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even more stupid.

Oh-- I think we're coming near the end, because all I'm doing is betraying qualities within me that I am not particularly proud of, you know, that got within-- preoccupation with racist witch-like nonsense and superstition irritates me. It irritates me in myself. It interferes with even enjoyment. I enjoy things, but I am at the same time thinking, “Why? Why?”

Wasn't there a special situation back in the thirties with Jesse Owens at the Olympics?

And Hitler.

Yes.

Sure. That was quite a situation. Yep, yep, yep...

I'm repeating myself. I really am. I'm just --

I don't know how I got to that from your questions about the Group. The Group was not as powerful as it should have been, and for the simple reason: because they were black. Period. That's how I got to it.

Bad use of available talent.

That's right. And there was tremendous talent in that Group. Imagine, they had to fight to contribute their talent to the nation as a whole.

When it should be the other way around.