Tommie Smith's silent protest resonates 50 years on | DW English
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2018
- After winning the 200 meter race at the 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith and teammate John Carlos, who won bronze, raised their fists in a Black Power salute. Their iconic gesture of defiance emboldened others. Tommie Smith in the DW studio.
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For everyone oppressed by prejudice:
Be Like Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
For everyone inexplicably privileged based on skin colour:
Be Like Peter Norman.
Everyone around this world. "Be like Peter Norman"
I was 14 years old when I saw it on the television. Amazing event
a brave man!
Tommie talking about himself in third person confused me
Facts I was like wait who ain't that you..
Why should anyone have respect for a person, a movement, a country that doesn't respect them.
Everyone should have respect for brave people and socially just movement. Try evolving.
50 years ago people hated this man now they love him people hate Colin Kaperknick now but 50 years from now they will love him.
Jakendrick Williams - Absolutely. History will look back at Kaepernick and the NFL and one day everyone will see who was in the right and who was in the wrong. Someday he will be honoured for taking a knee and refusing to back down even though it destroyed his career. These men, and many others, could have made their own lives easier by simply doing nothing, turning a blind eye, but for these brave souls human rights are too important to ignore, too important to take a backseat to personal concerns. A hero is the person who stands up for what they believe is right, no matter what the consequences are to them. History will show the hero Kaepernick really is, just like John Carlos, Tommie Smith and Peter Norman and so many others.
Peter Norman was hated by the Australian public after this, when he returned Peter and his family were humiliated. Peter was asked by the Australian Olympic Committee to denounce his actions, which Norman refused to. He then had to Qualify 15 times, which he won and still by far faster than anyone else in Australia. They still didn't pick him for 72 Munich Olympics. He stood up for everyone's human rights because that's what he believed in and had witnessed the same Racism in Australia (Australia has an erased chapter in our history) and it cost him his Olympic dreams. Peter Norman died in 2006(Carlos and Smith were his pallbearers) the Australian government didn't give him an apology until 2013.