So often the media celebrate medicrity, celebrity or body parts. It was lovely to come across this, albeit short, article on humble sportsmen.
The article mentioned a familiar name to me - Jesse Jackson - I remembered him coming up in history when I studied the lead-up to WWII. Jackson was the black sportsman who proved Hitler's theories of Aryan superiority wrong, while the world watched.
Go here to read more about this man who gained "freedom" at a time when freedom was hard to be found for someone of his ethnicity.
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