Just finished watching Race, the movie about Jesse Owens.  Hollywood as usual got the fact completely wrong in the movie.  Jesse Owens was a lifelong Republican, the movie makes a big deal about how Hitler snubbed Owens at the 1936 Olympics.  Of course Owens disputed that and the two did meet following his 100 meter win and Hitler even sent Owens a personal gift.  This is documented and has been stated by Owens himself.

While at the 1936 OIympics he was allowed to stay in housing with his white teammates, something he wasn't allowed to do at Ohio State where he went to school.  In fact the President of Ohio State at the time George Washington RIghtmire a lifelong Democrat was anti-war and a racist who belonged to the "Anti-Negro Guild." This of course is not depecited in the film.

What Owens did say was that Hitler didn't snub him, FDR did.  In fact FDR never congagulated Owens, no telegrams, no phone calls, nothing.  Owens so upset about this campaigned against FDR in the 1936 presidential campagin.  This was not depecited in the film with the false impression that Hitler snubbed Owens.

FDR is one of Hillary's models for a President.  When Trump says Hillary is a bigot, you can easily say her idols were bigots, whether that is FDR, or Margaret Sanger.  The Democrats have a history of this, and should be noted who you idolize is important, to Jesse Owens a Democrat President treated him much worse than Adolf Hitler, something to keep in mind.  Not saying Hitler was great, but I am saying FDR wasn't wonderful by any streach of the immagination.  Remember it was Truman who desegregated the military while FDR refused to do so.   The moive by the way whitewashes this and instead of saying FDR says the White House didn't congulate Owens, no mention who was in the White House, making it seem like it was institutional, which it was not.