BLM Activist Flips Script, Declares He ‘Accidentally Red-Pilled’ Himself [WATCH]

Xaviaer DuRousseau, a conservative content creator and on-air personality for PragerU, says his political transformation began with a simple question: Where was the money going?

As Fox News reported, the 29-year-old host of “Respectfully, Xaviaer” spoke with Fox News Digital about his shift from progressive activism and Black Lives Matter marches to becoming a prominent conservative voice online.

Known for his “Walk With Me” videos filmed around Los Angeles, DuRousseau has built a following by discussing politics and culture with a casual, direct style.

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DuRousseau said he once fully embraced progressive activism.

“Even to this day, every time I hear about my BLM protesting days, I still cringe. It was the most ghetto mess I ever participated in,” he said.

Born and raised in what he described as “the trenches” of Southside Chicago, DuRousseau said he grew up in a progressive household, with some relatives holding “Marxist” views.

Later, he moved from the Southside to what he called “the middle of nowhere” in Illinois, surrounded by cornfields and living in a mostly White community. He said he was taught to “view everything through the lens of race.”

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In college, DuRousseau said he became “even more conscious of racial issues and social justice issues” and joined Black Lives Matter protests.

“I was posting a lot of racial things online, talking about microaggressions and oppression and all these insane narratives long before the George Floyd Palooza even started.”

In 2020, DuRousseau applied to appear on Netflix’s reality competition show “The Circle,” where contestants communicate solely through a social media platform while rating and eliminating one another.

He was selected out of 25,000 applicants as a social justice activist.

While preparing for the show, DuRousseau said he began researching conservative voices with the intention of debating figures such as Charlie Kirk and critiquing PragerU videos.

Instead, he said, his research led him in a different direction.

“I accidentally red-pilled myself.”

“I ended up realizing that I was wrong about many of these social issues,” he said.

“I learned more about history than I’d ever seen before. And I realized that it was the first time I had ever researched without confirmation bias, to the point where I finally backed out of filming the reality show in October of 2020. And a few months later, I decided I was going to start speaking about the new values and the new things that I had learned, and the rest was history.”

DuRousseau said the turning point came when he began examining how Black Lives Matter handled donations.

“If I had to pick one thing that was like the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was when I started looking into the funds of BLM.”

He said he questioned where the money was going and noted that Breonna Taylor’s mother had also spoken publicly about BLM funds.

“Every time I would ask those questions, people would tell me that, like, I had lost the plot or that I needed to mind my business and stay in my lane.”

DuRousseau said, “I started seeing that BLM was taking their money through ActBlue and putting it toward these progressive activists and these progressive causes and to politicians. And these politicians were doing absolutely nothing in the Black community.”

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether senior leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests, according to two sources familiar with the probe cited by Fox News.

The Associated Press first reported that the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry is focused on the foundation’s handling of donations collected after the killing of George Floyd, when the group saw a surge of more than $90 million in contributions.

“It wasn’t going toward police reform or anything of the sort. So when I realized how fraudulent that was, it was like this domino effect of me realizing, ‘Oh, BLM, it’s not just a scam of a movement, it’s a scam as an organization and the left is 100% a part of it.’”

DuRousseau said his political shift caused strains within his family.

“Many people of my own family wanted absolutely nothing to do with me,” he said.

“I didn’t speak to my own father for a couple of years. My eldest brother – it’s been five years – and he still thinks that I’m a Ku Klux Klan member, still trying to understand how being a White supremacist would benefit me. But, according to them, that’s what they think.”

He said that over time, some relationships have improved.

“Over the years, I’ve had some family members start to realize I was right,” he said.

“And I’ve more friends, you know, over years that, from the past, have come forward. And even if they don’t fully agree with me now, they at least apologize for how emotional they were in their response to everything that happened in 2020 and 2021 when I started speaking out.”

Describing his popular video format, DuRousseau said, “Here’s a guy with his $25 smoothie going on the most unhinged rant you’ve ever seen on his way to the gym.”

“It’s getting people that wouldn’t necessarily pay attention to politics and what’s going on in our world today to accidentally listen to real-world issues.”

The BLM Global Network Foundation, the movement’s primary nonprofit, raised roughly $87 million in contributions between mid-2020 and mid-2022, with most of the funds collected between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.

The nonprofit has disbursed only around a third of its recent cash hauls to other charitable organizations. Black Lives Matter did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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