#patrice cullors

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

If you laugh at people who tithe to the church but still support BLM, you're kind of an idiot.

[safirefire]

While I don’t know the full controversy of what happened with Patrice Khan Cullors everything she wrote in When They Call You a Terrorist is incredibly important and Black Lives Matter is still true. It seems like people who were doing nothing to further anti racism anyway have latched onto controversy as an excuse to avoid being uncomfortable and unlearning White Supremacy

[maximumtalewonderland]

The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter first appears, sparking a movement

Outraged and saddened after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed a Black teenager in 2012, Oakland, California resident Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July 13, 2013. Her post contains the phrase "Black lives matter," which soon becomes a rallying cry and a movement throughout the United States and around the world.

Garza said she felt "a deep sense of grief" after Zimmerman was acquitted. She was further saddened to note that many people appeared to blame the victim, Trayvon Martin, and not the "disease" of racism. Patrice Cullors, a Los Angeles community organizer and friend of Garza, read her post and replied with the first instance of #BlackLivesMatter.

As the hashtag became popular on Facebook and Twitter, Garza, Cullors and fellow activist Opal Tometi built a network of community organizers and racial justice activists using the name Black Lives Matter. The phrase and the hashtag were then quickly adopted by grassroots activists and protests all across the country, particularly after the subsequent killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and a number of other African Americans at the hands of police officers or would-be vigilantes like Zimmerman.

Simple and clear in its demand for Black dignity, the phrase became one of the major symbols of the protests that erupted after Brown's killing in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. While polling showed that a majority of Americans disapproved of the Black Lives Matter movement when it first began, in the years following, support for its central arguments grew.

After the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis unleashed a nationwide protest movement against police brutality and racism, support for the Black Lives Matter movement increased by a 28-point margin in two weeks—almost as much as it had in the preceding two years, according to the New York Times.

Perhaps more than any other phrase since “Black Power,” “Black Lives Matter” became a singular rallying cry for the American and global racial justice movements.

[orchres]

Watching this show Good Trouble and they're namedropping Patrice Cullors (bc it's 2019) and it's really so sad how she turned out to be so self serving and harmful

[socialjusticefail]

BLM is such a great movement! The Buy Large Mansions movement has a noble goal of using charity money to buy large mansions! Every black person should get large mansions in the middle of white neighborhoods like Patrice Kahn-Cullors (co-founder of the BLM who bought her fourth house) and her family did!

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[theprophet359]

Uncle Phil - Candace Owens Pulls Up To Patrice Cullors Home To Ask About...

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Candace Owens exposes BLM Patrisse Cullors

[goodblacknews]

Black Lives Matter Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, wins Sweden's Human Right's Prize for 2020

Black Lives Matter Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, wins Sweden’s Human Right’s Prize for 2020

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Petter Eide, a member of Norway’s parliament, nominated Black Lives Matter for a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the movement’s continuous work towards manifesting racial justice in the U.S. and across the globe. “To carry forward a movement of racial justice and to spread that to other countries is very, very important. Black Lives Matter is the…

[sheltiechicago]

"The wings are a transformative visual," says Patrisse Cullors. "They remind, especially human beings, that we have the ability to transform ourselves and the societies that we come from."

Timothy Norris/The Broad*

Patrice Cullors, 37, has worked for the better part of a decade to build a movement focused on ending police violence and mass incarceration, most notably as a co-founder and a national leader of Black Lives Matter.

Cullors performing ‘A Prayer to Iyami’ at The Broad Museum in Los Angeles on February 5th, 2020.

Timothy Norris/The Broad*

[theculturedmarxist]

New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, lead author of the Times ’s “1619 Project,” was paid $25,000 for an online Zoom lecture given to the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

Through a Freedom of Information request, the right-wing news outlet Campus Reform obtained documentation detailing Hannah-Jones’s terms of compensation for the February 19 lecture. Additionally, the documents revealed that Hannah-Jones was partnered with the Lavin Agency, a talent agency that is “the world’s largest intellectual talent agency, representing leading thinkers for speaking engagements personal appearances, consulting, and endorsements,” according to its website. Hannah-Jones’s relationship with the agency suggests she regularly schedules events and is paid for them.

Part of the agreement between Hannah-Jones and the University of Oregon dictated that the lecture, titled “1619 and the Legacy That Built a Nation,” could not be recorded and redistributed. However, a promotional flyer advertised a discussion on “the lasting legacy of Black enslavement on the nation—specifically, how Black Americans pushed for the democracy we have today.”

News of the lecture came days after Hulu announced that it partnered with production studio Lionsgate and billionaire Oprah Winfrey to create a docuseries based on the 1619 Project. In a statement, Hulu said the project was a “landmark undertaking…of the brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today.”

When the 1619 Project was initially released in October 2019, Hannah-Jones’s lead essay declared that race was the primary division in society and black people were the sole progressive force in US history. She denounced the country’s revolutionary founding in 1776 and claimed that the United States truly began when the first African slaves were sold to English colonists in 1619. Racism, she said, “runs in the very DNA of this country.”

Soon after the project’s launch, the Times had turned 1619 into a marketable brand, and schools planned to adopt its lead arguments in their curriculums. The World Socialist Web Site intervened against the 1619 Project and exposed its reactionary politics and predication in historical falsification. However, the project remains a profitable venture for Hannah-Jones and the Times .

Hannah Jones argues that the overriding social category in the world is race. But being paid $25,000 for a lecture she did not even physically attend is a “privilege” that separates her from the majority of African Americans in the United States, who are overwhelmingly members of the working class. What Hannah-Jones can make in one lecture is almost the same as a worker making $15 an hour takes home in a year after taxes.

In a related development, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors purchased four high-end properties in the US worth $3.2 million, according to a recent report in the New York Post. She was also seen with her spouse in the Bahamas, viewing property at an exclusive resort where celebrities such as Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake own homes.

In 2016, Cullors married Janaya Khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, and purchased a $510,000 home in a Los Angeles suburb. Two years later, Cullors purchased a four-bedroom home for $590,000 in southern Los Angeles. Last year, Cullors and her spouse acquired a “custom ranch” in Georgia featuring a private hangar and community runway for small airplanes.

In January, the pair got their hands on a $1.4 million homestead a short drive from Malibu, one of the most affluent communities in the US. The property was advertised as featuring bamboo floors and “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views. The 2,400-square-foot property includes a three-bedroom and two-bath main house and a separate one-bed/one-bath apartment for long-term guests.

Just three weeks ago, Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson, respective mothers of Tamir Rice and Richard Rishner, accused Cullors of profiting from the deaths of their children and other black people murdered by police. The pair criticized BLM for raising over $90 million in 2020 but doing little to help families impacted by police violence.

Khan and Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Since then, BLM has promoted racialist politics and raised substantial sums of money from large corporations like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. After BLM’s 2020 financial report was released, Cullors was accused of misappropriating funds by grassroots members of her organization.

In response to the allegations, she claimed that there were misunderstandings about BLM’s finances and that the organization was “scraping for money” in the past few years. If BLM truly was low on funds, Cullors purchasing luxury properties certainly did not help.

The wealth and privilege of the leading proponents of racialism demonstrate the reactionary character of identity politics. It is entirely divorced from the real concerns and experiences of the working class. Fearful of a unified workers’ movement, the ruling class seeks to sow artificial racial divisions among workers through the promotion of identity politics. Additionally, middle class layers seeking a bigger slice of the pie see identity as a means of advancing their own wealth and social position.

The American ruling class is terrified of the growth of a working-class movement. The fight against police violence, racism, and poverty can only be waged through the building of a socialist movement, independent of the capitalist parties, that unifies workers on their common class interests.

[safirefire]

tumblr loves talking about acceptance for complex queer identities so I’d like to talk about Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a Black queer woman who is married to a woman. Khan-Cullors identified as queer fairly early in her life yet fell in love with a couple cisgender men who were deeply important to her and the movement she co-founded. What was that movement? It’s called Black Lives Matter. If you’ve heard or even used the phrase blm but you didn’t immediately recognize the name Patrisse Cullors I think this is good moment to reflect why.

I finished the audiobook When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrice Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele which includes an interview of Khan-Cullors at the end and I think it is a good place to start. To start reflecting on what has changed since the book’s publication and what has stayed the same. To realize the parallels she draws between Palestine and Black America have always been relevant. To learn about the founding of blm and think about how you can incorporate antiracism into your own life if you’re not already. Also queer especially trans Black women have been leading the antiracist movement in the United States and I think the proudly gay website needs to understand this better

[grill-me-a-cheese]

This week's activists/heroes are Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors (@aliciagarza @opalayo and @OsopePatrisse) of BLM <3! They work & fight against racism and social inequality. Their movement calls attention to the systems and social structures that continue to oppress and harm Black lives. Their movement also centers those most marginalized within activist and social spaces - “Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum” (http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/).

[blackfilm]

thoughts?

[formerlyroyal]

Not Candace Owens being 100% right about BLM being a total scam 😂 I love her and how she says it like it is with the info to back it up. I feel like other AA people who said horribly racist insults to her (on SM) should apologize. They truly said some vile things to Candace and definitely are the same kind of people who would be part of the sussex squad. It was very uncalled for when she was just trying to be real with them - and in the end she was absolutely correct. Patrice Cullors is actual F I L T H. I bet Democrats haven’t come out and said anything either. It’s so pathetic and embarrassing.

We all knew it was a scam but no one could say it cause then you’re racist 🙄 Patrice is another hasbeens.

Damn, I need to come up with a fake foundation. I wonder if I could get rich off f White Lives Matter.

Oldie I made when she made it her cause.

[confessinbouthanson]

“This is no longer a Hanson confessions board.   It’s a place for the same handful of unethical activists to engage in an underhanded social media sabotage strategy of smearing Zac Hanson with their own interpretation of his character, based on their personal bias filters and grandiose claims of sole ownership over allowed global discussion regarding entire social issues plaguing humanity.   Why don’t they take their activist passion to the official BLM donation financed properties in LA or ranch in Georgia?  Oh, that’s right, they can’t: One is only used for Patrice Cullors’ personal family functions and the others are occupied and secured as her personal residences. Press inquiries will be turned away at the gate.“