From WSJopinion: “You hear on the news every day that you’re not wanted.” This is how the Black Lives Matter movement translated into the mind of Olympic medalist Noah Lyles, writes Joseph Epstein.
American sprinter Noah Lyles holds up his bronze medal at his event’s awarding ceremony at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Aug. 5.Now that the Olympics in Tokyo are over, everyone is talking about its great, unforgettable moments. I watched my fair share of this year’s Olympic Games, and rather doubt I shall remember much about them, apart from one indelible moment.
That sad moment caused a wave of depression of my own. Interesting, is it not, that this is how the Black Lives Matter movement translates itself into the mind of a sensitive, athletically successful, and likable young man such as Mr. Lyles? Is Mr. Lyles misreading the BLM message? Do Americans really “not want” Mr.
One cannot mistake the anger in the utterances of BLM, so different from the thoughtful and measured statements of civil-rights leaders of an earlier day: A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins Sr. , Martin Luther King Jr. , Whitney Young, Bayard Rustin —men who were on the front lines when it was truly dangerous to be there.
Everyone will have his own notion of the specific moment that this happened. For me, living at the time in Little Rock, Ark., and working as director of the city and county’s antipoverty program, it came when a then-prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee named Stokely Carmichael eschewed integration as the goal of the civil-rights movement in favor of Black Power.
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