Xaviaer DuRousseau went from BLM activist to conservative influencer

Erewhon sips smoothies, invites viewers to “walk with me” in Los Angeles, and records videos dissecting politics and culture for millions online. Xaviaer DuRousseau is a conservative content creator and on-air personality for PragerU.

DuRousseau was not always a conservative ardent supporter. He was once progressive. He would actually march in support of Black Lives Matter.

The 29-year-old host of “Sincerely, Xaviaer” opened up about how he went from BLM marches to becoming one of the biggest conservative influencers in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.

“To this day, I still cringe every time I hear about my BLM protest days. It was the most ghetto mess I’ve ever participated in,” he said.

DuRousseau was born and raised in a progressive family in the “trenches” of Chicago’s south side; some of them had “Marxist” views, he said.

He then left the Southside for the “middle of nowhere” in a majority-white community surrounded by cornfields in Illinois, where he was always told growing up that he was different and that he should “look at everything through the lens of race.”

After attending college, DuRousseau became even more progressive and “more conscious of racial issues and social justice issues.”

She became an activist and participated in Black Lives Matter protests.

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“Long before George Floyd Palooza started, I was posting a lot of racist stuff online talking about microaggressions and oppression and all these crazy narratives.”

In 2020, a dare changed his course.

DuRousseau applied for the Netflix show “The Circle,” a reality competition in which isolated contestants communicate solely through the social media platform, strategically rank and eliminate each other, sometimes pretending to be someone else, and was chosen out of 25,000 to be a social justice activist.

To prepare for the show, DuRousseau had been doing research and had a plan to go after conservative voices like Charlie Kirk and debunk the PragerU videos; Then he had a great awakening.

“I accidentally spilled a red feather on myself,” he said.

Through this experience, DuRousseau realized that he was more attached to the right side.

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PragerU personality and content creator Xaviaer DuRousseau was once a liberal activist. (Xaviaer DuRousseau)

“I finally realized I was wrong about a lot of these social issues,” he said. “I learned so much more about history than I had ever seen before. And for the first time, I realized that I was doing research without confirmation bias, to the point where I gave up on filming the reality show in October 2020. And after a few months, I decided to start talking about new values ​​and new things that I had learned, and the rest was history.”

Instead of a red pill moment, DuRousseau said, he offered her a prescription bottle full of red pills.

“If I had to pick one straw that broke the camel’s back, it was when I started researching BLM funding.”

During her time as a BLM activist, she found herself asking where the funds were going and even noticed Breonna Taylor’s mother talking about BLM funds.

“Every time I asked these questions people would tell me I was losing the script or that I should mind my business and stay in my lane.”

DuRousseau said that by tracking the money, an organization’s priorities can be seen.

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“I started to see BLM taking its money through ActBlue and funneling it to these progressive activists, these progressive causes, and politicians. And these politicians were doing absolutely nothing in the Black community.”

Federal prosecutors are investigating Two sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News whether senior leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization defrauded donors who gave tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests.

The Associated Press first reported that the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation focuses on the foundation’s handling of donations raised in the wake of the attack. george floyd Murder as the group saw its contributions surge to more than $90 million.

“It wasn’t moving toward police reform or anything like that,” DuRousseau said. “So when I realized how much of a fraud this was, it was like a domino effect when I realized, ‘Oh, BLM, this isn’t just a fraud of a movement, it’s a fraud as an organization, and the left is 100% a part of it.'”

Now, as a conservative content creator, DuRousseau wants people to think and not be afraid to think outside the box.

“My goal is simply to get people to think critically again because at this point a lot of people are afraid to ask questions, afraid to be honest, or afraid to have a thought that deviates from the pattern of what they’ve been told they should think.”

DuRousseau shared that this caused tensions in the family.

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““A lot of people in my family wanted absolutely nothing to do with me,” he said. “I didn’t talk to my own father for several years. My oldest brother – it’s been five years – and he still thinks I’m a Ku Klux Klan member and he’s still trying to figure out how being a white supremacist will benefit me. But that’s what they think“

He said some have emerged over the years.

“Over the years, some of my family members began to realize that I was right,” he said. “And you know, over the years I’ve got more and more friends from the past who have come forward. And even if they don’t completely agree with me now, they’re at least apologizing for how emotional they were in their reactions to everything that was going on in 2020 and 2021 when I started talking.”

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DuRousseau said of the popular “Walk With Me” videos: “Here’s a guy yelling the craziest thing you’ve ever seen while walking to the gym with his $25 smoothie.”“

He said the format was to attract people’s attention in other ways.

“It allows people who aren’t paying attention to politics and what’s going on in our world today to accidentally tune in to real world issues.”

Black Lives Matter’s most prominent nonprofit distributed only a third of its recent cash infusion to other nonprofit charities.

BLM Global Network FoundationThe movement’s primary nonprofit raised nearly $87 million in donations from mid-2020 to mid-2022. But the bulk of the money came between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, during the height of the movement and before the once-prominent organization saw a steep collapse in donations.

Black Lives Matter did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Fox News’ Greg Wehner and David Spunt contributed to this report.