When Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the podium at the 1968 Olympics and bravely raised their fists to protest oppression in America, people didn’t get it…48 years later NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, refuses to stand for the national anthem and gets the same response, proof that many people still don’t get it. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Tommie Smith had a LOT to say about this though…

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