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Data scientist destroys the BLM narrative
Speyside2 Offline
#51 Posted:
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National Association of Blacks In Criminal Justice (NABCJ)
Provides leaders dedicated to improving the administration of criminal justice, with a goal of achieving equal justice for blacks and other minorities.
Based in Durham, North Carolina
www.nabcj.org

National Association of Market Developers (NAMD)
Cultivates the aspects of the Black experience that can produce results for both the African-American community and institutions, private and public.
Based In Plainfield, New Jersey
www.namdntl.org

National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)
Improves and protects the lives of African American children.
Based in Washington, DC
www.nbcdi.org

National Registry of Black Baby Names
Largest online collection of names that African American and African parents can choose for their unborn child.
Based in Columbus, Ohio.
www.blackbabynames.org

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
One of the largest student-managed organizations in the country that focuses on increasing the number of Black engineers who excel academically and in the workplace.
Based in Fairfax, Virginia
www.nsbe.org

National Urban League (NUL)
The nation's oldest and largest community- based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.
Based in New York, New York
www.nul.org

Rainbow Push Coalition
This organization, led by Jesse Jackson, is a progressive organization fighting for social change as a mighty coalition of workers, women and people of color.
Based in Chicago, Illinois
www.rainbowpush.org
Speyside2 Offline
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https://www.blacknews.com/directory/black_african_american_organizations.shtml

This is where that information came from. Note the name blacknews. Note BLM is not on this list.
Brewha Offline
#53 Posted:
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What - no YouTube?
MACS Offline
#54 Posted:
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Brewha wrote:
What - no YouTube?


Some prefer to get information from sources other than CNN, MSDNC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and yes, even FOX. They've got an agenda and advertisers to keep happy.

A lot of the YouTube channels provide information, data, scientific research, and they include links to their sources, so you can look it up yourself.

But it's easier to swallow the BS from your trusted media sources, right? Like when Rachel Maddow told everyone the shots would protect them from the virus? They couldn't get it and they couldn't spread it... remember that? Blatant lies... told because they are all funded by big pharma.

Do you at least spray air freshener up your ass so it doesn't smell so bad while your head is up there?
MACS Offline
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Here ya go... a YouTube video that explains why people are tuning mainstream media out. From a left wing guy who is now accused of being right wing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4e8lSQy64c
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Speyside2 wrote:
https://www.blacknews.com/directory/black_african_american_organizations.shtml

This is where that information came from. Note the name blacknews. Note BLM is not on this list.


We've covered this ground. Nobody's mind was changed.

http://www.cigarbid.com/.../c/posts/662908/Hey-BLM

Pretty funny how most saw them for exactly what they are and some, well...they saw whatever they wanted to see. Looking back it's pretty amusing.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
- Steven Wright
Brewha Offline
#58 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
Some prefer to get information from sources other than CNN, MSDNC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and yes, even FOX. They've got an agenda and advertisers to keep happy.

A lot of the YouTube channels provide information, data, scientific research, and they include links to their sources, so you can look it up yourself.

But it's easier to swallow the BS from your trusted media sources, right? Like when Rachel Maddow told everyone the shots would protect them from the virus? They couldn't get it and they couldn't spread it... remember that? Blatant lies... told because they are all funded by big pharma.

Do you at least spray air freshener up your ass so it doesn't smell so bad while your head is up there?

You really are tuning into a rude little f*ck, you know MACS.

And here with all your years of service, I would have thought better of you.

ah, there you go - Brewha is wrong.
MACS Offline
#59 Posted:
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I'm more direct. You're just as rude, but choose to disguise it. I see through it.

And let me check my pockets to see if I can find an iota of give a sh*t about what you think of me... nope. Nothing there.

BigGrin
bgz Offline
#60 Posted:
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Goooood... gooOooOoOoOoD!!!

Your anger makes you powerful, let your hate run through you!!!
MACS Offline
#61 Posted:
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bgz wrote:
Goooood... gooOooOoOoOoD!!!

Your anger makes you powerful, let your hate run through you!!!


See? Now that was funny. I'm not angry. I've had worse discussions with Victor and we've sat at a table and drank together. Went fishing together. (group outing, of course)

We ain't friends, but there's no anger.
Speyside2 Offline
#62 Posted:
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MACS, there are only a select few on here that are mean spirited in my opinion. I have never considered you, or BGZ to be one of those people. I only mention the 2 of you because your names have been brought up recently.
MACS Offline
#63 Posted:
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There are many folks on this board whom I have met in person, had drinks and smokes with. You are one of them.

If I was a mean person I think it would have come out by now.

But I hear people like to talk crap about me on the vherf. Ain't nobody got time fo dat!
Speyside2 Offline
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Yes I am and we had a good time. We joust on here, but that is the nature, and fun of here.
bgz Offline
#65 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
There are many folks on this board whom I have met in person, had drinks and smokes with. You are one of them.

If I was a mean person I think it would have come out by now.

But I hear people like to talk crap about me on the vherf. Ain't nobody got time fo dat!



I still miss you buddy... I'm sure they talk all kinds of sh*t about me... TBH, I think the ones that get sh*t on most when they aren't there is probably Celtic.
MACS Offline
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Some stats on murder victims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pc7q6XsFSQ

Defunding the police is NOT helping black communities.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is definitely not for you.
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Like in the Thomas Dolby song "She Blinded Me With Science"...the mad professor screaming out "SCIENCE!"

Yeah, about that...


Black Lives Matter’s missing billions


More and more questions are being raised about BLM’s finances.

The Black Lives Matter movement has raised billions of dollars over the past several years. But no one seems to know how most of that money has been spent.

On 20 December 2020, The Economist noted that $10.6 billion had been pledged to causes and organisations affiliated with BLM. According to that article and further reporting from the right-leaning Daily Signal, BLM’s corporate donors included Amazon, Gatorade, Microsoft, 23andMe and Tinder, while recipients ranged from the small-scale Unicorn Riot guerilla media firm to the sizeable Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF).

As far as I can tell, no comprehensive or even partial audit of what happened to this staggering sum of money has ever taken place. Indeed, given the sheer number of corporate and NGO players involved, conducting one would be incredibly difficult. However, taking a look at the experience of just one BLM-affiliated organisation – BLMGNF – could give us an insight into what went on more broadly. The foundation’s story is truly remarkable.

BLMGNF received more than $90million in 2020, the year George Floyd was killed. According to the New York Post, by the end of 2020 the group had ‘an approximate balance of $60million’ after spending $8.4million on undefined expenses and costs, and committing ‘$21.7million to local chapters’.

This is where the picture gets complicated. A group of 10 Black Lives Matter chapters known as the #BLM10, which includes the organisation’s sizeable New Jersey and Hudson Valley branches, publicly criticised BLMGNF in November 2020 over ‘financial transparency, decision making and accountability’. ‘To the best of our knowledge’, a spokesperson for #BLM10 stated in an open letter, ‘most chapters have received little to no financial support from BLMGNF since the launch in 2013’.

The 2020 impact report for Black Lives Matter, which covers BLMGNF, BLM PAC and BLM Grassroots, does mention funding given to local chapters, but it only lists 11 chapters as recipients of its funding out of dozens of them.

Interestingly, BLM’s impact report lists far more transgender-advocacy organisations as its recipients than organisations promoting black civil rights. The list of organisations to which BLMGNF pledged at least a six-figure grant includes: Trans United, the Audrey Lorde Project (Trans Justice), Black Trans Circles, the Transgender District, the Black Trans Travel Fund, the Okra Project, For the Gworls, the Trans Justice Funding Project, the Trans Housing Coalition’s Homeless Black Trans Women Fund, Black Trans Media and Black Trans Femmes in the Arts.

Questions have also been raised about what is going on at the top of BLMGNF. The organisation appears not to have had a chief executive for almost a year now. According to the Washington Examiner, former CEO Patrisse Cullors stepped down in May 2021 following criticism of her personal finances. However, two respected activists whom she appointed to lead the organisation after her resignation never actually took office, ‘because of disagreements with BLM’. This appears to have only been made public last September. While BLMGNF has now opted to suspend its online fundraising operations, tens of millions of dollars were almost certainly raised during a period when the organisation had no upper leadership team.

And then, there were the houses. One of the main reasons Cullors stepped down was due to the controversy over her ‘real estate buying binge’, during which she purchased four homes valued at $3.2million. Cullors signed off on the deeds for a house in Inglewood, California worth $510,000, a ‘custom ranch’ property located in rural Georgia, which was equipped with an airplane runway, and a $1.4million mansion in ritzy Topanga Canyon, a short drive from Malibu, California.

You’d think that all of this might make more people want to know what happened to the billions pledged to BLM, or the millions given to BLMGNF specifically. Yet most media outlets have not raised any questions at all.

This seems to me to be a product of the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ that is becoming increasingly prevalent on the woke left. For me, this is why asking questions about the missing money is so important. It’s not because, as some would have it, I ‘hate black people’ or ‘want to make women of colour look bad’. The left’s bigotry of low expectations is just as racist as anything you can find on the hard fringes of the right, and it must be opposed.

A remarkable recent study showed the soft bigotry of low expectations in action. According to the Washington Post, the study found that white liberals dumb down their language when they talk to black people, losing multiple grade levels of word complexity. Surely, the same sort of quiet contempt, combined with an equally unspoken fear of false allegations of racism, explains the widespread reluctance to ask searching questions of Black Lives Matter’s finances. One more than suspects that if similar amounts of money had been raised by, say, the Tea Party and there were more than a few questions about how it had been spent, then a lot of strangely dressed patriots would be in deep trouble right now. These sorts of double standards do no good for black people.

Besides, it would be difficult, speaking frankly, to think of a single positive change in the American black community which has resulted from the Black Lives Matter movement. A few studies have found that cities where BLM marches took place in the past several years witnessed slight reductions in police homicides. However, these same communities endured a sharp rise in ‘regular’ murders in the wake of reduced police activity. Largely as a result of police forces retreating, there were more than 4,000 homicides in the US in 2020 compared with 2019, with homicides surpassing 20,000 for the first time since 1995.

Even for those who support the saner goals of BLM, it should be obvious that giving up money when it is either not clear how it has been spent or is spent on largely tangential causes does no good for communities of colour.

Here’s a tip for you: if and when you give to a black charity, don’t be racist enough to assume it’s normal for the organisation to have problems like those BLM is currently embroiled in. You should treat it like any other charitable donation, and make sure the organisation has transparent finances, a definite address and a CEO. Far more deserving causes do exist.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/14/black-lives-matters-missing-billions/


Remember their original Mission Statement now?
JGKAMIN Offline
#69 Posted:
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Been wondering it for awhile, where has all the money gone? Has anyone ever seen anything positive sponsored by them? Why are they not investing in the inner city communities? Investing in youth centers and programs, sending the underprivileged to school with book bags filled with school supplies? Gun buy backs? Cleaning up the cities? Rewards leading to the arrest from some of the vicious crimes that always seem to end up with very young innocent bystanders shot? Something, anything…
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Pardon the pun...but it's a black hole.

The money is most likely converted into crypto and will NEVER be "found".
JGKAMIN Offline
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Wonder if they funded the purchase of the 9mm and rounds? An otherwise peaceful demonstration resulting from a BLM activist shooting at a Jewish mayoral candidate.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/quintez-brown-louisville-blm-activist-troubled-past
Speyside2 Offline
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Local chapters are asking the same questions about money. The national group is pure sleaze.
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Last week I saw my psychiatrist. I told him, " Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch.
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