SPLC and DEI Vacuumed Up Taxpayer Grants. We Will Likely Never Know the True Price Tag
Grants to SPLC and DEI Demonstrate Federal Spending Against Taxpayer Values.
What government funds defines its values, which ideally should mean our values. But tens of millions of dollars in grants shipped out by federal agencies over the last four years betray a value system far out of step with the people paying the bills.
For example, Lecia Brooks was paid $260,000 total compensation by the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2021. The left-wing nonprofit reported $132.7 million in revenue and nearly $770 million in net assets for 2021.
But the State Department thought Brooks and her “poverty” named employer needed your money as well. On April 12, 2021, it shipped out an $800 “honorarium” grant for Brooks. Then in November 2021, another grant of $7,700 from State to SPLC was approved with this in the grant description: “LECIA BROOKS IS A TARGET-OF-OPPORTUNITY SPEAKER.”
The usual target of opportunity for Brooks and SPLC is fanning the flames of racial division.
“It is extremely troubling, yet sadly expected, that someone would hang a noose — the ultimate symbol of white supremacist violence used to murder Black people — in the stall of the only Black driver on the NASCAR circuit,” chirped Brooks on June 22, 2020. The following day, an FBI investigation revealed the so-called “noose” was in fact a “door pull rope” that had been in place months before driver Bubba Wallace’s team took over the garage.
Unlike the NASCAR “noose,” SPLC’s racism hasn’t been a hoax. In 2019, CNN reported that SPLC had been “thrust into chaos” after the resignation of its founder because of what staff alleged was a “systemic culture of racism and…
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