Ex-BLM activist goes scorched earth on ‘scam’ group, insists systemic racism in US isn’t real

A former Black Lives Matter activist-turned conservative influencer blasted the social justice organization as a “scam” — and insisted that Democrats are the party of “racism and violence.”

Xaviaer DuRousseau, 29, revealed that did a complete 180 from his liberal upbringing during the 2020 George Floyd riots as he realized that the movement was a money-grab and that he was indoctrinated.

“Once I started looking at the conservative side of the argument, I started realizing, oh, wait, socialism has literally never worked. BLM has always been a scam, and the Democratic Party has always been the party of racism and violence,” DuRousseau said on former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines’ podcast Wednesday.

“I have just been drinking the Kool-Aid because this was the indoctrination that was put upon me from the age of a little child,” the PragerU influencer added.

DuRousseau, a former student activist who voted for Bernie Sanders and helped organize BLM demonstrations during the summer of 2020, said things changed after George Floyd’s death when the group and protests exploded nationally.

“After George Floyd’s death … I just started seeing people exploiting the movement so much and I started realizing how performative a lot of the activism was,” he told Gaines.

“And it was like these white Antifa members saying that they were stealing all of these shoes and TVs in the name of justice for reparations,” he continued. “It’s like there’s so many layers of why this just wasn’t making sense to me.”

DuRousseau said that he was particularly irked by the anti-police sentiment that emerged on the left at the time, as he has friends and family in uniform.

“I thought it was weird that so many people were demonizing every single cop,” he said.

DuRousseau said he grew up with a liberal world-view after he experienced racism growing up in small-town Illinois, and came to believe that’s how the rest of the country worked.

He’s since come to believe that systemic racism is not real and that most Americans are against racism.

“With growth and maturity, I recognize that there’s a huge difference between individualized or circumstantial racism that’s happening person to person versus a systemic issue that needs to be addressed at a larger scale.” he told Breitbart News last year.

“In retrospect, I came to understand that yes, there are racist people, but ultimately the average American and the majority of people in this country are so adamantly against racism that it’s foolish to even consider that systemic racism is still a trope in this country because we’re so far removed from that.”