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it is rubbish and i cant find anthing to help me

Defend their right to freedom of speech and political expression, but it's pretty damn hypocritical of them to accept medals or even participate in the Olympics, as they were essentially representing a country that they viewed as repressive of their race...

Appalling? I thought it was an appropriate gesture of protest. (Although I think the Black Panthers were overrated, loud thugs) The protest was appropriate to the times.

I kinda liked it. They used an achievement as a statement against unfair practices in our country.

While no one was physically hurt or gained a competitive edge from the Black Panther Salute, the problem with this was the fact that the act injected politics into an event that was designed to be non-political. This relatively small gesture seemed to raise the bar yet again only four years removed from the subsequent events in Munich. While obviously tame by contemporary standards, this is how things get changed from how they were intended to be.

Only appalling to the easily shocked at the time, and utterly pales in comparison to some of the stuff on this list. Doesn't even register on my appalling radar screen.

i liked this. it made me wish i was a black panther.

no one remembers that far back