There’s something to be said about orgs that talk big about accountability but lack both accountability and transparency to the communities they claim to build and work with.
That’s 1 thing I felt strongly about during my time with the bail fund I co-founded. Because it was the community donating to free people, I made sure they knew how much money we had and how that money was spent: getting people out, purchasing care bags, paying bail agitators etc
Everything we say we want in the world we should be practicing in our communities.
We say we want accountability and transparency from *insert institution/government body* then we should be modeling that in our organizing. We’ll make mistakes at times, sure. But how we correct those mistakes is important. (This is also a reminder for myself)
It’s also one thing to make mistakes and another to willfully disregard an ignore calls for transparency & accountability —for years—from the communities you say you’re supporting.
Im sure many folks close to those who ran the big BLM network foundation and all its umbrella orgs would say those of us on the outside have no idea what goes on inside. And true. But we do know that these chapters were calling for transparency for years & never got it until 2021
That’s wild.
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