Leaked Email From Former HFPA President Calls Black Lives Matter a ‘Hate Movement’
Email is surfaced as organization behind Golden Globes continues to face pressure for not having any Black membersJeremy Fuster | April 19, 2021 @ 5:56 PM Last Updated: April 19, 2021 @ 6:15 PM
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As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association continues to face scrutiny for its lack of Black members, former president Phil Berk has come under fire over a leaked email sent to members with a post describing Black Lives Matter as a “hate movement.”
Berk’s email, which was obtained by TheWrap and first reported on by the Los Angeles Times. appears to be a copy of an article on conservative website FrontPage Mag titled “BLM Goes Hollywood,” which criticized BLM founder Patrisse Cullors for buying a $1.4 million house in Topanga Canyon. “The house is down the road from one of the homes involved in the Manson murders which seems only appropriate since Manson wanted to start a r
An email sent Sunday by a former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president criticizing Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and likening BLM to a hate group touched off a firestorm among many of the organizationâs members.
In the email, Phil Berk, who served eight terms as HFPA president, shared a post that called BLM a âracist hate movementâ and described Cullors as âthe self-proclaimed âtrained Marxist.ââ It was sent out to the associationâs members, its staff and the groupâs general counsel and chief operating officer, Gregory Goeckner.
The email lands at a sensitive time for the HFPA, which has come under pressure for not having any Black members as well as allegations of ethical and financial lapses raised in a Times investigation into the group. Last month, the HFPA pledged to make âtransformational changeâ and retained a strategic diversity advisor, Shaun Harper, a professor of racial, gender and LGBTQ issu
Golden Globes organizers apologize after ex-president sent members article that calls BLM a racist hate movement and compares its work to CHARLES MANSON
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association issued a statement saying it condemns all forms of racism, discrimination and hate speech
Statement came after member and eight-term former president Philip Berk sent an email to members sharing an article from a right-wing website Sunday
The article accused BLM of carrying on Manson s mission to start a race war
It also hit out at BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors over her recent purchase of a $1.4 million home in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles
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Already racked by charges of racism, as well as grifting, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association the group of journalists who decide and manage the Golden Globe Awards is facing a new scandal after its ex-president, who is still active in the group, sent an email equating Black Lives Matter to Charles Manson.
Phil Berk, an eight-term president of the HPFA, sent the email Sunday to association members, staff, and the group’s general counsel and chief operating officer, the
Los Angeles Times reports. The email contained an article from the right-wing website