What we’re witnessing now isn’t the first time professional athletes have taken a stand on matters of civil rights. There was Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood; Bill Russell and Jim Brown; John Carlos and Tommy Smith with their black-glove clenched fists at the 1968 Olympics; Arthur Ashe and, of course, there was Muhammad Ali.
Shouldn't ALL Black Lives Matter?
What we’re witnessing now isn’t the first time professional athletes have taken a stand on matters of civil rights. There was Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood; Bill Russell and Jim Brown; John Carlos and Tommy Smith with their black-glove clenched fists at the 1968 Olympics; Arthur Ashe and, of course, there was Muhammad Ali.