Snubbed by FDR
There is an excellent movie in the theaters now called “Race.” It’s about a great American athlete, Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the Berlin Summer Olympics in 1936.
After his tremendous accomplishments, he became the most famous man in the world at that time. He came home to the U.S. only to be snubbed by that great American icon and hero of the Democratic Party, President Franklin Roosevelt (this was not in the movie). Roosevelt didn’t even so much as send Owens a congratulatory telegram. Roosevelt welcomed the white Olympic champions to the White House, but not Owens, who was black. That’s some shameful history for Black History Month.
Although the movie shows Jesse Owens being snubbed by Hitler, he was not, as Owens described himself.
James Sulkowski
Canonsburg