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When joe louis won the heavyweight boxing championship in 1935, many white sports journalists used the racial ideology of that era to attribute his victory to:?

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Many of the racist white journalists claimed that he won only because he was black and was therefore possessing an animal-like instinct, which was unfair to the white competitor. They were extremely racist but it was accepted because it was the 30s, way before the civil rights era.
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