A Black Lives Matter co-founder has hit back at people questioning her multimillion-dollar real estate purchases.
In an interview with Black News Tonight on Thursday, Patrisse Cullors pushed back against criticisms over the four homes she’s bought, totaling over $3 million, in the last five years.
“I have never taken a salary from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. And that’s important because what the right-wing media is trying to say is, the donations that people have made to Black Lives Matter went toward my spending, and that is categorically untrue and incredibly dangerous,” she said.
The properties Cullors purchased include a $1.4 million home in Los Angeles. Another was a “custom ranch” in Georgia that sits on 3.2 acres.
Cullors added that the money she’s made has not come from Black Lives Matter but from her work as a television producer, a contract with YouTube, and two book deals.
“And the fact that the right-wing media is trying to create hysteria around my spending is, frankly, racist and sexist. And I also want to say that many of us that end up investing in homes in the black community often invest in homes to take care of their family,” she said, adding that her budding real estate empire does not conflict with her self-professed Marxism.
Despite her defense that questions about her spending habits are only coming from one side of the aisle, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist in New York has called for an investigation into Cullors.
“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes. It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement,” Hawk Newsome said.
Black Lives Matter said it raised over $90 million in 2020, with the bulk of its donations sparked by the death of George Floyd last May.
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Despite its radical agenda, which includes calling for the abolition of the family, Black Lives Matter has enjoyed corporate support from companies such as Amazon and Airbnb.
