We have been here before though. Sports and politics have always been associated.
This issue of conflicts between sports, politics and race goes back to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947 when he became the first African American to play in the MLB.
Or when Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the army in 1967 and said, “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.”
In 2013, the Miami Heat protested against the Trayvon Martin shooting. Billie Jean King created the first women’s players union in 1973.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the 1936 Berlin Olympics sporting events were more of a showcase for the supposed virtue of racial purity and nationalism.