Immediately after Daniel Penny was found not guilty of murdering a black, mentally ill subway rider by a New York City jury, the founders of the city's Black Lives Matter chapter called for violence as a response.
“Just like everybody else has vigilantes, we need some black vigilantes,” Hawk Newsome, president of Black Lives Matter New York, called out from a sidewalk press conference.
But his rousing speech started no riots or a tepid march of the few BLM supporters in the crowd.
End of the line for BLM?
Project 21's Apostle Tommy Quick says the Black Lives movement has run its course.
“There's an elite group of people in our nation that have profited from racial issues. People like Al Sharpton, and there are many others, that have made race baiting a very profitable business. Later people realized that they were doing it for their own personal gain, and no one benefited from those from those marches, from that
activity, but themselves personally.
One who benefited greatly was BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
While BLM Global Network Foundation was under Cullors’s control in October 2020, the charity provided donor funds to Dyane Pascall, who has close business ties to Cullors, to purchase a $6 million mansion in cash in the majority-white Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City, The Washington Examiner reported.
The purchase came just two weeks after BLM received $66.5 million cash from its former fiscal sponsor on Oct. 6, 2020.
Six days after Pascall purchased the property, he transferred it to an LLC owned by BLM, The Examiner reported.
It is estimated that riots between May 26-June 8 in 2020 cause between $1-2 billion in damages, the highest-recorded damage from civil disorder in U.S. history, surpassing he previous record set in the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Rhetoric had intentional targets
Quick says the racist rhetoric was always directed toward woke white people.
“It had the effect on a lot of white America of causing them to feel guilty, not necessarily about things that they themselves had done individually, but because of the history of our nation,” he said.
But he says they are starting to understand the grift, and they're not buying in anymore.
“It’s lending its way toward greater chaos in our community and in our nation. I think that we have to have the rule of law.”
