Patrice Khan-Cullors, ‘Marxist’ Black Lives Matter co-founder, tearfully defended her $ 3.2 million property empire, insisting she did not use a penny of BLM donations on herself.
“I have never taken a salary at the Black Lives Matters Global Networks Foundation,” she also said Thursday.
‘It’s important,’ she told host Marc Lamont Hill, a host, ‘tells the host, host Marc Lamont Hill,’ because what the right-wing media is trying to say is that the donations people make to Black Lives Matter gave, spent my money.
“And it’s untrue and incredibly dangerous.”
But by insisting that she not take a non-profit foundation salary, Khan-Cullors said she is not paid by BLM’s network of similar businesses.
What the payment may be is covered by secrecy, as BLM’s lucrative branches do not disclose expenses and executive salaries.
Khan-Cullor has been in hot water since The Post first revealed Sunday that it had snatched up four precious homes while donations were pouring into the movement, especially following the gruesome video of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a policeman in Minneapolis.
Khan-Cullors said the nonprofit raised $ 90 million in 2020.
“I was not just a target of the right and white supremacists at the time,” she said Thursday about the backlash from left and right after the New York Post outline of her extravagant property.
Khan-Cullors was not specifically asked during Thursday’s interview whether she would take a salary from BLM’s closed books for profit.
But she said she’s generally in favor of organizers collecting a ‘living wage’. And she said she has revenue streams outside the BLM closet.
“Your income that you used to make the purchases you made came from outside the company. Your income does not come from working directly with the BLMGN? He said.
“That’s correct,” she replied. Again, it was not clear whether she was talking about the group’s non-profit organization.
“I’m a university professor first,” she continues. ‘I’m also a TV producer. And I had two book offers.
‘My first book to appear was a New York Times bestseller. And I also had a YouTube agreement, ‘she said.
“All my income comes directly from the work I do,” she said.
‘But I also want to say something, Mark, that feels very important. Organizers must be paid for the work they do. They have to pay a living wage, ‘she said.
She called it a ‘lie’. The tip from The Post from a real estate agent in the Bahamas, who said that she and her wife, co-founder of BLM Canada, Janaya Khan, recently searched for a million-dollar property in a luxury community to the sea there, where they would become neighbors of Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods.
She has not set foot in the island since a ‘dance trip’ at the age of 15, she insisted.
She confirmed she owned four homes but said she had invested in the properties to look after her family, she said.
“I do not rent them out in an Airbnb operation,” she said.
“The way I live my life is direct support from black people, including my black family members,” she said.
‘I have a child, I have a brother with a serious mental illness that I take care of. I support my mother and I support many other family members of mine, ”she said.
‘My money is not my own; I also consider it my family’s money, ‘she said.
Khan-Cullors also took time to rob the media for reporting on her lavish spending.
“The fact that the right-wing media is trying to create hysteria around my spending is frankly racist and sexist,” Khan-Cullors said.
BLM has handed out its millions of donations to worthy groups fighting white rule, she said, including a $ 27 million commitment to ‘black organizations, not just our chapters, across the country.’
She chokes as she describes having to appoint ‘security’ after the negative setback.
“I have been staying safe for the past week, and these articles have shown the homes I live in and my family live in,” she sobbed briefly.
“These are difficult moves,” she added.
“I promise you we’re trying to free black people. This is what we are trying to do. And we are going to make mistakes, we are going to stumble, but we need the community to exalt us so that we can be accountable in a principled way, in an honest way and especially in a loving way.
“What happens to me is not loving. But I’m not the only one with whom this is happening, ”she said.
‘We have seen that so many colored women are the grace of our movements that we build and also the right wing.
‘Where can women of color go if we make honest mistakes? We often need more help and we do not get it. ”
She urged members of the BLM movement to ‘work together’.
‘I’m not a person interested in being’ all praise ‘, or’ all praise for Patrices’ or ‘all praise for BLM’. “I am not interested in that,” she said.
‘I’m interested in evolution and growth, and the only way we do that is through conflict that is generative. Not conflict that further harms or makes it dangerous for people to live in their own homes. ”