cotto points pushchairs and i would print search will be split in touch with her tell me touch your room the fictional guru goes how would international house floods achieve every green lol he told in talk of. the day you're watching our table costing live from moscow the headlines for. dozens of forcibly killed in libya operation odyssey dawn full swing as foreign forces push forward against gadhafi u.s. britain and france are going through every missile strikes on his home since he follows a u.n. resolution the same noise that the country. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited to some americans it's deja vu phase over into the operation meanwhile there are reports that three rescue teams don't

bombs drop bombs make it an infield. pressure is urging all sides involved in the process to put an end to the violence and the foreign military action in great support fishel says it sees as the best option. oh it's investigates the gamepad between the worlds of sports and politics it comes to steering american society maki jerk 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 play ball like. from childhood forward two great fears keep boys and men in line one is the nightmare of being called a girl. who i don't know what book tom brady if i'm listening

take off the skirt and put on some slack stuff from the home 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 of an 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. 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 on the sexual in sports will we not been begin to become open and accepting of homosexuals in other walks of life i mean obviously it's a slippery slope. it's a slippery slope and hoping it's a very slippery slope ok. i coming out and join the likes of baseball player billy bean and n.f.l. office of lineman esera to all but all these guys waited until retirement to come out of the closet why is that well let's consider how former n.b.a. all star tim hardaway responded to me cheese announcements. here. 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 i would i'm like i don't i don't

like it should get. any. more oh yeah i don't like the point again is that sports culture is shot through with political meaning and struggle 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 to be true 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 two seconds to go when we're down by two i don't think you're going to clear whether she's jewish. or anything so the whatever just want to show that she makes the shot they know you'll stress or new territory especially. 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

is more likely to razz an opposing player like peyton manning for the kooky endorses than 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 equality march for lesbian gay bisexual and transgendered rights and here's what he had to say by a large structure of bad boy were the issue of any quality. that would put it here for me. where my the stand in my life i would never do so i think the more times you have got away your data well i threw 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 they history of this fight.

back in one thousand nine hundred and an african american boxer named jack johnson sent white america into a panic at the time the accepted scientific truth in society was that african-americans lacked 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 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 rather. like. you know good for the guys you made in the world. when you joined the brooklyn dodgers in one thousand and forty seven jackie robinson became the first african-american to 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 stories where like jack johnson before him robinson demonstrated great courage in the face and still is from legions of bright people who believe black athletes had

no business playing alongside whites over time we've rightly paid tribute to this amazing display of courage and perseverance and while today 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 that it. will. i can be the first negro to ever play an organized baseball mom if i'm good enough if i can make a great point i'll be taking a big hit 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 when and why and the united states can be mighty tough for people who are no different from the majority i'm not because i've had a chance open to a very unique role american but i do know that democracy works for the old are willing to fight for it and history's telling jackie robinson just smiled worked

hard never complained and eventually broke the color barrier so well i know i would do a second date and when i get up i say you'll go back to one soul and i can see your black face and a fight over me so i often times you right in the city where you. mystery to. the public like this version of jackie robinson it was unthreatening it neatly defined 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 k.k.k. the ku klux klan the grand wizard dr greene called the atlanta ball club and said of jackie appears on the field he'll be shot and killed

a nightmarish reality that would eventually knock the seemingly conservative robinson off straight he's robinson who was an aide to governor rod. republican party as a protest against the new. black campaigning robinson has endorsed vice president humphrey unaccompanied him today on a swing through harlem i think that the more the negro delegates they could not would not will not so bored 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 his baton 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 black man i'm. going to look around and i'm. going already from the poverty and despair robinson started to speak out about how racism persisted despite his individual achievements always guys who are saying we got a major rap. just. as an individual can make it but i think we've got to concern ourselves with the masses of the people not what happened as an individual so i really tell these youngsters when i go out certainly i have an opportunity to say that they have an abbott because i've had this opportunity doesn't mean. he wanted to shift the terms of the discussing away from individual achievement to structural barriers to 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 will history have been different if black athletes had more power and independence from the start rather than having to adapt themselves to the existing power structure and sports and in turn how might our view of ourselves as americans have been different if we'd 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's also declare that he has aspirations beyond sports games a seven 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 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 already. well known. all along. just starlight and their mother lives. injust. is all. i need is the insoles phrase world. trade and help. in this stadium is. just the evidence we need to all this allows those authorities. mohammed ali remains

a global icon now 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 had become a far more dangerous man. even read about. the one nine hundred sixty s. remember you had two grand movements the african-american freedom struggle and the anti-war movement. the two movements didn't always merge but they did in mohammad.

ali was still the consummate showman but now his hero was malcolm x. reviving a cape. the power structure in one thousand nine hundred eighty four i rejoined the nation of islam a group feared and hated by white america and started speaking out against racism they rape our women daily policemen pull black people mobile and hit them across the here just a trial courts and no one none of the good white folks can be found to help. 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 bring everything on the line by resisting the draft in one nine hundred sixty six and why. we are in turn going to. kill kill continue to kill innocent people it was an act of conscientious objection that would not only cost him his championship belt but also get him

sentenced to prison close heavyweight champion counters craig and a federal court can use them is found guilty of violating the u.s. elected refusing to be inducted here sometimes to 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 fearlessness of someone who understood he was part of a larger struggle and all the fighters they just don't take part they make a million dollars they give the rules well to give them a nice only give them a white wife while i made it america's great new restaurant kitchen mail and even say nothing but when one man of popularity it can let the world know the problem he can lose a few dollars a self-evident truth might lose his life but he's helping millions and i just love the freedom and the force and. the money you can take issue right in washington that 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. jim they were dubbed the dream team. for greatest collection of mystical challenge ever assembled and there were an additional two words sure do as great as your fall back to it was colder than in one thousand nine hundred forty went to barcelona with the u.s. and with basketball as the medal ceremony or jordan had a crisis of conscience. notice how jordan has an american flag over his shoulder well this apparently heartwarming display of patriotism or turn out to be something else entirely jordan was using the flag to hide the reebok logo on the team jersey .

shore. he was using an american flag to protect his brands a form of subservience to corporate power that michael jordan model the yet again when he refused to endorse harvey gant 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 the famous lead a kind of back up democratic african-american senate candidate in his home state of north carolina and by responding republicans by sneakers to the bottom line requires offending as few people as possible so if you want to make money you had 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 of a great little jordan on the other ushering in a new age of corporate rule that loves to glorify the image of rebellion while 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 greatness after he saw the destruction in haiti he wrote down a few words and asked me to read them aloud that's something that really weighs on my mind a lot of the time because to me muhammad ali was a voice of resistance and i think we missed that voice very much. means i have to show maybe. i will never look 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 and turned american sports culture on its head in the late one nine hundred sixty s. was the last that you are stuck on the running pretty well for the last link to be on the out front that's just the right balance because the. odds are that. they want to gold in 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 endorsement deal no. these guys had a point to make. as they walked to the platform they took off their shoes and

carried them to protest 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 one week ago today and the affidavit was the most dramatic . starting with the news that the black power to fight with tommy smith and john carlos a limit two hundred because gold and bronze medal have been suspended by the united states a member committee and given forty eight hours to go. really demonstrations in.

your opinion to get the right place to do this. kind of world they did. oh i am an allegation. we you. tell all would be out of the ugly black man in america and the nation might say you got it all you got a busy got a medal you've got martyrdom as well on your side of. any kill. a group b. . and if you didn't grow up if you think you really. did . oh we. share. an. interest. in the money. we want so

much to see sports solely as an arena of play not seriousness but here's the thing this kinship in not only the greatness and relevance of sports to us 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 revet 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 for 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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