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What? How did it improve their personal well being? They were ostracized from the sports community.

• cromulent 11y ago
  Perhaps what was meant was that they were part of a movement to improve the lot of their ethnic group. That movement seems to have worked. However, Norman had nothing to gain - he could only lose, unless he valued human rights more than his personal situation.
  • braythwayt 11y ago
    Whether you’re white or black, protesting racial inequality always seems to come down to valuing the well-being of humanity as a whole over valuing your own well-being. It’s in the same category of decision as economic games like the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Arms Race, Chicken, or Moose Hunt.
    • eevilspock 11y ago
      And this, to me, is the root of all of humanity's self-inflicted problems. Too many "good" people, at the end of the day, wimp out and take the personally safe route, not just not taking action but also staying silent so as not to risk their social and economic standing. The Holocaust, slavery, racism, the shame felt by rape victims, police injustice[1] could not have happened if those who felt the stirrings of their conscience didn't then snuff those feelings. [1] http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer