NFL played this one smart: they aren't touching it with a ten foot fucking pole. Major props to the players that did this too. Really great to see them take that stance where everyone can see it. And another major fuck you to the SLPD for making a public stink about wanting them punished for voicing an opinion.
I have admittedly been largely absent from mainstream media for the past… Oh, I don't know five years or so. I don't catch a lot of these types of things, so I'm glad this was posted. Why? Because this is a big deal. This is a police organization asking that public protest be squashed, be something that needs apology for. This is horseshit! Those guys can come out and make any sort of protest they see fit, so long as the NFL doesn't find fault with it but it's certainly not the place of the police to say what they can and cannot have a public opinion about. In fact, it's even more so not the place of the police when that opinion is about them. Do your job, do it well and none of this happens.
It continues to show their complete lack of understanding of the situation: yes, this is about a black boy being killed yet again, but it's about a black boy being killed because the police have no oversight and constantly far overstep their bounds and believe they're exempt from the American law system. So their response to someone angered by their lying, cover-up, and militarization is to demand an apology for exercising the most central American right.
I want this situation to, not to be forgotten, but to be forgotten by the media. And now I see on facebook that the police are claiming the team apologized and the team is saying they didn't. Fuck off back to fifth grade. When the fuck is someone (other than Brown's parents - credit where credit is due) going to be the bigger man in Missouri?
i never considered the effect racial tension had on the sports industries. Cons of living under a rock no. 186
Yep, that is immediately the image that was brought to mind when I read this.
And to make it known that this shit was never just limited to the 60's, the man on the left, who supported them and joined them, Australian Peter Norman, was outcast by his country until two fucking years ago. - - The order of the day having been read for the resumption of the debate on the motion of Dr Leigh— That this House: And even then, they couldn't unanimously agree that they did wrong and he deserved an apology.Australia's Olympic authorities reprimanded him for his gesture and the Australian media ostracised him.[3] Despite Norman running qualifying times for the 100m five times and 200m 13 times during 1971/72, the Australian Olympic track team did not send him, or any other male sprinters, to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the first modern Olympics since 1896 where no Australian sprinters participated
Australian organising authorities overlooked Norman as being involved in any way with the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney; he was however eventually part of the event after being invited by the United States when they heard that his own country had failed to do so.
On 11 October 2012 the Australian Parliament passed the wording of an official apology that read:
“ 15 PETER NORMAN
Question—That the amendment be agreed to—put and passed.
Question—That the motion, as amended, be agreed to—put and passed. (1) recognises the extraordinary athletic achievements of the late Peter Norman, who won the silver
medal in the 200 metres sprint running event at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, in a time of 20.06
seconds, which still stands as the Australian record;
(2) acknowledges the bravery of Peter Norman in donning an Olympic Project for Human Rights
badge on the podium, in solidarity with African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John
Carlos, who gave the ‘black power’ salute;
(3) apologises to Peter Norman for the wrong done by Australia in failing to send him to the 1972
Munich Olympics, despite repeatedly qualifying; and
(4) belatedly recognises the powerful role that Peter Norman played in furthering racial equality—
Debate resumed by Dr Leigh who moved, by leave, as an amendment—Omit paragraph (3), substitute:
(3) apologises to Peter Norman for the treatment he received upon his return to Australia, and the
failure to fully recognise his inspirational role before his untimely death in 2006; and
Debate continued.