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 not one of the victims had seen a dime of the cash. Primarily based on her analysis, she discovered that the cash had gone to plenty of non-profit organizations.
Now, the Washington Free Beacon has finished a fair deeper dive into the difficulty and it appears to be like even worse. A number of the non-profits that obtained this cash have completely nothing to do with the difficulty 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, as an example, 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.
“To be able to qualify for a grant by way of Greenline Housing Basis, candidates have to be a Black or Hispanic individual,” 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 obtained 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 individuals” and “primarily serving Black individuals.”
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 individuals in regards to the optimistic adjustments which are potential when individuals come collectively to finish violence and meet the wants of Black and Brown communities.”
Different teams which have obtained cash by way of FireAid supply 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 offers the media one thing to speak about concerning Newsom with out having to deal with this scandal.
It actually appears to be like like FireAid was nothing greater than a progressive rip-off on the donors to the occasion.
