1968 Olympics baskets for African people

for African people

based in the real and perceived threat of Afrikan males

toward confrontation and inexorable loss

engineering

but rather was part of a much longer

1968 Olympics baskets for African people1968 Olympics Tommie Smith (Gold Medalist) and John Carlos (Bronze Medalist) give the Black Power salute during the 200 meter ceremony at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. Perhaps the most memorable photo of the 20th century, Smith and Carlos were stripped of their medals and banned from the Olympics. to the powers tht be, their demonstration was an act of treason; to the Black world, it was a gesture of solidarity and opposition to racism. the