Chris Long adds white face to cause of equality, as Peter Norman once did

BRAVO!!!


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Chris Long adds white face to cause of equality, as Peter Norman once did
NFL

August 18, 2017 3:39pm EDT
By joining Tommie Smith and John Carlos in protest in 1968, Peter Norman diversified the narrative. Chris Long took up the same challenge in the NFL.
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David Steele @david_c_steele

Updated at 3:39 p.m. ET

Tommie Smith and John Carlos had Peter Norman. Malcolm Jenkins (and Michael Bennett, and Colin Kaepernick) have Chris Long.

That latter group, the increasingly-visible faces of NFL player protest, needed Chris Long. Bennett said as much just Wednesday, when he explained on ESPN why white players joining the movement “would change the whole conversation."



Malcolm Jenkins and Chris Long (Getty Images)

Long, Jenkins’ teammate, fit Bennett's description of someone “who doesn't have to be a part of (the) conversation making himself vulnerable in front of it." On Thursday night in Philadelphia, while Jenkins raised his fist during the national anthem, Long stood beside him with an arm draped over his shoulder. A day later, the conversation is changed.

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