Black Lives Matter “wining” a Nobel Peace Prize.
A lesson from South Africa’s stolen movement…
This is a critic a mere opinion nothing to live by, just for reads! Enjoy:
The idea of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) “wining” a Nobel peace prize ridicules the movement, it effectively reduces it down to a theatrical play worthy of an accolade to celebrate how it has touched the previously unmoved hearts of many, it casts a deep sense of shame on blackness and what it stands for. We would know best as a South African myself we have been there before, a whole struggle reduced to a few handful of charismatic “heroes” receiving the Nobel peace Prize symbolically for “fighting” Apartheid while some of them were actual leaders in the Apartheid government itself and will later and most recently romanticize apartheid to have not been a crime against humanity the same argument by the way which was used through out by apartheid Prime Ministers in their speeches as an excuse to try to justify apartheid as nothing but some sick twisted “rosy policy”.
What the joint award of Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk(an Apartheid Prime Minister) and Desmond Tutu (who later humiliated and forced Winnie Mandela to “apologies for apartheid”), what it did is that it legitimized Apartheid as nothing but a mere “political misunderstanding” by awarding an apartheid prime minister who till date has never apologized for their unprecedented part in apartheid and a few “heroes”, they have effectively robbed millions of apartheid victims of their right to mourn let alone demand all that they have lost during apartheid as doing so and pointing fingers would be seen as holding grudges or disturbing the “peace” supposedly certified by the Nobel Peace Prize in the eyes of many.
There is only one way to reward a people struggle that is real non-cosmetic change that is both effective and unambiguously visible. The reason we still have high inequality in South Africa is not purely because of our current government’s incompetence but more on the economic injustice that is hard to reverse, our inequality is stratified along racial lines and as such is in effect racism which is supposedly “over” and some have Nobel peace prizes to show to support such claims. Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary movement happening in a developed country championed by an outnumbered population of people in that country these are clear indications of a struggle that will go on for quite some time given the sheer amount of power its going up against, this is no time to be getting Nobel peace Prizes for a peace that is non-existent or any award for that matter, WE DO NOT SEEK RECOGNITION OF OUR EFFORTS TO LIBERATE OURSELVES, WE SEEK JUSTICE.
The minute you seek out recognition for doing the most fundamental human act of caring about yourself and seeking to liberate yourself from oppression, it is the day you fail to realize your worth as a people, this is the 21st century it is no time to be dabbling in ambiguity when it comes to what we seek as a people we cannot demand the Oscars to stop being racist while we still yearn to win one, we cannot demand for a movement of our liberation to be successful while we still seek recognition for it, as a collective we need to be clear demand justice in verbatim terms and do not stop until we get it, that is the nature of Freedom it must be acquired at all cost without compromise of settling for fictitious peace.
This is not a denouncement on the Nobel Foundation or its Society at large however it is a detachment from a symbolic gesture which will inevitably undermine the call for true justice, and as a last note Mandela is our hero however he did not single-handedly fight apartheid nor was he even behind his popularity at the time it was in fact Mandela’s wife the late Winnie along with millions of South Africans who championed the struggle against apartheid, Mandela was the brand we all needed to put forth as a representation of black leadership nothing less nor more, let history note it was the people who fought apartheid not a few & we needed no accolade for it but only justice.
