I was curious when I read that some lady by the name of
Susan Rosenberg was a member of the board of directors of an organization that
provides funding to Black Lives Matter, Inc. and that was a convicted terrorist,
so I decided to do some investigating
myself.
There are two different organizations with Black Lives
Matter in their name: Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. and the other is
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. It is this organization that
is incorporated in Delaware and does not appear to have a 501(c)3 IRS exemption
from what I can find. The BLMGNF did enter into a sponsorship agreement with
another company, Thousand Currents, and it is this organization that Susan
Rosenberg is a member of the Board of Directors.
“The website
for Black Lives Matter is operated under an umbrella group known as the Black
Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, chaired by BLM co-founder Patrisse
Cullors, a self-described Marxist. “ (Washington Examiner, 6/25/20)
“A separate
organization based in Santa Clarita, California, founded by Robert Ray Barnes
named the ‘Black Lives Matter Foundation’ (BLMF) has a 501(c)(3) federal income
tax exemption. It reports that its ‘mission is to help survivors and families
that have suffered from the loss of a relative or loved one as a result of an
unjust or questionable police shooting, and use our unique and creative ideas
to help bring the police and the community closer together to save lives’. Representatives of the BLM Network have
disavowed any connection to BLMF, and each organization claims that their name
and concept was stolen by the other. Nonetheless, due to its 501(c)(3) status,
many corporations and individuals pledged donations to BLMF through platforms
such as Benevity believing it to be part of the better-known movement, although
much of the funds raised was not dispersed after the confusion was noted.” (Mac, Ryan; Sacks, Brianna (June 15, 2020). "The Black Lives Matter Foundation" Raised Millions. It's
Not Affiliated With The Black Lives Matter Movement". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved June 16, 2020.)
Lets go back to BLMGNF – it was
organized in part by Patrisse
Cullors, who still maintains an active role in the organization. In a 2015
video Ms. Cullors declared that her and her fellow organizers were ‘trained Marxists’
and indicated that the organization BLMGNF was based on the Marxist’s ideology.
The New York Posts reported on June 25, 2020 that Breitbart News reported that “Cullors,
36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground
domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist
ideology that shaped her worldview.” This would seem to parallel the Washington
Examiner’s 6/25/20 statement.
Now for Susan Rosenberg. Several independent new agencies have
verified that Susan Rosenberg is on the Board of Directors of Thousand Currents
– the funding arm of BLMGNF. They have also confirmed that Ms. Rosenberg was a
member of the radical leftist revolutionary militant group known as the May
19th Communist Organization, affiliated with the Weather Underground terrorist
group and other radicals. The previous mentioned Washington Post article
further states, “Rosenberg was a radical in the 1960s and 1970s who landed on
the FBI’s Most Wanted List for a number of suspected crimes and was nabbed in
1984 while unloading from her car and into a New Jersey storage unit hundreds
of pounds of dynamite along with weapons, including a sub-machine gun. She was
believed to have been part of future politically motivated bombing plots.
Rosenberg and her M19 associates were also charged with roles in bombings
during the 1980s at the Capitol and the Navy War College, among other targets.
They were also tied to a 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery that killed a guard
and two police officers.”
BTW, the reason that Thousand Currents is involved in the
fun raising for BLMGNF is because Thousand Currents is a 501(c)3, Not-for-Profit
IRS organization where as BLMGNF is not. Donations made directly to BLMGNF
would not be tax deductible but donations to Thousand Currents, through their
on-line ActBlue donation platform, is tax deductible. Thousand Currents then
funnel the monies donated to the BLMGNF.
In conclusion, it would appear that the following facts are
true:
- Patrisse Cullors and the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation supports the ideology of Marxists;
- That the BLMGNF is supported through donations solicited on their behalf by an organization that is tied to organizations with at least some limited connections or roots to terrorist organizations in the past.
What we don’t know is does the organization, and it loosely knitted
chapters, support the same ideology as their organization’s founders or
financial benefactors? Actions by some seem to support the conclusion that it
does and yet there are actions on the part of others that seem to NOT support
that conclusion. I suspect a little bit of truth can be found in both
statements. The problem is that the segment getting the most attention seems to
be the former, rather than the later, and may be dominate by the more radical ideology
in the organization.
