Just one day after wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt to a Paris Fashion Week presentation alongside commentator Candace Owens, Music icon Kanye West called the Black Lives Matter movement “a scam.” This is what West wrote on Instagram: “Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam now its [sic] over you’re welcome.”
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As various investigations have revealed, the Black Lives Matter national organization has been plagued by scandal, as its leaders have used donations to enrich themselves, rather than better struggling African-American communities.
In response to the corruption allegations, a number of state and local BLM chapters have disaffiliated from the national organization, and the parents of several black men killed by police have criticized the organization for fundraising off of their trauma without sharing the resulting donations, said National Review. Read more