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A Nobel Peace Prize to Black Lives Matter?
Townhall.com ^ | January 31, 2021 | Jeff Davidson

Posted on 01/31/2021 5:07:22 AM PST by Kaslin

The start of 2021 is getting more bizarre each day. Facing a stack of executive orders, Joe Biden, near a hot mic, mutters, “I don’t know what I’m signing.” Learning that she and Ted Cruz agree about the Gamestop market manipulation, AOC accuses the senator of attempted murder.

On Friday, Black Lives Matter (BLM), an organization that contributes to, if not foments riots in which at least 25 people have died, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. As Sean Hannity is fond of saying, "You can't make this stuff up."

BLM came into existence in 2013, in response to what its founders deemed to be a miscarriage of justice and non-existent legal regard for black lives. However, was the verdict a miscarriage of justice? For defending himself after his nose had been broken and his head was being smashed into the sidewalk, George Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin, 17 months earlier.

Fair Beyond Reason

Many years have passed. Anyone who claims that the trial was not fair didn't follow it closely and likely relied on media sound bites. In the face of intense media and public scrutiny, it is difficult to imagine a more thorough review of all available evidence by both sides. Yet, most of the media coverage remains to this day highly biased in favor of Martin.

A compelling police account of the shooting, supported by forensic analysis, revealed that Martin perpetrated "an unprovoked attack" on Zimmerman, first punching him in the face, then knocking him to the ground and repeatedly bashing his head into the sidewalk, before attempting to grab Zimmerman's gun. Even with overwhelming evidence that Zimmerman feared for his life and acted in self-defense, Martin's supporters ignored the evidence and haven't budged since.

Martin's supporters ignore the time gap between when Martin first spoke about Zimmerman on his cell phone to a friend and when he actually confronted and struck Zimmerman.

During four minutes, Martin had ample time to traverse the forty yards back to his father's apartment, at most a forty-second walk. Martin's supporters rail about Zimmerman leaving his car, but they don't concede that Martin lingered outdoors for four minutes, and then confronted and assaulted Zimmerman.

A Life of Drugs and Violence

The press has downplayed or altogether ignored Martin's likely state of mind on this day in which he noticed a "creepy-ass cracker" following him. Two days before the incident, he had been suspended from school for theft, this being his third suspension.

The press described Martin as a "sweet" boy, although he had made videos of himself beating other people and laughing while doing it. He also had boasted online about striking a bus driver in the face.

Martin had been smoking pot, which can impair judgment when he encountered Zimmerman. The mainstream media downplayed his purchase of "Skittles" and iced-tea. These two items are major ingredients in the homemade production of a hard drug known as "purple." Martin was a drug user and, as uncovered by investigative blogs, a drug dealer to his classmates.

A troubled seventeen-year-old, even with his father present in his life, Martin became pre-disposed to theft and thuggery. Tracy Martin, his father, was a long-time gang member, who introduced his son to guns and drugs. Weeks before the Zimmerman trial, Tracy Martin's gang-signifying neck tattoo was altered to disguise his affiliation.

Merely a Short Walk

To ignore Trayvon Martin's propensity for intermittent violence or to suggest that after he spotted Zimmerman he did not become the aggressor is pure folly. Martin was a football player, with a lean, tough body, standing nearly six feet tall; he was no adolescent. For newspapers, major web sites, and rally protestors to continue to exhibit pictures of Martin at a younger age, in his red burgundy "Hollister" t-shirt, perhaps before he embarked on a life of constant crime, is a disservice to society.

Might most other seventeen-year-olds of any race, build, or family situation used the four minutes available to return home?

It is tragic for a young man to be killed heading back to his father's house when he had, at first, apparently been doing nothing wrong. To the chagrin BLM founders, the preponderance of evidence reveals that the legal system worked as it should and that Trayvon Martin was the precipitating force leading to his own death. As such, BLM was founded on a lie, while currently maintaining a huge presence at violent, domestic uprisings.

How exactly does that square up with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: blm; nobelpeaceprize; riots; violentprotest

1 posted on 01/31/2021 5:07:22 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right...


2 posted on 01/31/2021 5:11:11 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Kaslin

Didn’t they give one to Yasser Arafat? Okay then.


3 posted on 01/31/2021 5:11:34 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Kaslin
So what?

It's long long past time to stop taking the "peace" prize seriously.

As it might b a Grammy or a Tony.

4 posted on 01/31/2021 5:12:29 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Kaslin

Why not? A Nobel Prize was given to the lying, murdering traitor Obama.


5 posted on 01/31/2021 5:12:56 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Kaslin

Nobel make explosives.

the UNENDING love of the Nobel Committee for black
and Arab murderers and terrorists is quite revealing.

the Nobel Prize will be given to any Nation that
blows up another with explosives, antimatter or
neutron weapons or kills everyone with an infectious
warcrime, like FauXi.


6 posted on 01/31/2021 5:17:54 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Kaslin

if ya ever doubted they have gone mad.. this would clarify who the libs are...totally blind to what we saw all summer.. fires..destruction....businesses gone..


7 posted on 01/31/2021 5:18:34 AM PST by frnewsjunkie (...)
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To: Kaslin

Nobel Peace Prize lost all integrity when they gave Barack Obama the peace prize for no reason. Since then, they have no credibility.


8 posted on 01/31/2021 5:18:55 AM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EQ)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

When is the mongrel New York Guv gonna get his?


9 posted on 01/31/2021 5:25:10 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

10 posted on 01/31/2021 5:26:12 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
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To: snarkytart

Yup


11 posted on 01/31/2021 6:00:13 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Kaslin

Who cares they give them away with every Fill up


12 posted on 01/31/2021 6:36:23 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: snarkytart

And didn’t Osama Obama get one? I thought I saw an ad on the internet the other day selling Nobel Peace Prizes for $29.99.


13 posted on 01/31/2021 6:42:10 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Kaslin

They also announced today that other nominees include the WHO and Greta Thunberg.

I’m waiting for them to add Hezbollah, ISIS, and Jeffrey Epstein (posthumous).


14 posted on 01/31/2021 7:14:16 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing." -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: Kaslin

Obviously the prize is not for “peace” but for the intensity of hating the USA. bammy and blm both hate the USA. Trump loves the USA.

The more you hate the USA, the better qualified you are for the prize.


15 posted on 01/31/2021 7:24:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Kaslin

“A Nobel Peace Prize to Black Lives Matter?”

Yes, because establishing Middle East Peace is a ridiculous reason to award a “Peace Prize.”


16 posted on 01/31/2021 7:37:22 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Kaslin

I have a question: How does an “idea” accept a Nobel Peace Prize?


17 posted on 01/31/2021 8:05:22 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: snarkytart

And obama after he dropped a few bombs killing civilians


18 posted on 01/31/2021 11:06:42 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: Kaslin

Nobel Peace Prize for BLM?

Sure why not? While they’re at it hand them out to ISIS, and Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, and every other sub-human despotic lunatic on the planet.


19 posted on 01/31/2021 2:08:35 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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