Cornell gives to group tied to Black Lives Matters, purportedly not officially registered

Cornell University’s student government has donated thousands of dollars in student fees to a coalition that includes a group associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, despite the group purportedly not being registered as an official student organization.

The Ivy League university’s Student Activities Funding Committee sent $10,000 to the group, the Cornell Students for Black Lives fundraising initiative, which describes itself as a “coalition,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. 

The SAFC is a student-led group that allocates fees to campus groups. School officials did not respond the news gathering agency's request for comment.

Some students have objected to the donation, including conservative student leaders who expressed their concerns in a letter to the editor to the Cornell Daily Sun.

However, some student government officials have defended the allocation. 

The student assembly's vice president of finance, Moriah Adeghe, told the Free Beacon  that the campus government is within its boundaries to spend appropriated money on the "humanity of black people." Adeghe reportedly said any student against the donation is inherently "anti-black” and should not "mansplain" their dissent.