European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes columns Carl t. Rowan to vast millions of people race is everything there has been a sorrowful physical decline in White american athletes. So much so that the United states can no longer compete in the olympics or anyplace else without ill Black legion of differently bred lad Salors. Were those views expressed by Jimmy inc greek Snyder last month no those were the views of Der an Griff the propaganda publication of nazi Leader Paul Joseph Goebbels in 1936 after Jesse Owens had demolished Adolf Hitler s claims of aryan supremacy Al the 1936 olympics in Berlin. Even in 1936, when there was not it single Black american in professional football Bowhall or basketball people were absorbed in theories about the physical superiority of Blacks and concern Mit Antly. In the supposed intellectual superiority of whiles. In his Book the olympic pageant Alexan Der Weyand said there seemed to be some doubt in the nazi mind whether negroes were really human beings especially when the negroes won in inc u.s., sportswriters dabbled in cliches about our ethiopian Phalanx and even scholars were talking about a London physician named Francis Crook Shank who set Forth the theory that he negro derived from the Gorilla the Mon Golian from the orangutan and the White Man from the Chimpanzee was by far the most intelligent of the anthropoid Lead ing him to conclude that Blacks were of a inner  thirty nine years ago when Blacks weren t remotely close to dominating football baseball or basketball i wrote 12 articles on the Black athlete for the Minneapolis Tribune. 1 laugh now As i remember that the raging theory was not that As Jimmy the greek says Blacks were bred to have big thighs that run up their  the line then was that Blacks were winning the dashes and sprints because they had longer Heel Bones  bred calf Muscles. This stuff was taken so seriously . Rosenthal that or. W. Montague Cobb the renowned former head of the Anatomy department at Howard University and a team of scientists Al Western Reserve University in Ohio plunged into anatomical studies of whether Long Heel Bones a High Arch Flat feet negroid calf Muscles and Long Black lower limbs gave Blacks superiority in Shorter races. The scientists compared Owens with Frank Wykoff the White runner who shared his world record of running the Loo Yard dash in 9.4 second. What they found was that Owens calf muscle with its Long belly and Short Tendon was typically caucasoid while White runner by lofts calf muscle had a Short belly and Long Tendon which was assumed 10 be typically negroid in 1959, or. Cobb noted that Many whiles had bettered Jesse Owens record and he said to me suddenly some of these White boys have gotten some negro genes from  i joke about this business of big thighs and longer Heel Bones because i Don t want the mental woes of taking this stuff seriously. The greek was probably on track when he suggested hat Black kids practice More at pulling a basketball in a hoop Hilling a Rock base Ball Wilh a Slick and carrying a football through 11 playground bruisers Benl on mayhem simply because inc Black kids Are hungrier and know that in America hundreds of other avenues to Fame and Fortune arc barricaded against them. But Jimmy the greek did a Slop when he was ahead he got into that so far unprovable and destructive Field of imputing certain Superior ties to certain races. You can say Farewell to the greek but you ought to do it in the knowledge that the views that oozed from his Mouth about race and sports will be Millered As Long As we live to vast millions of people race is everything and they want to explain everything in terms of race. It will never change. Jackson could serve the nation As drug Czar Carval time in Iowa is Over of last. It is Only 271 Days until election Day patience. At the conventions and in the polling Booths the country will not Only be choosing its leaders but deciding the Fate of All the vigorous and intelligent men who will not live in Htu while House. You have to be both to summon the Energy to run and gel people to pay attention. Some will go Back to the san Etc or their governorships and others will Lake the express rain to oblivion. What about Jesse Jackson it is not proper to count anybody out particularly a Man As Strong ill Appeal to so Many is Jackson. But it is a fair Assumption that he will not be president. Being Black has helped make him As Strong As he is but being Black is probably enough to keep him from inc presi Dency this year Jackson has other handicaps there Are Whites who would vote for a Black but find Jackson s foreign policy sends Shivers up and Down heir spines. His Rhym ing rhetoric sometimes puts politics on the level of Surma shave ads and he has not proved himself in dec Ltd office. But there will be no train to nowhere for Jackson. He is too popular and important. He will be around a Long Lime after election Day 1988. Preparing for elec Tion Day 1942. By Ihen perhaps he will have shed the third world expediency romanticism and glib Ness about foreign affairs. In any Case Jackson will remain very much a part of National life Between elections Jackson can serve himself Bis country and whoever is the president. He can Lake on the Job of running and coordinating the fight against narcotics in the United states. Narcotics is one subject on which Jackson talks Wilh such passion knowledge eloquence and sensitivity that it is almost impossible to hear him and not be moved not just to emotion but to action. We All know the truth hundreds of thousands of people steal and Mug every Day to support the habit youngsters arc ruined by Erack forever before they have a real Chance to live police and politicians Are corrupt cd by Rivers of dirty Money. Addicts and their Needles Are inc greatest danger in inc aids plague. Narcotics abuse is a National affliction but Blacks and their Hopes suffer most. Few know All this better than Jesse Jackson nobody can be More vividly persuasive. The Job requires pulling the dozen Federal agencies involved together working out a local plan for the War against drugs making sure National interest is put ahead of diplomatic interest in combating the drug Trade inroad and Cine the country s conscience spokesman and goad at Home. It is one of the most important posts in the country. Immediately after the convention any democratic nominee should be expected to Pencil in Jackson for the Job. And if a Republican becomes president he could show his strength by coming to precisely the same conclusion As for Jackson if he docs not become president he should1 Welcome the Chance to show what he could do As the anti Arcolio Leader. There is Only one problem about this critical Jab it does not exist the proposal for 3 drag Czar was passed by Congress in 1983 and vetoed by president Reagan because attorney general me Csc and other officials in the drug bureaucracy were protecting i hair Lurf. The Bill has been presented again and if brought to the floor would not Only be adopted bul would probably withstand a presid Coliat veto. Bul for a year thai Bill has been locked up in the Senate judiciary committee in one of those washing ionian political tangles thai miss being amusing be cause they Are so callously disregarding of Public inter est the Bill cannot escape to the Senate floor because some committee members want to attach a rider put Ting the death Penally Back into the Federal code in language acceptable to the supreme court senators opposed to the death penalty have threatened to Block the rider by filibustering in the full Senate. The victim is the whole movement to Noordin. Inc anti narcotics Effort and make the War against drugs a reality Al last. The two issues of course should be separated in the committee. One Man who probably could do h u sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia the majority Leader and a member of the committee. He knows How these things Are done and usually has the clout to do them. So would All democratic and Republican candidate kindly speak to Bvrd about it very soon then whoever is elected could find the Job Walling to be filled first thing. I Don t think they could come up with anybody belter than Jesse Jack uni