Today in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens won the 100m in 10.3 seconds, his first of 4 golds there. He did this in front of Adolf Hitler.
This photo (for the Long Jump) is in the US edition of #HowToArgueWithARacist, which comes out tomorrow.
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This photo (for the Long Jump) is in the US edition of #HowToArgueWithARacist, which comes out tomorrow.
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Owen’s coach Dean Cromwell later said:
‘The Negro excels in the events he does because he is closer to the primitive than the white man. It was not long ago that his ability to sprint and jump was a life-and-death matter to him in the jungle.’
‘The Negro excels in the events he does because he is closer to the primitive than the white man. It was not long ago that his ability to sprint and jump was a life-and-death matter to him in the jungle.’
Though less overt, this type of racism is alive and thriving today, and propped up by misunderstood, misrepresented and plain hokey pseudoscience.
#HowToArgueWithARacist is about the facts and the history of race, science, genetics, ancestry, sport, intelligence and more. It is a tool kit to fight racism whose foundations are pseudoscience and stereotype.
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