Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground.
This nomination has to be satire, right? I mean, they can’t be serious that they would actually nominate an organization that burns down cities to the ground and call that life-changing?
Well, in all honesty in the world we are in right now, it does make sense. Over the last year, this terrorist organization has caused over one billion dollars in damages in cities across America since May. In Minneapolis alone, Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings.
Over 700 police officers were injured in the BLM riots — and that was just back in June!
Now on Friday, the Black Lives Matter terrorist movement was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Civil society as we know it is over.
The Guardian reported:
The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world.
In his nomination papers, the Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies.
“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Eide said. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.
“They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.”
Eide, who has previously nominated human rights activists from Russia and China for the prize, said one other thing that impressed him about the Black Lives Matter movement was the way “they have been able to mobilise people from all groups of society, not just African-Americans, not just oppressed people, it has been a broad movement, in a way which has been different from their predecessors.”
The Black Lives Matter movement was co-founded in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi in response to the acquittal in the US of the man who shot Trayvon Martin. It gained wider recognition in 2014 following protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and was the wellspring of a series of global protests in 2020 following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Of course, it all sounds so warm and fuzzy but this article fails to mention the countless other black lives that are lost by the black communities’ hands. Are we not going to mention the millions of black babies aborted in the name of choice? Or how about the gun violence from black people shooting one another? Oh, what about drug use? Come on guys, at least be logically consistent with your argument and not one giant walking hypocrisy.
If the Black Lives Matter movement even cared about black lives, they would start by addressing those issues and not police shootings that are lacking complete context.
If they stopped burning their cities down, maybe I would care just a smidge, but I think it is a safe bet to say I still wouldn’t.
What about you?
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