Question, Réponse au texte sur Tommie Smith

The story took place thirty-five years earlier, on the night of October 16, 1968.

2/ The places mentioned are the city of San Jose, as well as the campus of San Jose State College. And the main place where the story unfolds is the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City.

3/ The narrator was dressed with a gold medal around his neck, black socks on his feet and a glove on his right fist.

The narrator after pushing his right fist into the air during the national hyme, was afraid and bowed his head to pray.

4/ The audience was large, 100,000 people.

The public's attitude towards the narrator is very aggressive because all these people

wanted to kill him by shooting him for what he had just done. ( For raising his fist in the air, a symbol representing oppressed peoples during the national hyme)

5/ The narrator dared to make himself known to the whole world as a black man, representing oppressed peoples all over America and spokesperson for the ambitious objectives of the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

And he also won the gold medal in the 200-metre final in record time.

7/ The narrator's motivation is there in search of a social victory, where everyone would listen and look at his statement on the condition in which he and his people live in the largest country in the world.

He seeks through his gesture to denounce these living conditions.

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The event recounts by the document it took place on the night of October 16, 1968 at the Olympic State of Mexico City

Day at Tommie Smith, a great athlete dressed in black socks and a black glove with a right fist pushing his fist in the air, just after winning the gold medal in the 200 metres during the national anthem.

This gesture was very badly received by the 100,000 people in the public. Because he dared to make this known to the world as a black man, representing oppressed peoples all over America and spokesperson for the ambitious goals of the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

But this gesture, bearing a great symbol of the oppressed peoples in America, made the athele one of the main spokesmen of these peoples. This is a silent gesture to denounce the living conditions of these people. Because these main motivations being there in search of a social victory, i.e. a certain equality between all peoples living in one of the largest countries in the world.

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