good morning to you in new jersey in boynton beach, florida, harrisburg, pennsylvania, san francisco and internationally. we're glad to have you with us watching from sao paulo brazil cairo egypt. good morning to you in el salvador, peru and in stockholm in sweden. again, i'll ask you to please post your questions in the comments section. so that damian and danny can answer them. so damian danny's given us a sense of how it played out for a couple of college students who could relate on a very personal level as --. how did african-american athletes grapple with the question of whether to compete or boycott? was a difficult question because for african-american's the olympics and sports had been a primary vehicle through which african-american said sought to fight against racial discrimination by by embodying the ideas of the amateur athlete they saw themselves as challenging notions race and racial oppression. some of the more also concerned about whether they would face discrimination in germany, and so they they had legitimate concerns and worries, but ultimately many of them saw t