BC-FBN-KAEPERNICK-CARLOS:NY — sports (1250 words)
Nearly a half-century before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised a fist.
The sight of two black American athletes, one a gold medalist and the other a bronze, standing on the podium with their heads bowed and their black leather glove encased fists in the air while the National anthem played at the Mexico City Olympics, became one of the most iconic images of the 1960s.
So it is hardly surprising that 50 years later, fate and a similar set of circumstances have brought Kaepernick and Carlos together to discuss how far race relations in this country have come since that explosive.