Results: Black Lives Matter making questionable payments (again)

Patrisse Cullors, the former executive director and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, paid a company owned by Damon Turner $969,459 for "live production, design and media," according to its latest IRS filings. The New York Post reported that Turner's company, a for-profit organization, which is known for selling $145 sweatshirts and soliciting donations for abstract causes known as "the movement," received the second-highest payout from Black Lives Matter in the fiscal year 2020. Interestingly, Turner, a rapper and artist, is the father of Cullors' son and manages a Los Angeles-based entertainment and clothing company called Trap Heals LLC. Do you find it suspicious that such a payment is going to a business owned by the father of the founder's child?

While Cullors used money raised through charitable donations to pay the father of her child nearly $1 million, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation paid the Florida-based Trayvon Martin Foundation just $200,000, according to IRS filings. Do you find it hypocritical that the organization that raises millions of dollars for movements such as the Trayvon Martin memorial spent a pittance for that purpose while a relative got a huge payment?

The Trayvon Martin Foundation was established by Martin's parents to "provide emotional and financial support to families who have lost a child to gun violence," according to its website. Trayvon Martin's 2012 death led to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you remember hearing about Trayvon Martin's death in 2012?

The IRS filings disclosing the questionable spending by Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation show that the company raked in $76,872,002 in charitable donations in fiscal year 2020 and paid out $25,997,945 in grants to other nonprofit organizations. So they are sitting on over $50 million dollars from donors. Do you think this is an excessive amount for an organization to do nothing with?

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation's largest payout was just over $2 million and went to Bowers Consulting Firm, which is owned by Shalomyah Bowers, a current board member of the foundation. Also, the foundation also paid $840,993 to Cullors Protection LLC, a private security firm owned by Patrisse Cullors' eldest brother. After learning about this, do you agree that it seems Black Lives Matter is more interested in padding the pockets of it's board members and their family members rather than sending the money where it can be used for what donors' want?