As BLM Encouraged Looting Businesses, It Received SBA Funding

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Black Lives Matter, an organization whose leaders encouraged its supporters to riot and loot small businesses, received $30,000 from the Small Business Administration in 2020.

When the riots and looting occurred around the country after George Floyd’s police custody death, a Black Lives Matter leader in Chicago defended the looting as “reparations.”

 

In August 2020, as shops were devastated, Ariel Atkins said, “That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance. They're going to get their money back. My people aren't getting anything.”

The New York Post highlighted a small convenience store that was looted twice in 40 days in Chicago and may have to close for good.

Atkins doubled down and said that calling someone a “criminal” is a form of racism, the New York Post reported.

“The whole idea of criminality is based on racism anyway,” she told NPR station WBEZ. “Because criminality is punishing people for things that they have needed to do to survive or just the way that society has affected them with white supremacist BS.”