Keep your fists up! ✊🏾
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ~Assata Shakur
"We were just human beings who saw a need to bring attention to the inequality in our country," Tommie Smith said years later, in a documentary on the 1968 Mexico City games produced for HBO. "I don't like the idea of people looking at it as negative. There was nothing but a raised fist in the air and a bowed head, acknowledging the American flag—not symbolizing a hatred for it."
“American Just-Us” - print available for purchase
Handcrafted collage by Heather Polk 2019