Athletic triumph at the Olympics did not change American racist ideas

Evidence

When Owens arrived back in the states to a ticker tape parade, he hoped he had also managed to change Americans’ racist ideas. That was one race he could not win. In no time, Owens was running against horses and dogs to stay out of poverty, talking about how the Nazis had treated him better than Americans. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 877