Idols of the mind

Idol of the cave:

In 1936 when the olympic games of Berlin, the American runner Jesse Owens, had been despised by his teammates for being black. When he traveled with his team inside of U.S.A, he had to stay in a hotel for black people and his teammates in a hotel for white people. Sometimes he had to dress like a poor worker and he entered to a hotel of white people in secret. Jesse Owens was discriminated by his teammate and also was discriminated by foreign. When the Olympic games began in Germany under the Nazism, in one day Jesse Owens win four gold medals and humilate white athletes. Adolf Hitler was furious, he left the area without recognizing the superiority of the runner.

It is an idol of the cave because it is the product of what people learnt in that time. It was supposed that black people was inferior and white people was superior. And it demostrate how people is fascinated with themselfs.