May 26, 2020
On Facebook Cornelius Carroll discusses Jesse Owens and the roots of Nazism:
From Michael Barnett:
After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, only the white athletes were invited to see and meet the Democrat, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. No such invitation was made to the African American athletes such as Jesse Owens, who had won four gold medals.
A widely believed myth about the 1936 games was that Hitler had snubbed Owens, something that never happened.
it was the racist Democratic Party and not Hitler and Nazi Germany who reject the black Olympians
A WORD FROM TIM:
Hitler didn't snub Owens but Roosevelt did. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica:
So, Owens was not personally snubbed by Hitler. However, Owens did feel that he had been snubbed by someone: U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A month after the Olympic Games, Owens told a crowd, "Hitler didn’t snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.â€
Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens’s triumphs—or the triumphs of any of the 18 African Americans who competed at the Berlin Olympics. Only white Olympians were invited to the White House in 1936. A number of explanations have been offered for the president’s actions.
Most likely, Roosevelt did not want to risk losing the support of Southern Democrats by appearing overly soft on the race issue. The black Olympians who competed in Berlin were not recognized by the White House until 2016, when Pres. Barack Obama invited the athletes’ relatives to an event in celebration of their lives and accomplishments
Mussolini was a huge admirer of Woodrow Wilson and he says he modeled Fascism on Wilson's Administration.
Fascism/Nazism were the outgrowth of non-Marxist socialism that was rooted in social Darwinism. Attempts to claim they are "right wing" is a bald-faced lie, one that the media and academia has successfully propagated.
But Mussolini was the editor of the Socialist newspaper in Italy prior to establishing the Fascist party, and HE always saw himself as a socialist, albeit one who had added an extra dimension to the disease.
And of course the Nazis official name was National Socialist German Workers Party. Both were solidly socialist, with government control of almost all economic activity, with government involvement in almost every facet of life, including culture and religion. The only "conservative" thing about the Fascists and Nazis was they didn't nationalize industries, preferring to simply exercise control while the "owners" were relegated to managerial positions for the party (kind of like China today).
In fact, the Bolsheviks in Germany were supportive of Nazism early on, with a slogan "first Brown then Red". They saw it as a step between Capitalism and Communism.
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