Jesse was the world's highest jumper and track & field star winning four Olympic gold medals. But when he was honored at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City he, as an American citizen, was not permitted to enter through the front door. Jesse had to take a freight elevator at the back of the building as he also had to do while boarding a bus. While in Berlin for the Olympics he crushed the myth of Hitler who believed the Aryan culture was supreme.
Marian Anderson, one of best contraltos of her time was world famous as a singer and diplomat, but in Pittsburgh where she was scheduled to perform at Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) she too had to enter through the back door. Her manager tried schedule a performance for her in Washington, D.C.'s Constitutional Hall, but the owners strictly made certain that their building functioned only for "white" peopl. This was the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Today it is said that the Obama Administration did nothing for American Africans. But it was the racist Republican Congress who agreed stop any progress the president tried to accomplish. Since these disgraceful connivers formed a pact, acting like a pack of mad dogs, he resorted to take presidential order to get anything done.
These prominent people had one thing in common. They were born with more protective pigment than the obstructionists. During President Obama's two terms in office this sick group of Congressional members illegally disfranchised him from doing what other presidents did freely before him.
These facts are now documented history and prove how disrespectful bigotry is, what tainted America's good name from the founding of the United States of American with Africans captured like beasts of burden for a lucrative slave industry. When President Obama took office, racism rose out of the shadows and once again lifted its ugly head, Until the United States rinses out its inhumane criminal activity racism will race on.
Helene Smith (Mame),
WORLD ENLIGHTENED NEWS (W.E,N.)
