{"id":101176,"date":"2014-07-21T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101176"},"modified":"2014-07-24T07:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T07:02:12","slug":"jesse-owens-carrie-a-picture-of-hitler-in-his-back-pocket-because-he-treated-him-better-than-fdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101176","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Owens Carried a Picture of Hitler in his Back Pocket…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Because he Treated him Better than FDR<\/h1>\n

Yolanda Spivey — BOSS July 18, 2014<\/a><\/h1>\n

\"jesse<\/a>During the Olympic games, Adolf H\u03b9tler did the unthinkable. He shook hands with a Black man\u2014and that Black man was Olympic champion Jesse Owens. The year was 1936 and the place Berlin Germany. Jesse Owens had just won four gold medals at the event, putting him on the map as one of the greatest athletes in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The win stumped Hitler, who was under the impression that his men were going to be victors at the Olympics, given that they were of a supposedly \u201csuperior\u201d race. It angered him to see Jesse Owens winning those Olympic medals. But still, Hitler shook his hand, giving Owens the respect that he deserved.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States President at the time was Franklin D. Roosevelt or better known as FDR; and racism in America was not hidden but worn well on America\u2019s sleeves. While many believed FDR to be a fair and just President, others believed that he was a bigot who detested Black people. An example of this is when he allowed labor unions to exclude Blacks from work during the Great Depression. And although he spoke out against the lynching of Black men and women, he knew that his newly enacted New Deal program didn\u2019t benefit Blacks the way it did their white counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was important because the world was at war and H\u03b9tler had a point to prove. Not only did he want to promote his government, he wanted prove his theory that Aryans were superior to Blacks and Jews. He even went as far as to say that the two racial groups shouldn\u2019t participate in the Olympic Games, but after other nations threatened to boycott the Olympics, he relented.<\/span><\/p>\n

One would think that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would\u2019ve been overjoyed seeing a fellow American winning GOLD at the Olympics\u2014crushing the furor\u2019s theories and putting America back on the map as a global super power. But was FDR upset that a Black man beat out an Aryan man for the Olympic gold?<\/span><\/p>\n

FDR didn\u2019t do anything to honor Jesse Owens after his prolific Olympic win\u2014nor did he acknowledge his victory. And while the media went on the tirade reporting false news that the German leader refused to shake Jesse Owens hands, it turned out that the story was a lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, Jesse Owens wrote in his autobiography, \u201cH\u03b9tler didn\u2019t snub me\u2014it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn\u2019t even send me a telegram.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

President Franklin D. Roosevelt never invited Jesse Owens to the White House or hold a ticker tape parade in his honor which is customary for American athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead it was H\u03b9tler who sent Owens \u201ca commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself.\u201d And according to the MailOnline.co.uk, legendary sports reporter Siegfried Mischner, 83, Owens carried around a photograph of H\u03b9tler in his wallet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mischner reported that in the 1960\u2019s, Owens was desperately trying to change the unfair reports on the furor\u2019s attitude towards him and was trying to get journalists to report on the truth of what really happened at the 1936 Olympic games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mischner told the MailOline.co.uk, \u201cIt {the photograph} was taken behind the honor stand and so not captured by the world\u2019s press. But I saw it, I saw him shaking Hitler\u2019s hand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mischner further stated that the reason why they never reported on the truth although they saw it with their very own eyes was because \u201cH\u03b9tler had to continue to be painted in a bad light in relation to Owens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Owens always proclaimed that he was treated better in Germany than in the United States where Blacks faced segregation and unbearable discrimination. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower finally recognized Jesse Owens achievements, and honored the American hero by naming him an \u201cAmbassador of Sports.\u201d But this was nearly 20 years after his Olympic victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think FDR secretly was hoping that the Germans would win, proving the theory that Whites were superior to Blacks and Jews?<\/span><\/p>\n

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It wasn’t Hitler who snubbed Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics. FDR did. Only the journalists of the day misrepresented events in order to portray Hitler in a bad light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101201,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101176\/revisions\/101201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}