BLM co-founder blasts financial disclosures as ‘triggering’ and ‘unsafe’

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As the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation comes under scrutiny over its purchase of a $5.8 million Los Angeles mansion, co-founder Patrisse Cullors blasted standard financial disclosure forms as “triggering” and “unsafe.”

“It is such a trip to hear the term ‘990,’” Cullors said during an event Friday, according to the Washington Examiner. She was referring to IRS Form 990, which charities are required to file every year to disclose their financial activities.

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“I’m like, ugh. It’s, like, triggering,” she added, saying that she “actually did not know” what the form was before “all this happened.”

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“This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is literally being weaponized against us, against the people we work with,” Cullors said, seeming to allege that people within the BLM organization have been “attacked and scrutinized” for their financial activities. “People’s morale in an organization is so important,” she said.

“But if their organization and the people in it are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout. That leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma.”

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