Was a courageous Melburnian whose stance for racial equality
at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games saw him banned from competing in
subsequent Olympic Games, because Australia was kinda fucked up and cowardly
and racist for a long, long time. Next week, Australian parliament will
hopefully rectify this awful injustice by acknowledging his bravery in wearing
an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the podium in solidarity with
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, apologizing to him for failing to send him to the
1972 Munich games, and belatedly recognize the powerful role he played in
furthering racial equality. Pity this will come some six years after the man
died.
