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Jesse Owens.
He was an African American, and his performance was an embarrassment more so to Adolf Hitler, than the German people. At that time, Adolf Hitler was trying to convince the world that the German people were the master race, and to have an African American beat the best in the world, didn't help the cause of the third Reich.
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