After the wildfires of California earlier this 12 months, leaders within the state joined with plenty 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 plenty of non-profit organizations.
Now, the Washington Free Beacon has achieved a good deeper dive into the difficulty and it seems to be even worse. A few of the non-profits that obtained this cash have completely nothing to do with the difficulty of fireside restoration and even base their help on race.
From the Free Beacon:
FireAid introduced in February that it will distribute the cash it raised “equitably,” a promise it seems to have saved. Greenline Housing Basis, as an illustration, obtained funds from a $4.8 million pool devoted to well being and housing. It famous on its web site that no whites want apply.
“With a purpose to qualify for a grant via Greenline Housing Basis, candidates have to be a Black or Hispanic individual,” the group acknowledged…
The identical is true for the Black Freedom Fund, a Black Lives Matter-era nonprofit devoted to preventing “systemic racism” and selling “Black power-building.” The group—which obtained cash from a $7.6 million pool devoted to “catastrophe aid”—acknowledged in a 2023 grant proposal doc that it will solely help teams “led and managed by Black folks” and “primarily serving Black folks.”
My Tribe Rise, which additionally obtained money from that pool, has an analogous mission. Based in 2019, the group states that its mission is “to take the stigma out of gangs and to coach folks concerning the constructive adjustments which are potential when folks come collectively to finish violence and meet the wants of Black and Brown communities.”
Different teams which have obtained cash via FireAid provide help to unlawful aliens inside California.
That is disgraceful, and it’s additionally why Gavin Newsom would moderately 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.