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Lurking Freepers Obama Punished Your Putative Leader The Way The Brown Bomber Punished Max Schmeling (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 OP
The Great White Hope got clobbered. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #1
You Mean the Great White Dope! n/t Dread Pirate Roberts Oct 2012 #5
That's my Great Uncle, BABY! nt MrScorpio Oct 2012 #2
Spectators Said They Heard Schmeling Scream When Joe Hit Him In The Ribs DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #3
Uncle Joe put Max into the hospital MrScorpio Oct 2012 #4
They Became Close Friends After The Fight DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #6
In the years afterward, the thing that bothered me was the difference with how they were treated MrScorpio Oct 2012 #7
Yeah DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #8
Man, that right cross to the chin hifiguy Oct 2012 #9

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
4. Uncle Joe put Max into the hospital
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:26 AM
Oct 2012

He went into the ring with the intention of making a point.

Suffice it to say, the point was made.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
6. They Became Close Friends After The Fight
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:29 AM
Oct 2012

There is a dispute over whether Schmeling allowed himself to be used and was the one dimensional figure he was portrayed as at the time. Of interest his manager was Jewish.

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
7. In the years afterward, the thing that bothered me was the difference with how they were treated
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:41 AM
Oct 2012

The Federal Government hounded Joe over taxes, much of those from receipts of exhibition fight winnings when Joe was IN UNIFORM DURING WWII which he donated TO THE WAR EFFORT. They were on his ass until his dying days. Whereas, Schmeling, a man who at one time wore a German paratrooper uniform during the war, was handed the Coca Cola franchise in Germany, which made him a very rich man.

So the guy who wore the American uniform, let's fuck him over, but let's reward the other guy who was once an enemy.

Fucked up, ain't it?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
8. Yeah
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:45 AM
Oct 2012

I agree that the government treated Joe shabbily. But Joe Louis' place in African American and American history is secure.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. Man, that right cross to the chin
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 10:14 AM
Oct 2012

was a devastating punch. He would have knocked out a bull with that haymaker.

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