Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in German Olympics. In Hitler's Nazi Germany Jesse Owens was felicitated and ignored in America.

Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in German Olympics.
In Hitler's Nazi Germany Jesse Owens was felicitated and ignored in America.

African-Americans Go From Being No Good At Sports To Being Only Good At Sports

The late 1940s and '50s saw a role reversal unprecedented in the history of American sport.

African-Americans—once thought incapable of physically competing against whites—began dominating playing fields.

"Blacks have no chance against whites on the baseball diamond. They simply don't have what it takes to make the effort," Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey told The Boston Globe in April 1947, echoing the nation's sentiments.

Later he reversed saying, "Well, naturally, Robinson is out there running faster, jumping higher, and hitting the ball farther. Blacks are, if nothing else, more athletically gifted than whites. Sports is what they're good at."

This changing viewpoint was soon echoed by notable sports figures, politicians, typical American citizens, Ku Klux Klan members.

University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, who for years had refused to recruit black players because of their alleged unsuitability for athletics.

After losing the 1966 NCAA Championship game to an all-black Texas Western team, however, Rupp said that the loss didn't surprise him.

"Blacks have a clear physical advantage over whites because their years of slavery made them genetically stronger and more athletic," Rupp said after the 72-65 defeat.

"But they'll never be great doctors and lawyers. They don't have the mental capacity for something like that."

"I'll put it this way," Rupp added. "We'll never see a black head coach, team owner, or president of the United States."

Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in the 1939 German Olympics.
Fist time an athlete won four golds.  In Hitler's Nazi Germany Jesse Owens was invited into many homes and felicitated.

But when Jesse Owens returned home to America, even the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not care to telephone and congratulate the man that brought fame to his country.

So the White Americans have now voted a Black man as President.

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