Jesse Owens Won 4 Golds in Nazi Berlin, Then America SNUBBED Him

In 1936, a sharecropper's son walked into Hitler's Berlin and humiliated the master race.

Jesse Owens was the grandson of slaves, the youngest of ten, born sick and poor.

On an Ohio cinder track, the frail kid discovered the one thing that set him free.

At Ohio State he starred, yet couldn't sleep in its dorms or eat at its tables.

Then Berlin called, asking him to race under the swastika while others begged him to boycott.

He went anyway, and in four days won the 100, the long jump, the 200, and the relay.

Four golds. The German crowd roared his name, and a Nazi rival hugged him on the field.

The myth says Hitler refused his hand. The deeper truth is who else stayed silent.

Franklin Roosevelt never called, never wrote. "Hitler didn't snub me," Owens said. "Our president did.

He came home to the back of the bus, yet four golds proved hate was a lie.

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