Let the Olympiss games begin – remember Tommy Smith and John Carlos showing support for Muhammed Ali’s anti-Vietnam war stance, against poverty and lynching, for Black power, part of the Olympic Project for Human Rights – see http://www.good.is/post/fists-of-freedom-an-olympic-story-not-taught-in-schools/ – which also brings to light a little known factoid making it worth remembering that the white guy who came second in the 200 metres that day was a runner from Melbourne named Peter Norman. Norman supported the protest, citing Australia’s mistreatment of indigenous people, by ‘pinning an OPHR patch onto his chest to show his solidarity on the medal stand’.
I like this because solidarity is not showboating, its standing alongside in support. Smith, Norman, Carlos: 1,2,3.
Remember Peter Norman:
http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/Cubefour_3/Remembering_Peter_Norman_2426.shtml
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