SHAME

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Hapless competitors — or ‘savages’, as the white American organisers referred, were Native Americans and ethnic tribesmen shipped in from far away places as Africa, South America, the Middle East, the Philippines and the far north of Japan.

A Congolese pygmy, with sharpened teeth, was described in the official games report as a ‘cannibal’.

They were conscripted as Olympic athletes in a shocking racial experiment designed to prove their natural athleticism was inferior to that of ‘civilised’ white Americans!

Devised by 1904 games director James Edward Sullivan, a bigoted Irish-New Yorker who declared tribesmen should be pitted against one another over two days in August 1904, as a prelude to the main Games.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171686/The-Savages-Olympics-Its-shameful-stain-history--pygmies-cannibals-tribesmen-forced-compete-1904-Games-order-prove-white-supremacy.html#ixzz20IBsWv5O