John Carlos and Tommie Smith were honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2008 Espy Awards. The pair received recognition for their gloved-fist salute showing “Black Power” at Mexico’s 1968 Olympic Games. That definitely took some courage!
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1 opinion for Carlos and Smith Win Ashe Award at Espys
Hugh Browne
Jul 23, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Chinese Paper Says Blacks Banned From Bars during Olympics
This was reported originally in the South China Morning Post’s (7/18/08) edition I checked it out and it is true. Also the website http://www.rushmoredrive.com/News/FeatureArticle.aspx?fid=ddc31a48-9441-4cc0-ada4-c031c0b52907 broke this story on Tuesday.
Being an African American living in America and bound for the Beijing games in a few days and the founder of http://www.olympiconenessdream.com a social site for international Olympic attendees, I have a keen interest in this story.
My father was born in Barbados; however I live in the United States. When I visited Barbados for the first time in 1962 the Aquatic Club in Bridgetown had a sign up that said “Whites Only” I thought that those days were over. It looks like we have to band together in this on an International level
Being an African American living in America and bound for the Beijing games in a few days and the founder of http://www.olympiconenessdream.com a social site for international Olympic attendees, I have a keen interest in this story.
Join with me and take a stand with the Chinese motto for the Olympic Games in Beijing “One World One Dream”.
How do you say “I have a Dream” in Chinese?
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