Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors held back tears while discussing criticism she faced last week over her housing portfolio.
Ms Khan-Cullors, 37, who created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in 2013 and later co-founded the Black Lives Matter Network, was criticised last week after the
New York Post revealed that she had spent $1.4m (£1.017m) on a Los Angeles property, her third residence in the city and fourth overall.
She has bought two other homes in the Los Angeles area over the last few years, which sit in her portfolio alongside a 3.2 acre property in Georgia that she purchased for $415,000 (£301,950).
Questions were raised about how the director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation had acquired the funds to pay for the properties, with Black sports journalist Jason Whitlock accusing her and other BLM founders of âmaking millions of dollars off the backs of these dead Black men who they wouldnât spit on if they were
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Who Bought Four Homes Says She Is Supporting Family
16 Apr 2021
Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, told interviewer Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday that there is no contradiction between her radical left-wing politics and owning four homes because she is providing for her extended family.
In the interview, on
Black News Tonight, Hill asked Cullors (also known as Khan-Cullors, after spouse Janaya Khan) about the truth of reports that she had bought four homes since 2016 including a $1.4 million compound in the remote Topanga Canyon neighborhood of L.A. and a vacation home with an airplane hangar in Georgia and that she and her spouse had considered buying exclusive property in the Bahamas also.
BLM Founder Responds to Allegations of Spending Donations on Herself
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Update 04/16/2021 1:04pm:
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors responded to accusations that she misappropriated donations during an interview with Marc Lamont Hill on Black News Channel (BNC).
She denied allegations that her homes and alleged lavish lifestyle were purchased by profiting off of Black death and trauma. She also accused right-wing media of targeting her. I have never taken a salary from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Cullors stated. That s important because the right-wing media is trying to say donations for BLM went toward my spending. That is categorically untrue and incredibly dangerous.
Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder DEFENDS her property empire and says she didn t use BLM funds to buy the four homes - before breaking down in tears after revealing she has spent the last week with security
Patrisse Cullors responded to criticism saying it is categorically untrue and incredibly dangerous to suggest she used organization funds for her homes
Cullors described the scrutiny over her property empire as a racist and sexist attack by the right-wing media in an interview for Black News Tonight Thursday
The 37-year-old broke down in tears as she revealed she has spent the last week with security after her homes were first pictured in the media
“The next time People magazine covers Kim Kardashian’s latest mansion purchase, will it violate any community standards? How about running a picture of the resort Ted Cruz is staying at?” asked the editorial. “No, this rule has not been and will not be applied in any fair manner.”
The newspaper said that it had not listed or shown the addresses, or in some cases the cities, of the residential properties bought by Ms. Cullors, which were listed on public real-estate records.
Facebook also prevented the [U.K.] Daily Mail from sharing its story about Ms. Cullors’ “multi-million dollar property empire,” saying that the content violated “our privacy and personal information policy,” according to the newspaper.