But seriously I'm tripping off of who is sponsoring it!:smt104 Some Throwback Swirl: Former Boxer Convicted For Dating And Marrying White Women Is Seeking Pardon From President Obama http://hater site.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/jack-johnson-with-wife-ir-001.jpg?w=460&h=276 President Obama has made clear he’ll only consider pardons for the living, but two old amateur fighters are trying again to get one for the late Jack Johnson – the first black heavyweight champ. “They can do it if they want to,” Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.) said Monday of the push to erase Johnson’s conviction for dating and marrying white women. King and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who boxed in the Navy, will introduce another resolution to pardon Johnson, similar to the one that passed both houses last year. But the Justice Department wouldn’t give Johnson a break, saying pardons should be reserved for people “who can benefit” from them – meaning the living. “I don’t care what the policy is,” said Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem, where Johnson once owned a nightclub that became the famed Cotton Club. “It would be a great thing to do,” Rangel added, to pardon Johnson for his 1913 conviction by an all-white jury for transporting women across state lines for “immoral purposes.” http://hater site.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/jack-johnson.jpg?w=150&h=117 http://hater site.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/jack-johnson-with-wife-ir-001.jpg?w=150&h=90 http://hater site.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/jack-johnson-3.jpg?w=150&h=112
Jack Johnson had some major balls .He beat the shit out of white men,fucked hundreds of white women, flaunted his money,cars and tailor made suits with the ego and arrogance to match any man on planet during the early 1900's. Major bad ass in my opinion
He was also fluent in several languages and didn't talk anything like the character in the 'Great White Hope'.
As a huge boxing fan I read a lot about him,he was a very intelligent individual.He spoke more like a poet or philosopher then a boxer
Check out the You Tube piece on his speech before conducting the Tiger Rag. I had mentioned Jack Johnson many times and I wished he will get that pardon.
pay attention shit was serious as hell back then everyone's riding his pipe but are forgetting about the white women, that faced what they did, by sleeping with the guy he got convicted..sure...but im pretty sure they caught shit for doing what they did too
Well Said Officer! I think we tend to forget about how much shit that WW go through for swirling with brothas sometimes... Especially back then!
Seriously til this day ww are taking a risk when dating bm, from both sides of the scales No one mentions that tho.... We aren't the only victims out there
Yep, I agree. This is the world we live in though, we've got to deal with this reality. We can only hope that the future increase in diversity means there's an increase in racial tolerance.
Petty-sometimes you say the nicest things:smt058. I remember studying his case ago 10 years ago in college and being completlely digusted