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Friday, January 27, 2006



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each bears the image of tommie smith and john carlos, gold and bronze medal winners in the 200 meter sprint, with raised black-gloved fists and lowered heads on the podium at the 1968 olympics. they were inspired by harry edward’s olympic project for human rights. according to smith his raised right fist symbolizes black power and carlos’s left symbolizes black unity. smith wore a black scarf for black pride and neither man wore shoes, for black poverty.smith adds that his jacket was unzipped “epresenting shift workers, blue-collar people, and the underdogs. … those are the people whose contributions to society are so important but don't get recognized." the silver medalist, peter norman, a white australin, wore an olympic project for human rights pin. smith and carlos were stripped of their medals, suspended from the us track team and barred from the olympic village. they also received death threats. of the aftermath, carlos said, "my family had to endure so much. they finally figured out they could pierce my armor by breaking up my family and they did that. but you cannot regret what you knew, to the very core of your person, was right." smith added,"the ridicule was great, but it went deeper than us personally. it went to our kids, our citizen brothers and our parents. my mother died of a heart attack in 1970 as a result of pressure delivered to her from farmers who sent her manure and dead rats in the mail because of me. my brothers in high school were kicked off the football team, my brother in oregon had his scholarship taken away. it was a fault that could have been avoided had i turned my back on the atrocities."

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1 Comments:

  • At 12:59 PM, Blogger louis-georges said…

    ok jane, use the e-pistles possible link to send me your info and i'll let you know what's available.

     

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