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Onion History: Jesse Owens Shows up Hitler! Comes home to Segregation

In 1936 a black man by the name of Jesse Owens won the Gold in Germany showing Adolph Hitler and the Nazi’s that White people were not so superior after all. He returned to a segregated America where he and his family where not human enough to eat, drink, sleep or take a crap as anyone else.
And the success of Nelson Mandela is wholly due to spending 27 years in a dirty little South African jail cell!

ONION: Week in History