Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Thinking about Jesse Owens today.




In 1936, a cotton picking Alabama Blackman went to Berlin and ran all over Hitler's ideology.

I was told that was one happy day all over Alabama, "amongst colored folk anyway".

I know just how they felt now.

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