Patrisse Curlors, co-founder of BLM is a credit. Her response to this month’s revelation that BLM Global Network Foundation, (BLMGNF), bought a $6 million secret mansion in Los Angeles for October 2020 is exemplary.
Cullors officially left the BLM in the last year, following media attention about her real estate purchases. However, videos of her visit to the mansion were uploaded on her YouTube channel last ye.
Now, she’s upset that anyone would dare to question the purchase. Sean Kevin Campbell, a black journalist who first reported on the purchase in New York Magazine, was attacked by her. She claimed–without evidence–that he was biased against her.
Now she has a new tack, and it’s certainly one for the books. She’s claiming that having to file charity transparency forms like IRS Form 990 is “triggering” to her. It gets worse. Cullors calls filing forms in the nonprofit system “deeply unsafe,” and “literally weaponized against us,” as well. It could also traumatize activists, she said.
Cullors: “It is such a trip now to hear the term ‘[IRS Form] 990.’ I’m, like, ugh. It’s, like, triggering.” pic.twitter.com/AjIPt9breD
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) April 13, 2022
Cullors: “This doesn’t seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure. This structure is dangerous. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with.” pic.twitter.com/xQnCY4S2pw
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) April 13, 2022
Washington Examiner
“It is such a trip now to hear the term ‘990,’” Cullors said Friday during an event at the Vashon Center for the Arts. “I’m, like, ugh. It’s, like, triggering.”
“I actually did not know what 990s were before all of this happened,” Cullors said, an apparent reference to the Washington Examiner’s reporting in January about BLM’s lack of financial and leadership transparency that led multiple states, including California, to order the charity to cease raising funds until it discloses what it did with the $90 million it raised in 2020.
Cullors claimed that activists experience trauma when charities in their care are forced to reveal publicly how they spent tax-deductible donations.
“This doesn’t seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure,” Cullors said. “This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with.”
It is a cake for her. While I don’t love the IRS and I mostly think it should be out of our lives, how is asking her to provide the same information every other organization is required to provide dangerous or triggering? If one person isn’t in compliance, or is doing something shady then that could be trigger. Plus when you’re not just talking about your own private earnings but you’re trying to solicit money from Americans, there should be some requirements in place to make sure that you’re not ripping people off.
Cullors continued, “People’s morale in an organization is so important. Deep burnout can result if the organization and its people are constantly being scrutinized for every action they take. That leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma.”
She should be held responsible for all the money they have taken in. O my goodness, what a trauma!
Further, she commented about her purchase of the mansion. The story behind the mansion has developed even further. Now it’s that the house was a “haven,” where she stayed when she was under threat. It’s funny, but was it before or after she posted from the house on her YouTube channel. She said that slowed the announcement it was a “creators house” for people to produce videos from. “So we did use the campus as a haven, as a safe place. That derailed an announcement strategy,” Cullors claimed. “Conditions changed, and that’s it.”
Uh-huh. If I say I don’t buy that, would that be triggering?
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