Posted on 09/27/2016 6:22:05 AM PDT by simpson96
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two African-American athletes sent home from the 1968 Olympic Games for their raised-fist protest on the medal podium, will receive a long-awaited moment of redemption at a U.S. team event at the White House this week.
The two were invited by the U.S. Olympic Committee to attend a gala dinner on Wednesday in Washington honoring the 2016 Olympic team and accompany the team to meet President Barack Obama at the White House the following day, Carlos told Reuters on Sunday.
The image of Smith and Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter track event in Mexico City, thrusting their black-gloved fists into the air, has become an enduring symbol of the fight for racial equality.
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And these punks just got a statue at that new African American museum thingy. Disgusting.
With Obama its in your face all the time 24/7.
The racist divider.
Disgraceful.
America haters are welcome in today’s white house.
Ah, yes. The sheep-fisters.
It IS a disgrace. Anti-Americanism on display for the world to see......inside the People’s White House. Let’s hope the Dems get so smug that they implode like 1968.
Keep doing it and push more people to the Donald.
Obama loves every anti-American miscreant on the planet. He can’t go fast enough.
I agree. You can only poke people in the eye so much. Even Dems are jumping ship from Hillary as of late.
Their “Black Power” salute was no different than a seig heil salute.
Any statue of George Foreman waving his American Flag when he won the Gold in 1968?
Our nasty president has to pull all the scabs off the old racial wounds before he leaves office, so the country is in chaos when Pres. Trump takes over. BO hates the USA.
Bammy gotta rub our noses in it.
Obama is deliberately and with prejudice trying to start a conflict.
Wow! Like these two 1968 anti-American, shamed athletes of yesteryear were just soooooo cool, just like, wow man, so ahead of their friggin’ time,right?
Trump blew a huge opportunity to slam Obama at the debate. Since day one Obama has divided the nation and pitted the groups against each other. Trump went on and on about law and order when the root cause of racial divide is obama and democrats.
“Fellow islamists....”
Not invited: Peter Norman.
Probably won’t even be mentioned.
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-white-man-in-that-photo/
His fate is definitely not something the racial grievance industry wants to have known, for sure.
I note that Obama did not have the b@lls to do this during the first 7 3/4 years of his presidency.
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