RUBY BEGONIAS

The Olympic Games provide a stage for the whole world, not just watch sports, but also fight for their beliefs. However, history Olympic recently, the world has ignored the true calling of the Olympics.

The 2008 Olympics comes at a time is the first African American candidate to the U.S. presidency, Tibet is fighting for freedom in China, and Iraq is the search for identity of the coalition, among many other world issues. Why then has the Olympic Committee decided to hold the Olympics in China?

Given the current state of international affairs many human beings do not respect the decision to hold the Olympics in China.

Moreover, China could be the perfect place to make a statement policy.

Many times, athletes in the Olympics are fighting for the rights and freedoms in their countries of origin. If the world believes that China has violated human rights and freedoms, then what better place is there for the world's eyes to the attention of human injustice? And who better to protest that the athletes themselves?

The 1968 Olympics is a perfect example of how a place is controversial and volatile international climate, could lead an everlasting memory of the human spirit and a symbol of rights and freedom for oppressed peoples throughout the world.

Mexico City was a trouble spot when the Olympic Games and moved in. 1968 was a time of war and international turmoil America was waging its own struggle for inner freedom.

The Vietnam War was in full entering its ninth year and Martin Luther King Jr. died shortly before the Olympic Games in April 1968. The world, along of America, to mourn.

Mexico City was plagued by violence. Many of the young people of Mexico believe that the Olympics was a loss social funds and authority. Mexican student protesters were massacred a few days before the Olympics and almost 300 died.

The eyes of the world were in the 1968 Olympics, not just for the joy and fuffilment to see athletes and believe in passion but also by the international community and the political climate of the time.

San Jose, University of track African American runners, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, understood then that this was an opportunity for them to protest peacefully against the injustices of the U.S. racial and despair for the injustices of human rights worldwide.

Smith took the gold with an impressive 19.5 seconds back 200 meters. Charles finished with a bronze.

The two walked solemnly to the podium where they were adorned with flowers and medals. Both men wore black socks and no shoes and sported badges of human rights. Took the podium and their black socks clashed with the white boxes underfoot.

Gradually the national anthem started playing. The two men bowed their heads and proudly held up a fist wrapped in a black glove in the air in the black power salute.

These men were good enough to compete for their country but were not good enough to share the freedoms enjoyed by other Americans. They understood that.

They used the controversy set stage at the Olympic Games in Mexico City for their benefit.

Although barred from further competition in the Olympics and not heroically received in the U.S., Carlos and Smith are regarded as heroes of rights movements civil and human rights heroes around the world.

China, like Mexico City, is a controversial place to hold the Olympics. The Iraq war, like the Vietnam War, is a controversial war. Struggle for Freedom in Tibet, like African-American freedom struggle, is one that the world is watching.

If the actions of two men in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City can be a part of the reason why a black can run for the 2008 presidential headquarters, then China is the perfect setting to set the Olympic Games.

The world should not boycott the Olympics for its location-rather than the world should celebrate the athletes they did games, and athletes should use the Olympics to make a small but significant difference.

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