Good and important things can happen under terrible circumstances en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_O...
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Exactly what I was thinking. Jess Owens humiliating Hitler is what people think of when it comes to the 1936 Olympics.
aug 25, 2025, 10:32 pm • 8 0 • view
And I'd love seeing the same happen to our current wannabe Shitler
aug 25, 2025, 10:38 pm • 4 0 • view
That and his friendship with German long jumper Luz Long inspired generations of Americans…myself included.
aug 26, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Pyrrhic victory. Owens was heroic, but Hitler got the grand stage he wanted to demonstrate Nazi might and prowess. Having this went a long way toward normalizing Hitler's regime, which helped pave the way to the 1938 Munich Agreement www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hh...
aug 26, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view