Jan 25, 2022
The 1972 Munich Olympics was a
watershed moment in world history. Black September took 11 Israeli
athletes hostage and the result was not as the Germans would have
hoped, “nobody wanted dead Jews in Germany.” As a 9 year old boy, I
was faced with who my parents were, specifically my dad. It was the
first time I had to admit to myself that yes, I was “different.” As
life went on, there were a lot of things I had to deal with in this
regard. I began to learn that we, as a nation, are the victims of
propaganda. American Exceptionalism, however, ignores the victims
of imperialism. We’ll be covering a lot of that later but for now,
I was 9…