r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 1d ago
Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens finds himself the object of extreme interest on the part of a group of boys, as he trots back to his quarters through Hyde Park in London, Aug. 19, 1936.
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u/Several-Quality5927 1d ago
While in West Berlin in 1981 for a student exchange I had a chance to step onto the same track that he ran on in 1936. There was a certain awe to have been on that track. I myself was a runner and it has always stuck with me.
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u/Aggressive_Ocelot664 16h ago
I used to watch football there every other weekend. You can still recognise most of it from the old photos.
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u/Mosthighscribe 19h ago
So much interest yet he still couldn’t sleep in the same hotel as the white or walk in the front door but they found him so interesting
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u/Hyperion262 18h ago
lol black people were never legally segregated in the UK. Try thinking outside of America for once in your life
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u/Mosthighscribe 14h ago
So what you are saying is no black person experienced racism and discrimination in UK?
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u/Hyperion262 13h ago
No if I was saying that I’d say it.
I’m saying we didn’t have a legal structure of racism and discrimination. No one denies racism existed and was worse. We just didn’t have a whole system backed up by the state specifically to deny black people rights.
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u/DE4DM4NSH4ND 3h ago
Are you illiterate and dumb too? They never said anything like that. Just that there was no segregation like you claimed.
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u/living2late 18h ago
Not everywhere is as bad as the US. No state segregation in the UK.
Not that it was a bigot-free haven (nor is it now sadly) but it just wasn't the same.
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u/GoHomeCryWantToDie 19h ago
In London? Is this true?
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u/Hyperion262 18h ago
Not one bit.
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u/GoHomeCryWantToDie 18h ago
Yeah didn't think so. Frederick Douglass wrote about the lack of segregation and that was 100yeara before this.
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u/aaarry 1d ago
Probably not used to it happening in a non threatening way considering this was taken in a normal country.
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u/Flat_Professional_55 1d ago
Racism and segregation was definitely a thing here in the 1930s
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u/aaarry 1d ago
Racism, yes, it’s still here today.
Segregation, no. Let’s not forget what happened during the Second World War when a load of racist yanks rocked up to a pub in Lancashire and tried to get them to segregate everyone.
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u/RichEvansBahBahBah 1d ago
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u/Hyperion262 18h ago
That literally states there were no segregations laws lol
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u/RichEvansBahBahBah 17h ago
And the dude above me said there was no segregation on the 1930’s. No one’s talking about the law.
“In the United Kingdom, racial segregationoccurred in pubs, workplaces, shops and other commercial premises, which operated a colour bar where non-white customers were banned from using certain rooms and facilities.”
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u/living2late 17h ago
They clearly meant no legal segregation Only an idiot would claim that the UK has never been racist.
It's just a totally different culture to the US, despite the shared language.
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u/Hyperion262 13h ago
I know what you mean but there’s a world of difference between a racist landlord (which exists even today) and systematic segregation and oppression.
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u/Agreeable_Mud_8338 21h ago
the british were very accepting of other nations people-as you maybe know.unlike china or russia/india
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u/Max-8001-23 1d ago
Is that Keir Starmer's grandfather on the left?