Editorial: We should all take a knee over the Olympic athlete protest crackdown
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2020
3 minutes
Among the many inspiring displays at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington is a statue of U.S. Olympic athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos thrusting their clenched fists into the air as they received their gold and bronze medals at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. It was a defining moment of the era - two African American athletes representing the U.S. at the pinnacle of global athletics silently telling the world
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