#BlackLivesMatter

The corporates dishing money out to the head honchos of the movement seem to have made a bad call

In the tense uncertainty of spring 2020, when the first Covid lockdown began to ease but the virus was still at large, I was among those who found themselves without a romantic chair when the music had stopped. Though it would be a while before I was ready to exchange saliva with anyone, dating apps became a reassuring diversion.

Or at least they were until George Floyd’s tragic murder in May 2020, at which point such apps began, with extreme intrusiveness, to preach the agenda of the ascendent Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The worst of them regularly interrupted swipe-athons with messages demanding allegiance to the ethics of BLM, with the implication that we had better make sure our sexual choices were not racially biased.

Yesterday, California’s Marin County District Attorney’s office announced that it would be reducing felony charges against the Black Lives Matter rioters who dismantled and demolished a St. Junipero Serra statue outside St. Raphael parish in San Francisco. The vandals will only be charged with a misdemeanor.

Warner Bros Television Group secretly ended a multi-platform deal with Patrisse Cullors, the former leader of Black Lives Matter, The Post has learned.

The Post can reveal no shows were produced under the deal, despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.

Black Lives Matter’s national organization is at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5 million into the red last year – while simultaneously handing multiple staff seven-figure salaries.

Financial disclosures obtained by The Washington Free Beacon show the perilous state of BLM’s Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020, as a more formal way of structuring the civil rights movement.

Yet despite the financial controversy and scrutiny, BLM GNF continued to hire relatives of the founder, Patrisse Cullors, and several board members.

Black Lives Matter bled cash and suffered blistering investment losses in 2022, according to a copy of its tax return obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation ran an $8.5 million deficit and saw the value of its investment accounts plummet by nearly $10 million in the most recent tax year, financial disclosures show. The group logged a $961,000 loss on a securities sale of $172,000, suggesting the charity weathered a staggering 85 percent loss on the transaction. These troubles didn’t stop BLM from doling out seven-figure contracts to friends and family of its former executive director Patrisse Cullors, who once said charity financial disclosures were “triggering” and “deeply unsafe.”

What a shit show.

Jordan Neely’s uncle fled police and then was arrested Monday after being caught with several allegedly stolen credit cards, a day after he spoke out against the ex-Marine accused of placing his nephew in a fatal chokehold, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Christopher Neely was arrested late Monday night after running away from a police pickpocket team that confronted him at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan, police sources said.

We can see the agitation over the death of Jordan Neely as a call to another summer of rioting.

Back in the summer of 1964, the first of many race riots roiled the nation. They began in Harlem, then spread to Rochester, New York, and then three cities in New Jersey. In the summer of 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles went up in flames. For the next three years, cities were rocked with violent upheaval, culminating with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968. As American cities burned, the great black conservative journalist George Schuyler explained that the violence was a continuation of the Communist agitation of the 1930s.

2022 wasn’t a very good year for Black Lives Matter.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised just $9.3 million in the fiscal year ending in June 2022—an 88 percent decrease from the year prior, according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It’s a staggering decline from Black Lives Matter’s heyday in the summer of 2020, when it parlayed the nationwide unrest that followed George Floyd’s death into an $80 million financial bonanza.

A US Army sergeant convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 has been sentenced to 25 years in a case that has outraged conservatives.

A judge sentenced Daniel Perry, 36, on Wednesday, for fatally shooting Garrett Foster, 28, at a protest in Austin. Perry and Foster are both white.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott previously said he would pardon Perry as soon as an official request “hits my desk”.

When the Truth Becomes a Dog Whistle

There’s a school of thought that believes that every instrument that makes a sound is a dog whistle.

The MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan provided a remarkably telling example of this perspective a week or so ago when he objected to Bill Maher’s talking about the problem of murders in Chicago in particular and black-on-black crime in general.

Perspective is everything pic.twitter.com/Xpvmr1CfHo

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 5, 2023

We keep hearing about the need for a conversation about race, specifically a conversation about the misery the black community experiences from being oppressed by the systemic racism of the white people of the United States. The endless conversation hasn’t done much beyond harming race relations, but maybe there is some systemic racism in the United States. Let’s look at three examples of systemic racism that are oppressive to black Americans.

A Tennessee high school teacher was pepper-sprayed twice by an unruly student who became incensed after he confiscated her phone during class, new video shows.

Dramatic cellphone footage taken during class Friday at Antioch High School captured the rambunctious student confronting her teacher after her phone was taken away as a disciplinary action.

Student pepper sprays teacher for taking her phone pic.twitter.com/DfcIisna38

— No Jumper (@nojumper) May 7, 2023

Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect.

Arguably, the greatest indictment of leftism is its preference for the vagrant and the criminal over the law-abiding citizen and victim. In politics, there are all kinds of disagreements about the role and scope of the state, but the one thing the state must do is protect the innocent.

Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. Yet racial idolaters on the Left have pushed society to forgo basic expectations of public order and civilized conduct. Demanding anything more than day-to-day chaos would be cruel to “marginalized” people like deranged homeless black men on the subway.

White protesters scream at and prevent a black man from going to work because they're trying to protest the death of a black man (Jordan Neely).pic.twitter.com/BGmTKhXtfX

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) May 7, 2023

Shocking video footage shows a wild mob of Texas students attacking an assistant principal who tried to break up a fight — leaving her so badly beaten that she was rushed to a hospital, unable to speak, according to her family.

The now-viral footage was filmed last Thursday as two ninth-graders started brawling in a hallway at Westfield High School in Houston, officials confirmed to The Post.

4/27 A mob of black scholars beats up assistant principal at Westfield High School, N.Houston, Texas. She is hospitalized with serious injuries. pic.twitter.com/aKW6GcTV0P

— Tom Hennessy (@Tomhennessey69) May 2, 2023

My what charming children.