Oakville: The Myth Of The Aryan Race

The Olympic Games is an international athletic event held every four years in a different country. In modern day, over 200 countries participate in the event with over eleven thousand athletes competing. Although, numerous athletes and countries have used the Olympic Games as a source to gain recognition, pride and success. Furthermore, no kind of demonstration or political, religious, or racial propaganda is permitted, but in the 1936 Olympic Games that was not the case . As Hitler rose to power in Germany early 1930’s, his idea which he called Aryan which described as “pure German race”, was used in the 1936 Olympic Games. He used the sporting event as a way to reveal to the world that the Aryan race was superior. This myth was diminished during the

Oakville is a rural community, but moreover described as a “ghetto” area for its appearance on roads of asphalt, small frame of homes and cheap mobile homes with small television antennas from each roof and with second hand cars in every drive way. Most Oakville citizens travelled far for employment, most however were unemployed and discouraged black citizens . This era in the United States, there is a major white supremacy and racial remarks made by white Americans towards the black community in Alabama. The Owens’s were referred to as “niggers” by their white Oakville neighbors, moreover it was known that being a person of colour was a distinguishing mark of status . Owens was first enrolled in Bolton Elementary school, according to Owens an interchange on his first day at Bolton elementary school gave him the name “Jesse”. When asked by his teacher what was his name he replied “J.C Owens” with a southern accent, she understood it as Jesse Owens. The name stuck with him for the rest of his life . Jesse Owens athletic abilities were unveiled when he attended Fairmount Junior High school where he found his future wife Ruth Solomon and his love for track. There he participated with basketball, but