From Black Power to Indigenous Activism: The Olympic Movement and the Marginalization of Oppressed Peoples (1968-2012)

Author:

O’Bonsawin Christine

Abstract

Abstract During the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games, Indigenous boxer and member of the Australian national team Damien Hooper was nearly disqualified from Olympic competition for entering the ring wearing a shirt inscribed with the Aboriginal flag of Australia. National Olympic officials cited charter rule 50, which forbids political, religious, or racial demonstrations inside an Olympic venue, to immediately reprimand this Indigenous athlete for his actions. Using the Hooper example, this paper argues that Olympic principles and governing laws undoubtedly infringe on the fundamental human rights of marginalized and oppressed populations throughout the world. Specifically, Olympic Charter rule 50 categorically sustains the illegal missions of colonizing settler governments that attempt to rule over Indigenous people and their lands. Within the Olympic domain, Indigenous athletes are forced to assume the identity of the colonizing settler citizenry, thereby further validating the political authority of an illegally imposed governing structure.

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Subject

History,Cultural Studies,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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2. 2. "The Aboriginal flag is an official flag of Australia and was recognised under Federal legislation in July 1995. Designed by Aboriginal Elder Harold Thomas in 1971, this flag symbolises Aboriginal identity. . . . The top half of the flag is black to represent the Aboriginal people. The red in the lower half represents the red earth (the relationship to the land) and the red ochre used in Aboriginal ceremonies. The circle of yellow represents the sun (giver of life) and yellow ochre." See Queensland Health, Queensland Government, Guidelines for Flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags, 2011, http://raphub.reconciliation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Respect-Guidelines-for-flying-the-Aboriginal-and-Torres-Strait-Islander-flags-Queensland-Governement.pdf [accessed 20 February 2015].

3. 3. David Zirin, "Damien Hooper."

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5. 5. Ibid.

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