Grift (also known as Confidence trick): an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. Confidence tricks exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté and greed.
Proving once again that Black Lives Matter is just a poorly run grift - Washington Examiner:
Anger over BLM's purchase of $8.1 million Toronto mansion grows as group's finances scrutinized
Canadian Black Lives Matter activists are furious over the group's recent $8.1 million cash purchase of a mansion in downtown Toronto that once served as the headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada.
The U.S. charity that serves as the face of the BLM movement provided the bulk of the funding for the purchase of the 10,000-square-foot property in July. The purchase flew largely under the radar at the time, but anger has now reached a boiling point amid other revelations about BLM's management and its finances.
"For BLM Canada to take money from BLM Global Network [Foundation] for a building without consulting the community was unethical," Canadian BLM activists Sarah Jama and Sahra Soudi said in a recent statement. "For BLM Canada to refuse to answer questions from young Black organizers goes against the spirit of movement-building."
Maybe Ms. Jama and Soudi will be a bit wiser next time a Trained Marxist walks up with a mouth full of gimme, a hand full of much obliged (to quote Bessie Smith). They will say anything to gain power but once they do? All bets are off. The "communities" will never see more than a few percent of BLM contributions. It's a grift. It always was a grift. Cullors & Garza were never in it for the community. They saw an opportunity to make money and they did.
That the previous owners were the Communist Party shows that this was a grift.
Milk it for what you can but take care of your fellow Bolsheviks first.
Leave a comment