"I don't feel embraced. I feel like a
survivor, like I survived cancer. It's like if you are sick and no-one
wants to be around you, and when you're well everyone who thought you
would go down for good doesn't even want to make eye contact. It was
almost like we were on a desert island. That's where Tommy Smith and
John Carlos were. But we survived." said. John Carlos
Just like Tommie Smith, John Carlos also played for the N.F.L
but John Carlos also Played for the C.F.L then he stopped after a knee injury.
Following John Carlos' retirement in from football John
Carols worked for the United States Olympic committee, organizing committee
for the city of Los Angeles.
After that John Carlos became the founding member of the
O.P.H.R (Olympic Project for Human Rights), this organization was initially
created to boycott of the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico city.
