Corporate America has donated a whopping $82 billion and counting to the Black Lives Matter movement and related causes, according to the Claremont Institute’s latest database tracking the flow of money to woke groups.
The BLM Funding Database is a part of Claremont’s American Way of Life project. In a column announcing the new tool, Claremont stated that the $82.9 billion given so far “includes more than $123 million to the BLM parent organizations directly. These figures, while shocking, likely underrepresent the true magnitude of the shakedown as some companies failed to make known their contributions, and many BLM organizations remain unknown.”
In wake of the George Floyd riots and thousands who rioted in 2020, a slew of groups cashed in on Corporate America’s willingness to bow to the mob. The resulting financial haul for such organizations is indeed astonishing. For example, BlackRock has pledged $810 million to these groups.
“Blackrock instituted a $10M action plan,…