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The [[Gateway Pundit]] exposed Black Lives Matter as a [[money laundering]] scheme for the [[Democratic National Committee]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/</ref> When you click on the “Donate” button on blacklivesmatter.com you are sent to “ActBlue”, the DNC official payment portal.
The [[Gateway Pundit]] exposed Black Lives Matter as a [[money laundering]] scheme for the [[Democratic National Committee]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/</ref> When you click on the “Donate” button on blacklivesmatter.com you are sent to “ActBlue”, the DNC official payment portal.
ActBlue claims to be tax exempt organization and all donations to it are tax-deductable. The terms and conditions also link to ActBlue and mention “Campaign Finance Laws”.<ref>https://secure.actblue.com/content/fineprint</ref> When you research the expenditures of ActBlue, all of their contributions are directly going to top DNC campaigns.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00401224&cycle=2020</ref> After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a “[[Defund The Police]]” petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue. [[Joe Biden]] is a top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police/</ref> ActBlue contributions comprise 99.64 percent of all funds raised for the “[[Biden for President]]” entity and the total is nearly 773 times greater than the group with the second-highest donation sum. As of May 21, 2020, the organization has donated $119,253,857 to the “Biden for President” effort.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=c00401224&cycle=2020</ref>
ActBlue claims to be tax exempt organization and all donations to it are tax-deductable. The terms and conditions also link to ActBlue and mention “Campaign Finance Laws”.<ref>https://secure.actblue.com/content/fineprint</ref> When you research the expenditures of ActBlue, all of their contributions are directly going to top DNC campaigns.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00401224&cycle=2020</ref> After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a “[[Defund The Police]]” petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue. [[Joe Biden]] is a top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police/</ref> ActBlue contributions comprise 99.64 percent of all funds raised for the “[[Biden for President]]” entity and the total is nearly 773 times greater than the group with the second-highest donation sum. As of May 21, 2020, the organization has donated $119,253,857 to the “Biden for President” effort.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=c00401224&cycle=2020</ref>
==Criticism==
[[File:BLM-Women's March.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Black Lives Matter|BLM]] / [[Women's March]] [[misogynist]]s beat a female Trump supporter.<ref>Two references:*[https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-trump-supporter-hospitalized-by-black-lives-matter-thugs-at-womens-march/ EXCLUSIVE: Trump Supporter Hospitalized By Black Lives Matter Thugs At Women’s March]<br>*[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/womens-marchers-rally-womens-rights-washington-dc-stomp-beat-choke-punch-female-trump-supporter/ Women’s Marchers Rally for Women’s Rights in Washington DC — Then Stomp, Beat, Choke and Punch Female Trump Supporter]</ref>]]
Critics ask why Black lives only matter when they are taken by a white person, but not when a Black person is murdered by another Black person, and if that isn't [[discrimination]]. Many African American critics and victims of [[crime]] refer to the organization as Black Lies Matter due to its lack of concern over innocent child murder victims of random violence and drive-by shootings in Black neighborhoods.
In July, 2021 BLM came under fire for supporting oppressive cruel Cuban regime.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marxist-black-lives-matter-cuba-communists-marion-smith Marion Smith: Marxist Black Lives Matter – here's why it supports Cuba's communists over the protesters]
''BLM cares more about advancing Marxism than protecting Black and Brown people.''
Marion Smith, Fox News, July 19 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1169239980/black-lives-matter-onder-vuur-om-steun-aan-cubaans-politiegeweld Black Lives Matter under fire for supporting 'Cuban police brutality'] Telegraaf.nl,
July 16, 2021.
''In the US, a storm of criticism has erupted against Black Lives Matter (BLM) as the movement appears to have sided with the Cuban communist regime in the protests in Cuba...''
https://mobile.twitter.com/telegraaf/status/1415975118636044293</ref><ref name=ridge/>
Even a lefty criticized the BLM stand in face of rampant anti black racism in Cuba and that the main victims in the 2021 [Libertad] uprising have been disproportionately blacks. And that the BLM have only used Cuba.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/black-lives-matter-misses-point-about-cuba/619471/ Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba], Jorge Felipe Gonzalez, ''The Atlantic'', July 17, 2021.
The country is not an empty canvas onto which Americans can project their political ideas.</ref>
===Controversies===
People who value all human life advocated #alllivesmatter as a more appropriate slogan. They argue that people should care about Trayvon Martin and other victims because they are human beings without regard to their race. Many people believe that the social problems resulting in these deaths are too complex to discuss as hashtags and would prefer a more reasoned dialogue.<ref>Ann Coulter reported: "In 2008, the most recent year for which such data seems to have been collected, FBI surveys show that, out of 520,161 interracial violent crimes, blacks committed 429,444 of them against whites, while whites committed 90,717 of them against blacks. In other words, blacks commit more than 80 percent of all interracial violent crime." (June 24, 2015). [http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2015-06-24.html "There's a reason we mostly hear about white 'micro-aggressions'"]. Ann Coulter website.</ref> During a 2015 televised [[Presidential debates 2016|Democratic candidate debate]], the moderator asked each candidate to pick either #blacklivesmatter or #alllivesmatter, with all the candidates picking #blacklivesmatter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-lives-matter-democratic-debate_us_561da706e4b050c6c4a35bb1|work=Huffington Post|title=The Future Democratic Presidential Nominee Thinks Black Lives Matter|date=October 14, 2016|accessdate=}}</ref>
In September 2015, the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]-front [[Council on American Islamic Relations]] (CAIR) joined BLM activists in storming California Governor [[Jerry Brown]]’s office. CAIR also participated in the Ferguson protests.
The "Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matter" booked a meeting room in the local library for the public meetings of the group. However, the group excluded whites from attending their meetings. Some people complained and the library said it would enforce its rule allowing the public and media to attend. The meetings moved to a local church with whites continued to be excluded.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson%20/2016/02/19/black-lives-matter-color-only-rule-runs-afoul-nashville-library/80606970/|title=Black Lives Matter 'color-only' rule runs afoul of Nashville library|work=The Tennesseean|date=February 19, 2016|accessdate=}}</ref>
On February 18, 2016, Barack Obama invited a number of civil rights leaders to meet with him and included Aislinn Pulley, a leader of "Black Lives Matter Chicago." Pulley rejected Obama's invitation and did not attend the meeting.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/politics/obama-civil-rights-leaders-meeting/index.html|title=Obama meets with civil rights leaders -- minus Black Lives Matter|date=Feb. 18, 2016|accessdate=|work=CNN|first=Kevin |last=Liptak}}</ref>
[[File:Floyd Mural.jpg|left|350px|thumb|George Floyd Mural destroyed by ligthening in [[Toledo, Ohio]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/mural-honoring-george-floyd-toledo-ohio-destroyed-lightning-strike/</ref>]]
In February 2016, some [[Facebook]] employees wrote #blacklivesmatter on community whiteboards at their company headquarters. Other employees crossed out that slogan and replaced it with "all lives matter." In response, [[Mark Zuckerberg]] sent a memo to Facebook employees ordering them to stop it, in contradiction of the policy that these boards were supposed to be "free speech zones." Zuckerburg wrote, " 'Black lives matter' doesn't mean other lives don't -- it's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve." Two percent of Facebook employees are black.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zuckerberg-tells-workers-not-to-cross-out-black-lives-matter/|title=Zuckerberg tells workers not to cross out "Black Lives Matter"|date=Feb. 25, 2016|work=CBS News|accessdate=}}</ref>
On February 29, 2016, [[Donald Trump]] held a rally that was disrupted by Black Lives Matter protestors. Trump responded that "all lives matter."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/politics/donald-trump-event-protest-rally/index.html|title=Photographer: Secret Service agent choked me at a Trump rally|date=Feb. 29, 2016|work=CNN|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-students-trump-rally-georgia_us_56d501c2e4b0871f60ec98ba|title=Black Students Removed From Trump Rally In Georgia|date=Feb. 29, 2016|accessdate=|work=Huffington Post}}</ref>
In response to a tragic death of a police officer in the line of duty, the hashtag #bluelivesmatter was circulated. In response, ''Village Voice'' has tried to mockingly make light of it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/twitter-trolls-bluelivesmatter-with-meme-featuring-smurfs-the-navi-and-tobias-f-nke-6702309|title=Twitter Trolls #BlueLivesMatter With Meme Featuring Smurfs, the Na'vi, and Tobias Fünke|work=Village Voice|date=December 16, 2016|accessdate=}}</ref>
In July 2016, 21 police were injured by rocks, steel pipes, and fireworks during a demonstration in [[St. Paul]], Minnesota, where rioters illegally shut down the interstate for five hours. One officer suffered a spinal fracture after a concrete block was dropped on his head.
Black Lives Matter activists reportedly harassed police and engaged in violent behavior during a major protest in August 2018.<ref>Binder, John (August 12, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/12/watch-blm-activist-antagonizes-black-policeman-you-must-be-a-member-of-ku-klux-klan/ Watch – BLM Activist Antagonizes Black Policeman: ‘You Must Be a Member’ of Ku Klux Klan]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Binder, John (August 12, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/12/watch-black-lives-matter-activists-surround-cars-attack-drivers-back-the-fck-up/ Watch – Black Lives Matter Activists Surround Cars, Attack Drivers: ‘Back the F*ck Up!’] ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 13, 2018.</ref>
In March 2021 it was reported that Black Lives Matter leader Terry Joe Wilson, a white man who allegedly is a faculty member at Boise State University and the school’s Black Lives Matter chapter spokesman, was arrested for smearing paint and feces on a statue of Abraham Lincoln.<ref>https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/black-lives-matter-leader-vandalizes-abraham-lincoln-statue-using-feces/</ref> Abraham Lincoln signed the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] in 1863, freeing the slaves.
==Organization and history==
==Organization and history==