Remember Black Lives Matter (BLM)? The organization that was supposed to help Black people? The organization which collected something like $90 million dollars in its first year…but no one knows where almost any of that money went, other than in the pockets of a few racketeers administrators running the show?
Well, it’s still in business. And still doing the same thing.
From Byron York’s article for the Washington Examiner, via msn.com:
Do you remember when BLM was raising money that it said would be used to post bail for protesters unjustly arrested in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd? Well, on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Oklahoma announced that Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, the executive director of Black Lives Matter in Oklahoma City, known as Black Lives Matter OKC, has been indicted on 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering related to those bail funds.
This is from the Justice Department’s announcement: “Beginning in late spring 2020, Black Lives Matter OKC raised funds to support its social justice mission from online donors, as well as from national bail funds. In total, Black Lives Matter OKC raised more than $5.6 million, which included grants from national bail funds, including the Community Justice Exchange, Massachusetts Bail Fund, and Minnesota Freedom Fund. Most of those funds were routed through the Alliance for Global Justice, as fiscal sponsor to Black Lives Matter OKC.”
“According to the indictment, Black Lives Matter OKC was supposed to use these national bail fund grants to post pretrial bail for individuals arrested in connection with protests for racial justice after the death of George Floyd. When bail funds were returned to Black Lives Matter OKC, the national bail funds sometimes allowed Black Lives Matter OKC to keep all or a portion of the grant to establish a revolving bail fund, or for Black Lives Matter OKC’s social justice mission.”
But the indictment says Black Lives Matter OKC, in the person of executive director Dickerson, did not use the money to establish a revolving fund, or for the group’s “social justice mission.” Instead, the indictment says that between 2020 and 2025, Dickerson “deposited at least $3.15 million in returned bail checks into her personal accounts, rather than into Black Lives Matter OKC’s accounts.” According to the indictment, Dickerson spent it on:
Recreational travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for herself and her associates Tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping At least $50,000 in food and grocery deliveries for herself and her children A personal vehicle registered in her name Six properties in Oklahoma City in her own name or in the name of Equity International LLC, an entity she exclusively controlled.
Lovely. Using money donated to benefit presumably deserving Black people accused of crimes…but, in fact, used by the administrator to live the high life instead.
Then again, why would we surprised? This is the history of BLM. People, either for charitable reasons or guilt, donate millions…and, in all too many cases, the people in charge of administering those millions spend it on themselves instead.
Bottom line? BLM is a scam. It was then, it is now, and – based on its history – there is no reason to believe it will be anything but a scam in the future.
When will the donors to this scam ever learn? Or does their interest in BLM begin and end at the fact that they can tell the world they donated to a charitable organization for Black people – even if the Black people it is supposed to benefit get so little of it?
That’s worth thinking about.
