Rebuttal to Clarence Page Concerning the Olympics

In respose to your article, even when you are right-on about a subject, you just can't help yourself. What a great thought and finishing paragraph to your commentary today..."That's why we should support the Olympics and our athletes. Let the politicians stay home." I couldn't agree with you more sir.

But as usual, upon closer, and in my case - rare inspection of your entire commentary, one can find the nugget that is racial stirring of the pot. "Yet, in the long run, what is most remembered from that Olympics are the four gold medals won by Jesse Owens, the black American track-and-field star who blew holes in Hitler's theories of Aryan supremacy."

I don't mean to diminish Mr. Owens' accomplishments, only to point out your spin. Just like Jackson and Sharp, the world can only be black and white and everything is a cause to whine - because it's economically beneficial to do so. There was no reason to play the race card in your commentary today. It couldn't just be that Mr. Owens was an American. No, he had to be a black-American, separating him from some of the rest of us. I will point out that Mr. Owens wasn't the only athlete on that 1936 Olympic team that won a gold medal, and by golly Mr. Page, some of them were even white. And concerning your remark about blowing holes in Hitler's theory, the so-called supreme Aryans did win more medals than any other country that year. But I don't imagine you will find anyone outside of a Klan meeting, or possibly Idaho, that feels the reason the Germans won more medals that year was solely because of their race.

I have no advertisers to worry about like Bill O'Reilly. I have every intention of pointing out when the king has no clothes. And I know that the Tribune will go right on ignoring me, pandering to the left and their personal rock star named Obama. But as I've said before Mr. Page, one cannot demand equality and expect a double standard.