BLM leaders have Communist and Globalist connections (Part 2)

by Sean Jobst

18 July 2020

In my previous post, I said unequivocally: The organization that hides behind the slogan "Black Lives Matter" is nothing but a Marxist movement, which many activists accuse of having "hijacked" a cause it sees merely as an excuse to push its political agenda. Harsh words perhaps, but I laid out my evidence based on their own proposals and what many of their actions have caused. It was incubated in the university "intersectional" labs of the Frankfurt School, rather than a truly grassroots community effort. That some lower-level members may be sincere does not negate that the organization and its leaders are subversives. I call out their agenda and will not bend my knee to these Communists.

On 22 July 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors was interviewed by Jared Ball, leftist professor of Media and Africana Studies, on his show The Real News Network. To the question of "a lack of ideological direction," Cullors responded @7:00: "The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [Garza] in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that  could be utilized by many, many black folk. We don't necessarily want to be the vanguard of this movement. I think we've tried to put out a political frame that's about centering who we think are the most vulnerable amongst the black community, to really fight for all of our lives." 

The clenched fist directly comes from Communism

This interview came on the wake of her disrupting the "progressive" Netroots Nation conference, despite more recently being a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders' political campaign. Despite her criticism of Biden's sponsoring unjust crime bills, Cullors has revealed that ultimately she will support Biden just as Sanders also fell behind him despite the previous criticism of him as the billionaires' candidate. Sanders' own wealth and three homes place him within the top 4% of income earners and his staffer, Kyle Jurek, was caught on camera openly praising the Soviet Gulags, calling them "reeducation" camps that he would want replicated in America, as well as calling for cities to "burn". These Marxists and their "Progressive" fellow-travelers have no fixed principles except capturing power whenever and wherever possible. Those who think they are donating to a non-profit, grassroots effort centered around a specific cause are in for a rude awakening, as BLM is linked to ActBlue, a front for donating to "progressive" political campaigns whose administrators are profiting through such organizations. 

Police brutality is merely the excuse, as we see in how quickly the mobs turned to other causes, no matter how random and bizarre their cancel culture and iconoclasm. There is no end point in their elusive demands, exactly because those interests behind the BLM only care about power - and the leaders of that organization see themselves as the intermediaries between their fellow Communists masquerading as "Progressives", if they ever get the full power they desire, and the communities over which they claim to speak in their lucrative positions as "community organizers". As we will see later, their ideological mentors descend from certain other communities. That the agenda is political can also be seen in the large number of Corporations and various celebrities jumping on their bandwagon, repeating the pre-made slogans like mantras clearly cooked up in some academic laboratories.

Cullors, Garza and Tometi, the three
founders of BLM, Marxist subversives
disguised as"community organizers"

Cullors said "who we think are the most vulnerable", meaning that her ilk set themselves up as leaders over others' discourse. They profit as community organizers. Apparently Cullors' lucrative professorships at Prescott College and Otis College of Art and Design, not to mention her countless for-profit speaking engagements, make her just the right person to speak about "equality" and "social justice". How much of their own wealth have they redistributed into those communities? Clearly they profit from perpetuating injustices, whether real or fabricated. For all their anointing themselves as spokeswomen of an impoverished and oppressed Black urban community, the founders of BLM come from comfortable middle-class backgrounds: 

"[Melina] Abdullah lives in a three-bedroom house in Crenshaw with her three children. She drives a Volvo. She’s a tenured professor and chairs the Pan-African Studies department at Cal State Los Angeles. She’s a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first black sorority. She was appointed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas to the county’s Human Relations Commission. Abdullah, in other words, has more than a toe in the American middle class. But Abdullah, who was born in East Oakland and whose dad was a union organizer and self-proclaimed Trotskyist, has chosen to immerse herself in the black working class and its struggles. She’s not unlike most of the Black Lives Matter leaders — college-educated, middle-class black women who felt compelled to fight against police violence directed at the black community."

Coming from a solidly-Marxist pedigree - daughter of a Trotskyite union boss and grand-daughter of a Marxist economics professor - Melina Abdullah, the co-founder of BLM's Los Angeles branch, has similarly profited from her professorship at Cal State LA and membership on the board of many of the city government's commissions. These "activists" have tied their interests in with city governments led by Democratic Party elites under whom the very socio-economic inequalities and the police brutality they rail against have thrived, so we have to wonder: If those issues were honestly redressed, those "activists" would immediately be out of a job, since they benefit exactly by defining each and every next "social injustice" will pop up for them to then solve under the watchful glee of their paymasters.

Cullors has direct connections to Communist
Eric Mann, whom she termed her mentor

Eric Mann, a Brooklyn Levantine, placing himself in
a leadership role over Black and Chicano communities
in Los Angeles, enabled by the likes of Cullors

On 16 January 2018, Cullors gave an interview with the marxist Democracy Now! network: "Well, I’m a trained organizer. And so, I think sometimes people think that because Black Lives Matter is the biggest thing, that that’s the first thing I ever did. And it’s not. I was trained knocking on doors, you know, getting on buses and passing out flyers and getting people to join organizations. The Labor Community Strategy Center is my first political home. It’s where I would be a part of what it’s famous for, which is the Bus Riders Union." Interviewer Juan González interjected, "Started by an old friend of mine, Eric Mann", to which Cullors confirmed: "Yes, Eric Mann. That’s my mentor."

Despite all her talk of "Black Pride" and feminism, Cullors admits that she was "trained" by an agitator from outside her community, a Jewish man from Brooklyn named Eric Mann, who has a long record with such Communist organizations as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Weather Underground terrorists. Tied to the McKay Foundation of a wealthy "philanthropist" family in San Francisco devoted to "social justice" causes, Mann's Center in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles describes itself as "an urban experiment to root grassroots organizing focusing in Black and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial anti-imperialist pro-communist resistance to the U.S. empire. We teach and study history of the Indigenous rebellions against the initial European genocidal invasions, the Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s, the Great Slave Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north as explained in W.E.B. DuBois’ Black Reconstruction in America. We appreciate the work of the U.S. Communist Party especially Black communists."

The Marxist rewriting of history is blatant in this passage, co-opting historical events that not only had nothing to do with their ideology but precedes the development of Communism. Nor will their rewriting of history say anything about the banking interests that profited from imperialism, being the very same interests that financed their beloved Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and various other Communist efforts. Mann is very much a Globalist elitist, his "urban experiment" fitting in with the communitarian language of the UN's Agenda 2030, and his involvement with the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, "where he was elected as an NGO delegate to address the UN governments to challenge the theory of 'partnerships' and 'voluntary compliance.'" This Summit build upon the work of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 that formulated Agenda 21 (since renamed Agenda 2030).

Source: Berthold M. Kuhn, "China's Commitment to
the Sustainable Development Goals," Chinese Political
Science Review, No. 3, 2018, pp. 359-388.

Mann's work has been promoted by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington, D.C.-based progressive think-tank whose start-up funding in 1963 "came from Sears heir Philip Stern, banking heir James Warburg and Fabergé cosmetics founder Samuel Rubin, later supplemented by a generous endowment from Wall Street whiz Daniel Bernstein. IPS refused to take money from the government, to be free to 'speak truth to power.'" Clearly it didn't feel the same about "speaking truth" to its Wall Street backers. Its earliest members were elite students of Marxist and Freudian theories, including social critic Marcus Raskin, sociologist David Riesman, and H. Stuart Hughes, a psychoanalyst from a wealthy political family who applied Freud's theories to the study of history. In 1983, Czech intelligence defector Ladislav Bittman, who had worked in Soviet KGB disinformation operations, accused the IPS of being one of several ostensibly "liberal" American think-tanks acting as fronts for the KGB. One of IPS's current fellows is former US intelligence officer and current Kremlin-backed Sputnik News propagandist John Kiriakou.

In 2017, the IPS awarded BLM co-founder Opal Tometi its Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, whose recipients have included a host of outright Communist activists and various Globalist connections. Credited as the mastermind behind BLM's social media activities, Tometi has spoken at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Summit, an elitist think-tank funded by the Carnegie Corporation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation, associated with SallieMae, the Big Bank profiting from student loans. The Ford Foundation is especially involved in funding BLM through its board of directors, who include many Wall Street CEOs and lobbyists. In 2016, the Ford Foundation announced it would donate $100 million over six years to Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), an umbrella group of the 14 organizations collectively called BLM, overseen by a shadowy "social justice" firm called Borealis Philanthropy. In the Ford Foundation's official announcement from the time, we see origins of the current spate of Corporations endorsing and funding the BLM movement, even down to slogans ("philanthropic allies" a precursor to "white allies"), attesting to a well-financed social engineering "experiment" by the elites rather than a grassroots effort:

"By partnering with Borealis Philanthropy, Movement Strategy Center, and Benedict Consulting to found the Black-Led Movement Fund, Ford has made six-year investments in the organizations and networks that compose the Movement for Black Lives. We also seek to complement the important work of philanthropic allies such as the Hill-Snowden Foundation, Solidaire, the NoVo Foundation, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, the Neighborhood Funders Group–Funders for Justice, Anonymous Donors, and many more. As we continue to engage with and learn from the movement, we’re eager to deepen and expand this community of social justice funders. We want to nurture bold experiments and help the movement build the solid infrastructure that will enable it to flourish." 

Susan Rosenberg, a Manhattan Jewish radical who
throughout the 70s and 80s was personally involved
in terrorist bombings by the May 19th Communist
Organization. Currently she is the vice-chair of
Thousand Currents, whose clients include BLM.

A poster of the May 19th Communist
Organization, with some of the same
current slogans and patterns as BLM.

Aside from ActBlue and Borealis Philanthropy, BLM is also a client of Thousand Currents, a non-profit that also handles administrative work for the organization. The Vice Chair of Thousand Currents' Board of Directors is Susan Rosenberg, a Manhattan Jewish radical with a long record of armed Communist subversion. She was a leading member of the May 19th Communist Organization, founded by members of the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Rosenberg was personally involved in terrorist bombings and was later imprisoned until being pardoned by Bill Clinton on his final day in office. For all her paternalistic work herding Black and Puerto Rican Marxists under her direction, Rosenberg is quite open about her Jewish identity including a surprising tie-in with the supremacist Chabad movement:

"Although both her parents come from Orthodox Jewish homes, for the most part they led secular lives. Since her imprisonment, Susan Rosenberg's reaffirmation of her Jewish identity is, she says, connected to the 'profound' anti-Semitism she has encountered in prison and at the hands of law enforcement officials....'Anti-Semitism in prison is really extreme," she says, "more so than I ever experienced growing up in New York. This has really pushed me along, along with my own internal processes, to fight very hard to be a Jew in prison.' Rabbi Sholom Kalmanson, director of the Chabad House in Cincinnati, often visited Rosenberg in his capacity as Jewish chaplain at Lexington. The Rabbi was the only visitor allowed other than her parents for 14 months." (Merle Hoffman, "America's Most Dangerous Woman?" On The Issues Magazine, Vol. 13, 1989)

Also open about her own identity is BLM co-founder Alicia Garza, a paid "expert" of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), an organization funded to the tune of $50 million by billionaire George Soros. Even though Garza called for "abolishing capitalism" and "building a left" at the 2015 Left Forum, apparently she has no problem with the likes of a "progressive philanthropist" like Soros. Along with his fellow venture capitalist Rob McKay, Soros is one of the leading financiers behind the Democracy Alliance, which has also funded BLM. His Open Society Foundation recently announced it would funnel "$220 million in emerging organizations and leaders building power in Black communities across the country."

Garza is one such "leader", already profiting through her position on the Board of Directors of the School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL). She also runs the National Domestic Workers Alliance, whose Board includes Alta Starr, who oversees a fund at the Ford Foundation and was an "advisor" for Open Society Foundation's Southern Initiative. Even a socialist website exposed how a leaked document from the October 2015 board meeting of US Programs/Open Society revealed the organization would provide $650,000 "to invest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement." From its inception, the hashtag corporate movement has been well-funded by various oligarchs, and led by Marxist "community organizers" who want to direct any community efforts for themselves - and profit in the process. Their talks about "capitalism" is actually about opposing free enterprise, their oligarch and banking backers seeing it as a threat from their own monopolies. Nor does it stop the likes of these BLM leaders from profit as I've shown throughout.

Garza with the founders of BLM-Toronto

The privileged co-founder of BLM Toronto, 
Yusra Khogali's Facebook post from 2015.

The hypocrisy is pronounced with BLM Toronto, whose website defines its purpose as "to dismantle all forms of state-sanctioned oppression, violence and brutality committed against African, Caribbean, and Black cis, queer, trans, and disabled populations in Toronto." Its claims to speak on behalf of these communities is disputed and some from those communities have pointed out BLM Toronto's elitism and lack of transparency. Its co-founder is Janaya Khan, married to Cullors, who profits from her speaking engagements. As program director for the nonprofit Color of Change, she seems more concerned about political campaigns and cancel culture. I cannot underscore how much BLM is an authoritarian Marxist group more concerned with its "intersectionality" dogma, using issues such as police brutality and "systemic racism" as an excuse for their own ideological power.

BLM Toronto member Sandra Hudson left her job as executive director of UofT's student union with a $277,508 severance deal, which she believed to be too little. Even while denouncing "Canadian state-sanctioned anti-blackness" (ignoring the same Canada that served as a beacon of freedom for thousands of escaped Black American slaves in the 1800s, as well as giving asylum to her own Sudanese refugee parents), BLM Toronto co-founder Yusra Khogali received a government-sanctioned "Young Women in Leadership Award" in 2018 and has enjoyed a platform to speak at Canada's state-funded universities. Khogali is the same individual known for her supremacist anti-white posts, which has never been disavowed by the privileged founders and leaders of BLM. For that matter, these self-professed Marxists ignore the racism of their ultimate ideological forerunner, Karl Marx.