The Black Lives Matter movement has received a nomination for the 2021 Nobel peace prize.
According to the NY Post, the movement that fights against racial injustice and police brutality was nominated for the humanitarian honor by a Norwegian politician- Petter Eide, who praised the group’s multi-racial scope, describing it as “a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.”
In his nomination papers, Eide commended the movement saying it forced countries all across the world 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 explained. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.”
Eide also explained that one of the things that most impressed him about the BLM movement is 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 Nobel prize winner will be chosen in October, and the award ceremony is scheduled for December 10th.
