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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.