Time Magazine called it "a public display of petulance"

[Rose Siding]

"John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Peter Norman 1968cr" by Angelo Cozzi (Mondadori Publishers) - http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-american-sprinters-tommie-smith-john-carlos-and-peter-news-photo/186173327. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -

The Olympics: Black Complaint
Friday, Oct. 25, 1968

"Faster, Higher, Stronger" is the motto of the Olympic Games. "Angrier, nastier, uglier" better describes the scene in Mexico City last week. There, in the same stadium from which 6,200 pigeons swooped skyward to signify the opening of the "Peace Olympics," Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two disaffected black athletes from the U.S. put on a public display of petulance that sparked one of the most unpleasant controversies in Olympic history and turned the high drama of the games into theater of the absurd.

Smith had just won the 200-meter dash in a record-breaking 19.8...

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900397,00.html

"I went up there as a dignified black man and said: ‘What's going on is wrong,' " Carlos says. Their protest, Smith says, "was a cry for freedom and for human rights. We had to be seen because we couldn't be heard."

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/olympic-athletes-who-took-a-stand-593920/?no-ist

Sometimes it's wise to step back from hurt feelings. We are all still learning.

[GitRDun]

1. Amen

Way too much lashing out.

Way too little reflection on what we can do to make things better.

[olddots]

2. Thats when I stopped reading Time Magazine

that was an act of humanism that the power brokers are most afraid of .

[cali]

3. sorry,piss poor comparison

Demanding that a Jewish man who lost most of his paternal family to the gas chambers, bow down, grovel and publicly apologize for unspecified crimes against poc, is vile. Calling a man who has a 100% rating from the NAACP, a white supremacist, is grotesque. Declaring that white liberals are worse and far more racist than white cons, is a republican soundbite. All this from a fundy Palin supporter.

I don't think she's representative of the BLM movement as a whole. At least I hope she's not,but Marissa Johnson is getting support from some other BLM organizers, and to my knowledge no one from BLM has disavowed the bow down Bernie shit.

Unfortunate on many levels.

[Mojorabbit]

4. +1000 nt

[cali]

5. bizzaro world.

[haikugal]

8. Well said cali, thanks!

[BillZBubb]

11. +2000 nt

[m-lekktor]

14. THANK YOU. Bernie hardly equals 1960's racist America.

this OP is completely batshit.

[ljm2002]

15. Thank you cali...

...you said it much better than I could have.

[truebrit71]

16. Agreed 100%....

It turns out that at least one of those "protesters" is some sort of fundy nutjob who hates EVERYONE...

[historylovr]

18. Well said!

[aikoaiko]

6. That was their moment and they didn't prevent the Olympics from continuing

[haikugal]

7. I remember when that happened and it brought tears of pride to my eyes.

That simple gesture carried so much hope and courage. It was a special moment.

Kudos!

[Mojorabbit]

9. I remember it also. So much courage.

No comparison at all to what happened at the Seattle rally.

[haikugal]

13. Night and day....

I'm tearing up now remembering...

[MisterP]

10. ah, but did Smith attack *Carlos* and say he represented everything holding Blacks down?

no need to make excuses--it's all too easy a tendency to exploit

[BillZBubb]

12. I loved when they did that. It was great.

It was their time and their statement and it was epic.

What these BLM loudmouths are doing is completely different--and it is disgusting.

[etherealtruth]

17. I was afraid to click on this thread

I was pleasantly surprised. k and R