Episode 149 - Black Tithes Matter
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This week, Brie interviewed Sean Campbell, author of a viral story criticizing the murky finances of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. After raising 90 million dollars during 2020, at least 60 million remains undistributed and unaccounted for, and local organizers feel abandoned and/or undermined by national leadership. As BLM's national leadership distanced itself from radical protesting and embraced corporate partnerships with UGG and Levis, local leader struggle to pay rent, and some of the families of the slain Black Americans whose tragic deaths sparked the movement feel dismissed. Meanwhile, most mainstream outlets have declined to devote resources to investigative reporting on this issue, and Campbell has been smeared as "racist" and "sexist" for simply following the paper trail. Here Campbell explain why he pursued this story, what he uncovered, and how you can support local BLM organizers.
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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | milli comedy |
| 0:24.3 | I'm very glad to have with me on Bad Faith Podcast today, Sean Campbell. |
| 0:39.1 | Sean is an investigative journalist and an adjunct professor at Columbia School of |
| 0:43.0 | Journalism. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome Sean. |
| 0:45.0 | Thank you, Rhonda. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:47.0 | So I wanted to talk to you today because I read your recent investigative piece. |
| 0:51.9 | And specifically, I came to it by reading your tweet introducing the piece, which I will |
| 0:57.4 | now read into the record you wrote. |
| 0:59.8 | This has been one of the hardest stories I've done as a black man raised by a single |
| 1:03.5 | black mother who has had police guns trained on him. |
| 1:05.9 | I never expected the insinuation that I was, quote, racist, unquote sexist. |
| 1:10.1 | Then when I worked in this piece with the New York Mag, that was the beginning of a |
| 1:13.9 | 10 tweet thread. |
| 1:15.7 | So I'm sure all the listeners are waiting with Bated Breath to hear what this piece was |
| 1:20.0 | about. |
| 1:21.0 | What got you as a hot water shot? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | So I worked on a story that essentially looked into the finances of the Black Lives Matter |
| 1:30.1 | Global Network Foundation. |
| 1:32.1 | This is the entity that most people really picture when they think of Black Lives Matter |
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