{"id":252209,"date":"2022-04-14T05:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252209"},"modified":"2022-04-15T06:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T06:31:35","slug":"black-lives-matter-secretly-bought-6-million-mansion-for-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252209","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought $6 Million Mansion For Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BLM apologizes for the &#8216;stress&#8217; caused by &#8216;inflammatory&#8217; reports about its shady use of donations to buy $6m California &#8216;safe house&#8217; for leaders: Vows more &#8216;transparency, healing and truth-telling&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Black Lives Matter has apologized following an expose that detailed how the organization had used donations to purchase a $6 million home in Los Angeles\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In a lengthy Twitter thread, the group vowed to be more transparent in the future<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But the organization\u00a0also criticized the original New Yorker article, describing it as &#8216;inflammatory and speculative&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>BLM claims the mansion was purchased to encourage &#8216;Black creativity&#8217; and used as a &#8216;space for Black folks to share their gifts with the world and hone their crafts&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The groups co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, who resigned last year amid scrutiny of her $3.2 million real estate empire, called reports of the mansion &#8216;despicable&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cullors lashed out a day after article was published saying the house purchase hadn&#8217;t been announced earlier because &#8216;it needed repairs and renovation&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Harriet Alexander and James Gordon \u2013 Daily Mail.com April 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Black Lives Matter issued a thinly-veiled apology on Monday night over the left-wing groups purchase of a multi-million dollar mansion that was paid for with donations raised from loyal supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase was fully exposed last week in an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/04\/black-lives-matter-6-million-dollar-house.html\"><strong>New York Magazine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The property was bought for almost $6million in cash in October 2020 with funds that had been donated to BLMGNF (Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation).<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the organization finally responded to the reports in a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/twitter\/index.html\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> feed with the group noting that more &#8216;transparency&#8217; was required going forward.<\/p>\n<p>BLM attempted to justify the purchase of the mansion by saying it was made to encourage &#8216;Black creativity&#8217; with the property\u00a0&#8216;a space for Black folks to share their gifts with the world and hone their crafts as we see it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The organization also went on to defend how the funds the group raised were spent including the $3 million used for &#8216;COVID relief&#8217; and a further $25 million dollars to black-led organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are embracing this moment as an opportunity for accountability, healing, truth-telling, and transparency. We understand the necessity of working intentionally to rebuild trust so we can continue forging a new path that sustains Black people for generations,&#8217; the group wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10710011\/BLM-blames-media-causing-distress-purchase-6m-mansion-charity-apologizes.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_252187\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252187\" class=\"wp-image-252187 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BLM-Mansion-features-six-bedrooms-and-a-pool-at-the-back.-BLM-leaders-said-the-property-was-bought-to-provide-a-safe-house-for-Black-creativity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BLM-Mansion-features-six-bedrooms-and-a-pool-at-the-back.-BLM-leaders-said-the-property-was-bought-to-provide-a-safe-house-for-Black-creativity.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BLM-Mansion-features-six-bedrooms-and-a-pool-at-the-back.-BLM-leaders-said-the-property-was-bought-to-provide-a-safe-house-for-Black-creativity-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 632px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-252187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The BLM mansion features six bedrooms and a pool at the back. BLM leaders said the property was bought to provide a safe haven for black creativity to flourish<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But BLM condemns \u201cinflammatory\u201d reports on the secret purchase, which was finalised using money from donations <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":252188,"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":[19,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Ersatz_Media_Activists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252209","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=252209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252212,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252209\/revisions\/252212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}