BLM Support PLUMMETS — New Poll Shows Americans Are Fed Up As Donors Flee

A new poll released by Pew Research has found that support for the Black Lives Matter organization or BLM has dropped precipitously since its overall high three years ago. Where the activist movement once saw the approval of over two-thirds of the American people, today it can barely squeak out about half of all U.S. adults.

According to Pew Research,  "Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, a decrease from 56% a year ago. The share who say they strongly support the movement dropped from 26% in 2022 to 22% in the new survey."
 

A new Pew poll shows support for BLM at it's lowest ever, down considerably from its June 2020 peak when the media turned George Floyd's death into a "Racial Reckoning". Many respondents claim BLM didn't return the results they expected rather than admit they were duped. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/eYOLoHYZkh

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As it has in previous years the support and opposition toward the organization appear to largely move along racial and partisan lines with eighty-one percent of black adults telling surveyors they support the movement at least somewhat compared to forty-one percent of white Americans as well as eighty-four percent of Democrats and left-leaning people saying likewise and eighty-two percent of Republicans and conservative independents opposing.

Even more interesting is the word association with the organization in 2023. Pew research reports,
 

"A third of Americans say the word dangerous describes the Black Lives Matter movement extremely or very well, and 34% say the same about the word divisive. Smaller shares describe the movement as empowering (26%) and inclusive (18%)."
 

A wide majority of Americans polled, sixty-one percent, say that BLM has been either "not too" or "not at all" effective at "improving race relations," nor was it particularly effective at increasing police accountability according to forty-two percent of respondents. Perhaps most damningly, fifty-seven percent of those polled said the organization was "not too" or "not at all" effective at "improving the lives of black people."

This collapse in public support seems to be reflected in the organization's financial future as well with The Washington Free Beacon writing in May that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised just $9.3 million in fiscal 2022, a catastrophic decline of eighty-eight percent year over year, citing records obtained by the outlet.

Over the last two years, the organization has been wracked by scandals and mired in legal trouble surrounding the acquisition of several expensive properties by founder, Patrisse Cullors as well as a September 2022 lawsuit accusing Black Lives Matter board member Shalomyah Bowers of using the organization as his "personal piggy bank" and drawing $10 million in fees for his consulting firm in addition to the $2 million that was disclosed by the charity's tax forms. 

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