顺便回顾一下1968年奥运会著名的抗议事件:
IOC president Avery Brundage deemed it to be a domestic political statement unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games were intended to be. In response to their actions, he ordered Smith and Carlos suspended from the US team and banned from the Olympic Village. When the US Olympic Committee refused, Brundage threatened to ban the entire US track team. This threat led to the expulsion of the two athletes from the Games.[15]
A spokesman for the IOC said Smith and Carlos's actions were "a deliberate and violent breach of the fundamental principles of the Olympic spirit." **Brundage, who was president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1936, had made no objections against Nazi salutes during the Berlin Olympics. He argued that the Nazi salute, being a national salute at the time, was acceptable in a competition of nations, while the athletes' salute was not of a nation and therefore unacceptable.[16] **
当时奥委会主席是美国人(白人),威胁美国代表团说,你不开除这两个运动员我就把整个美国田径队禁赛。1936年纳粹奥运会的时候他是美国奥委会主席,那时候他觉得德国人敬纳粹礼没问题,因为那是“国家礼仪”。
美国政治确实非常有趣,从这里你就可以看出来,不论是白左还是白右,很多时候根本不把美国利益当成最优先,而是要用权力伸张个人价值观。