Patrisse Cullors resigned from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation after weeks of criticism surrounding her million dollar real estate purchases.
The 37-year-old had been at the helm of the BLMGNF for six years.
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Patrisse Cullors made her millions, bought her big houses in white neighborhoods, and is now taking â at age 37 â an early retirement of sorts. The Black Lives Matter cofounder announced yesterday that she is resigning from the organization.
âIâve created the infrastructure and the support and the necessary bones and foundation so that I can leave,â she said with obvious self-satisfaction. âIt feels like the time is right.â
Nice work if you can get it and retire to one of your four homes.
âI have never taken a salary from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation,â said the self-proclaimed âtrained Marxistâ when controversy over her real estate deals surfaced in April. âAnd thatâs important because what the right-wing media is trying to say is, the donations that people have made to Black Lives Matter went toward my spending, and that is categorically untrue and incredibly dangerous.â
Black Lives Matter cofounder stepping down from organization By Zoe Christen Jones
May 27, 2021 / 8:20 PM / CBS News
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors announced Thursday that she is stepping down from her role as executive director of the organization. With smart, experienced and committed people supporting the organization during this transition, I know that BLMGNF is in good hands, Cullors said in a statement Thursday. The foundation s agenda remains the same eradicate white supremacy and build life-affirming institutions.
Cullors helped form the organization in 2013, after Florida teen Trayvon Martin was shot to death and the gunman, George Zimmerman, was aquitted. It then expanded to a global foundation called Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) with a mission is to build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.