MSNBC Whitewashes BLM Scandal: Nothing To See Here
On MSNBC's Saturday morning show, Tiffany Cross and her cohorts tried to defend BLM by claiming that the 'story' about tax fraud and the misuse of donor funds was hatched by "the right". A blatant lie and she knows it. New York Magazine, a deeply liberal newspaper, was the one to actually break the story. The only thing that the right-wing media has done is cover it.
Facts mean nothing at MSNBC so Cross began her lie by saying, "This story, that Black Lives Matter organization spent $6 million in donations on what they call a creator's house, and of course, the right has taken that and run with it. As we see black bodies continue to be harmed. They'd rather talk about that."
Alicia Garza added, "there's a bigger context here for a lot of us to understand in relationship to some of these stories and attacks that we see on the movement. While Patrice as a leader in the Black Lives Matter Global Network as an organization has certainly been at the center of some of these stories, this is actually intended to do two things as it relates to the popularity and effectiveness of this movement. It's intended to discredit this movement, and delegitimize this movement."
She continued, "and if we're able to do that, right, then we're able to do what the right has been trying to do for a long time. They've been trying to unravel a lot of the victories that we've won over the past two decades."
According to Garza, we are all just trying to "delegitimize" BLM.
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TIFFANY CROSS: This story, that Black Lives Matter organization spent $6 million in donations on what they call a creator's house, and of course, the right has taken that and run with it. As we see black bodies continue to be harmed. They'd rather talk about that.
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ALICIA GARZA: There's a bigger context here for a lot of us to understand in relationship to some of these stories and attacks that we see on the movement. While Patrice as a leader in the Black Lives Matter Global Network as an organization has certainly been at the center of some of these stories, this is actually intended to do two things as it relates to the popularity and effectiveness of this movement. It's intended to discredit this movement, and delegitimize this movement.
And if we're able to do that, right, then we're able to do what the right has been trying to do for a long time. They've been trying to unravel a lot of the victories that we've won over the past two decades.
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There are messages that are being put forward every single day by the right that are really trying to delegitimize, right, some of the victories that we've won to really represent America in a different way.
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CROSS: Right. And I want to say, I see our lower-third saying it was a secret house. I'm not sure how secret it was. I think in organizations sometimes, people, you know—depends on who you have running them—don't always know how to properly file paperwork . . . One of my challenges around this story was just shoddy journalism, the way the story was written. You're a journalist you've done, you know, reporting like this, I wonder how much research went into this, quite frankly?
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If you're so quick to hop off the bandwagon at this point, I wonder: were you ever really down with Black Lives Matter in the first place? Were you looking for an excuse to escape? I have to say, there were two NPR reporters, Alicia and I talked about this a little bit, who apologized because: we just have to apologize about the Black Lives Matter movement as the story came out. They happened to be two black reporters.
Now, Alicia and I were wondering: you're apologizing on behalf of whom, and to who, and who asked you? How are you in a position to apologize on anything?
So, this story should not overshadow the fact that black bodies continue to be harmed, and fall.
H/T NewBusters