Black Lives Matter “Marxist” co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors tearfully defended her $ 3.2 million real estate empire, insisting she didn’t use a penny of BLM donations.
“I’ve never taken any pay from the Black Lives Matters Global Networks Foundation,” he also said Thursday.
“This is important,” he told Black News Tonight host Marc Lamont Hill, “because what the right-wing media is trying to say is that the donations that people gave to Black Lives Matter were intended for my spending.
“And that’s categorically false and incredibly dangerous.”
But by insisting that she did not charge any salary to the organization’s nonprofit foundation, Khan-Cullors left without saying whether they paid her through the network of nonprofits of similar BLM names.
What could be this pay is kept secret, as BLM’s for-profit offices do not disclose the expense and remuneration of executives.
Khan-Cullor has been in the hot water since The Post first revealed on Sunday that it tore down four high-end homes as donations poured into the movement, especially following the horrific video of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer.
Khan-Cullors has said the nonprofit foundation earned $ 90 million by 2020.
“I haven’t just been a target of right-wing and white supremacists right now,” he said Thursday about the reaction of the left and right after the New York Post’s exposure to his property expenses.
During Thursday’s interview, Khan-Cullors was not specifically asked if he took a paycheck from BLM’s closed-profit gun books.
But she said she is in favor, in general, of organizers charging a “living wage.” And he said it has revenue streams beyond BLM coffers.
“So your income that you used to make any purchases you made comes from outside the company. Doesn’t your income come from working directly with the BLMGN?” He said.
“That’s right,” he replied. Again, it was unclear whether he was talking about the nonprofit or for-profit group.
“First of all I’m a college professor,” she continued. “I am also a television producer. And I’ve had two book deals.
“My first book that came out was a New York Times bestseller. And I also had a deal with YouTube, ”he said.
“All my income comes directly from the work I do,” he said.
“But I also want to say something, Mark, that feels very important. Organizers should charge for the work they do. They should be paid a living wage, ”he said.
He spoke as a “lie” on The Post’s advice to a real estate agent in the Bahamas, who said she and his wife, BLM Canada co-founder Janaya Khan, recently bought a multimillion-dollar property in a community of luxury by the sea there, where they would become neighbors to Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods.
He insisted he had not set foot on the island since a “dance trip” at 15 years old.
He confirmed he owned four houses, but said he invested in the properties to take care of his family, he said.
“I will not rent them in any Airbnb operation,” he said.
“The way I live my life is the direct support of black people, including members of my black family, mostly,” he said.
“I have a son, I have a brother who has a serious mental illness that I take care of. I support my mother and I support many other members of my family, ”he said.
“My money is not my own, I also see it as my family’s money,” he said.
Khan-Cullors also spent some time tearing up the media to report his lavish spending.
“The fact that the right-wing media is trying to create hysteria around my spending is downright racist and sexist,” Khan-Cullors said.
BLM has distributed its millions in donations to worthy groups fighting white supremacy, he said, including a $ 27 million commitment to “organizations run by blacks, not just in our chapters, across the country.”
He drowned while describing having to hire “security” after the negative reaction.
“I spent the last week safely and, yes, these articles have shown the houses where I live and where my family lives,” he said, crying briefly.
“It’s hard to build movements,” he added.
“I promise you that what we are trying to do is free the blacks. This is what we try to do. And we will make mistakes, we will stumble, but we need the community to lift us up, so that we can be accountable in a principles-based way, in an honest way, and most of all, in a loving way.
“What happens to me is that you don’t love. But I’m not the only one going through it, ”he said.
“We have seen so many women of color at the mercy of our movements that we build and also of the right wing.
“Where do black women go when we make honest mistakes? We often need more help and we don’t get it. ”
He urged members of the BLM movement to “unite.”
“I’m not a person interested in being“ all praise ”or“ all praise Patrisse ”or“ all praise BLM. ”I’m not interested in that,” he said.
“I am interested in evolving and growing and the only way to do that is through a generating conflict. Not a conflict that harms or makes more dangerous the fact that people live at home. “