Cullors: NY Mag report is ‘racist’
Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors slammed a report by New York magazine that detailed the organization’s purchase of a swanky $5.8 million Southern California home — claiming the story is a “racist and sexist” attack on the movement.
The 6,500-square-foot mansion was “secretly bought” with BLM’s donation funds, the magazine reported and The Post later confirmed. The luxe property once hosted Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe as house guests — and comes complete with a sound stage, music studio, pool and a twobedroom guest house.
Cullors called the article about the massive home a “despicable abuse of a platform that’s intended to provide information to the public” in a Tuesday Instagram post.
“The fact that a reputable publication would allow a reporter, with a proven and very public bias against me and other Black leaders, to write a piece filled with misinformation, innuendo and incendiary opinions, is disheartening and unacceptable,” she wrote of the piece authored by Sean Campbell.
Cullors recorded a video last June outside the home to mark the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, in which she remarked she was in “survival mode” after The Post’s exclusive reporting last April revealed her purchase of four high-end US homes for $3.2 million.
She resigned from the group a month after the Post report.
“What’s happening to me and to our movement is both racist and sexist,” Cullors wrote regarding the reporting on her purchases. “What is happening to me is not about accountability or healing. It’s about destroying my life and destroying a powerful movement.”
She added, “It pains me that so many people have accepted that narrative without the presence of tangible truth or facts.”
A New York magazine spokesperson told The Post that the publication stands by the story.