When I was in 9th grade my mother bought me a shirt that had one of the most epic moments in Olympic history. That was the moment where Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the potum to make a silent protest of the discrimination they have to face back home in the United States. In this picture I never notice the "white guy" until we watched a documentary in class about Peter Norman. It's so admirable that a white man not even from the United States would risk his own life and the respect from his country to help two people fight a controversial cause. Norman was the one that came up with the idea that Carlos and Smith wear one glove. The world needs more people like Peter Norman. He even said that he was in the right place at the right time, and does not regret his decsion at all
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