(I have) a dream

samedi 24 septembre 2011
par MmesS

Watch the video to the movie original soundtrack, paying attention to the symbols present there.

- Can you identify any place ?
- Do you recognize any gesture ? symbol ?

Places/peopleGestures/symbolsForm of power exerted/at hand
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Among the symbols that can be observed in the video, you can see the raised fist, corresponding to the human/civil rights salute performed by Tommy Smith and John Carlos, black American athletes.

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On the morning of October 16, 1968,[2] U.S. athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race in a world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia’s Peter Norman second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and the U.S.’s John Carlos in third place with a time of 20.10 seconds. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two U.S. athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride, Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar workers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage." All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badges after Norman, a critic of Australia’s White Australia Policy, expressed empathy with their ideals.


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