stunts on t.v. don't come. hungry for the full scoop we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. without a live from moscow to remind an hour of top stories here the crisis of the quake hit a power plant in japan that worsens reports say a partial nuclear meltdown is under way as the country is struggling couldn't try to control the damage caused by the earthquake efficient the death toll has now risen to over four thousand with more than eight thousand still missing. and as radiation levels continue to rise japanese authorities claim there's no imminent threat to people's health and the country's track record of covering up past nuclear problems makes many valid the official version of events. in libya

pro-government forces are retaking more land from the rebels meanwhile the u.n. is set to discuss imposing a no fly zone over the country a measure opposed by most states. coming up your nazi we take a look at how sports and politics are mixed in the american culture and the role of both in shaping the life of the country the second part of our special report is next knocking and as it turns out this gendering of athletic achievement presents a problem not just for women who play sports but also for the men who don't measure up to the sports cultures masculine ideal you play ball like dogs. from childhood forward two great fears heaped boys and men in line one is the nightmare of being called a girl. who got no. brainier from listener

take off the skirt and put on some slack stuff are not well known and the second great fear is homophobia even though we may think it's not a big deal in our society the reality is a lot of homophobia that exists in sports is about a macho environment as we have offered american culture like sexism homophobia is everywhere in sports so you have someone like john smoltz future hall of fame pitcher who compared gay marriage to beastie ality by saying what's next marion animal or repeat offender jeremy shockey of the saints. who said that he wouldn't stand for having a gay guy on his team because they're going to be in the shower with us and. as with sexism this kind of homophobia functions to maintain a certain ideal of normal manhood by dehumanizing other people and in the process it keeps gay athletes in the closet. john amaechi played for seven seasons in the

national basketball association then in two thousand and seven he became the first former n.b.a. player to come out of the closet but if we end up being open and accepting of homosexuals in sports will we not then begin to become open and accepting of homosexuals in other walks of life i mean it's a slippery slope. it's a slippery slope i'm hoping it's a very slippery slope ok. i coming out and join the likes of baseball player billy bean an n.f.l. often a sarah to all but all these guys waited until retirement to come out of the closet i is that well let's consider how former n.b.a. all star tim hardaway responded to me cheese announcements. where. you know you know i hate gay people so. you know i let it be known i don't like gay people i don't like to be around gay people i don't you know i am and i'm never gonna i don't i don't like it it shouldn't be there or any. way so yeah right the point

again is that sports culture is shot through with political meaning and struggle and unless we're content to stay quiet in the face of bullying we should make it our goal to speak up and try to change things when sports culture reinforces backward political attitudes that hurt people for no good reason i think it's important for. everybody could be created with respect. been straight whatever martina navratilova helped found it takes a team to fight homophobia in sports in the first instance a three pointer with the seconds but we're down by two i don't think we're going to care whether she's jewish. or the thing so whatever you just want to show that she makes the shot hey no no no stress or you. pressure you scott fujita the free spirited defense of captain and starting linebacker for the two thousand and ten super bowl champion new orleans saints is not only the kind of guy who's more likely to razz an opposing player like peyton manning for the kooky c.

endorses then he is to call him a girl. he's also the kind of guy who has the guts to speak up for gay rights in a hostile environment where it's not an easy thing to do i interviewed scott on my radio show and asked him why a straight guy married to a woman like him was willing to lend his public support to the national call the march for lesbian gay bisexual and transgendered rights and here's what he had to say by a large country where it is you have a right to any. point of debate here for me. to stand in my diary don't buy it but i would never do it though i think the more times you go when you're there to buy i do it through a god that you believe in. the fight for equality starts just like that and the history of sports is in many ways the history of this fight.

back in one thousand nine hundred ten an african american boxer named jack johnson sent white america into a panic at the time he accepted scientific truth in society was that african-americans lack both the mental and even physical ability to succeed in sports. but then johnson became the first african-american heavyweight champion and after that there was an outcry for a great white hope to defeat johnson and restore order to the universe but johnson defeated this great white hope the former champion jim jeffries in front of a hostile all white crowd of twenty two thousand people on july fourth independence day. african-americans took to the streets to celebrate his victory. drawing the wrath of an angry white mobs. for many jack johnson was much more than just a boxer as

a powerful symbol of black masculinity he represented a direct threat to white male power both inside and outside the ring and his example would inspire other black athletes to fight for equality in ways that would reverberate beyond sports. four decades later that fight would reach a culmination of sorts with jackie robinson jackie robinson like. you know really good looking guys you know. when he joined the brooklyn dodgers in one thousand forty seven jackie robinson became the first african-american the play for a major league baseball team literally changing the face of mainstream american sports in baseball it's not sure what you are but when you play the game. jackie robinson surest way like jack johnson before him robinson demonstrated great courage in the face of the stewards and legions of white people who believe black athletes had no business playing alongside whites for

a while over time we've rightly paid tribute to this amazing display of courage and perseverance and lots and a we continue to remember and honor and celebrate the fact that jackie robinson was a pioneer in the fight to integrate major league baseball the harder edges of what he was all about were softened in the sentiment from the start he better than. i can be the first negro to ever been organized baseball mom if i'm going to know if i can make a great point i'll be taking a break and it was a spin on history that was set in motion when robinson himself appeared in a nine hundred fifty bio pic about his achievements i know and unlike in the united states it can be mighty tough for people who are no different from the majority i'm not. going to very few negro americans but i do know that democracy works for gold we're willing to fight for it in history's telling jackie robinson just smiled worked hard never complained and eventually broke the color barrier and when i go i

would do a second date and when i get up i say you'll go back to one soul all i can see is your black face that backpay fight over me so i often times you right in the cape where you. mr t. i've got to think. the public like this version of jackie robinson it was unthreatening it neatly defines his achievements within the frame of american values and patriotism and it also conveniently concealed how despite his singular achievements the grossest forms of institutional racism segregation and inequality were still legal acceptable and practiced across a broad cross-section of the country the k.k.k. the ku klux klan a grand wizard dr greene called the atlanta ball club and said of jackie appears on the field he'll be shot and killed in a nightmarish reality that would eventually knock the seemingly conservative

robinson off straight robinson who was an aide to govern iraq alone whose love the republican party as a protest against the nickname agnew would take it back campaigning robinson has endorsed by president humphrey and accompanied him today on a swing through harlem i think that the mood of the negro delegates is such that they could not would not will not support the nominee and just like that the innocent image of jackie robinson began to get a lot more complicated. in the one nine hundred sixty s. no longer content to let is that glove alone do the talking for him robinson lent his explicit support to the civil rights movement joining forces with the great civil rights leader martin luther king he said of robinson that he was a sit in or before sit ins a freedom rider before freedom rides and i'm like when i find it i can look around

and find. minorities from the dead already under their robinson started to speak out about how racism persisted despite his individual achievements always guys who are saying we got it made right. just not. an individual can make it but i think we've got to concern ourselves with a mass of people not by what happened as an individual so i really. certainly i had opportunity they they haven't had but because i've had this opportunity doesn't mean i've forgotten he wanted to shift the terms of the discussion away from individual achievement to structural barriers individual achievement. what if instead of plucking out the most talented individuals from the negro leagues major league baseball and chosen to incorporate entire teams entire organizations bringing along all the african-american owners and management as well

how would history of been different if black athletes had more power and independence from the start rather than having to adapt themselves to the existing power structure in sports and in turn how might our view of ourselves as americans have been different if we grown up learning about the triumph of black teams and organizations rather than the triumph of jackie robinson alone. le bron james is the kind of go lactic talent that holds the potential to redefine basketball. but he is also the clear that he has aspirations beyond sports james has said that he has two goals in his life one is to be quote a global icon like muhammad ali and the other is to be the richest athlete in the history of the world while these may be two great goals and they don't exactly go

great together and that's because guys like muhammad ali didn't become global icons because they were rich but because they were willing to sacrifice everything including sponsorship deals to stand up for what they believed in almost. all. along. and there my life is still. dangerous. release is. fine this is. insult free world. interest because. the interest in the station is the world. just the evidence we need to all and this allows tours of. mohammad ali remains of global icon not because of what he earned but for what he sacrificed he wanted more than

just money more than fame more than boxing titles he wanted to change the world. when he was eighteen years old and won the olympic gold in rome young cashless marcellus clay jr said that his dream was to bring professional wrestling into boxing and he pointed to a flamboyant pro wrestler by the name of gorgeous george as his hero. by the mid one nine hundred sixty s. he changed his name to muhammad ali then become a far more dangerous man. being. the name given to me richard on the. original may or may bear the name. by the one nine hundred sixty s. remember you had two grand movements the african-american freedom struggle and the as i were moved. the two movements didn't always merge but they did in mohammad ali

. ali was still the consummate showman but now his hero was malcolm x. with a single case. power structure in one nine hundred sixty four join the nation of islam a group feared and hated by white america and started speaking out against racism the right by women daily policeman pull black people mobile and little more calls but he had none just a trial courts and no one none of the good white folks can be found by helping. a couple of years later he would become one of the earliest and most outspoken high profile americans to come out against the vietnam war playing everything on the line by resisting the draft in one nine hundred sixty six and one. here in turn to kill kill kill anyone trying to kill innocent people it was an act of conscientious objection that would not only cost him his championship belts but also get him sentenced to prison for those heavyweight champion countries craig and

a federal court can use them is found guilty of violating the u.s. elected service by refusing to be involved here sometimes for five years in prison and fined ten pounds and over the fact is that muhammad ali was more than an athlete and he believed in something he believed in standing up for it outside of the ring and he did it with the fear of someone who understood he was part of a larger struggle for all the fighting they just don't take part they make a million dollars begin to give them a nice only give them a white wife well i made it america's great investment kitchen they all even say no but when one man of popularity can let the world make a problem he can lose a few dollars itself telling the truth might lose his life but he's helping me i just love the freedom and the force and. the money you can take issue right in washington nixon here.

today the former chicago bulls superstar michael jordan runs a division of nike but during his playing days he too often acted as though nike ran. him they were jobbed the green gene. for greatest collection of first of all challenge ever assembled and they were an addition to work your jewish friends your full rank who was once called a man in one thousand nine hundred sooth jordan went to barcelona with us a little basketball scene as the medal ceremony or rhodes jordan had a crisis of conscience. notice how jordan has an american flag over his shoulder well this apparently heartwarming display of atria tism what turned out to be something else entirely jordan was using the flag to hide the reebok logo on the team jersey. boy.

he was using an american flag to protect his brands a form of some servants to corporate power that michael jordan modeled the yet again when he refused to endorse harvey gantz an african-american democrat when he ran against republican senator jesse helms an outspoken opponent of civil rights and a former segregationist some social observers say it was michael jordan he set the example for star athletes on being a political in one thousand nine hundred eighty three mislead the kind of back of democratic african-american senate candidate in his home state of north carolina by responding publicans by sneakers to the bottom line requires offending as few people as possible so if you want to make money you better keep your mouth shut. in many ways these two great athletes represent the twin poles of the story of politics in american sports ali on the one side showing how greatness in the ring

doesn't require sacrificing greatness outside of it not great at all jordan on the other ushering in a new age of corporate rule that loves to glorify the image of rebellion all stripping it of its substance so it doesn't get in the way of its bottom line interests. and it says something i think very damning about this country that ali has been embraced now that he has lost the power of speech it is a privilege to stand next to the graves after he saw the destruction in haiti he wrote down a few words and asked me to read that's something that really weighs on my mind a lot of the time because to me mohamed ali was a voice of resistance and i think we missed that voice very much. if i get it means all of the show maybe ought to be a problem as i was. never like bron james and others concerned about their legacies would do well to remember the side of history ali was on they would do well to

remember how today's play it safe commercial mindset conceals a longstanding counter-current that's been there throughout the history of sports embodied in athletes like tommy smith and john carlos soutar and american sports culture on its head in the late one nine hundred sixty. s. . i think you burst out the books i mean i think pretty well for the last legs because the fact that it's just right now it was the thing. last thing. they want to golden a bronze medal at the sixty eight olympics. they didn't pull a jordan and use their platform on the global stage to protect an endorser no. these guys had a point to make. as they walked to the platform they took off their shoes and

carried them to protest poverty in america they were beads to protest lynching and john carlos even under his jacket a violation of olympic protocol to represent as he told me his working buddies black and white back home in new york city. and in perhaps the most famous gesture in olympic history they raised their fists during the national anthem to show solidarity with the civil rights movement. their symbolic gesture inspired millions around the world but their punishment was swift and severe warning here the olympic games are one week ago today and yesterday the fact was the most dramatic. it started with the news that the blackout of five or tommy smith and john carlos the olympic two hundred meters gold and bronze medal had been suspended by the united states and the committee i'm going to. believe. there were any demonstrations in. the right

place to do this. kind of world they did. oh i am an allegation. we. so the older we get out of the ugly black man in america i would think the nation might say you got it all you got the best got medal you've got martyrdom as well when there's a guy. in the kill room of a group we came to meet you if you think you're any literary. oh you. know we. really do we need to do and don't want to. we want so much to see sports solely as an arena of play not seriousness but here's the

thing this can sheep in not only the greatness and relevance of sports just society but also the courage of athletes. and we do an injustice to them and do what's best about sports when we sanitize the past and read best legs out of the political and cultural context it has always been a part of. keeping our mouths shut in the face of injustice may help us make fun of others and silence them and assure that we stay popular with the keepers of normality but real courage means standing up when it's not popular and real men and real women don't ask permission to raise their fists.

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