Black Players
Black athletes may refer to: * 1968 Olympics Black Power salute * Black athletic superiority * Black participation in college basketball * Black players in professional American football * Black players in ice hockey * Black players in the NBA * ''Forty Million Dollar Slaves'', a book by William C. Rhoden William C. Rhoden is an American sports journalist and author who formerly worked as a columnist for ''The New York Times'' from 1983 until 2016, when he joined ESPN's The Undefeated (website), The Undefeated as a writer-at-large, where he is cur ...

1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
During their medal ceremony in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each Raised fist, raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". While on the podium, Smith and Carlos, who had won gold and bronze medals respectively in the Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres, 200-meter running event of the 1968 Summer Olympics, turned to face the US flag and then kept their hands raised until the anthem had finished. In addition, Smith, Carlos, and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman all wore human-rights badges on their jackets. In his autobiography, ''Silent Gesture'', published nearly 30 years later, Smith declared that his gesture was not a "Black Power" salute per se, but rather a "human rights" salute. The demonstration has been called one of the most overtly political statements in the history o ...
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Black Athletic Superiority
Issues related to race and sports have been examined by scholars for a long time.Lomax 2008, p. ix. Among these issues are the observation that there are overrepresentation and underrepresentation of different races in different sports, with racial discrimination often proposed as the major cause. Participation and performance disparities Sprinting In 1991, Namibian (formerly South-West Africa) Frankie Fredericks became the first sub-10-second 100 metres runner of non-West African heritage and in 2003 Australia's Patrick Johnson (who has Irish and Indigenous Australian heritage) became the first to achieve the feat without an African background. In 2010, Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre became the first white European under ten seconds, (although Poland's Marian Woronin had unofficially surpassed the barrier with a time of 9.992 seconds in 1984). In 2011, Zimbabwean Ngonidzashe Makusha became the 76th man to break the barrier, yet only the fourth man not of West African descen ...
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