90th anniversary of the defeat of racismToday is an important day for rememberance
>>157236639> "I actually witnessed Hitler shaking hands with Jesse Owens and congratulating him on what he had achieved".[54] Additionally, an article in The Baltimore Sun in August 1936 reported that Hitler sent Owens a commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself.[55] Later, on October 15, 1936, Owens repeated this claim when he addressed an audience of African Americans at a Republican rally in Kansas City, remarking: "Hitler didn't snub me—it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."Owens was literally treated better by a fascist dictator than his own president.
>>157236688>In Germany, Owens had been allowed to travel with and stay in the same hotels as whites, at a time when African Americans in many parts of the United States had to stay in segregated hotels that accommodated only blacks.[>After the parade, Owens was not permitted to enter through the main doors of the Waldorf Astoria New York and instead forced to travel up to the reception honoring him in a freight elevator.[62][66] President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) never invited Jesse Owens to the White House following his triumphs at the Olympic Games
>gets treated like shit when he return to his country
based germany dominating the olympicsnobody came close
>>157236688>>157236742Oy vey! Cool it with the antisemitic hate facts, goyim. Hitler was a hate-filled demon who personally killed all four of my grandparents and wore their skin as coats.
>>157236688>>157236742We are all now well aware that Americans are worse than Nazis, thanks for the reminder
>>157236639To think this is the SECOND most humiliating defeat in sport history for pseudo-science racist faggots in that one century.God is truly the funniest comedian.
>>157236639This always seemed like an exaggerated story to me like I seriously doubt anyone cared that much at the time
>>157238644...isn't it exactly racial science that tells us that niggas run faster?
>>157236688It's because Leni Riefenstahl was into BBC.
>>157236639Hitler was malding during this moment kek
>>157238644>>157239093Hitler and the NSDAP weren't too pleased, especially since the German public reacted pretty positively to Owens, and also because the German athlete and medal hope Luz Long was openly friendly towards himBut they didn't seethe relentlessly over it, blacks were not a particularly great focus of their racial politics, and they had a lot of successes to celebrate. These Olympics brought them just what they wanted: a big and organized show to portray themselves positively, and tons of gold medals to brag withThey got over Owens winning his medals quite quickly
>>157239680Long is the guy on the podium doing the salute btw. He won silver. He celebrated together with Owens (despite that being frowned upon by the NSDAP) and later provided financial support to a perpetually broke Owens as well. They kept writing lettersLong also continued his career, stayed unbeaten for years and set a new European Record that was only broken in 1956He died in 1943 in Sicily after having been wounded in combat. His final letter to Owens read "I fear dying for the wrong cause. I hope my wife and my son will survive. Please, as my only friend outside of Germany, I implore you to visit them someday and tell them why I had to do this"
>>157236688>an audience of African Americans at a Republican rally in Kansas City
>>157239882Republicans were the progressives until the 60s or so
>>157236688>nazis were woke retardsno wonder they lost
>>157238857That’s a cope. If they really were faster they wouldn’t be easy to catch and enslave
>>157239825That’s sad
>>157236688>>157236742America bros, after all, were we the baddies?
>>157240207party that ended slavery
>>157247417He got shot and had to be left behind by his comrades. He was still alive at that point, only to bleed outHe seems to have loved his country, but not the regime controlling it
>>157239825>"I fear dying for the wrong cause. I hope my wife and my son will survive. Please, as my only friend outside of Germany, I implore you to visit them someday and tell them why I had to do this"
>>157239825Man...
>>157240207More like until the 20s or so. Then the pivot towards industrialists and red-baiting commenced
>>157248428When Long died, his death was purposefully ignored by the NSDAP. They normally were pretty keen on using athletes for propaganda even after death, portraying them as superior martyrs making a heroic sacrifice. Long's death was not communicated at all. His family only learned of his death in 1950Owens visited Germany in 1951 and told his son who had no conscious memory of his father since Luz Long had died when he was a few months oldIn the 60s, Long's son and Owens recreated some of the photos of Long and Owens in the OlympiastadionTheir granddaughters awarded the long jump medals at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin
Funny that the Germans topped the gold medal count for the 36 Olympics, that never seems to get brought it
>>157250068You guys (not meant in a mean way) created your own propaganda spin on it to emerge victorious in a way, and no one was left to contend with it after 1945. Back then, the German public didn't care about Owens - neither negatively nor positively. And the NSDAP was very happy with the Games in total because of the overall results and the images they got. Blacks obviously were seen as inferior to Germans, but no one was really occupied with them since they weren't a German issue. The NSDAP leadership was just not happy over Luz Long going out of his way to be nice to Owens, they saw it as a provocation and unnecessary undermining of their general racial doctrine. Owens himself wasn't really the problem
>>157239825As much as I've seen this pic and had this story rammed down my throat I never had a clue about that
>>157250156It doesn't really fit the narrative. In the classic American reading, this is about Owens representing the USA and defeating evil in the lion's den. The story of a German and a black American being friends despite the odds doesn't fit here, the tragic end of what seems to be an exemplary man even less so - he still was Owens' biggest opponent and later fought in the war after all. Differentiating further than "X against Y" was not really necessary or helpfulLikewise, in a world where the Third Reich had won, this story would have been fully swept under the rug in a more purposeful manner. After all, the "right side" had lost. And images of a German athlete and a black guy being friends with each other don't fit eitherLong also just suffers from the curse of the silver medal, of course. Owens won and therefore gets more attention anyway, the American narrative in general won since the NSDAP reading of the events died in 1945. In the end, what matters is that the two were friends and stayed loyal to each other until the very end
>>157236688>>157236742Hitler was a cuck, color me shocked
>>157236688>>157236742>Anglos used to be basedIt's crazy how if you're racist you're called a "nazi" when England was grand central of racism for 1000 years. We need to go back.
>>157250156Probably because it's fake.
>There is an urban myth that Long sent a letter to Owens from the battlefield, requesting that Owens visit Long's son if Long were to die. Long is supposed to have asked Owens to explain to the boy how life was before people were divided by the war. Such a letter has never been seen by the families of Owens or Long, nor would it be likely that Long could send a letter to the United States while in the German military. Additionally, the letter is often reported as having come from North Africa, a theatre that Long did not serve in.[18]Hmm.
>>157239825>>157250267I know about the '68 black power salute, I think that got a decent amount of attention here, and the white Australian guy who was basically just their friend/competitor, but somehow I've never heard of Luz Long. But I might not be all that representative idk
>>157239825>After the war, Owens travelled to Germany to meet Luz's son, Kai-Heinrich Long (1941–2021), who was seen with Owens in the 1966 documentary Jesse Owens Returns To Berlin, where they conversed in the Berlin Olympic Stadium
Why isn't the Jap paying respects? I thought we were friends.
>>157250729>>157250968Shalom.
