BLM Co-Founder Calls Charity Transparency Laws ‘Triggering, Dangerous’

A protester holds up a Black Lives Matter sign outside the Hennepin County Government Center via Wikimedia Commons

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is complaining that financial disclosure laws for charities are “triggering” and endanger activists’ lives.

The racial justice activist has been facing renewed criticism over the $6 million LA mansion BLM purchased under her leadership.

The mansion was purchased just two weeks after the charity received a $66.5 million cash infusion from its former fiscal sponsor and was used in multiple videos on Cullors’s personal YouTube channel. Watchdog groups are also raising concerns that BLM used nonprofit assets for the private benefit of its leaders.

According to The Washington Examiner:

“It is such a trip now to hear the term ‘990,’” Cullors said Friday during an event at the Vashon Center for the Arts. “I’m, like, ugh. It’s, like, triggering.”

“I actually did not know what 990s were before all of this happened,” Cullors said, an apparent reference to the Washington Examiner’s reporting in January about BLM’s lack of financial and leadership transparency that led multiple states, including California, to order the charity to cease raising funds until it discloses what it did with the $90 million it raised in 2020.

Then Cullors claimed the financial disclosures required by law put activists in danger.

“This doesn’t seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure,” Cullors said. “This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with.”

Cullors also claimed that she’s been approached by “countless” activists

“People’s morale in an organization is so important. But if their organization and the people in it are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout. that leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma,” Cullors said.

Cullors left the organization in 2021 and since then BLM has struggled under increased criticism and lack of leadership.


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