Do you know that Jesse Owens gave Jamaica his 100m

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gold medal (1936)to be placed in our promised Sports Hall of Fame. It's being kept in a vault at the Bank of Jamaica. I've been promised a copy of Jesse's speech when he came here to speak about our National Stadium in 1961. You'll love it - it's hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XclGwJY8s

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1. Jamaica is not one of my favorite countries after their UN vote to OK

executing people for being gay.

If you get a copy of the speech, I would still be interested in reading it though.

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3. I don't know why people listen to anything the Jamaican government

says at the UN - no one has been executed in Jamaica for anything since 1984. The morons just run their mouths and embarrass decent citizens.
These fuckers are terrified that the Europeans will stop providing aid grants and tourists - there will be no death penalty here.

By the way their UN vote was for the death penalty period.

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5. But Jamaica is considered one of the most homophobic countries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Jamaica

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1182991,00.html

In the past two years, two of the island's most prominent gay activists, Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey, have been murdered — and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson's mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence. In 2004, a teen was almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier. "Jamaica is the worst any of us has ever seen," says Rebecca Schleifer of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and author of a scathing report on the island's anti-gay hostility.

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6. WTF does that have to do with Jesse Owens 100m

gold medal?

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2. The fastest man in the world. That's something. Old sports medals seem to radiate a magic field.

Probably because many people rarely see one up close.

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4. They showed it on TV

A good friend called me about this last week and told me he was trying to find out if it was here because he had dug up the speech. This is very exciting. You have to hear the speech - fall down funny about Hitler.