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Former Olympian John Carlos on Social Justice Protests: 'Humanity Has No Color'

Former Olympic track and field athlete John Carlos opened up about the marriage between professional athletes and social justice protests.

Speaking to Christian Red of NBC News, Carlos said "humanity has no color" and called last week's protests by athletes who refused to play in games the start of a bigger movement:

"This is just the start of things to come. We have their attention. But we don't have their full attention, because, economically, this really didn't impact [team owners] yet. There's no one in an athletic arena right now in terms of spectatorship.