By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2025-03-14 18:13:23 | Updated at 2025-03-15 00:40:13
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The recent Lil Yachty BLM scam remark is 100% correct: the shady group spent millions on luxury property and private jets.
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Lil Yachty gets it: The hip-hop sensation recently said in a YouTube interview that neo-Marxist terror group Black Lives Matter is a scam.
His host, social-media superstar Quenlin Blackwell, was taken aback.
But Yachty, correctly, doubled down, saying “BLM was literally a scam” and citing the fact that its leadership “had bought mansions” using the tens of millions donated to the antisemitic, anti-white, anti-American syndicate.
A quick recap: The group played a huge role in supercharging the 2020 George Floyd riots and came to the forefront during the Great Awokening, when mega-corporations paid it massive danegeld and politicos LITERALLY genuflected to its cause.
It even got more than $30,000 in taxpayer bucks from a Small Business Administration loan, despite the fact that at least one member of the group defended looting as a form of “reparations.”
But investigative reporting (including by The Post’s own Isabel Vincent) revealed that the group had spent at least $12 million on luxury properties, handed out huge payments to friends instead of allied grassroots orgs and even dropped tens of thousands on private flights for head Patrisse Cullors over “security” fears.
It also paid a company owned by Damion Turner, the father of Cullors’ child, almost a cool million, nearly five times as much as it gave the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
After these ugly revelations, the group shrieked “racism” and went into a tailspin as all of its shady practices, including a total lack of transparency and a suspicious failure to file necessary financial documents, came to light.
Its support among the rich and famous dwindled; now the left is in full “pretend it never happened” mode.
So Yachty deserves double credit.
Both for stating the obvious — that BLM stole from the people it was supposed to be helping — and for making its few remaining supporters own that fact.
