President Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson (Video)

[Master]

I don’t care if anyone disagrees with me but this is extremely stupid. Who cares if he is pardoned? He has been dead for decades and decades. It’s just a dumb formality that someone eventually got around to doing which will have no effect on anybody’s life.

It matters that it is recognised that Jack Johnson was wronged. Even if it has been over 100 years.

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When Johnson beat Tommy Burns in Sydney Australia to become the first Black Heavyweight Champion the police jumped in and stopped the fight and turned off the film cameras because they didn't want the world to see a Black guy beating a White guy.

JEFFRIES had retired unbeaten in 1905 and insisted he would not come back. A month after Johnson thrashed Burns he confirmed this again, while criticising Burns for defending his title against a black man: “Tommy Burns has his price—$30,000,” said Jeffries. “Burns has sold his pride, the pride of the Caucasian race…The Canadian never will be forgiven by the public for allowing the title of the best physical man in the world to be wrested from his keeping by a member of the African race….I refused time and again to meet Johnson while I was holding the title, even though I knew I could beat him. I would never allow a negro a chance to fight for the world’s championship, and I advise all other champions to follow the same course….All night long I was besieged with telegrams asking me to re-enter the ring. I answer them now as I have answered them hundreds of times: ‘I have fought my last fight’.”


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[powerpuncher]

I don’t care if anyone disagrees with me but this is extremely stupid. Who cares if he is pardoned? He has been dead for decades and decades. It’s just a dumb formality that someone eventually got around to doing which will have no effect on anybody’s life.

It matters that it is recognised that Jack Johnson was wronged. Even if it has been over 100 years.

So officially pardoning someone is recognizing their wrong doing rather than just admitting the wrong doing?

[Master]

I don’t care if anyone disagrees with me but this is extremely stupid. Who cares if he is pardoned? He has been dead for decades and decades. It’s just a dumb formality that someone eventually got around to doing which will have no effect on anybody’s life.

It matters that it is recognised that Jack Johnson was wronged. Even if it has been over 100 years.

So officially pardoning someone is recognizing their wrong doing rather than just admitting the wrong doing?

Yes it is the best that can be got at this stage. The government will not admit that they did was racist and wrong.

[powerpuncher]

I don’t care if anyone disagrees with me but this is extremely stupid. Who cares if he is pardoned? He has been dead for decades and decades. It’s just a dumb formality that someone eventually got around to doing which will have no effect on anybody’s life.

It matters that it is recognised that Jack Johnson was wronged. Even if it has been over 100 years.

So officially pardoning someone is recognizing their wrong doing rather than just admitting the wrong doing?

Yes it is the best that can be got at this stage. The government will not admit that they did was racist and wrong.

You are like most people. You want an apology even if it’s fake.

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Little known fact about Johnson

The Cotton Club

After getting out of prison, Johnson teamed with Budd Levy to open the Cafe de Luxe nightclub in Harlem in 1923. The club was such a hit that gangster Owney Madden decided to muscle his way in to take it over and force Johnson and Levy out. Once he did, Madden gave it a new name, The Cotton Club.