Is My Salute Clear?

Salute:

It's one of the most iconic, not to mention ironic, pictures of modern history.  Eighty years ago Jesse Owens, American track athlete, competed with distinction in Berlin, Germany.  The Nazis, under the leadership of Adolph Hitler had already begun their persecution of Jews, Roma, and other "undesirables."    According to Hitler's theories of Aryan racial superiority Jesse Owens shouldn't have won, but he did.   That is not to say that the problems of wrong racial views only existed on the other side of the Atlantic.  When Owens returned to the USA, though a hero, he still found it impossible to use many "Whites Only" facilities.  Though he had taken his place on the top of the medal podium he could not take a seat in the front of the bus.  The fact that he had risen to the top of his athletic discipline, did not keep him from being forced to travel up on the freight elevator, rather than out front with the White folk. When you consider the pressure in Berlin, and the lack of support back home, Owens' demeanor on the medal stand is remarkable.  It is rightly dubbed "The Salute Heard Around the World." I'll never have the opportunity to stand on an Olympic podium, but every day I am watched.  What my life says about my Lord is always important.  Is my salute clear?  (1 Thessalonians 1:6-10)  It's STTA.