Michael Brown Sr., father of the teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2014, and Ferguson organizer Tony Russell made the call after a report that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMG) earned the shocking amount of over $90 million in 2020.
Brown explained that he’s only got $500 from Black Lives Matter. He wants much more.
“Why hasn’t my family’s foundation received any assistance from the movement?” Brown asked in a statement this week. “How could you leave the families who are helping the community without any funding?”
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Brown appeared in a video beside Tory Russell, the organizer for the International Black Freedom Alliance.
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Russell, portraying himself as speaking on behalf of numerous activists in the St. Louis area, announced he and Brown want to “hold Black Lives Matter accountable.”
“The movement that has catapulted to the limelight has forgotten about Ferguson and the freedom fighters,” he stated. “What kind of movement are we building where we’re saying ‘black lives matter’ but the freedom fighters and their families are being left behind?”
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“We’re asking that Black Lives Matter leadership funds $20 million for Ferguson organizers, organizations, and community foundations to do the work. We’re not begging for a handout. We’re coming for what we deserve,” he continued.
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The funds would be used for annual commemorations for Brown Jr., mutual assistance programs, “Black Panther-style” programs, farming, and opposing white supremacy.
The global network didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The demand appeared after BLM leaders opened up about the financial earnings with the Associated Press, including the fact they brought in more than $90 million last year, as demonstrations and riots took place across the nation after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Corporations, lawmakers, and others showed support for the movement, even as others doubted its goals and tactics and the history of its founders, two of whom are self-described Marxists, or communists.
In an impact report, the network announced it has committed $21. 7 million in funding to both formal and informal Black Lives Matter chapters, in addition to 30 organizations led by black people.
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The network closed 2020 with a balance of more than $60 million.
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Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors told the Associated Press that the network’s foundation is centered on a “need to reinvest into black communities.”
“One of our biggest goals this year is taking the dollars we were able to raise in 2020 and building out the institution we’ve been trying to build for the last seven and a half years,” added Cullors, who signed a production deal with Warner Bros. in October 2020.
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