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The Origins of Black Lives Matter Part 1: The Money Trail

BLM: All about the Benjamins. The BFD.

In some parts of the Wokesphere, they’re slowly starting to wake up to the reality of the Black Lives Matter movement: namely that it is not, as it claims, an “anti-racism” movement, but a deeply racist, revolutionary communist movement dedicated to nothing less than the overthrow of America. The BBC, for instance, has banned its staff from displaying pro-BLM material.

But the sinister reality of BLM should hardly be news to anyone who cared to get up off their knees and pay attention.

Accuracy In Media are well known for their strongly conservative, anti-communist editorial bias. They are also known for, as their name suggests, kicking back against the overwheleming left-wing bias of the mainstream media. Even four years ago, AIM were the Cassandras telling the truth about the BLM movement that the left-media didn’t want to hear.

The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) casts itself as a spontaneous uprising born of inner city frustration, but is, in fact, the latest and most dangerous face of a web of well-funded communist/socialist organizations that have been agitating against America for decades. Its agitation has provoked police killings and other violence, lawlessness and unrest in minority communities throughout the U.S. If allowed to continue, that agitation could devolve into anarchy and civil war. The BLM crowd appears to be spoiling for just such an outcome.

Remember, that was written four years ago. Judge for yourself how prophetic it was.

This report examines in detail, for the first time, how communist groups have manipulated the cause of Black Lives Matter, and how money from liberal foundations has made it all possible.

Exploiting blacks to promote Marxist revolution is an old tactic. The late Larry Grathwohl, former FBI informant in the Weather Underground, understood from personal experience how white communists exploited blacks and other minority groups. He said that Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn regarded Barack Obama, whose political career they sponsored, as a tool—a puppet—to use against white America[…]

BLM launched in 2013 with a Twitter hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was acquitted in the Trayvon Martin killing. Radical Left activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi claim credit for the slogan and hashtag[…]

Garza, Cullors and Tometi all work for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), one of the four largest radical Left organizations in the country. The others are the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Nelini Stamp’s ACORN—now rebranded under a variety of different names—works with all four organizations, and Dream Defenders is backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center and others.

There’s some serious money talking, there. The SPLC has become notorious as a clearing-house for left-wing money. American unions like the SEIU are some of the biggest political money machines in the country. The staggering amount of cash pumped into the American left is disguised by dispersing it among dozens of front organisations.

FRSO is a hereditary descendant of the New Communist Movement, which was inspired by Mao and the many communist revolutions throughout the world in the 1960s and 1970s. FRSO split into two separate groups in 1999, FRSO/Fight Back and FRSO/OSCL (Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organizaci?n Socialista del Camino para la Libertad). Black Lives Matter and its founders are allied with the latter group. Future references to FRSO in this article refer to FRSO/OSCL.

FRSO is comprised of dozens of groups. The radical Left model is based on alliances of many organizations that are working on separate issues but dedicated ultimately to the same thing: overthrowing our society in order to replace it with a hardcore socialist (read communist) one.

The goal is to present the appearance of a formidable mass of organizations. Some are large, but many are little more than a website or Facebook page. When necessary, they can all come together to promote the cause du jour.

That “cause”, whether it be Trayvon Martin or George Floyd, is a mere pretext. What are touted as “spontaneous” protests are, in fact, well-planned, long in advance. The trap is baited and set, merely waiting to be sprung.

This is why the BLM crowd denies the facts of those cases.

The far-left roots of BLM run deep. In fact, BLM is nothing more than the more modern excrescence of the web of radical communist groups of the late 60s, like the Weather Underground.

Cullors was trained by Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground leader who exhorts followers to become “anti-racist, anti-imperialist” activists. Mann runs another FRSO front, the Labor/Community Strategy Center. Like most professional leftists, he makes good money—over $225,000 annually—living in “the system” he advocates destroying.

Tometi is the daughter of illegal aliens from Nigeria. While in college, she worked for the ACLU defending illegal aliens against “vigilantes” opposed to illegal immigration. She is currently the executive director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).

The funding of this web of far-left groups seeking to destroy America is as complex as it is monumental. These are some of the front groups FRSO/BLM and their donors. Some familiar names keep cropping up. For instance, POWER evolved from the now defunct communist group STORM. Obama’s former “Green Jobs Czar” the self-described communist, Van Jones, served on STORM’s board.

It takes a lot of money to hate capitalism. The BFD.

Even some of the smaller – monetarily – groups, like SOUL, are still hugely influential. SOUL claims to have trained hundreds of “organisers” in 2013 alone. In a classic revolutionary “cell” structure, each of those “organisers” acts as a nucleus for hundreds more foot-soldiers. The tentacles of these front groups reach upwards, as well. ACORN, for instance, was the group that nurtured the political career of Barack Obama. It disbanded after James O’Keefe exposed its workers encouraging and advising O’Keefe, posing as a pimp, on sex trafficking. Embarrassed by the exposure, but spared prosecution by sympathetic officials, it simply regrouped under a forest of new banners – and the money kept rolling in.

Its wide network of affiliates and partner organizations like CPUSA and ACORN allows BLM to turn out large crowds. Many participate simply to protest, commit violence, loot or all three[…]

Obama handshake BLM groups have also joined with CPUSA, CCDS, DSA, SEIU, Color of Change and many others. Anarchist and top OWS organizer Lisa Fithian, who orchestrated the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization riots, trained Ferguson protesters.

Democrat senator Ilhan Omar has recently openly called for the overthrow of the American “system”. This nexus of radical communists and Islamists is also a far-reaching one. And why shouldn’t it? They both share the same goal: destruction of the Great Satan, USA.

Islamist organizations have also jumped on the BLM bandwagon, reminding us of the unholy alliance that exists between them and the radical Left. In September 2015, the Muslim Brotherhood front-group Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) joined BLM activists in storming California Governor Jerry Brown’s office. CAIR also participated in the Ferguson protests. Meanwhile ISIS is recruiting American blacks for its cause.

That’s just part of the Byzantine web of leftist money financing BLM. The second part of this post will examine BLM’s deep-reaching roots in far-leftist ideology.

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