BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Delivers UCLA Commencement Speech
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) chose Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder and “trained Marxist” Patrisse Cullors — who resigned from BLM amid controversy about her personal wealth — as the 2021 commencement speaker for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Cullors was the 2021 commencement speaker at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs’ virtual graduation ceremony on Friday, the school announced.
“Patrisse Cullors is at the heart — and the foundation — of a movement for human rights, social change and genuine equality under the law,” UCLA Luskin Dean Gary Segura said. “Her work and the work of those who follow is way past due.”
During a 2015 panel at Harvard Law School, Cullors called to abolish the state of Israel, according to a report by Jewish Journal.
“Palestine is our generation’s South Africa, and if we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project that’s called Israel, we’re doomed,” the Black Lives Matter co-founder said at the event.
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Cullors has also encouraged people to look into Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) — a movement that seeks to systematically destroy the world’s only Jewish state through financial means, by boycotting companies that do business with Israel.
Moreover, Cullors and her organization have also shown support for convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, and convicted cop killer Assata Shakur.
“I would really push this audience — whether it’s the law school or students — to develop some sort of Rasmea Odeh solidarity team,” Cullors said at the 2015 panel at Harvard Law School. “I think we need to be diligent about uplifting her case.”
Cullors resigned from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) last month, following controversy about her personal wealth — when she was discovered to have bought four expensive homes over the past several years — as well as accusations from mothers that the BLM co-founder has profited off the death of their sons.
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32 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
Thirty-two people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning across Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported 24 people were shot, three fatally, Friday through 8:45 p.m. Saturday night.
On Sunday morning the Sun-Times noted the total number of shooting victims was up to 32.
The first of the three fatalities occurred Friday night about 8:50 p.m. in Brighton Park. A 20-year-old woman was sitting in the car with her boyfriend when a gunman “yelling gang slogans” approached and opened fire.
The woman was shot in the neck and killed.
At 1:20 p.m. Saturday a 22-year-old man “was parked on the street in the 600 block of South Wells” when someone in a passing vehicle opened fire. The man was hit with multiple bullets and transported to a hospital, where they pronounced him dead.
Shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday morning a 29-year-old woman was shot while “standing on the sidewalk in the 7500 block of South Prairie Avenue.” She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The Chicago Tribune pointed out 1,538 people were shot in Chicago January 1, 2021, through June 11, 2021, That is 184 more shooting victims than were witnessed during that same time-frame in 2020.
Breitbart News explained that 55 people were shot last weekend alone in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago.
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BLM infighting escalates over demands for ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency’
Black Lives Matter is disintegrating into squabbling over money, even though it won’t frankly admit the base motivation behind the fights that have erupted and escalated yesterday. Democrats always project their own plans and values onto their enemies. So when Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted, “it’s all about the Benjamins, baby” intending to allege that “Israel’s allies in American politics were motivated by money rather than principle,” she inadvertently exposed the real motivations of many of her major allies.
Monica Showalter prophetically saw Black Lives Matter starting to fall apart over money almost two weeks ago, and events yesterday confirmed her prediction. Jon Street of Fox News reports on the grassroots local chapters that are demanding “accountability” and “transparency” in the wake of earlier revelations about the lavish spending of co-founder Patrisse Cullors. The reactions escalated yesterday, as the news that she has spent at least $35,000 on fencing and an electronic gate for that luxury compound became known.
Amid increased scrutiny of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullor's [sic] lavish spending, including her reported purchases of multiple homes totaling upward of $3 million and the installation of fencing and an electric gate around one of those homes, the original ten BLM chapters are demanding more accountability and transparency from the BLM global network.
If Cullors hoped that publicly announcing that she was stepping down from her role would quiet criticism, she is wrong.
But Cullors' [sic] move to step down is not enough to satisfy a growing number of BLM chapters' demand for change within the organization. Referring to initial calls for more transparency and accountability from the "BLM 10," the name for the ten original BLM chapters, a new group, deemed the "BLM 10 Plus" is now speaking out.
"The number of chapters that have aligned in support of our statement has nearly doubled. Some of these chapters have made their own statements echoing not only our call to accountability but also our experiences as we sought transparency, democracy, and internal transformation for years," a statement released by the BLM 10 Plus on Friday reads.
A Google search turns up no mentions of this imbroglio in the agitprop media, only in “right wing” sites. The statement issued yesterday by BLM Ten Plus indicated bitterness over attempts to repress their earlier demands for accountability and the addition of a symbolically important voice in their demands:
With no other viable options available, on November 30, 2020 the BLM10 released a public statement calling for accountability from the Network and the affiliated Foundation. Following the release of this statement, chapter names were promptly removed from the BLMGN website. As a direct result of the release of our public statement, the demands for accountability grew. Families of those who were lost to police violence spoke out and also demanded accountability, including Michael Brown Sr., Samaria Rice, and Lisa Simpson. The number of chapters that have aligned in support of our statement has nearly doubled. Some of these chapters have made their own statements echoing not only our call to accountability but also our experiences as we sought transparency, democracy, and internal transformation for years. Organizers outside of Black Lives Matter have also stepped forward making official statements and through social media expressing the harm they have experienced by BLMGNF.
The BLM 10 Plus continues the call for transparency and most importantly, for principled accountability in movement infrastructures. The issues we've highlighted within the Black Lives Matter movement are not unique to this group or to people of color. Grassroots movements have been co-opted across the globe and it is our intention to be a part of the collective creating processes based on integrity so that we, nor any other activist or advocate, encounters these avoidable issues in the future.
Amazingly, there is no mention of money in this statement at all. It’s as if Marxists are embarrassed and ashamed to be squabbling over money and, instead, use vacuous and vague demands when money is clearly what is at stake. As Monica reminded us almost 2 weeks ago, it’s not just the real estate and security compound, other money has been at stake since the beginning of the controversies:
It probably started with the mother of Breonna Taylor, a young woman who died in a police shooting, who criticized the organization for its exploitative ways. That may have surprised some people, but her argument was logical and believable: she said the organization not only did nothing to help the rest of Taylor's family, but raised millions of dollars for itself through the use of her daughter's name, while sharing none of its largesse. (snip)
…she also spent cash on Malibu conferences and spa stays, which were on BLM's dime. (snip)
[S]he funneled money to her baby daddy, more than $150,000, to a man who apparently couldn't even create a credible website, let alone a credible internet video.
I don’t expect the turmoil to cease. The closer they get to communism (and remember that Cullors advertised herself as a “trained Marxist” when she founded BLM in the wake of Michael Brown being fatally shot when he tried to grab a policeman’s gun), the greater the odds that leftists will turn on each other. Because Marxism is utopian, its adherents believe that their version of its dogma will solve all of humanity’s problems. This makes anyone who stands in their way an enemy of humanity’s salvation and perfection. There can be no honest differences when the stakes are ultimate. Jesse Kelly yesterday noted this tendency toward fratricide is universal among them:
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