for instance on t.v. . in the. seven thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines the arab league has criticized international strikes in libya after an aerial offensive against gadhafi forces with dozens reported killed there would be a leader is promising a long war and says he's opening up weapons depots for civilians. barack obama says america's role in the military intervention in libya will be a limited one but as u.s. cruise missiles take a leading role in the polish an operations many are drawing comparisons to the start of the iraq war in two thousand and three. russia has called on allied forces

who are praying for news in indiscriminate force on libya and stressed that it's unacceptable to use the un security council mandate for purposes other than protecting civilians up next r.t. investigates the game plan between the worlds of sport and politics when it comes to steering american society part two of our special report coming up next. 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 ball like up. from childhood forward two great fears keep boys and men in line one is the nightmare of being called the girl. who got killed oh the listener take off the skirt and put on some slag stuff about 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 that

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. 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 closets. 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 a million other things 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. office of lineman a sarah to all but all these guys waited until retirement to come out of the closet why is that but 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 get around gay people i don't you know i am. i don't know i don't i don't like it it shouldn't be. bad or any. way so 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 treated with respect. whatever martina navratilova helped found it takes a team to fight homophobia in sports in the first incidence of three pointer with two seconds to whom are down but i don't think you're going to clear whether she's jewish. or anything so the whatever it was one issue that she makes the shot they know you're stressing 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 is more likely to razz an opposing player like peyton manning for the cookie she endorses and he has 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 quality march for lesbian gay bisexual and transgendered rights and here's what he had to say by a large grocery of bad boy were the issue of any quality. put it there for me. to stand in my way but i would never do so i think the more guys you have got away your day to do it through god that you believe in you that 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 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 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 combination of sorts with jackie robinson jackie rather. like. you know good little brothers maybe so. when he joined the brooklyn dodgers in one nine hundred 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 and you play with. jackie robinson surest way like jack johnson before him robinson demonstrated great courage in the face of stewards and legions of white 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 watson 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 that it came. 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 any 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 very few negro americans but i do know that democracy works for the old are willing to fight for and history's telling jackie robinson just smiled worked hard never complained and eventually broke the color barrier so well i thought i would do a second break and when i get up i say you'll go back to one soul i can see your

black face got ready for a fight over me so i often times you write indicate 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 the k.k.k. the ku klux klan the grand wizard dr greene called the atlanta dog and said if jackie appears on the field he'll be shot and killed a nightmarish reality that would eventually knock the seemingly conservative robinson off straight who was an aide to governor rock a republican party as a protest against the new. black. robinson has endorsed by president cumbrian

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 his bat and 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 he was a sit in or before sit ins a freedom rider before freedom rides and i'm right now i. can look around and find . minorities in the audience where robinson started to speak out about how racism

persisted despite his individual achievements always guys who are saying we got it made right. 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've had opportunities they may have an abbott 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 chosen to incorporate and tired seems entirely 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 and 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. that. le bron james is the kind of go lactic talent that holds the potential to redefine basketball. but he's also declared that he has aspirations beyond sports james 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 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 because they were willing to sacrifice everything including

sponsorship deals to stand up for what they believed in almost. all. along. just like naira my life is. i mean just. races. i mean this is. in zones greece could. cause. injuries in this world. just need to the rule this is the core of the. mohammad ali remains a 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. he was eighteen years old and won the olympic gold in rome young caches

marcellus clay jr said that his dream was to bring professional wrestling into boxing 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 and become a far more dangerous man. being. given to me even printed on the. original made. by 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. ali was still the consummate showman but now his hero was malcolm x. ray thing again. the power structure in one thousand nine hundred eighty four

joined the nation of islam a group feared and hated by white america and started speaking out against racism the right by women the only piece known pull black people mobile and he calls the here and none just a trial courts and no none of the good white folks can be found to help them. 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 laying everything on the line by resisting the draft in one nine hundred sixty six. here in canton to pick he'll kill kill kill any continue killing innocent people it was an act of conscientious objection i would not only cost him his championship belts but also get him sentenced to prison both heavyweight champion countries craig and a federal court in gruesome is prone building violating the us selective service laws by refusing to be inducted years of five years in prison and fined. 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 for all the fighting they just don't take part they make a million of the golden rules you ought to give them a nice only give them a white wife while i made it america's great restaurant kitchen hey i'll even say no but when one man of popularity in the world made the problem he can lose a few dollars a self 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 dubbed the dream team. for greatest collection of mystical challenge ever assembled and they were auditioning to work your do is raise your balls to it was colder than in one thousand nine hundred sooth jordan went to barcelona with the us a little basketball scene as the medal ceremony approached 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 . boy. he was using an american flag to protect his brands

a form of subservience 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 he famously declined the back of democratic african-american senate candidate in his home state of north carolina by responding republicans 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 ross 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 greatest after he saw the destruction of haiti he wrote down a few words and asked me to read them 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 miss that voice very much. if i get it it means i have to show maybe oklahoma. i mean never lebron 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 burst out of the box. with running pretty well through the last line to put it on the out front that it's just that right now it's because of the. odd 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 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 averaging 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 morning here one week ago today and yesterday the second day was the most dramatic. and started with the news that the black power to fight with tommie smith and john collars the olympic two hundred meters gold and bronze medal had been suspended by the united states committee and getting forty eight hours to leave mexico. any demonstrations in. the right place to do this kind of. a kind of. they did in actually oh i am an allocation. we you. tell all

would be out of peak of the black man in america. a nation might say you go your way broke up a city got metal you got modern as well on your side. any killed. a group we think you need to make you. think really literally. oh you. know we. really do we need to get a new money. we want so much to see sports solely as an arena of play not seriousness but here's the thing this conceiving 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 passed and repassed let it 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 the real courage means standing up when it's not popular and real names and real women don't ask permission to raise their fists.

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