Ep. 640 - The same organization that STILL refuses to give Buffalo victims millions of dollars is holding $14 million for Uvalde. And families are PISSED.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
My blood is BOILING. And I cannot believe that the same sorry ass organization that is still holding millions of dollars that people gave to victims in Buffalo is now holding $14 million for families in Uvalde and REFUSING to distribute it.
Please. Whatever you do. DO NOT WORK WITH THE NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND. It is an almost exclusively white organization in suburban Virginia. They either do not understand the unique struggles of Black and Brown communities or do not care. And in both Buffalo and Uvalde they have left devastated families that desperately needed financial support without a dime.
And then heaped more pain and frustration on top of it all.
They are now saying it's going to be November, at the earliest, until they give any money that was raised to victims in Uvalde. And I don't care what they say. IT DOES NOT TAKE THIS LONG. It should not take this long. I have literally spoken with them and told them this myself. I told them exactly what they need to do to speed up the process and better distribute the funds to families. And they refuse to do any of it.
Now, families of victims in Buffalo and Uvalde are literally already going back to work. And many are on the brink of financial ruin, while this organization continues to give ridiculous excuses on why they can't speed things up.
ACTION STEP: Please email Jeff@NationalCompassion.org and let him know how you feel about this.
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| 0:26.4 | Superkins on Global Player. I've already had to talk about this once, and after the |
| 0:34.5 | white supremacist attack on a grocery store in Buffalo, an organization almost exclusively |
| 0:43.2 | led by white people in suburban Virginia called the National Compassion Fund. Basically steered |
| 0:53.6 | all of the fundraising for Buffalo victims to their fund. Now people in Buffalo right away |
| 1:01.1 | raised a red flag to say, hold on, I don't even know these people. Who are these people? Why are we |
| 1:06.8 | giving them money? What is this all about? And millions and millions of dollars went to this fund |
| 1:16.2 | overseen by a group called the National Compassion Fund in Virginia. And they've been telling people |
| 1:22.7 | that it was going to at first, it was going to be weeks than months, then several months, |
| 1:27.1 | then maybe six months, then maybe it'll be 2023 in the meantime. And here's the thing. |
| 1:33.8 | Here's the rub. And I'll talk about you, Valdi, and what's starting to unfold here in just a second. |
| 1:40.5 | This this organization and this fund has its roots and origins in working with a lot of white |
| 1:49.7 | people who have money and can wait a few weeks or a few months or a year to receive the funds. |
| 2:00.4 | But both the community in Buffalo and the community in Valdi that was deeply impacted, |
| 2:08.2 | those communities can't wait. They need that money right away. And so what we've seen in Buffalo |
| 2:16.0 | is the is the exact same thing we're seeing in you, Valdi. In both Buffalo and you, Valdi, |
| 2:23.0 | millions of dollars in you, Valdi, $14 million is sitting in a bank waiting for these families. |
| 2:31.9 | They're having to go back to work. Mothers and fathers whose children were literally |
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