Ep. 624 - Families in Buffalo have not seen a dime of the money donated for them
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This makes my blood boil. Even though millions of dollars was given to GoFundMe to support the families of victims in Buffalo, an organization thousands of miles away, that has nothing to do with Buffalo, is lording over the money and is saying it might be as late as December before anyone gets it.
This organization should never be allowed to do this again. Had we all known better in the moment, we would've stopped them then and there. Moving forward, we MUST make sure that families have direct control of the money being raised for them.
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| 0:30.4 | Today is one of those days where I had to wait like an extra 45 minutes to record this podcast, |
| 0:36.8 | because all I had to say was, was, uh, cuss words and violence. |
| 0:43.2 | Ha, ha, ha. |
| 0:44.0 | I had to let my blood pressure level out a little bit. |
| 0:48.8 | Because millions and millions of dollars was given to help families of the victims of the white |
| 0:56.1 | supremacist, terrorist attack, and buffalo low. |
| 0:59.5 | And those families, unbeknownst to any of us, |
| 1:03.2 | those families haven't received a penny of it. |
| 1:05.6 | Not a single penny. |
| 1:07.2 | Millions of dollars was given on-go fund me. |
| 1:10.2 | And it's being managed by an organization called the National Compassion Fund. |
| 1:17.4 | And now they're saying a month later that not only can the families not have the money this month, |
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