Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: FDR & Jesse Owens

Monday, May 23, 2011

FDR & Jesse Owens

From the “Where is your God now” Files

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At the event, Hitler only shook hands with the German victors and then left, and the Olympic committee decided that Hitler must greet every medalist or not greet any medalists at all. Hitler opted not to shake anyone's hand or greet or congratulate anyone at all. Although people expected Jesse Owens to be upset by being snubbed by Hitler, he felt that it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who snubbed him, as he did not even send Jesse a telegram with his congratulations. In fact, Jesse was not once invited to the White House or given any honors by Franklin D. Roosevelt or Harry Truman, the following president. It was not until 1955 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower acknowledged Owens' achievements.

Whenever I see an article with some Liberal/Democrat blasting yet again, the Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Partiers,
as being racists, I’ll think of this tidbit from jesseowensfacts.com........regarding to 1936 Berlin Olympics and Jesse Owens great accomplishment.

J McD

Rodger the Real King of France 5/23/2011 12:59:00 PM 7 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton

7 comments:

James Hooker, Nipplus Whisperus Nobelus said...: I grew up in The South Rodger. I saw klansmen. I KNEW klansmen. Each and every one was a democrat. Ahem....EACH. AND. EVERY. ONE. NEVER did I run across one who didn´t vote for whoever ¨wuz fo de woikin man¨. I´m not making this shit up!

T-word: maness

huh!; 5/23/11, 1:36 PM
Anonymous said...: I, too, grew up in the 'Solid South' since 1943, and btw there were Klansmen in every state in the 40's - 50's.

Almost to the last voter, ALL Southern conservatives: social-, fiscal-, and right-to-work, were Democrats... yellow-dog to the core. The point is, when the Parties switched their focuses, the voters switched parties. Voter positions here have not really changed -- just affiliation.

GaGator; 5/23/11, 2:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Uh, yeah, the South was pinned under the iron fist of Lincolns reconstruction, those were Republicans (Marxist European transplant Republicans). It's the reconstruction P.C. Nazi's of the day that gave the Klan fuel for their fire. A Republican Klansman makes as much sense as a US Army Nazi in WWII.-Anymouse; 5/23/11, 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Yes, times do change. It would be impossible to invisage Lincoln
as a Republican today, even a RINO.

Not too many neo-cons around in the 1860's. As one politician said:

"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign
my commission, and offer my sword
to the other side."

--- Ulysses S. Grant, quoted in the NY World

GaGator; 5/23/11, 4:27 PM
Anonymous said...: There is or was a fill-in host for Hugh Hewitt who often talked about working with Uh-Bama on the Yale Law Review.

Emerson; 5/23/11, 8:15 PM
Kristophr said...: Secession WAS about slavery. The war it caused was about the Union.

The Mason-Dixon compromise/line, and the bloody guerrilla wars in Kansas and Missouri were about free vs. slave states entering the union. Attempting to deny that is purist revisionism. The tariffs and excise taxes on cotton and non-US manufactured goods was seen as a means for the north to punish slaveholders.

Once the war started, Lincoln was concerned about preserving the Union above everything else ... even to the point of offering to resurrect the Corwin amendment ( to permanently enshrine slavery ) in mid-war if the South would agree to stop attempting to secede.

The folks in Richmond thought they could win, so they refused the offer.; 5/23/11, 8:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Well spoken, Kris. That's exactly what Grant was saying.

GaGator; 5/23/11, 10:13 PM

Monday, May 23, 2011

FDR & Jesse Owens

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