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11 Apr 2021, 8:51 am

Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real-estate buying binge

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As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate-buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent.

The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles, according to a report. The 2,370 square-foot property features “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views. The Topanga Canyon homestead, which includes two houses on a quarter acre, is just one of three homes Khan-Cullors owns in the Los Angeles area, public records show.

Some fellow activists were taken aback by the real estate revelations.

Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, called for “an independent investigation” to find out how the global network spends its money.

If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he said. “It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”

Last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a “custom ranch” on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot “paved/grass” community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.

The three-bedroom, two-bath house, about 30 minutes from Atlanta, has an indoor swimming pool and a separate “RV shop” that can accommodate the repair of a mobile home or small aircraft, according to the real estate listing.

The Peach State retreat was purchased in January 2020 for $415,000, two years after the publication of Khan-Cullors’ best-selling memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”

In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.

It is not known how much Khan-Cullors received in compensation in either deal.

Khan-Cullors began her buying spree in L.A. in 2016, a few years after the civil rights movement she started from a hashtag — #blacklivesmatter — with fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi began to gain traction around the world.

That year, she bought a three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom home in Inglewood for $510,000. It is now worth nearly $800,000. Khan-Cullors added her wife, the co-founder of Black Lives Movement in Canada, to the deed in a family trust last year. The couple married in 2016.

Two years later, in 2018, Khan-Cullors purchased a four-bedroom home in South Los Angeles, a multi-ethnic neighborhood. Khan-Cullors paid $590,000 for the 1,725 square-foot home, although the price has since climbed to $720,000, according to public records.

Three of the homes were bought in Khan-Cullors’ name, and the Topanga Canyon property was purchased under a limited liability company that she controls, according to public records cited by “Dirt,” the real estate blog that first reported the March 30 purchase.

Growing up, Khan-Cullors lived in “a two-story, tan-colored building where the paint is peeling and where there is a gate that does not close properly and an intercom system that never works,” she writes. “The only place in my hood to buy groceries is a 7-Eleven.”

Khan-Cullors embraced activism and Marxism at a young age. “It started the year I turned twelve,” she writes. “That was the year that I learned that being black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.”

Donations and pledges from corporations and individuals poured into the movement at that point. In February, the BLM non-profit co-founded by Khan-Cullors told the AP that they took in $90 million in 2020, with $21.7 million committed to grant funding and helping 30 black-led groups across the country.

Black Lives Matter leaders would not specify how much money they took in from prominent donors, according to the AP report.

It’s also not clear how much Khan-Cullors makes in salary as one of the leaders of the movement, since its finances are split among both non-profit and for-profit entities and difficult to trace.

Founded by Khan-Cullors and another activist, Kailee Scales, the non-profit Oakland, Calif.-based BLM Global Network Foundation was incorporated in 2017 and claims to have chapters throughout the US, UK and Canada, and a mission “to eradicate White supremacy and build power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities.”

At the same time that the Khan-Cullors incorporated the non-profit, she also set up the similarly named BLM Global Network, a for-profit which is not required to disclose how much it spends or pays its executives.

Newsome of NYC’s BLM said, “We need black firms and black accountants to go in there and find out where the money is going. He added that his group does not receive any financial support from the BLM Global Network.


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12 Apr 2021, 9:05 am

Conservative media is reporting that twitter is censoring a tweet by black sports journalist Jason Whitlock critical of Khan-Cullors.


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12 Apr 2021, 2:53 pm

Conservatives should like this.

She is siphoning off millions of dollars that would be going to leftist causes.


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13 Apr 2021, 12:11 am

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A prominent black sports journalist barred from Twitter for the 'crime' of discussing the $1.4 million house bought by a Black Lives Matter co-founder slammed the company for trying to silence legitimate debate.

Jason Whitlock, 53, told DailyMail.com on Monday that Twitter was 'going too far' by blocking him from posting to his account, which has nearly 450,000 followers.

The censorship by Twitter comes as social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, have increasingly 'de-platformed' figures who stray too far from opinions they consider acceptable.

'BLM is one of Big Tech's sacred cows,' Whitlock told DailyMail.com 'I’ve been harping on the fraudulence and the financial grift of BLM for years.'
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There was no explanation of how linking to the Dirt.com story revealed personal information as neither the story, nor Whitlock's tweet, listed an address - and the purchase also was discussed widely elsewhere on Twitter and reported throughout the press.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9463851/Black-reporter-LOCKED-Twitter-criticizing-BLM-says-company-gone-far.html

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13 Apr 2021, 12:21 am

Sales of real property ends up being in the public record... Aside from the inside pics (which would be widely avail if the houses were for sale), where's the private info? If it's her own money, the purchases shouldn't matter.



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13 Apr 2021, 1:24 am

What did you ever expect that the leaders of that kind of movements and their supporters are fighting for? :mrgreen:


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14 Apr 2021, 11:00 am

So if white people are so bad, why does she want to live in this neigborhood among them?



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17 Apr 2021, 5:58 am

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Facebook prevents sharing of New York Post Black Lives Matter story
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Facebook is preventing users from sharing a New York Post story about how a co-founder of Black Lives Matter spent millions of dollars to buy several homes.

Attempts to share the story Friday morning produced a Facebook error message reading, “Your content couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards.”

However, on Thursday night, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith posted a tweet with a further explanation for the ban.

“Facebook on why it blocked a NY Post article. This all applies to lots of articles on news sites,” Smith tweeted.

The explanation included in Smith's tweet said Facebook did not allow people to post confidential information and that it would remove private information including information on a person's residence if it could lead to harm.


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17 Apr 2021, 6:10 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
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Facebook prevents sharing of New York Post Black Lives Matter story
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Facebook is preventing users from sharing a New York Post story about how a co-founder of Black Lives Matter spent millions of dollars to buy several homes.

Attempts to share the story Friday morning produced a Facebook error message reading, “Your content couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards.”

However, on Thursday night, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith posted a tweet with a further explanation for the ban.

“Facebook on why it blocked a NY Post article. This all applies to lots of articles on news sites,” Smith tweeted.

The explanation included in Smith's tweet said Facebook did not allow people to post confidential information and that it would remove private information including information on a person's residence if it could lead to harm.


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a rule or principle which is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups.