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Google Pumps $2.35 Million Into Racial Justice Projects, Including #BlackLivesMatter Video App
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One of the founders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and three racial and social justice initiatives in Oakland and San Jose are sharing $2.35 million in grants from Google’s philanthropic arm.

Of the four grants, Google.org is awarding two of them — worth $500,000 each — to Oakland’s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

As my colleague Tammerlin Drummond wrote last month, one of those will go to a new community center, Restore Oakland, that will open in East Oakland next year and aims to help formerly incarcerated and low-income workers find high-paying careers in Oakland’s burgeoning “foodie” economy.

The other Ella Baker grant will help Los Angeles activist Patrice Cullors, one of the creators of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on Twitter that propelled a national movement against police brutality, continue to develop and promote the Mobile Justice California smartphone app that lets the public record interactions with police and send to lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union.

“The levels of police violence, the levels of disparate treatment within the criminal justice system, is something that is becoming increasingly hard for folks to ignore,” said Zachary Norris, director of The Ella Baker Center, in an interview Tuesday. “We’re excited that Google is investing in the Ella Baker Center as we take on one of the more intractable issues as it relates to racial equity.”

 
• Category: Race/Ethnicity • Tags: BlackLivesMatter 
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  1. Saint Peter will not be fooled. Google (and Facebook) are big brother.

    • Replies: @Joe Franklin
  2. Those who forget Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers are doomed to repeat Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers

    I’m looking forward to that “artisan” bread cooked by a reformed Crip.

  3. @Daniel Williams

    Goes well with a Vice Lord Pumpkin Latte or a Gangster Disciple hibiscus infusion.

  4. anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    The $2.35 will evaporate without a trace, having done nothing nor moved the needle one iota. The professional ‘helpers’ working on behalf of the benighted will have some paydays ahead of them, that’s about it. I suppose the point of BLM is that the number of blacks who are homicide victims is too high and should be reduced. So why focus on the police? The vast majority of blacks are murdered by blacks, not by cops.

    • Replies: @AndrewR
  5. I suppose the point of BLM is that the number of blacks who are homicide victims is too high and should be reduced.

    The point of Black Lives Matter is to hold whitey upside-down by the ankles and shake him until money falls out.

    Or maybe it’s just a catch phrase to scream while throwing bricks or disrupting white gatherings.

  6. Romanian says:

    sharing $2.35 million in grants from Google’s philanthropic arm

    They’re basically toking Google’s protection money. Puff puff pass to the next grasping hand in the extortion racket.

    You Americans will come to remember Sharpton fondly, whose extortion was at least masked by the provision of real services (catering, janitors) albeit highly priced and in poor value.

    to help formerly incarcerated and low-income workers find high-paying careers in Oakland’s burgeoning “foodie” economy.

    This is beyond hilarious. It’s as if that South Park episode with SoDoSoPa never happened. But I look forward to the Yelpers’ Special that the ex-cons will bring to their customers.


    Video Link

  7. I thought worldstarhiphop already had an app

  8. @WorkingClass

    Saint Peter will not be fooled. Google (and Facebook) are big brother.

    You forgot Microsquash.

    Microsquash came way before any others when it comes to selling big brother spyware.

  9. AndrewR says:
    @anonymous

    “I suppose the point of BLM is that the number of blacks who are homicide victims is too high and should be reduced.”

    Oh my… you’ve been misled, my friend. That’s not the point of BLM at all.

  10. Google’s buying them off. Isn’t it obvious. So that they won’t go beyond acceptable demands like more negro cops.

  11. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    well i dumped gates then mozzilla guess im dumping google linux here i come

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