A recent tax filing from Black Lives Matter demonstrated how the Clinton political orbit has taken over the movement, because of the movement’s struggles to contain a growing donation scandal. The Washington Examiner reported on the Clinton connections, which is worrisome because the Clinton family has been involved in many scandals over time. BLM, which […]
Due to the lack of transparency about where its $60 million in donations went, Black Lives Matter did report that it paid a lot of money to its contractors. The problem is that these contractors are related to or have connections to the organization’s leadership. According to the Washington Examiner, in its application for tax-exempt […]
From Mic: Two prominent activists associated with the Movement for Black Lives publicly endorsed democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, signaling a split between the network’s radical and more moderate members. With less than two weeks until election day, DeRay Mckesson, one of the most prominent figures in the Black Lives Matter movement, and Brittany Packnett, […]
DeRay Mckesson, a self-appointed leader within the Black Lives Matter activist movement, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Mic.com reported that Mckesson believed Clinton understands racial injustice and inequality. However, Mic nor Mckesson remembered when Hillary Clinton once said that Americans need to bring black people ‘to heel’. Other leaders, such as Alicia Garza, said that […]
Wasn’t the ‘New Deal’ a failure, historically speaking? Also, the Great Society was supposed to cure society’s ills, so what would a new ‘New Deal’ do for the black American community? This from the Daily Caller: The activists in the meeting repeatedly called for a New Deal that targets black communities. “This idea that we […]
From the Daily Caller article on the private meeting between Black Lives Matter activists and Hillary Clinton: One attendee in the meeting told Hillary, “And so we can’t have a conversation about eradicating police issues without talking about eradicating implicit bias and eradicating anti-blackness within the DNA code of policing.” In her response, Hillary said, […]
It’s quite a rebuttal from the Democratic Party presidential nominee, in a private meeting with Black Lives Matter activists: During one part of the meeting, Clinton said that affirmative action had worked to which an attendee said, “You know affirmative action pretty much helps white women not people of color.” “That is not my understanding. […]
The Daily Caller has a great write-up on a leaked transcript of the meeting between several Black Lives Matter activists, such as DeRay Mckesson, and Hillary Clinton: The October 2015 meeting was kept under wraps by the Clinton campaign, who withheld a list of attendees or quotes from the meeting. The day of the meeting […]
In a private meeting between Hillary Clinton and some Black Lives Matter activists, it got quite contentious when the activists brought up the issue of policing, according to a Wikileaks e-mail dump. Check out this piece of news from the Daily Caller: The attendees were hostile with Clinton at points. “I think that you’re really speaking for […]
The Clinton campaign met with several Black Lives Matter activists on October 9, 2015, but did not name who they met with. One of the invited attendees, DeRay Mckesson, posted a tweet and two pictures of the meeting and tagged others who attended. Why the secrecy? Only recently did we learn what happened in the […]