President Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson (Video)

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Well, I suppose it is the outcome that matters isn't it?

Johnson was very very shabbilybtreated by the establishment (who he goaded unmercifully, to be fair). He was hounded around the country and they eventually got him under the Mann Act.

It is very unlikely, though not impossible, that Johnson was pimping out the white women with him. They were definitely prostitutes but Johnson and them a,ways said they were in a 'real' relationship. There was certainly room for reasonable doubt in his conviction

They wanted to join him because he was a threat to the hegemony, and it resulted in himfleeing the country for years and left him broke.

I am glad he has finally been pardoned

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Well, I suppose it is the outcome that matters isn't it?
I am glad he has finally been pardoned

I wish the courtesy had been extended to him while he was alive, and I also wish that Joe Louis had been pardoned during his lifetime.


The government is only as good and pure as the people who run it and I'm not just talking about elected officials either. Pencil pushing bureaucrats can be vile bastards! Hell even your own fellow citizens can be vile bastards. After Communism died it's "official death" in the 90's people found out that the Stasi were being used by average citizens to wage their private battles against other citizens.


Anyway, good for Jack Johnson, good for Deontay Wilder for being there, good on Lennox Lewis for being there, and good on Trump for just doing the right thing in this case.