After the wildfires of California earlier this 12 months, leaders within the state joined with a lot of Hollywood celebrities and well-known musicians and did a fundraiser occasion referred to as ‘FireAid’ that managed to boost $100 million which they claimed would go on to the victims.
A number of weeks in the past, an impartial journalist did a deep dive into the funds and located that none of the victims had seen a dime of the money. Based mostly on her analysis, she discovered that the cash had gone to a lot of non-profit organizations.
Now, the Washington Free Beacon has performed a fair deeper dive into the problem and it seems to be even worse. A few of the non-profits that acquired this cash have completely nothing to do with the problem of fireplace restoration and even base their help on race.
From the Free Beacon:
FireAid introduced in February that it might distribute the cash it raised “equitably,” a promise it seems to have saved. Greenline Housing Basis, for example, acquired funds from a $4.8 million pool devoted to well being and housing. It famous on its web site that no whites want apply.
“To be able to qualify for a grant by Greenline Housing Basis, candidates should be a Black or Hispanic particular person,” the group said…
The identical is true for the Black Freedom Fund, a Black Lives Matter-era nonprofit devoted to combating “systemic racism” and selling “Black power-building.” The group—which acquired cash from a $7.6 million pool devoted to “catastrophe reduction”—said in a 2023 grant proposal doc that it might solely help teams “led and managed by Black folks” and “primarily serving Black folks.”
My Tribe Rise, which additionally acquired money from that pool, has an identical mission. Based in 2019, the group states that its mission is “to take the stigma out of gangs and to teach folks concerning the optimistic adjustments which can be attainable when folks come collectively to finish violence and meet the wants of Black and Brown communities.”
Different teams which have acquired cash by FireAid supply help to unlawful aliens inside California.
That is disgraceful, and it’s additionally why Gavin Newsom would quite spend his time trolling Trump on Twitter/X, as a result of that provides the media one thing to speak about concerning Newsom with out having to deal with this scandal.
It actually seems to be like FireAid was nothing greater than a progressive rip-off on the donors to the occasion.
