{"id":1292,"date":"2016-11-09T02:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2016-11-22T04:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T04:33:02","slug":"commentary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/11\/commentary-race.html","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The song playing over the end credits of track and field film Race<\/em> (2016) has a line \u201clet the best man win\u201d.<\/p>\n

Race<\/em> is a straightforwardly told Jessie Owens story about the best man at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It co-stars Jason Sudeikis (Angry Birds) as Owens\u2019 coach Larry Snyder and a young Jessie Owens is played by Stephan James.<\/p>\n

Owens was this best man. He won in the sprints and long jump and set the records for twenty-five years.<\/p>\n

Race<\/em> shows that best man Owens presented a possible dilemma for Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels at the games, who led the games organized by Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

Negroes like Owens were considered fundamentally flawed by the Nazis. But they were confronted with the reality of Owens speed and \u2018perfection\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Nazis wanted to breed a perfect specimen of human being. The best sports people were thought to be genetically well-endowed. \u00a0The best sportspeople, it was thought, would have the genetic make-up for perfect offspring.<\/p>\n

German sprinter Carl Lung tells Owens how he was propositioned by a German woman to get her pregnant. Lung was set up by the Nazis. He was the perfect specimen to produce the perfect offspring. This is when the reality of the so-called \u2018superior race\u2019 hits home hardest in Race<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Negroes along with Jews and others weren\u2019t considered perfect humans. They were considered ultimately flawed and unsuitable. \u00a0Yet the best man is Jessie Owens. It is German Carl Lung who loses to Owens in the sprints and long jump.<\/p>\n

Does this make Owens the kind of perfect human being the Nazi’s sought? It doesn’t, because of the flawed ideology of the Nazi’s.<\/p>\n

Owens’ wins must have been a dilemma for Adolf Hitler. Even if Hitler refused to accept that a black man is the best man, Owen’s testimony is a challenge to the perfect race theory.\u00a0Owens, an African American, a black man, someone who is considered inferior by the Nazis because of his \u2018race\u2019, is the better sportsman.<\/p>\n

The point of Race<\/em> is that black or white, someone wins, not based on color, but based on giftedness, talent, and ability. This you can\u2019t discriminate against.<\/p>\n

Race<\/em> was released to DVD in North America on May 31, 2016<\/p>\n

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The real Jessie Owens (Pictured). Race contains end credit montage of old Jessie Owen footage. (Image sourced via google images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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