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backtoblue

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3. K&R

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 06:30 PM

Oct 2018

The other monument was erected in 2005 on the campus of Smith’s and Carlos’s alma mater, San Jose State University in California. For this piece, the second-place podium was left empty. Norman had declined to be depicted, to allow visitors to stand in his place in solidarity with the two Americans instead.

http://theconversation.com/fifty-years-later-peter-normans-heroic-olympic-stand-is-finally-being-recognised-at-home-102112

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Thanks. Didn't know that. N/t underpants Oct 2018 #4

Excellent. Thanks for the reminder. oasis Oct 2018 #5

This moment was my awakening to institutional racism. yardwork Oct 2018 #6