Major corporations that made a show out of cutting checks to the national Black Lives Matter group in the aftermath of George Floyd's police killing in May 2020 now have nothing to say about the charity's alleged self-dealing.
Seventeen corporations that publicly committed at least $100,000 to Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in the days following Floyd's killing either declined to comment or did not respond to inquiries from the Washington Examiner asking if they approved of the charity's use of their donations to purchase a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles secretly and award lucrative contracts to the family members and friends of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who had sole control over the...
— Airbnb June 1, 2020 Many of BLM's major corporate donors released sweeping public statements saying their contributions to BLM would help improve the lives of black people in the United States. BLM also granted $8 million to BLM Canada to help purchase a mansion in Toronto that cost the equivalent of $6.3 million.
It's not clear if BLM's corporate donors vetted the charity or placed any conditions on their donations before they publicly promoted their financial commitments. Local black activists had complained for years prior to Floyd's killing that the national BLM group wasn't adequately supporting the movement's grassroots activists.
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