In May 2020, the death of African American man Floyd by a white police officer sparked public outrage, injecting new vitality into the "Black Lives Matter" movement, which had been established for many years but had been tepid. Three years later, incidents of violent law enforcement by American police still occur from time to time, and the "Black Lives Matter" Foundation has also reached the brink of bankruptcy.
According to the financial report disclosed by Black Lives Matter, the organization had a book deficit of $8.5 million in the past year and may go bankrupt at any time.
There are two main reasons for this phenomenon: one is the decrease in donations, and the other is poor management. Data shows that in the year ending in June last year, the Black Lives Matter Foundation received a total of about 9.3 million US dollars in donations, far lower than the 77 million US dollars in the previous year.
With the sharp decline in income, the founder of the Black Lives Matter organization has been repeatedly exposed for scandals such as misusing public funds and extravagance. Among them, the most famous one is Paris Carlos, who owns several luxury homes.
One year after the "Black Lives Matter" movement became popular, Carlos, one of the initiators, bought a 223-square-meter luxury house in a wealthy area of Los Angeles, worth up to 1.4 million US dollars, equivalent to about 9.17 million yuan.
Compared to Trump's Mar-a-Lago, this house is not luxurious enough. But compared to the slums where most African Americans live, it is quite luxurious. It has three bedrooms and three bathrooms, and a private backyard. When you are not busy, you can sit in the yard, enjoy the breeze, and eat some barbecue. It is so nice.
This is just one of the properties owned by Carlos. She has a total of four high-end residences with a total value of up to 3.2 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 20 million RMB. The one located in Georgia is even equipped with a small hangar and an airstrip, so she can take a flight from time to time.
If you think that this is all of Carlos' assets, you are wrong. In addition to the luxury house in the United States, she also has her eyes on a villa in the neighboring Bahamas, the price of which is higher than the previous four combined.
The onlookers couldn't help but sigh, what kind of family is this? Buying a house is just like buying a bag? Few people would believe it. He was born in a real low-income African-American family. He grew up with a single mother and three brothers and sisters. The family can't be said to be unable to make ends meet, but at least there is no surplus food.
Carlos is now financially independent, and it can be said that her family could not help her at all. However, the Black Lives Matter organization has been criticized for its opaque funding. In its heyday, the organization is said to have received $90 million in donations, but no one knows how Carlos used the money.
The grassroots organizers of "Black Lives Matter" often complain that they don't have enough funds, and they can only find ways to raise funds to maintain daily operations, calling it "crowdfunding." Leaders buy houses everywhere, and grassroots beg online. It turns out that the equality that "Black Lives Matter" demands is equality between African Americans and white people, but there is no such requirement among African Americans.
After Carlos's extravagant life was exposed, he was ridiculed by the entire American Internet. Netizens said that "Black Lives Matter" is nothing but a scam. Under the banner of eliminating racial discrimination, it is all a shady business. In the end, as long as the leaders of the organization make money, the inequality faced by African Americans has not been significantly improved.
These accusations are not without reason, and this may be why people are unwilling to donate to "Black Lives Matter". To put it bluntly, "Black Lives Matter" has only given minorities represented by African Americans a certain advantage in public opinion, but their political and economic rights have remained stagnant.
An ironic reality is that the "Black Lives Matter" organization has long deviated from their original intention and instead colluded with white rulers, allowing the lower-class white people and ethnic minorities to fight each other to the death, replacing class contradictions with racial contradictions, thereby consolidating white rule. In this process, the "Black Lives Matter" leadership also made money, which is truly a win-win situation.
After the racial confrontation was heated up, no one paid attention to African Americans themselves, and no one saw the root cause of their long-term stay at the bottom of society. In fact, the discrimination of white people against African Americans is not completely unreasonable. For example, lack of ambition, laziness, etc. are indeed the defects of most African Americans.
What did the white rulers do? They did not use education to guide the values of African Americans. Instead, they exaggerated the flaws by exaggerating political correctness, such as ignoring and condoning African Americans' "zero-dollar shopping". After all, the ones who suffered losses were not the ruling class, but the lower-class white people who were also struggling to survive.
Although the white elites are hateful, they are not as chilling as the African Americans who are complicit in the evil. As the old saying goes, to resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country. To change the fate of African Americans, we must first start by clearing out the corrupt tumor of "Black Lives Matter".