The Black Lives Matter’s Global Network Foundation, which has reportedly paid some of its official and unofficial chapters millions of dollars, appears to be risking bankruptcy.
The foundation ran $8.5 million in arrears last year, while donations plunged 88% between 2021 and 2022, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/black-lives-matter-hemorrhaged-cash-in-2022-tax-documents-show/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned from the organization in 2021 after she was accused of using BLM&#8217;s funds for her personal use, a charge she has denied.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “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 U.S. alone, according to property records.”
Cullors’ relatives have been on the company’s payroll including her brother Paul who had owned two companies that BLM paid $1.6 million in order to provide “professional security services” in 2022. Paul received a $126,000 salary as “head of security” in 2022 while company&#8217;s linked to Damon Turner, the father of Cullors&#8217; child, received roughly $970,000 in 2021.
&#8220;While Patrisse Cullors was forced to resign due to charges of using BLM&#8217;s funds for her personal use, it looks like she&#8217;s still keeping it all in the family,” Paul Kamenar of the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group told the Free Beacon.
In May 2022, news broke that Black Lives Matter paid out over $12 million for properties in Toronto and Los Angeles. The funds for a $6.3 million 10,000-square-foot property in Toronto came from an “out of country grant” meant for “activities to educate and support black communities, and to purchase and renovate property for charitable use,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/black-lives-matter-spent-at-least-12-million-on-mansions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to BLMGNF’s federal tax filing for fiscal year 2020.
“No one expected the foundation to grow at this pace and to this scale,&#8221; said Cicley Gay, chair of the board of directors of BLMGNF, in May 2022. &#8220;Now, we are taking time to build efficient infrastructure to run the largest black, abolitionist, philanthropic organization to ever exist in the United States.”
“As a new board, we are building policies that didn’t exist, operational and administrative infrastructure that didn’t exist,” board member Shalomyah Bowers echoed. “We’re making it clear to black people that we’re an institution and that we’re here to stay. In order to do that, we need to demonstrate that our financial house is in order.”
In 2021, the foundation said it raised $90 million in 2020.

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Foundation Going Broke After Raising $90 Million

bankruptcy

Patrisse Cullors

U.S.

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-governor-greg-abbott-working-swiftly-to-pardon-daniel-perry-after-soros-prosecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Perry</a>, a 35-year-old U.S. Army sergeant, has been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/us/daniel-perry-texas-sentencing-wednesday/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to 25 years in prison for the 2020 death of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter</a> protester carrying an AK-47.
Perry, who claims he acted in self-defense during the altercation, was found guilty of murder last month and was facing anywhere from 5 to 99 years behind bars. Notably, Republican Texas Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> has <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/10/daniel-perry-murder-austin-protestor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> to pardon Perry.
At the time of his death, Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old white man, was protesting the death of George Floyd.
“The protesters were all around me, banging on the side of the car, hitting me with spray paint cans,&#8221; Perry told investigators, according to the Austin American-Statesman. &#8220;One guy (Foster) wanted to talk to me.&#8221;
Perry said he rolled down his window to talk to Foster, who said something quietly before raising his weapon. Foster was openly carrying an AK-47 across his chest.
“That’s when I got my weapon and pulled the trigger as fast as I could, and then drove away and called 911,” Perry told police. He turned himself into authorities immediately following the incident.
Abbott went after the prosecutor in the Perry case, District Attorney Jose Garza, whose campaign was backed by billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” the governor said in a statement, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-governor-greg-abbott-working-swiftly-to-pardon-daniel-perry-after-soros-prosecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported. “Unlike the President or some other states, the Texas Constitution limits the Governor’s pardon authority to only act on a recommendation by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.”
“Texas law DOES allow the Governor to request the Board of Pardons and Paroles to determine if a person should be granted a pardon,” Abbott continued. “I have made that request and instructed the Board to expedite its review. I look forward to approving the Board’s pardon recommendation as soon as it hits my desk. Additionally, I have already prioritized reining in rogue District Attorneys, and the Texas Legislature is working on laws to achieve that goal.”
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&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1644778789493243907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ashe Schow contributed to this post 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/expert-testifies-that-man-accused-of-killing-black-lives-matter-protester-actually-slowed-down-as-he-turned-into-crowd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expert Testifies That Man Accused Of Killing Black Lives Matter Protester Actually Slowed Down As He Turned Into Crowd</a>

Daniel Perry

Army Sergeant Sentenced For Death Of Black Lives Matter Protester

Army Sergeant Daniel Perry Sentenced For Death Black Lives Matter Protester

Crime

Texas

Black California residents could receive up to $1.2 million based on how many years they have lived in the state after its official reparation task force approved <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-agenda9-ch16-recomm-apologize-05062023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommendations</a> on Saturday to issue a formal reparative monetary apology.
The nine-member panel, which became the first task force in the United States to form in September 2020, advanced the plan recommendations in Oakland, California. The draft includes calculated dollar figures based on categories ranging from mass incarceration, housing discrimination, and other alleged injustices.
According to the latest data from the <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">U.S. Census Bureau,</a> more than 2.5 million Californians— about 6.5 percent of the state&#8217;s population— are black and could be eligible to receive reparations based on certain requirements.
&#8220;Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address long-standing racial disparities and inequalities,&#8221; Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-task-force-apology-de0b43dd237c47113554a9aae56ca9f5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press.</a>
According to the final report, black communities impacted by mass incarceration and over-policing aligning with the national War on Drugs could receive about $115,260 per person, or $2,352 each year they lived in California from 1971-2020.
Panel members said black residents impacted by lending and zoning redlining by banks between 1933 and 1977 could receive $3,366 each year they resided in California, capping at $148,099. Another method created by the panel calculated gaps between black and white &#8220;housing wealth&#8221; at $145,847 per person.
Other alleged injustices and discriminations in health estimated $13,619 per person for each year lived in California.
Based on a New York Times analysis, a black person living in California for 71 years — the average life expectancy of Black residents in California in 2021 — could receive up to $1.2 million. Some economists projected to The Associated Press that California could owe more than $800 billion in reparations, which more than doubles the state&#8217;s annual budget.
&#8220;Apologies alone are inadequate to provide justice to victims or redress wrongs,&#8221; the draft reads. &#8220;But when combined with material forms of reparations, apologies provide an opportunity for communal reckoning with the past and repair for moral, physical, and dignitary harms.&#8221;
One woman attending Saturday&#8217;s meeting said $1.2 million in incremental payments &#8220;is nowhere near enough.&#8221;
&#8220;We want direct cash payments just like how the stimulus [checks] were sent out,&#8221; the woman said, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12055465/California-panel-approves-reparations-proposal-life-long-black-residents-1-2million.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s our inheritance, and we can handle it.&#8221;
She added that the plan should resemble San Francisco&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-reparations-committee-proposes-5-million-lump-sum-payment-debt-forgiveness-to-qualified-black-residents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly formed reparations committee</a>, which proposed that longtime black residents of the Northern California metropolitan city would receive up to $5 million each for facing decades of &#8220;systematic repression.&#8221;
Panel members recommended the apology from the California legislature should include a &#8220;censure of the gravest barbarities carried out on behalf of the State,&#8221; which consists of an exhaustive list of notes since California entered the Union in 1850.
Although California entered the Union outlawing slavery, the draft states that it did not pass laws at the time to guarantee freedom.
The California Supreme Court enforced the federal Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people until the official end of enslavement in 1865.
California has previously issued apologies for placing Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II, mistreatment of Native Americans, and abuses in its eugenics sterilization program that forcibly sterilized patients in state hospitals and homes without true consent.
Task force members are scheduled to release the report by July 1. If lawmakers approve the plan, the state will create a new agency to oversee the program, determine eligibility, and distribute funds.

California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022.

California Reparations Task Force Approves Plan Giving Up To $1.2 Million To Each Black Resident

California

Reparations

Slavery

The attorney for Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted late last week on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder charges</a> stemming from an incident with a far-left protester who was carrying an AK-47, filed a motion on Tuesday seeking a new trial.
Attorney Clinton Broden said in the motion that a new trial was needed because District Attorney Jose Garza, whose campaign was backed by billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros, prevented exculpatory evidence from being presented to the jury.
Perry shot and killed Garrett Foster on July 25, 2020, in what he says was an act of self-defense. While convicted of the murder charge, Perry was acquitted on an aggravated assault charge.
Perry was not initially charged with any crimes after the incident, but months later, in 2021, Garza took office and decided to prosecute Perry.
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BREAKING: Attorney for Sgt. Daniel Perry files motion for new trial saying court kept key evidence from jurors. <a href="https://t.co/etuAMGFNDG">pic.twitter.com/etuAMGFNDG</a>
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David Fugitt, the lead investigating detective in the case, said in an affidavit that Garza acted with “criminal behavior” in the case.
“I had several conversations with the District Attorney’s Office regarding the presentation of exculpatory evidence related to Daniel Perry,” Fugitt said. “It became clear to me that the District Attorney’s Office did not want to present evidence to the grand jury that would be exculpatory to Daniel Perry.”
“On more than one occasion I was directed by the Travis County Attorney’s Office to remove exculpatory information that I had intended to present to the grand jury during my testimony,” he said. “Of my original 158 slide powerpoint presentation, the presentation was reduced to 56 slides with almost all of the exculpatory evidence ordered removed. I felt like I did not have any other options but to comply with their orders.”
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Fugitt said that Garza’s directive to forbid exculpatory evidence from being shown during the case “is when the conduct of the District Attorney’s Office [went] from highly unethical behavior to criminal behavior.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signaled over the weekend that he was working to get Perry a pardon.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” Abbott said in a statement. “Unlike the President or some other states, the Texas Constitution limits the Governor’s pardon authority to only act on a recommendation by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.”
“Texas law DOES allow the Governor to request the Board of Pardons and Paroles to determine if a person should be granted a pardon,” Abbott continued. “I have made that request and instructed the Board to expedite its review. I look forward to approving the Board’s pardon recommendation as soon as it hits my desk. Additionally, I have already prioritized reining in rogue District Attorneys, and the Texas Legislature is working on laws to achieve that goal.”
Abbott’s decision to go after “rogue District Attorneys” comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent law enforcement officials to remove a woke Soros prosecutor from power in the state — the only time that a Soros prosecutor has been removed from power by a governor.

Daniel Perry’s Legal Team Files Motion For New Trial

Daniel Perry's Legal Team Files Motion For New Trial

Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> signaled Saturday that he was working to get Daniel Perry a pardon after he was convicted in a case involving self-defense.
Perry, who shot and killed a man who was carrying an AK-47 at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, was found guilty of murder by a jury on Friday in Texas. The jury found Perry not guilty of the aggravated assault charge.
Perry was not initially charged with any crimes after the incident, but in 2021, District Attorney Jose Garza took office and decided to prosecute Perry. Garza is one of many district attorneys whose campaign was backed by billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros.
&#8220;Texas has one of the strongest &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,&#8221; Abbott said in a statement. &#8220;Unlike the President or some other states, the Texas Constitution limits the Governor&#8217;s pardon authority to only act on a recommendation by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.&#8221;
&#8220;Texas law DOES allow the Governor to request the Board of Pardons and Paroles to determine if a person should be granted a pardon,&#8221; Abbott continued. &#8220;I have made that request and instructed the Board to expedite its review. I look forward to approving the Board&#8217;s pardon recommendation as soon as it hits my desk. Additionally, I have already prioritized reining in rogue District Attorneys, and the Texas Legislature is working on laws to achieve that goal.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s decision to go after &#8220;rogue District Attorneys&#8221; comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent law enforcement officials to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-sends-police-to-remove-woke-soros-prosecutor-from-office-for-failing-to-enforce-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remove</a> a woke Soros prosecutor from power in the state — the only time that a Soros prosecutor has been removed from power by a governor.
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I am working as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon of Sgt. Perry. <a href="https://t.co/HydwdzneMU">pic.twitter.com/HydwdzneMU</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1644778789493243907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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David Fugitt, the lead investigating detective in the case, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-grows-for-governor-greg-abbott-to-act-after-daniel-perry-convicted-in-case-led-by-soros-da" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2021 affidavit that Garza acted with “criminal behavior” in the case.
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“I had several conversations with the District Attorney’s Office regarding the presentation of exculpatory evidence related to Daniel Perry,” Fugitt said. “It became clear to me that the District Attorney’s Office did not want to present evidence to the grand jury that would be exculpatory to Daniel Perry.”
“On more than one occasion I was directed by the Travis County Attorney’s Office to remove exculpatory information that I had intended to present to the grand jury during my testimony,” he said. “Of my original 158 slide powerpoint presentation, the presentation was reduced to 56 slides with almost all of the exculpatory evidence ordered removed. I felt like I did not have any other options but to comply with their orders.”
Fugitt said that Garza’s directive to forbid exculpatory evidence from being shown during the case “is when the conduct of the District Attorney’s Office [went] from highly unethical behavior to criminal behavior.”

Greg Abbott

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Working ‘Swiftly’ To Pardon Daniel Perry

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Working 'Swiftly' To Pardon Daniel Perry 

A photogrammetry expert testified that Daniel Perry, accused of killing Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster, slowed down as he drove into a crowd of protesters in Austin, Texas, disputing protester claims that he sped up.
Perry has been charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting Foster five times in July 2020. Perry has claimed self-defense and pleaded not guilty.
Jason Evans, the expert, testified on Tuesday that using dashcam video and a laser scan of the scene, he determined that Perry slowed down as he made the turn onto Congress Avenue, where protesters had gathered.
“We now have a 3D rendering of the move and the turn of Mr. Perry’s vehicle,” Evans said at trial, <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/murder-trial-expert-says-daniel-perry-slowed-down-as-he-made-turn-into-crowd-of-protesters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to KXAN</a>. “Mr. Perry starts out at 11.9 miles per hour, starts to deaccelerate, or slow down.”
Evans also testified that laser scans and video provided by witnesses allowed him to determine that Foster was standing about 18 inches away from Perry’s driver-side door just a tenth of a second before he was shot.
Perry, an Army sergeant who also drives for Uber, <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2023/04/03/daniel-perry-trial-austin-protester-garrett-foster-said-he-shot-5-times-hoped-victim-ok/70074537007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he had just dropped off a customer when he received a text from a girl he liked. He told investigators shortly after he shot Foster that he was texting her while driving and that she had asked him for money &#8220;and when I looked up, the protesters were right there.&#8221;
&#8220;The protesters were all around me, banging on the side of the car, hitting me with spray paint cans. One guy (Foster) wanted to talk to me,&#8221; he told investigators, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Perry said he rolled down his window to talk to Foster, who said something quietly before raising his weapon. Foster, who is white, was openly carrying an AK-47 across his chest.
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&#8220;That&#8217;s when I got my weapon and pulled the trigger as fast as I could, and then drove away and called 911,&#8221; Perry told police.
Perry turned himself in immediately.
Other protesters have claimed that Perry sped up into the crowd and that Foster never raised his rifle at Perry.
Perry claimed that he didn’t realize what was being protested, but prosecutors have provided text messages from two months before the shooting showing Perry talking about killing protesters.
&#8220;I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex,&#8221; Perry wrote to a friend in June 2020, <a href="https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-04-07/might-have-to-kill-a-few-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Austin Chronicle</a>. Perry also spoke to his friend two weeks before the shooting about how to get away with killing a protester – by claiming self-defense.
After Perry turned himself in, the Austin Police Department questioned him and let him go. But months later, in 2021, District Attorney Jose Garza took office and decided to prosecute Perry. A grand jury then indicted Perry. Garza is one of many district attorneys whose campaign was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/soros-funded-texas-da-court-order-grand-jury-charge-police-officer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> by billionaire George Soros.

Black Lives Matter Sign

Expert Testifies That Man Accused Of Killing Black Lives Matter Protester Actually Slowed Down As He Turned Into Crowd

Austin

Courts

Murder

Have you been looking for some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passive income</a> in President Joe Biden&#8217;s America?
Well, perhaps the easiest way to make a buck is to go block a highway in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement and hope for some police pressure to get off the road.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">City of Philadelphia</a> just <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/philadelphia-protests-settlement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a $9.25 million settlement to some 300 or so protesters who were tear-gassed and more by Philadelphia Police because they plopped down on Interstate-676 in the City of Brotherly Love to protest for St. George Floyd in 2020.
“The pain and trauma caused by a legacy of systemic racism and police brutality against Black and Brown Philadelphians is immeasurable,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement about the settlement.
“We hope this settlement will provide some healing from the harm experienced by people in their neighborhoods in West Philadelphia and during demonstrations on I-676 in 2020,” he added.
To be clear, the protesters on I-676 brought traffic to a <a href="https://6abc.com/philadelphia-protest--i676-protest-vine-street-expressway-tear-gas-philly-george-floyd/10729400/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grinding halt</a> in late spring of 2020. It was a gigantic safety hazard and Philadelphia experienced nighttime riots during that same period.
The city will also donate hundreds of thousands for counseling to a nonprofit called &#8220;Bread &amp; Roses,&#8221; which is a political organization focusing on racial, social, and every other conceivable kind of leftist version of justice.
Similarly, New York City announced last month that it would give <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/philadelphia-protests-settlement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of dollars</a> each to certain protesters who allegedly suffered police brutality during the 2020 riots as well. Sometimes it pays to be woke.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – JUNE 01: A protester holds a tribute poster to George Lloyd after a march through Center City on June 1, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Demonstrations have erupted all across the country in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Minnesota while in police custody a week ago.

Easiest Way To Make A Buck? Block A Highway During A ‘Racial Justice’ Protest

Easiest Way To Make A Buck? Block A Highway During A 'Racial Justice' Protest

2020

George Floyd

Philadelphia

Rioters

Corporate America has donated a whopping $82 billion and counting to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter</a> movement and related causes, according to the Claremont Institute&#8217;s latest database tracking the flow of money to woke groups.
The BLM Funding Database is a part of Claremont&#8217;s American Way of Life project. In a column announcing the new tool, Claremont stated that the $82.9 billion given so far &#8220;includes more than $123 million to the BLM parent organizations directly. These figures, while shocking, likely underrepresent the true magnitude of the shakedown as some companies failed to make known their contributions, and many BLM organizations remain unknown.&#8221;
In wake of the George Floyd riots and thousands who rioted in 2020, a slew of groups cashed in on Corporate America&#8217;s willingness to bow to the mob. The resulting financial haul for such organizations is indeed astonishing. For example, BlackRock has pledged $810 million to these groups.
&#8220;Blackrock instituted a $10M action plan, including $5M to organizations supporting racial equity, $5M fund to elevate Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs, and a doubling of its employee charitable gift matching program from $5K to $10K per donation,&#8221; the database claims. &#8220;It also established an $800M Impact Opportunities Fund to back businesses or projects serving BIPOC communities. About $80M of the fund deployed as of May, 2022.&#8221;
The now infamous Silicon Valley Bank, which critics have said failed due in part to its focus on woke causes, gave more than $73 million to groups advocating for so-called racial justice causes.
Worse, evidence indicates that very little of the money featured in Claremont&#8217;s database actually goes to helping poor black Americans. Instead, it often goes toward insidious ideologies like radical gender theory, as well as enriching BLM-movement leaders, as exposed by Daily Wire host Candace Owens&#8217; documentary, &#8220;The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.&#8221;
It isn&#8217;t necessarily new information that Big Business favors leftist groups, which are often hostile to capitalism, but the collection of data on the dollar amounts truly paints a picture regarding just how much cash is funding the latest iteration of America&#8217;s Cultural Revolution. Those who oppose this insanity aren&#8217;t just up against Big Government, Democrats, and academia, but corporations as well.
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that SVB donated to BLM; SVB donated to other groups advancing race-centered causes.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

KENOSHA, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 24: Fires burn around downtown during a second night of rioting on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

New Analysis: Corporate America Has Donated $82 Billion To BLM-Related Causes So Far

Corporations

Social Issues

Black students at an Ohio elementary school reportedly forced white students to say “Black Lives Matter,” and when some students balked, beat them up.
Newly-released surveillance video from February 10 at Kenwood Elementary School shows a student in a white shirt taken by two other students to the swings, where a third student knocks him to the ground. Later, another student is carried there and dropped to the ground; lastly, another student gets shoved to the ground.
School Principal Evan Hunsaker stated that “a few of the students who had tried to avoid the situation, were chased down and escorted, dragged, or carried to the spot on the playground. One student was also punched in the head by one of the suspects,” according to a Springfield, Ohio, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11815279/Cops-investigate-schoolkids-forced-white-students-say-Black-Lives-Matter-camera.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police report</a>.
“According to a Springfield police report, a group of black students forced white students to say ‘Black Lives Matter’ against their will. Some of the kids were assaulted as this happened,” <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/video-watch-happens-alleged-assault-015755050.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WHIO</a> reported.
“The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) prevents the District from disclosing personally identifiable information or details about the discipline of a child to anyone other than their parent or guardian,” the Springfield City School District district stated, adding:
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Moving forward from this experience, the District is working closely with counselors, mental health experts and multiple community partners and agencies to provide support to children and staff directly involved, as well as those not directly involved. The District will use this experience as an opportunity to strive fotold WKEF&lt; r greater acceptance, grow and reinforce community connections.
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Daniel Harr, who said his son was one of the children thrown to the ground, told <a href="https://dayton247now.com/news/local/he-was-thrown-to-the-ground-springfield-police-investigating-alleged-racial-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WKEF</a>, “Just because it’s reversed [racism,] it’s still not all right.”
Harr’s wife <a href="https://www.facebook.com/krystal.haynes2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Facebook, “Kenwood Elementary families! I just wanted to let people know that my 12 year old was really forced on his knees Friday and to say blm. Watch your babies! This is getting unsafe!” She <a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/he-was-thrown-to-the-ground-springfield-police-investigating-alleged-racial-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of her son, “He’s not excited to go to school at all. He’s terrified.”
“I really feel like they should at least be expelled,&#8221; Daniel Harr concluded.
On February 20, Springfield Police <a href="https://dayton247now.com/news/local/crisis-in-the-classroom-new-surveillance-video-of-kenwood-elementary-incident-released?ref=upstract.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> they were pursuing charges against the assailants.
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Black Elementary School Kids Beat Up White Kids Who Won’t Say ‘Black Lives Matter’'

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A Florida triple murder suspect appeared to invoke a phrase associated with Black Lives Matter when police arrested him, shouting, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe&#8221; as he was handcuffed by police.
Keith Moses, 19, allegedly shot his acquaintance Nathacha Augustin, 38, in Orlando as they sat in a car. Hours later, Florida photographer Jesse Walden and Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, who was engaged to be married, were reporting from the crime scene when Moses returned and allegedly shot Lyons to death and wounded Walden. Moses then went to the home of 9-year-old T’yonna Major and her mother, where he allegedly shot the girl to death and wounded her mother.
When police deputies captured him, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/23/video-shows-arrest-of-florida-teen-accused-of-killing-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> shows Moses refusing commands to get on the ground before deputies tackled him.
“&#8217;They’re killing me! They’re killing me! I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Moses shouted as deputies placed him in handcuffs.
“I can’t breathe!” was a slogan associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. The phrase originated with Eric Garner, who died in 2014 after a confrontation with a New York City police officer. George Floyd, who also became a BLM icon after his death in 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, also uttered the phrase more than a dozen times while he was being subdued.
<a href="https://kdminer.com/news/2023/feb/23/police-random-shootings-leave-woman-child-reporter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, the deputies seized a Glock semiautomatic weapon from Moses that “was still hot to the touch, meaning it had just been fired, and there were no more rounds.” Police said Moses later attacked hospital staff and pretended to be asleep to avoid being interviewed by police.
“I turn around because I’m like, ‘Oh, there must be a drive-by shooting going on.’ I see he’s shooting at me,” Walden <a href="https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/former-kob-4-photographer-wounded-in-orlando-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> from the hospital. “I assumed he was shooting at a house or something behind me and I just happened to catch a bullet. But he kept shooting at me.”
Walden said his slain co-worker was dedicated to journalism and justice.
“Dylan was a very, very wholesome person,” Walden <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/florida-photographer-jesse-walden-details-ambush-that-left-reporter-dylan-lyons-dead/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “&#8217;Like, he had a great sense of humor too. He had a very strong sense of justice. He would really want everyone to follow the rules when it came to people with power.”
“Dylan was a reporter I worked with every day,” Walden continued. “We were best friends. He was just a sweet guy. He was young and he loved trying hard. That’s what we like to do. We like to push the boundaries. We like to get our hands dirty. It’s just unprovoked, senseless, random violence that no one could’ve saw coming.”
The deaths left the victims&#8217; loved ones shattered.
“Senseless violence has taken the life of my little girl, T’yonna Major,” the little girl&#8217;s father wrote. “She was a light to everyone that knew her. She was everything to us. She was a great student at the top of her 3rd grade class and reading at a 5th grade level. She was outgoing as well as an amazing gymnast. As her teachers would say, ‘The next Gabby Douglas.’”
Lyons&#8217; fiancée, Casey Lynn, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11783493/Journalist-24-shot-dead-Florida-heartbroken-fianc-e-says-never-again.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote,</a> “The love of my life was murdered. I will never be the same again.”

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VATICAN CITY — A week intended to promote international Christian unity took a hard Left turn into American politics when a group of Minnesota clergy with ties to Black Lives Matter called on the gathering to “confront oppression,” invoking the January 6 Capitol riot and the death of George Floyd.
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The annual <a href="http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/settimana-di-preghiera-per-l-unita/week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity-20230/fr.html">Week of Prayer for Christian Unity</a>, a decades-old tradition, kicked off January 18 with a prayer from Pope Francis that God “faithfully and patiently guides His people towards [uniting] in full communion.” The event is led by the Vatican but coordinated with Christian denominations throughout the world, including a contingent from Minnesota this year.
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“The Week of Prayer is the perfect time for Christians to recognize that the divisions between our churches and confessions cannot be separated from the divisions within the wider human family,” stated an introductory document prepared in part by members of the Minnesota Council of Churches who described themselves as “leaders, activists and/or pastors.” The document called on attendees to “confront oppression and division amongst humanity.”
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The Minnesota group, which included former Minneapolis NAACP President <a href="https://www.instagram.com/leslieeredmond/?hl=en">Leslie Redmond</a>, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis-linked pastor <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterMinneapolis/posts/for-immediate-releasemarch-2-2015over-100-faith-leaders-sign-open-letter-to-bloo/885991118111349/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeWayne Davis</a>, and activist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/25/chauvin-minneapolis-activists-fight-continues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jia Starr Brown</a>, said sessions spent crafting the document “moved through the attack on the United States Capitol, the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin and the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.”
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“When Covid-19 shut down the world in March 2020,” they wrote, “the murder of a young African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin drew people from all over the world out onto the streets in unity and righteous anger, to protest the injustice they witnessed on their television screens.”
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James Lindsay, founder and president of <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Discourses</a> and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Marxism-Critical-Theory-Praxis/dp/B09SJ1NHG7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis</a>,” said the Minnesota group appeared to be using the ideal of Christian unity to push a Marxist political agenda.
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“This builds the narrative and makes way for the demand: Unity, so long as it&#8217;s unity in agreement under their cultic interpretation of history,” said Lindsay, who studied the document. “Unity, so long as it&#8217;s under their cultic interpretation of society. Unity, within the church—not under God, but according to consenting to this narrow, damaging, and ultimately cultic misinterpretation of the world.”
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Lindsay noted the Minnesota-based group cited the World Council of Churches (WCC), which he called “one of the main centers of religious manipulation and destruction.”
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The WCC “is a huge Marxist front operating under the banner of ecumenicism but is, in fact, designed to water down different faiths and blend them in the fashion we&#8217;re discussing,” Lindsay said. “The overall objective is to break down the specific faiths so they&#8217;re essentially too weak to be distinguishable and then bind them back together under initiatives like equity, inclusion, and sustainability (that is, make them Woke).”
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The Daily Wire reached out to Cardinal Kurt Koch, <a href="http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/cardinal-koch/biografia-cardinale-kurt-koch.html">prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity</a>, for comment on the oversight and vetting of contributors to initiatives such as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, but did not receive a response by publishing time. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity concludes on January 25.

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Minnesota Group Steers Vatican-Led ‘Christian Unity’ Week Into U.S. Politics

Minnesota Group Steers Vatican-Led 'Christian Unity' Week Into U.S. Politics

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Former Virginia Tech soccer player Kiersten Hening received a six-figure settlement for dropping a federal lawsuit against the coach she claimed had benched her for refusing to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter.
According to a <a href="https://roanoke.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/virginia-tech-paid-100-000-in-ex-athletes-lawsuit-settlement-attorney-says/article_cfcbc3d6-8c8f-11ed-b60f-5bbe7642546e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Roanoke Times, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/08/kiersten-hening-ex-virginia-tech-soccer-player-who-refused-blm-kneel-gets-100k/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hening</a> accepted a settlement of $100,000 to walk away from the suit — and her attorney, Cameron Norris, also confirmed that the settlement did not require either party to admit to any wrongdoing.
Hening was a starter on the team during her freshman and sophomore seasons — but she claimed that she was benched after she chose not to take a knee during a pregame unity ceremony that was planned to show support for Black Lives Matter shortly after the death of George Floyd.
She <a href="https://www.outkick.com/virginia-tech-soccer-player-benched-for-refusing-to-kneel-awarded-100k/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> Charles “Chugger” Adair, the women&#8217;s head soccer coach, saying that he had scolded her during halftime at that game. She said that he then limited her field time and claimed in the lawsuit that she had been punished for simply exercising her First Amendment rights. She ultimately quit the team two games later, saying that the coach had engaged in a &#8220;campaign of abuse and retaliation&#8221; against her.
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/who-kiersten-hening-why-soccer-player-suing-coach-not-taking-knee-1767164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The suit</a>, which was filed in March of 2021, asked that Hening be reinstated to the team and that she be given an undisclosed amount in damages. However, Hening graduated in the time that lapsed since the suit was initially filed — and she does not intend to return in order to finish out her eligibility.
She also noted in the suit that she supported social justice initiatives, but that she did not support Black Lives Matter as an organization over concerns about its &#8220;tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.&#8221;
Adair, who is still the head women&#8217;s soccer coach at Virginia Tech, released a statement following the settlement, claiming that he had been vindicated and adding, &#8220;I am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrong doing &#8230; It’s unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and disagreement about playing time. Today, we have clarity that this case lacked any standing, and without evidence, the truth has prevailed.&#8221;
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The settlement is not final until state officials and officials at Virginia Tech have reviewed and approved it.

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College Soccer Player Says She Was Benched For Refusing To Kneel For BLM — Now She’s Getting Paid

College Soccer Player Says She Was Benched For Refusing To Kneel For BLM — Now She's Getting Paid

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