The organization “Important Blacks”, known by the acronym BLM, is a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian MP Peter Ida announced today (Sunday), who recommended the organization to the award committee.
Ida said in a brief statement to the media that: “The movement brings awareness to the concepts of racial justice. It is very important to promote a movement of ideas of racial equality between countries. ‘Black life is important’ “.
“It is not unusual to combine a struggle for racial equality with the idea behind the Peace Prize. Without justice there can be no peace, so the connection is natural,” Ida wrote in a statement to the prize committee.
Ida admitted that the decision led to a flood of angry e-mails from the United States, where the movement is seen as part of the internal political discourse while others have argued that it is not a peace-seeking organization. Ida claims that this is not a reference to an American domestic political issue but says: “I was prepared for such criticism, of course.”
During the riots that erupted following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the city of Minneapolis, 19 people were killed, more than twenty police officers were shot by armed rioters and property worth half a billion dollars was damaged.
The organization “Important Blacks” has in the past shunned violence and looting, but some of its leaders have been documented expressing sympathy for the violence and various political elements in the United States see it as an extremist and violent organization.