Get woke, go broke? Not this time.
Posted at 6pm UK time
Patrisse Cullors, who describes herself as a Marxist, has decided to resign from her position within Black Lives Matter, which she founded in the United States in 2013. She had recently been widely criticised for the $3 million property portfolio she had amassed, including a $1.4 million house in Malibu.
This must all be terribly embarrassing to the metropolitan liberals who have been so sympathetic to the group’s aims that they have brushed aside the fact its ethos is a weird and ugly melange of French postmodernism, Marxism, and Nation of Islam. However, at least they now have an exception to the rule ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’.