easy. to. say. bring you the news and headlines from around the world this is archie now on to the main developments from libya tonight coalition warplanes it was rumored patrolling the no fly zone as heavy anti-aircraft fire is heard in the capital tripoli that's despite gadhafi regime declaring an immediate cease fire earlier the arab league criticized the intervention following reports of civilian deaths. in the u.s. brock obama still insists the girl only be a limited bowler for american forces but the use of crude missiles on libyan targets has led many to draw parallels with the beginning of the two thousand and

three invasion of iraq. meanwhile russia has called on allied forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force it has stressed it's unacceptable to loosen the un security council mandate for purposes other than protecting civilians. next r.t. investigates the game plan between the worlds of sport and politics when it comes to steering american society. 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 my god well. 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. if i'm listening take off the skirt and put all some slack stuff in 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 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 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 been 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. by coming out and join the likes of baseball player billy bean and n.f.l. often said linemen as sarah to all but all these guys waited until retirement to come out of the closet was that well let's consider how former n.b.a. all star tim hardaway responded to nietzsche's announcement. 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. i don't know i don't like it. going to work at all and. so yeah i don't like 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 to be treated with respect. been straight whatever martina navratilova helped found it takes a team to fight homophobia in sports person since a three pointer with the seconds to go we were down by two i don't think you're going to care whether she threw is one thing so whatever just one mention of that she makes the shot plain i know you're stressing you. right. 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 call the march for lesbian gay bisexual and transgendered rights and here's what he had to say by a large country of bad boy were the issue of any quality. back appointed. by the stand in my way i would never do more to go away or they just know 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 they 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 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 when a good little does is to make sure. we join 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 and you play the game. jackie robinson surest way like jack johnson before him robinson demonstrated great courage and he's still ready for legions of white people who believe black athletes had no business playing alongside whites but while over time we've rightly paid

tribute to this amazing display of courage and perseverance and lots of 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 into sentiment from the start that it came so. i can be the first negro to ever been organized baseball mom if i'm good enough if i can make a great point i'll be taking a big chance 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 had a chance open to very few negro americans but i do know that democracy works for the old more willing to fight wars in history selling jackie robinson just smiled worked hard and never complained and eventually broke the color barrier and all i

would you would think and great and when i get up i say you'll go back to one soul and i can see your black face that right place right over me so i often like you right in the cape where you. mystery here to seek. the public like this version of jackie robinson it was on threatening 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 ball club and said 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 of. the republican party as a protest against the need. robinson has endorsed vice president humphrey unaccompanied 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 that he was a sit in or before sit ins a freedom rider before freedom rides and i'm black man i pointed to look around and

. minorities under the property and there robinson started to speak out about how racism persisted despite his individual achievements always guys who are saying we got it made sure. 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 haven't abbott because i've had these opportunity doesn't mean i've forgotten he wanted to shift the terms of the discussing away from individual it's even to structural barriers individual achievement. what if instead of plucking out the most talented individuals from the negro leagues major league baseball had chosen to incorporate entire teams entire organizations bringing along all of the african-american owners and management as well how would 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 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. 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 all of the above all love. a little cold was always just got a low life normal lives. injust. is. fine this is. the engines praise. and treat and help. in the stadium is. just the evidence we need to all this allows those authorities. here. mohamed 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. he was eighteen years old and won the olympic gold in rome young tasha's 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. given to me. 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 mohamed ali. he was still the consummate showman

but now his hero was malcolm x. retaining a cape. 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 they rape our women daily policeman poor black people noble and he'll no cause that he had 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 weighing everything on the line by resisting the draft in one nine hundred sixty six. here in turn to nitpick . kill kill and continue killing innocent people it was an act of conscientious objection i would not only cost him his championship belt but also get him sentenced to prison because heavyweight champion catchers craig in a federal courtroom used to me is found guilty of violating the us selective

service laws are refusing to be invoked here sometimes for five years in prison and crime kempo know the fact is that muhammad ali was more than an athlete when 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 fighters they just don't take part they make a million dollars the golden rules are both to give them a nice home to give them a white wife well i've made it america's great unrest the edge and they all even say nothing but when one man of popularity it can lead to world mobile problem he can lose a few dollars a self telling the truth might lose his life but he's helping millions and i just love the freedom in the face of people more money you could take issue right washington let 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. they were jumping the green machine. for greatest collection of basketball challenge ever assembled and they were auditioning to return to us friends your balls to it was colder than in one thousand nine hundred eighty two jordan went to barcelona with the u.s. leaving basketball as the medal ceremony or coach jordan had a crisis of conscience. notice how jordan has an american flag over his shoulder well this apparently heartwarming display of a tree it's ism or 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 subservience to corporate power that michael jordan modeled yet again when he refused to endorse harvey gantt 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 famously the kind of back of 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 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 on jordan on the other who 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 greatness after he saw the destruction of haiti he wrote down the phil words and actually 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. you know it means i have to show maybe. as i was. 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. but. i think you were stuck. with nothing pretty well for the last month just because of the out front that's just right now it's because of the . audacity. 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 average 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 learning here are one week ago today and yesterday to fix day with the most dramatic. i thought it was the news that the black power to fight with tommy smith and john carlos the olympic two hundred meters gold and bronze medal have been suspended by the united states and the committee and given forty eight hours to leave mexico. there were any demonstrations in.

the right place to do this kind of thing the kind of world stage they did in. oh i am a teacher. we you this. will all work to be out of the other great man in america and the nation might say you got all the bulk of the governmental you got martyrdom as well. and it killed. a group we. grew up in the military and. oh you. know we. really do with. money. we want so much to see sports soley as an arena of play not seriousness but here's the thing this can sheep in not only the greatness

and relevance of sports it's a society but also the courage of acids. and we do an injustice to them and the what's best about sports when we sanitize the past and read that 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 the 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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