John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Protest of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics

What is the influence of Tommy Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics? Since Tommy Smith and John Carlos gave a black power homage to the medal table, the 1968 Mexico City Olympics was the most popular medal award ceremony in history (Witherspoon, 2003). In Mexico City, Smith acquired 1st place in the 200 meter race and established a new world record, but Carlos won third place. The two players decided to wear black gloves and black socks while playing the American national anthem, lowered their heads, raised their fists with black gloves (Ashe, 2007).

Tribute to the Black Power of the Olympics in 1968 was a protest by Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. On October 17, 1968, Tommy Smith won the world record in the 200 meter race and John Carlos won the third place. Tommy and John decided that they wanted to put out a political statement by wearing black socks instead of shoes. This is to indicate black poverty. They also wore black gloves, and after receiving medals, they made black power cards in the air by raising their fists. When they left the podium they were booed by the masses. Tommy later said: "If I win, I am not black but Americans, but if I do bad things they will say I'm a black man, we are black people, we are black people I am proud that I will understand what we did tonight. "

At the Mexico City Olympic Games in 1968, when Star Spangle Banners were active in the stadium, the protests by Kipper Nick reminded me of the powerful stance of American Sprinters Tommy Smith and John Carlos. In the heyday of the civil war in the United States, Fist symbolizes "Black Power" which was a troublesome of assassination of Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. Damn, Smith and Carlos protest! When the national flag protest is present, Americans who burn such national flags or crouchfully patriotic during the national anthem will be extremely irritated. But do they have to be surprised? After all, the "blinking flag" flies over the terrible injustice of slavery and ethnic cleansing in the area occupied by 48 states in the United States. Americans and the Texans were taught that "I remember Alamo" - 200 of them detained 1,800 Mexican soldiers for 13 days and then succumbed to a heroic failure

In 1968, American athlete athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos won gold medal and bronze medal at the 200 meter Mexico City Olympic Games. At the awards ceremony, they have executed the original version currently considered Kapnik's protest. When the flags of the starry sky were playing, they lowered their heads, wearing gloves among the protesters, raising the black fists, and then called "black power", they were anti-racial in American team jacket I showed an organization. Famous badge Australian silver medalist Peter Norman did not raise his fist but showed his badge and later expressly expressed his support for protest.