Jack Kemp

In my two attempts to add a comment to the American Thinker article "Jesse Owens: The man who stood up for America," my comment appears to be censored because it is considered "1% toxic."

So what did I write about that was considered so toxic?

I mentioned that the 1936 Berlin Olympics had U.S. director Avery Brundage remove two Jewish sprinters from the team, namely future sportscaster Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, so as not to embarrass Adolf Hitler when they won. See Wikipedia's Marty Glickman page here. They were replaced by Jesse Owens and another black runner.

I have even, in past years, heard Marty Glickman himself detail this outrage on a New York radio program, talking about how he and Sam Stoller had beaten to German sprinters in a preliminary non-Olympic race just before the Berlin gathering of nations' teams.

I also mentioned that one of the sprinters that Jesse Owens beat was the father of baseball's Jackie Robinson.

So what was so toxic abut the inconvenient TRUTHS I told? Avery Brundage was using a cheap excuse to kick Jews off of the actual team that ran for the U.S. in the Berlin Olympics.

Following the American entry into World War II in 1941, Glickman joined the US Marines. He was an officer in the 4th Marine Air Wing from 1943 until the end of the war in 1945.[4]

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It is now a day after I attempted to post my comment and they are still censored. I suspect American Thinker will not post them at all. I will now be forwarding this piece to the Editors of American Thinker and we will see what happens, as American Thinker rails against Twitter censorship of the New York Post's Biden story.

Postscript.  It is now nine hours later and American Thinker still hasn't approved my allegedly "toxic" comment. By the way, Marty Glickman's obituary column in the NY Times in 2001 said this, in part:

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(Jesse) Owens, despite not wanting to replace Glickman and Stoller, would win his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Games.

Glickman, then 18, said publicly that Cromwell had favored Draper and Wycoff, his own athletes from U.S.C. Years later, Glickman was relentless in in his claim that Avery Brundage, the head of the United States Olympic Committee, and Cromwell were members of the America First Committee and ''sympathetic to the Nazis.''

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There were other Jews, American and European, who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, winning gold and other medals.

A list can be found at the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum here.

They were:

Samuel Balter, USA	Basketball, gold
György Bródy , Hungary	Water Polo, gold
Miklos Sarkany, Hungary	Water Polo, gold
Karoly Karpati, Hungary	Freestyle Wrestling, gold
Endre Kabos, Hungary	Individual Saber, gold Team Saber, gold
Irving Maretzky, Canada	Basketball, silver
Gerard Blitz, Belgium	Water Polo, bronze
Robert Fein, Austria	Weightlifting, gold
Helene Mayer, Germany	Individual Foil, silver

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