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Jesse Owens
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I salute Michael Phelps but Jesse Owens gets a bigger salute.

During a time of
black oppression
Jesse Owens taught
the world a lesson
and it wasn't with
a Smith and Wesson
Maybe it should have been
back then

Blacks were thought
to be inferior
to their white counterparts
who were suppose to be superior
The Tuskegee Airmen
black ace fighter pilots of
world war two
weren't suppose to
be able to fly so called
expensive fighter planes
They ended up passing the test
being some of the very best

Jesse threw a monkey wrench
into Adolf Chitlers super race theory

To all you so called ex-racist
and Klux Klux Klansmen
I know for sure some of you
are in this den
You might be disappointed
but you might as well
get annointed

"If you're the kind of gentlemen
that wants everything your way
Take the sheet off your face boy
it's a brand new day "

Never again will the Black man
be oppressed

Obama

OnepoetGem


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 Reviews of "Jesse Owens"
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on August 19, 2008
what an incredible moment it was when Jesse Owens won the gold!!

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on August 18, 2008
Hi Gem, I remember Jesse Owens well, and his great triumph
at the Hitler Olympics. I had a lot of respect for him; still do.
Yes, happily, the society has made some positive changes since
then. -gene.


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