Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Olympics can be an important forum for challenge and change

Forty-two years ago, during the Summer Games in Mexico City, the political met the athletic. Sports showed a subversive side in a timeless image of two barefoot men on the medal podium, beads dangling from their necks. As America’s national anthem commenced, sprinters Tommie Smith—the son of a migrant worker—and Harlem’s John Carlos raised their black-gloved fists in the air.

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