Jirnal

Jirnal

The Frigid War, the Klan and the Olympics

The Frigid War, the Klan and the Olympics

The heading used to be jarring enough: THE OLYMPICS—FOR WHITES ONLY! Nonetheless then came the letters themselves, dripping with vile racism, mailed in early July 1984 to fully different Olympic organizing committees in countries across Asia and Africa: African monkeys!…