{"id":235066,"date":"2021-05-29T05:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235066"},"modified":"2021-05-30T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T07:29:43","slug":"blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-resigns-as-executive-director-over-right-wing-attacks-after-her-3-million-housing-portfolio-was-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235066","title":{"rendered":"BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors RESIGNS as executive director over &#8216;right wing attacks&#8217; &#8211; after her $3 million housing portfolio was revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrisse Cullors lives in a $1.4 million property in LA\u2019s upmarket \u2013 and almost exclusively white \u2013 Topanga Canyon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cullors co-founded Black Lives Matter back in 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The organization has experienced a surge in donations in the past year following the death of George Floyd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cullors came under fire last month after it was revealed she had amassed a $3 million property portfolio in recent years\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She called criticism of her personal spending a &#8216;racist and sexist&#8217; attack by &#8216;right wing media&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>However, BLM members have also called for a probe into the organization&#8217;s spending and\u00a0 finances\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0The BLM foundation revealed in February that it took in just over $90 million last year; they spent a quarter of their assets on &#8216;operating expenses&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cullors has allegedly only been paid $120,000 by BLM since its inception in 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Despite being a self-professed &#8216;trained Marxist&#8217;, she has amassed considerable wealth through speaking engagements and book and TV deals\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Andrew Court \u2013 For the Daily Mail and Associated Press May 27, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is stepping down as executive director of the organization amid controversy over her $3 million property portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Cullors, who has been at the helm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for nearly six years, announced the news on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old activist told The Associated Press that she is leaving to focus on other projects, including the upcoming release of her second book and a multi-year TV development deal with Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve created the infrastructure and the support, and the necessary bones and foundation, so that I can leave,&#8217; Cullors\u00a0 stated. &#8216;It feels like the time is right.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, her departure comes after it was revealed last month that she has amassed a $3 million property portfolio, despite describing herself as a trained Marxist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_231726\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Khan-Cullors-properties.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231726\" class=\"wp-image-231726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Khan-Cullors-properties-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-231726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Properties owned or recently viewed by BLM co-founder Khan Cullors. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cullors faced fierce backlash over revelations about her personal spending &#8211; including the recent purchase of a $1.4 million home in a ritzy L.A. neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>It caused many to question what percentage of BLM donations were actually going towards social justice programs.<\/p>\n<p>However, she insists her\u00a0resignation has been in the works for more than a year and has nothing to do with the personal attacks she has faced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don&#8217;t operate off of what the right thinks about me,&#8217; Cullors told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, she described the criticism as &#8216;racist and sexist&#8217; smears deliberately put out by the &#8216;right-wing media&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t just conservatives who pressed Cullors over her finances.<\/p>\n<p>The head of New York City&#8217;s BLM\u00a0chapter called for an independent investigation into the organization&#8217;s finances after revelations about the property portfolio surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,&#8217; BLM organizer Hawk Newsome told The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9627361\/BLMs-Patrisse-Cullors-step-movement-foundation.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a self-professed &#8216;trained Marxist&#8217;, she has amassed considerable wealth through speaking engagements and book and TV deals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":231587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235066\/revisions\/235070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}