Xaviaer DuRousseau has gone from BLM activist to conservative influencer

He drinks smoothies in Erewhon, invites viewers to “come with me” to Los Angeles, and records videos that discredit the politics and culture of billions on the Internet. Xaviaer DuRousseau is a serial content creator and air personality for PragerU.

DuRousseau wasn’t always hot. He was once a progressive. In fact, he often marched in support of Black Lives Matter.

The 29-year-old host of “Respectfully, Xaviaer” spoke with Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview about how he went from marching for BLM to becoming one of the biggest conservative activists.

“To this day, every time I hear about my days at the BLM protest, I’m still in awe. It was the biggest riot I’ve ever been a part of,” he said.

DuRousseau was born and raised in the “trenches” of Southside Chicago, in a progressive family, some of which held “Marxist” views.

Then he moved from the Southside to the “middle ground” surrounded by cornfields in Illinois in a predominantly White community, and was constantly told growing up that he was different, and needed to “look at everything through the lens of race.”

Once in college, DuRousseau became more progressive and “became more aware of issues of race and issues of social justice.”

He became an activist, joining Black Lives Matter protests.

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

In 2020, courage changed his path.

DuRousseau applied to the Netflix show “The Circle,” a reality competition where single contestants communicate only through social media, outsmart and eliminate each other, sometimes while impersonating someone else, and was chosen out of 25,000 people as a social justice activist.

To prepare for the show, DuRousseau did research and had a strategy of following strong voices like Charlie Kirk, and PragerU videos from scratch; then he woke up wide.

“I accidentally drank myself,” he said.

Through experience, DuRousseau realized that he was too aligned with privilege.

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

“I finally realized that I was wrong about many things that affect society,” he said. “I learned more about history than I had ever seen before. And I realized that it was the first time I researched without confirmation bias until I finally withdrew from recording the original program in October of 2020. And a few months later, I decided that I would 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 fed himself a doctor’s bottle full of red pills.

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

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

“Every time I asked those questions, people would tell me, like, I’ve lost the plan or I should mind my own business and stay on my path.”

DuRousseau said that by following the money, one can see the priorities of the organization.

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“I started to see that BLM was taking their money from ActBlue and putting these progressive activists and these progressive causes on politicians. And these political leaders were doing absolutely nothing for the Black community.”

State prosecutors are investigating whether top leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who donated tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests, two sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News.

The Associated Press first reported that the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation is focused on the foundation’s handling of donations collected after George Floyd murder, where the group saw an increase in donations of more than 90 million dollars.

DuRousseau said, “It wasn’t about reforming the police or anything like that. So when I realized how much of a fraud that was, it was like this effect of my realization, ‘Oh, BLM, it’s not just a corporate scam, it’s a corporate scam and the left is 100% 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 to get people to think deeply again because we are in this time when many people are afraid to ask questions or afraid to be honest or afraid to have a thought that comes out of the box they were told they should think internally.

DuRousseau shared that this caused family problems.

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“Many people in my family wanted nothing to do with me. My older brother – it’s been five years – and he still thinks I’m a member of the Ku Klux Klan, I’m still trying to understand how being White can benefit me. But, according to them, that’s what they think.”

He said over the years, others have come.

“Over the years, I’ve had family members start to see that I’m right,” she said. “And I have more friends, you know, over the years, from the past, who have come forward. And even if they don’t completely agree with me now, at least they’re apologizing for how emotional they were in their response to everything that happened in 2020 and 2021 when I started talking.”

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DuRousseau said of his popular “Walk With Me” videos: “Here’s a guy with his $25 smoothie eating the most copper you’ve ever seen on his way to the gym..”

He said the plan is to get people’s attention in other ways.

“It gets people who won’t pay attention to politics and what’s going on in our world today to mistakenly listen to real world news.”

The most prominent non-profit organization Black Lives Matter has given almost a third of its most recent deductions to other charities.

I BLM Global Network Foundationwhich is the primary nonprofit organization, raised nearly $87 million in donations between mid-2020 and mid-2022. However, the bulk of the money came between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, during the organization’s peak and before the once-prominent organization saw a significant drop 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.