My Historical Text that I am looking at is the response of the media to the 1968 Olympics "Black Power Salute". The article below is significant as it shows that the media did see a huge difference between ethnic minorities and the majority of other athletes. Back then it was more apparent and not so discrete. as it could be nowadays. The media response to the two black olympic sprinters was negative.
"The Los Angeles Times described the salute by Carlos and Smith as a “Nazi-like support”."
" Time magazine also ran a picture of the Olympic symbol which has a motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger” and they replaced the motto on the symbol with the words “Angrier, Nastier, Uglier”. The magazine article even called their protest “petty”. These two reports were evidence that the silent protest was not viewed by the media as appropriate for the event, even if the attention was much needed."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900397,00.html- The actual article
" Even Peter Norman, the Australian who was sympathetic to his competitors’ protest, was reprimanded by his country’s Olympic authorities and cast out by the Australian media (themselves no strangers to racism and colonial oppression)."
The times magazine connotes that during the 60s colonialist ideas were the dominant ideas oposed to the post-colonialist ideas that float around in our globalised world.
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