REPORT: Amazon gave millions to Black Lives Matter group connected to convicted terrorist
The corporate giant pulled Twitter alternative Parler from its platform citing terrorism concerns, but Amazon is allegedly complicit in giving money to a an organization connected to a terrorist.
“Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for ‘organizations supporting justice and equity,’ including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation,” Breitbart reported.
“At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist,” Alex Marlow, who recently wrote a book about corporate wokeness and media bias, said.
“It’s a major oversight for Amazon, the self-anointed arbiter of domestic terrorism.”
“Rosenberg, a former member of the Weather Underground, came to national prominence as a central figure in the May 19 Communist Organization, a group responsible for a series of violent incidents in the late 1970s and early 1980s,” Marlow said.
“Among May 19’s best-known crimes is the group’s role in the 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck which resulted in the murders of two policemen and a security guard,” Marlow noted.
“The group also claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol,” the conservative news site reported.
“According to historian William Rosenau, May 19 ‘also bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, and the South African consulate in New York, D.C.’s Fort McNair and Navy Yard’ over a 20-month period,” Marlow said.
Breitbart’s journalist sees hypocrisy.
“Amazon later banned social media site Parler over its alleged ties to the January 6 Capitol mob. But donating millions of dollars to an organization associated with a convicted terrorist whose former group was involved in bombing the Capitol is A-okay,” Marlow said sarcastically.
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