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Jesse (J.C.) Owens – 1936 Olympian won four Gold Medals, has a passage in “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson: “I wasn’t invited to shake Hitler’s hand. I had to ride a freight elevator to my own reception at the Waldorf Hotel in NY.  And I wasn’t invited to the Whitehouse to shakeContinue reading “What is the worst of what has become of us?”