One year after the
real-estate buying binge of its founder was exposed by The Post, a new documentary dives deep into the murky finances of the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation — and meets some of the people it allegedly harmed.
“The Greatest Lie Ever Sold,” a film spearheaded by
controversial conservative commentator Candace Owens,
premiered Wednesday in Nashville at a screening attended by Kanye West, Ray J and Kid Rock.
In the documentary, the Daily Wire host examines what Patrisse Cullors, BLM’s self-described ‘”
trained Marxist” co-founder, did with the $90 million that her group amassed after the May 2020
slaying of George Floyd, the Black man whose cries of “I can’t breathe” set off global protests when he died under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer.
Cullors resigned from the national non-profit in 2021, a month after The Post revealed she had spent millions on real estate in the previous months — and the organization has remained
mired in financial scandal. Cullors said her departure was unrelated to those “attacks,” and that she was leaving to focus on a book and TV deal. BLM has denied that any wrongdoing occurred.
None of BLM’s $90 million bounty helped the couple who shared the last four years of Floyd’s life.
Housemates Alvin Manago and Theresa Scott lived with Floyd in a tidy red two-story home on a corner lot in Minneapolis’s leafy Minikahda Vista neighborhood.
“He was a people person,” Manago tells the filmmakers of Floyd. “A Bible was the only thing you’d see on his desk.”
In the film, Scott displays Floyd’s Bible, filled with the pink and yellow highlights he used to pick out lines from Proverbs and the Gospel of Matthew.
“I used to hear him reading that Bible out loud all the time,” she recalls with a smile.
The couple still has Floyd’s Bible because no member of his extended family ever came to claim it.
“I ain’t never met a sister, I ain’t never met a brother,” Smith says. Floyd’s family could not immediately be reached for comment.
When Floyd died, catapulting his family into the media spotlight, “they didn’t even come and look and see where the man lived,” Smith says. “They never came and got none of his stuff. Nothing.”
That left Manago and Smith with a pile of possessions and mounting bills.
“We would share everything — the rent, lights, gas,” Smith says. “So when that happened to Floyd, everything fell back on me and Alvin.”
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