand on Farmer’s forehead, but refused to answer further questions.

Jordan also faces charges for another incident that allegedly occurred on November 25, after a woman would only drive her to a medical appointment in Dallas on the condition Jordan paid for gas, KAUZ reports. Jordan allegedly yelled, “I rebuke you in the name of the Lord,” as she repeatedly banged the woman’s head against a wall.

Witchita Falls Police Department obtained an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Farmer’s death, and in a Facebook post, the department asked the public’s help in locating her.

“A public information officer with the department was unsure why an arrest warrant wasn’t obtained until February, but it may have been due to a delay in receiving the full autopsy report or a detective waiting on other evidence,” the Star-Telegram reports.

Jordan was arrested by police in Burkburnett, about 15 miles northeast of Witchita Falls.

She is being held on a $150,000 bond in Witchita County Jail, according to KAUZ.

BLACK Men Accused In Armed Robbery Arrested At TD Bank Branch In Miami-Dade



Codi Bigsby case: BLACK father of missing Hampton 4-year-old arrested on 7 counts of child neglect




2 BLACKS arrested for murder of 78-year-old man at CVS in Orlando, deputies say



What happened the night 4-year-old Suni Bell was gunned down?


BLACK Father tells police he threw baby in river, killed her mother

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Man, 25, is charged with murder 'after shooting his newborn daughter's mother to death and tossing the 2-day-old into Mississippi River'

  • Brandon Isabelle, 25, charged with two
  •  counts of murder for the deaths of Danielle
     Hoyle, 27, and their 2-day-old baby,
  •  Kennedy 
  • Isabelle allegedly admitted to police in
  •  Memphis that he 'lured' Danielle to a location in Whitehaven, Tennessee, and shot her in the head
  • Isabelle said he then removed his newborn daughter from the mom's car, took her to Mississippi River waterfront and tossed her in the water 
  • Police were still searching for the baby, but they said it is believed she is dead 


Homicide victim’s mother tells daughter’s accused killer-‘You must pay for what you did’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qoy7j84bKc


BLACK MAN = MASS SHOOTING

MOST SERIAL KILLERS ARE BLACK MEN!

Oroville mass shooting suspect identified, officials detail his alleged crimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEd4PLAtc4


Black Lives Matter Suspends Fundraising After California AG Warns of Missing Reports

Fists were raised in memory of Breonna Taylor during a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, June 25, 2020. The rally was held to demand justice in the death of Taylor who was killed in her apartment by members of …
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The official Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization suspended online fundraising on Wednesday after being warned by the California Attorney General that it faced revocation of its charitable status after failing to file required annual reports.

The finances of the organization have been under close scrutiny since last year, when co-founder (and trained Marxist) Patrisse Khan-Cullors was reported to have bought four homes. She resigned, but concerns lingered about $60 million in donations that BLM collected by the end of 2020 but for which no one in particular at the organization seemed accountable.

California’s Attorney General, Rob Bonta, was one of the most radical members of the state legislature when he was appointed in 2021 to replace Xavier Becerra, who left to take up the post of Secretary for Health and Human Services. Therefore the fact that he is cracking down on BLM’s finances suggests the problems are of a deeply serious nature.

The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday:

Black Lives Matter shut down all of its online fundraising streams late Wednesday afternoon, just days after California threatened to hold the charity’s leaders personally liable over its lack of financial transparency.

The move comes less than a week after a Washington Examiner investigation found that BLM has had no known leader in charge of its $60 million bankroll since its co-founder resigned in May. California and Washington recently ordered BLM to cease all fundraising activities in their blue states due to the failure of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, to report information about its finances in 2020, the year it raised tens of millions amid the racial protests and riots that followed George Floyd’s killing.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita previously said BLM’s refusal to answer basic questions about its finances and operations fits a common and disturbing pattern.

“It appears that the house of cards may be falling, and this happens eventually with nearly every scam, scheme, or illegal enterprise,” Rokita, a Republican, said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “I see patterns that scams kind of universally take: failure to provide board members, failure to provide even executive directors, failure to make your filings available. It all leads to suspicion.”

The organization is also failing to comply with regulations in seven other states, the Examiner reported.

BLM and similar organizations enjoyed a fundraising bonanza in the wake of the George Floyd protests and riots, with many corporations using their donations to prove their progressive credentials and to fend off criticism from “woke” employees and social media.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new novel, Joubert Park, tells the story of a Jewish family in South Africa at the dawn of the apartheid era. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, recounts the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


BLACKS MAKE UP ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION OF SAN FRANCISCO BUT PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME. THESE NUMBERS ARE PRE-COVID. NOW FACTOR IN  STORE LOOTING AND CAR BREAKINS.


BLACK CRIME - Kudlow: This is a terrible state of affairs



27th and Atkinson homicide, 2 BLACK men charged | FOX6 News Milwaukee

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EXTREME BLACK VIOLENCE IN BLACK OPERATED BALTIMORE ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT CITIES IN THE WORLD 

Tucker: Every powerful person in America is talking about this

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12 Shot, 3 Fatally, on Tuesday Alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JUNE 07: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to guests at an event held to celebrate Pride Month at the Center on Halstead, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community center, on June 07, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Lightfoot is the first openly gay mayor of the city …
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Twelve people were shot, three of them fatally, on Tuesday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

FOX 32 reports the first of the fatal shootings occurred around 6 a.m. in “the 900 block of East 79th Street.” Two people were killed in the incident, 67-year-old Gloria Binder and 42-year-old Erskine Binder, both of whom were shot multiple times.

ABC 7 notes that Gloria was a grandmother and Erskine was her son.

Gloria’s granddaughter, Camelia, spoke to the press, saying, “You took not one, but two people from us at one time. Was it that serious, though? If it was the money that you wanted or whatever it was, you all took two people from me!”

FOX 32 observed Tuesday’s third shooting fatality occurred at 4:15 p.m., when a 59-year-old woman was shot and killed by an errant bullet during a gun battle between a security guard and an unidentified male.

The woman was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.  The security guard was shot and wounded.

Breitbart News pointed out that at least 17 people were shot over the weekend in Lightfoot’s Chicago, and three of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.



BLM Finally Went Too Far. It Didn't File Paperwork

 

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Burn a bunch of cities, that's fine. But don't file your paperwork and that's crossing the line.

Obviously, all of this is egregious and there are tens of millions of dollars in play here, but I wouldn't have thought that California's one-party ruling elite would actually come down on the Black Lives Matter Global Network for anything short of... well anything.

But failing to file paperwork is still the greatest crime in a great bureaucracy.

The California Department of Justice has threatened to hold the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally liable if they fail to fork over information about the charity's $60 million bankroll within the next 60 days, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.

"The organization BLACK LIVES MATTER GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION, INC. is delinquent with The Registry of Charitable Trusts for failing to submit required annual report(s)," reads the letter, dated Jan. 31.

BLM is also prohibited from "soliciting or disbursing charitable funds" in California until it submits its 2020 Form 990 and other financial records to the state, the California DOJ informed the charity Monday. The letter added that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, faces fines for "each month or partial month for which the report(s) are delinquent."

"Charitable assets cannot be used to pay these avoidable costs," the California DOJ warned BLM. "Accordingly, directors, trustees, officers and return preparers responsible for failure to timely file the above-described report(s) are personally liable for payment of all penalties, interest and other costs incurred to restore exempt status."

Exactly who would even be on the hook for any of this might be a subject of debate since there's apparently no functional leadership. Which means the organization is starting to look like a hot potato with a lot of money. That's not a good place to be.

Beyond the Washington Examiner, concerns leaked into the mainstream media with a New York Mag story.

In 2016, the Black Lives Matter founders partnered with a sponsor now called Thousand Currents, and its official filings give a window into BLM fund-raising over the years. Thousand Currents’ revenue increased dramatically after taking on the organization, from $1.7 million in the year ending June 2015 to $6.6 million a year later. In the fiscal year concluding just after Floyd’s 2020 murder, revenue shot up to $86.9 million. At one point, BLM agreed to pay Thousand Currents 15 percent of all funds raised. The typical industry rate is between 5 and 10 percent, according to Candid, an information service that reports on nonprofits. 

Which suggests that BLM money was financing Thousand Currents.  

After the 2020 surge in donations, BLMGNF switched fiscal sponsors to a division of the Tides Foundation, a larger organization that says its fee is 9 percent of revenue and less for groups with contributions exceeding $1 million.

The Tides Center is more infamous. And is Soros backed.

Melina Abdullah, a vile bigot at the center of the LA activist world, also makes an appearance.

Melina Abdullah — a co-founder of Black Lives Matter L.A. and a co-director of BLM Grassroots, a tier of officially recognized chapters — stood next to Simpson and gave a passionate speech calling on people to donate $5,000 to help pay for Risher’s funeral. “The last thing a grieving mother needs to be thinking about is how she is going to pay for her son’s funeral,” Abdullah said. “To even speak those words is a trauma every single time.”

Simpson says she never received any funeral money from the organization.

What a shock.

It’s also no longer clear how many chapters Black Lives Matter has, official or otherwise. In the fall of 2020, as the group of ten chapters prepared to issue its call for greater transparency in November 2020, all chapter names were removed from the Black Lives Matter website. 

So there's no longer a functional organization or affiliated chapters. So what is BLM exactly? Besides a receptacle for a lot of money.

Report: BLM Sent Millions to Canada Charity for Mansion Formerly Owned by Communist Party

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) apparently sent millions to a Canadian charity lead by the wife of its cofounder to buy a mansion that was formerly the headquarters of the Communist Party, the New York Post reported Saturday.

“M4BJ, a Toronto-based non-profit set up by Janaya Khan and other Canadian activists, snagged the 10,000 square foot historic property for the equivalent of $6.3 million in cash in July 2021, according to Toronto property records viewed by The Post,” the outlet stated.

The article continued:

Khan is the wife of Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Foundation Network and a self-avowed Marxist. She resigned from the group last year, a month after The Post revealed that she had spent $3.2 million on homes in Georgia and Los Angeles. Khan-Cullors vigorously denied that BLM donations were used to buy the homes. The purchase of the Toronto property, named the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, came to light amid mounting concerns over the US activist group’s lack of transparency in its finances.

In April, family members of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor, two iconic victims in the BLM movement, questioned funding of the movement, and Taylor’s relatives described the Louisville, Kentucky, BLM branch as a “fraud.”

Meanwhile in Canada, the purchase was blasted by a pair of senior members of the organization who stepped down recently over the location’s funding.

“For BLM Canada to take money from BLM Global Network for a building without consulting the community was unethical,” Sarah Jama reportedly said in a social media post this month. “For BLM Canada to refuse to answer questions from young black organizers goes against the spirit of movement building.”

The questions surfaced while BLMGNF experienced internal turmoil after two activists set up to manage the group following Khan-Cullors resignation apparently left a few months ago.

Makani Themba along with Monifa Bandele reportedly claimed they did not know who managed the group’s over $66 million from Thousand Currents, the nonprofit in charge of managing its donations.

“Thousand Currents transferred the cash to BLMGNF in Oct. 2020 when it broke with the group, according to public filings,” the Post article said.

Cullors is now bringing more activism into the entertainment industry with projects advocating for reparations in a book and television projects with Warner Bros., Breitbart News reported Sunday.

Ex-BLM Leader Patrisse Cullors Preps Warner Bros. Projects Focused on Reparations

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Former Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors is bringing more of her activism to the entertainment industry with projects advocating for racialized reparations in a book and new television projects for Warner Bros.

Early last year, Cullors, who has identified herself as a “trained Marxist,” became a target for becoming a multi-millionaire while claiming to represent the downtrodden and poor minorities who she claimed faced violence at the hands of the police.

Cullors resigned from BLM in May of last year, though she claimed that the attacks on her personal wealth did not lead to her stepping down. But she didn’t disappear from the activist scene having become a writer on the Freeform show, Good Trouble, and even gaining a production deal with Warner Bros. TV.

Now, Cullors is attempting to remake herself as an activist for reparations for slavery, with a book entitled, An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World, due out Jan.  25, the Hollywood Reporter said.

Along with her book, Cullors says she is working on several documentary-styled projects for Warners TV. In one project, for instance, Cullors insists that land must be returned to Indigenous peoples and also uses that concept as a basis for racial reparations.

“My art practice and political practice are extensions of my abolitionist views,” Cullors exclaimed. “Any project I’m working on, whether it’s art or writing, all my work now with Warner Brothers — what I have framed it as is ‘abolitionist aesthetics.’ The way that white supremacy, the way that the prison system and the police system has aestheticized itself, I want to aestheticize abolition.”

Other projects she is working on for Warners includes one on marijuana, a series about black women leaders, and a show to trace the “toll” on black Americans as they are forced to live in a “system that doesn’t see us, or makes us hyper-visible and also hyper-invisible at the same time.”

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Beautiful 8-year-old girl brought to US to escape cartels’ crime shot dead by gangbanger on probation for 3 carjackings in Chicago

If ever there were a face of innocence to haunt us as a victim of unthinkably cruel violence, it would be the beautiful and sweet visage of Melissa Ortega.

According to a GoFundMe page, Melissa and her mother — both from Mexico — arrived in Chicago in August. In Wednesday's statement, her mother said that the family had been "filled with dreams" about their move to the United States.

"We imagined a better life here. We came in search of the American Dream we so famously hear of but instead I get to live a nightmare for the rest of my life," she said.

Via Twitter

As usual, guns are being blamed. But the hands that allegedly held the gun that shot her belonged to someone who should not have been at liberty to kill. Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times:

Something has gone awry with our criminal justice system as it pertains to juvenile offenders.

The latest evidence of our broken system is the shooting death last weekend of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega of Little Village.

Emilio Corripio, 16, is charged with opening fire on busy 26th Street and killing her. It isn’t the first time the teenager accused in this shooting has been charged with using an illegally obtained weapon to commit a crime.

At the time police say Corripio stepped out from an alley and turned a peaceful street into a shooting gallery, he was on probation for three armed carjackings in the past year.

On the day Melissa was killed, the self-proclaimed Latin Kings gang member was targeting rival gang members, according to the police, and hit one of those rivals in the back, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition.

But two bullets struck Melissa in the head as she ran alongside her mother, trying to escape the gunfire. The 8-year-old died hours later.

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