Retracted by Pat Darnell | July 24, 2013 | Bryan TX
[Picture LINK] ... in the same stadium from which 6,200 pigeons swooped skyward to signify the opening of the "Peace Olympics," Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two disaffected black athletes from the U.S. put on a public display of petulance that sparked one of the most unpleasant controversies in Olympic history and turned the high drama of the games into theater of the absurd. Smith had just won the 200-meter dash in a record-breaking 19.8 ...
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (43): Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics | P.a.p.-Blog // Human Rights Etc.: "The two U.S. athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Carlos wore a necklace of beads which he described “were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage.”
As they left the podium they were booed by the crowd. Time magazine wrote “Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the motto of the Olympic Games. “Angrier, nastier, uglier” better describes the scene in Mexico City last week. (source)
Carlos and Smith were stripped of their medals, ejected from the Olympic Village, and returned to an unfriendly welcome in the U.S."
'via Blog this'
Now jump ahead to 2012 Olympics
It writes itself, no lie.
Is this what Bernanke means by Quantitative Easing? The Oracle of "Never really getting anywhere in life...?"
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http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/iconic-images-of-human-rights-violations-43-black-power-salute-at-the-olympics/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900397,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Passage
http://wolmers.org/category/wolmers-olympics/
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