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California State Professor: If You Don’t ‘Bank Black, You Are Funding White Supremacy’

Jeffrey Cawood
California State Professor: If You Don’t ‘Bank Black, You Are Funding White Supremacy’

Dr. Melina Abdullah — a California State University professor who is also a founding member of Black Lives Matter (BLM) — has called on all allies to move their money to black-owned banks.

“Wells Fargo and Citibank…they’re putting the dollars that you give them in the institutions that keep us oppressed,” Abdullah said on Saturday. “If you’re not going to bank black, you are funding white supremacy.”

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