“Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA enclave”…
…is the title of this article in the NY Post:
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the leader of Black Lives Matter and a self-described Marxist, recently purchased a $1.4 million home in an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood where the vast majority of residents are white, according to reports.
The home, which features three bedrooms and three bathrooms, is nestled in Topanga Canyon and has a separate guesthouse on the property, according to a celebrity real estate blog which reported the transaction last week.
The property, which is about a 15 minute drive from Malibu beaches, features bamboo floors and vaulted ceilings, according to the listing…
Black Lives Matter, which began as hashtag in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, took in more than $90 million last year and was at the forefront of protests across the country last year after the death of George Floyd in May.
Khan-Cullors, 37, signed a multi-platform deal with Warner Bros in October, although it is not clear how much she is paid by BLM since their finances flow through a complex web of for-profit and nonprofit corporate entities.
But isn’t Khan-Cullors just following in the illustrious footsteps of Soviet predecessors, who had their dachas in the country?
Also, in Topanga Canyon, Khan-Cullors probably will be safe from any riots. It’s fairly rural and secluded out there. Quite lovely, too. I’ve been there many times over the years, including way back when it was mostly a hippy retreat.
One thing that puzzles me about this Post story, though, is that, from what I know of LA area real estate, 1.4 million dollars won’t odinarily get you a whole lot these days. A nice house, yes. But no sort of luxury palace.
In LA, $1.4 million for a house is a nothingburger. My aunt and uncle bought a house near the Santa Monica Airport for $8,000 in the early 1950s, and sold it for $45,000 in 1975. It is a standard stucco 3 bedroom suburban tract house- no big deal. It is now worth $2 million, though some of that increase is due to a second story being added. Without the second story, maybe $1.5 million.
Though she purchased a house at a run-of-the-mill LA price, $1.4 million is still a lot of money. One more time, I am reminded of Tom Lehrer: The Old Dope Peddler.
I bet she feels she deserves all that money for all the good she has been doing.
Black Live$ Matter,or is that Black Lie$ Matter?
It is certainly extremely nice without being as ostentatious as the mansions in nearby Malibu. Many pictures are available at Dirt.com, and one might be encouraged at the tone of most of the commenters, who seem very much aware that BLM not only behaves as a group of domestic terrorists (burning, looting, and murdering), but also operates as a racket, with numerous race-baiting charlatans and race-hustling grifters amassing large amounts of unmerited lucre from the usual suspects, such as Soros and Dorsey, as well as from much of “woke” capitalism. “Resistance” to the “man” and to the “system” pays very, very well indeed.
Sow the wind reap the whirlwind, Patrice.
Your last point is taken. That house is in upper-middle class territory, but not in the realm of “rich”.
Nevertheless, it does demonstrate that the anti-racist business pays pretty well… enough to work hard at creating the perception of racism where none exists.
That is not a high price for west LA. When I was a surgery resident in the 60s, I bought a small house in South Pasadena. It has three bedrooms and one bath, is 1800 square feet and the lot is 50 x 100.
Current price according to Zillow, $1.6 million.
When I moved to Orange County, I sold it for the price I had bought it. I kicked myself for years at not keeping it as a rental. Monthly payments $204.
I wonder if she’d be pissed if somebody burned it down?
I don’t recall all the details of the real estate listing, but I do remember there are two buildings on the land, one 3 BR 2 BA, and the other a converted barn that is 1 BR and 1 bath. The lot itself is smaller than many properties in that neck of the woods — IIRC, measured in square feet, not parts of an acre. Good neighborhood, but not much of a property.
Ralph:
Burn Black Bitter?
Since this thread discusses property in Topanga Canyon, and this blog discusses music in addition to politics, I am reminded of a a book I once read: David McGowan’s Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream.From a Goodreads review: The musicians who congregated in Laurel Canyon
He includes Monkee Peter Tork, who definitely was in Laurel Canyon. Tork’s father doesn’t quite fit the military/espionage template. His father, Halsten John Thorkelson, like most males of his age, had been in the military during WW2. No big deal. But after WW2 Peter Tork’s father strays from the author’s military/espionage template, as his father was an Economics professor whose obituary suggested that in lieu of flowers, people contribute to an obscure Marxist library in Oakland.
The book was at least entertaining.
Remember that Reverend Wright, after decades of white hate, bought a home in Hinsdale, IL that is 95% white. They know where the safe neighborhoods are.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. . . . After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
–-Jesse Jackson
The NY Post reports:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/
See? Crime does pay. As the Biden crime family has already demonstrated. You just have to have the right connections.
Geoffrey – I wonder if BLM is strategically investing their proceeds as a tax dodge and to keep them out of the hands of the black people they are fund-raising off of?
In addition to being the usual “socialist” grifters (“from each according to his gullibility, to us according to our needs” – AF)
As usual, the Brits have the best press, including biographical details and more pictures.
Nice place; I wouldn’t mind living there if it was in Texas instead of California.
It would be cheaper, too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9456145/Shell-pick-white-people-complain-BLM-founder-buys-1-4M-LA-home.html
She will “amplify” the same way Arianna Huffington did at HuffPost.
I ran across this useful post looking for more on BLM’s fund-raising.
There is a lot of generally useful information for making sure your donations to anything end up where you want them to go.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/people-donated-millions-of-dollars-to-the-wrong-black-lives-matter-foundation-read-this-before-you-give-to-any-charity-2020-07-01
Yes of course it’s true that $1.4M doesn’t get you much house in CA. But the flip side of this is that the exorbitant housing prices in California have largely driven out black folks.
California is only around 6% black, compared to 13% nationwide. Oakland used to be a bastion of black culture and over half the population was black. Now it is barely over 20%. So CA libs can virtue signal from afar.
AesopFan, that stuff about Cullors being hired to provide programming for Warner Bros. is straight out of the movie “Network”, one of my all-time favorites.
Ah, give ‘er a break.
She’s only living the American Dream…
…with the added advantage that she also gets to burn down and vandalize. Whine and criticize. Hate and chastise.
Oh, and virtue signal 24/7! While taking advantage of her evil, eternal, WHITE exploiters!
In fact, she’s allowed to do exactly what she wants to do. And to whom she wants to do it. For all the Right, the True, the Moral and Ethical reasons to boot….
Yep, the best of all possible worlds!!!
File under: REPARATIONS NOW…!!! (Or should that be “Burn down your garden”?)
Bonus:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/target-sells-woke-prayer-book-dear-god-please-help-me-hate-white-people
Get ’em while they’re hot!!
Went to a wedding at The Inn of The Seventh Ray on Old Topanga Canyon Road. The New Age was strong in that area. Even hearing the locals attempting to talk business in New Age speak was a puzzlement. You’re not born talking or thinking like that; why the effort to pretend?
The proper consideration of the price of the home is not, I suggest, how it compares to others in the area, but the relationship between the economic situation of those who donated money and…$1.4 mill.
It’s conceivable that some Catholics have left the Faith on discovering bishops and on up never miss a meal and the Holy Father could eat off gold tableware if he wished. But there are still a lot of folks going to Mass. Won’t make much difference among the followers.
My father had a fraternity brother who bailed out of a B25 and landed in the garden of a Belgian family which had…sufficient connections to the Resistance to get him on the underground back to England, a late adolescent daughter, and enough money in various places that didn’t get destroyed by the war allowing them to recover better than most folks. In the fullness of time, the pilot and the daughter and some of the money bought a home outside San Francisco. A standard garrison colonial, my father said. For not very much money at all. And when they retired, they were, when they moved to another state, richer than Croesus. As Einstein, or maybe it was Alex Haley, everything is relative/
Sheesh, I think BLM set a new land speed record, going from cause to business to racket in the space of what – 18 months?
Even the wicked need a safe place to rest before stirring up the hate pot again. After all, they’re only human.
Why is anyone surprised that she moved into a white neighborhood?
Look at the Martha’s Vineyard mansion of the Obama’s.
Does not Maxine Waters live in a white neighborhood?
Someone above commented on Rev. Wright’s home in a very white neighborhood.
Al Sharpton lives in fancy digs in Manhattan; 65th Street on the East Side; very few black folks live there.
These sorts of folks are not race hustlers and race pimps for nothing; they have earned that distinction. They use a real world problem that affects many many people, as a vehicle to line their own pockets and live very very nicely indeed.
Maybe they move into these nice areas so they can send THEIR kids to good schools, instead of the garbage inner city schools that the residents there are forced to send their kids
.
Then again, if there were many many more charter schools — oh, sorry —- I forgot that Obama, the Congressional Back Caucus, the demonkrats and the “progressive” teacher’s union are all opposed to charter schools.
Why is that?
Geez, I just can’t figure that out.
Related:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/shelby-steele-biden-democrats-critical-race-theory-virtue-signaling
Also, scroll down if you feel like being entertained by the Mark Steyn interview….on why American Black’s seem to so much enjoy being insulted by Democrats….
(Well, maybe not so entertaining, actually.)
it was komarov, who was the local commissar who looted the property of white russians and other dissidents, in dr. zhivago, where does susan rosenberg, who actually bombed the capitol in 1984, live we know thousand currents her extortion scheme is incorporated in berkeley which would mean she would be under the jurisdiction, of the oakland cty da, (just joking) furthermore why does no major publication, not the journal the post or the times, mention here, she seems like voldemort,
Sgt.+Mom, I think BLM was established as a business on day one and the cause was always a façade. BLM is the best marketing slogan ever as it is impossible to contradict. Additionally as dedicated materialists, no one cares more about money than Marxists.
In LA, $1.4 million for a house is a nothingburger.
Today’s cover story in the post describes her as having four homes, worth over $3 million.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/
Following the Bernie Sanders model of socialism, apparently.
All movements start as a crusade, evolve into a business and descend into a scam.
Sheesh, I think BLM set a new land speed record, going from cause to business to racket in the space of what – 18 months?
Remember that BLM is much older than this brohoho. It started with the Zimmerman acquittal, wandered off into the weeds of every leftist passion, and turned to the deaths as a new cash cow.
(It was obviously a grift a long time ago.)
“But isn’t Khan-Cullors just following in the illustrious footsteps of Soviet predecessors, who had their dachas in the country?” [Neo}
Khan-Cullors would be wise to note the old Soviet joke:
As we have seen, the left is always prone to eat their own.
It started with the Zimmerman acquittal,
Which tells you something. George Zimmerman quite deliberately refrained from entering the house where he was a guest, walked 75 yards down an alley (with the rear entrances of townhouses on each side) and attacked the local neighborhood watch captain. The man he was beating on had been loitering around waiting for the police to arrive, as he’d called them just a couple of minutes earlier to report a youth trespassing and behaving as if he was casing places. (Note, it was explicit on the tape of his call to the non-emergency dispatcher that he could no longer see the chap he’d spotted and was anxious because he did not know where the youth was hiding out). Note also that George Zimmerman did not put a bullet into Martin until Martin had Zimmerman flat on his back as he was practicing his ground-and-pound MMA moves. All of this came out in the trial and was supported by electronic data, crime scene photos, the autopsy report, and an eyewitness not thirty feet away with a clear view of what was happening. ‘Black Lives Matter’ has, from the beginning, meant black impunity.
Yes. notably the the big gash on the back of Zimmerman’s head where Martin had been pounding it into the pavement. [Incidentally, you wrote “George Zimmerman” in your first sentence when of course you meant “Trayvon Martin.”]
To me this calls out for a Forensic Audit of the books. Then use the results to pound the corporate donors on lack of proper oversight of company funds. I see lawsuits against the corporations. Then the shareholder lawsuits. It takes organized effort but that is how the left rolls. Time to take a page out of their playbook.
jimmy’s link to the NY Post article on her FOUR homes is something my husband shared with me over coffee this morning.
He also shared a lament by, I believe, a high-ranking member of the NY chapter of BLM: what a shame that this one person has done this; it damages the credibility of socialism as a movement, which after all is driven by The People. In other words, the reason it’s never worked is that it’s never been done right. As usual.
neo has shared her own change story, and others here have their own; a political – or perhaps I should say “an ideological” – change is dauntingly difficult and rare because an ideological stance doesn’t arise deductively, individual facts contributing to a larger understanding, but rather inductively and illogically, a giant assumption (“class is doomed,” “socialism is the only compassionate form,” “capitalism is immoral because it causes inequality of outcomes”) used as a lens through which to view individual events. Step #1 is accepting the giant assumption. Step #2 is massaging the individual events to fit it. In order to realize that the individual events don’t fit, you have to be willing to disbelieve your foundational assumption. And to question your intellectual and moral foundations causes terrible, identity-level distress in most people.
Spartacus is totally right that lawsuits need to be filed – but they also need to be won. That’s highly uncertain. And unlike when the Democratic Woke folk do it, often for free, there is no “positive publicity” for the lawyers doing the law slinging. Still, that’s what Reps need to do, including crowdfunding for legal fees.
On the racist prayer, here’s more talk:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/a-rhythm-of-racist-prayer/
Steve Sailer, who tells the truth about BLM and Dem media, but it’s the truth that makes Blacks look bad, has long been ostracized. I’m sure BLM and media lies are making him more credible, but more normal people have to know and accept reality before things will get much better. I fear they need to get worse before that.
Reps need to be clear and honest about blaming the lying elites for when things do get worse – like dozens of whites being killed by blacks, far more than the reverse. Or how the NYT won’t even name the Black killer in CO:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/say-his-name-ahmad-al-alawi-alissa/