Smith and Carlos sacrificed their sports lives (and therefore their future), but have gone into world history
They have become the deity of hundreds of millions of oppressed black in the world.
What about Australian white Peter Norman?
Tommie Smith says;
─ Peter was a white
In those days, the dignified and backbone white who had the courage to defend the rights of blacks was very few.
When Peter returned to Australia, no one was looking at his face, he was judged by everyone
His athletic career was over and he was excluded from sports circles.
We had such troubled days due to threats, unemployment and isolation, the first marriage of all three of us ended in this process
The Australian State did not forgive Norman until he died, but …
Norman took his revenge on the grave: the 200-meter Australian record that he broke while he was second in the final of the 1968 Olympics, still could not be broken 38 years later.
The ‘action brotherhood' and friendships of two American and one Australian ‘cursed' athletes that started that day lasted a lifetime.
During the 38 years that passed, they corresponded, met, saw each other.
Until Peter Norman had a heart attack in his garden and died at the age of 64.
And now, take a good look at the photo below;
The funeral ceremony in Melbourne
The ‘honorable white athlete' Peter Norman's coffin is on the shoulders of Tommie Smith (left) and John Carlos!
The three ‘action brothers' are shoulder to shoulder for the last time.
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