Posted on 04/21/2018 2:11:32 PM PDT by ethom
Edited on 04/21/2018 3:34:58 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
President Trump said Saturday he
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If he was,in fact,guilty I see no reason for a pardon.He served a year...he wasn’t executed.And his race makes no difference his guilt or innocence is all that matters.
Wow, talk about putting black leaders in a bind. Sure they want a presidential pardon for the boxer, but not from this ‘illegitimate’ president.
And by the way, where was Obama regarding this...it’s not like the conviction happened last month, or last year.
If he’s already tweeted about it, hasn’t he pretty much boxed himself in?
Does this mean he’ll be able to vote?
guess Obama was not a boxing fan lol
“boxed himself in?”
I see what you did there.
A posthumous pardon is like a posthumous conviction the person concerned does not care.
Johnson did indeed get railroaded.
Given the circumstances and the time it might be fine to do so. Liberals from way back have had ample opportunity to do this and did not. It will stick in their craw and that of the Hypocritical Black leaders if Trump does it. Worth the price of admission to watch the reactions.
He was guilty of dating a white woman. Don’t you think we’ve moved past that?
The Broadway play and subsequent movie "THE GREAT WHITE HOPE", tells the story of Jack Johnson and the movie is both very interesting and very well done. James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander starred in both the play and the movie.
He was convicted for actions taken before the statute existed. He got shafted because of his color.
It would be naïve to believe that in 1912 a black man in Johnson’s situation would have been treated fairly by the courts .
I would support a presidential pardon.
He was convicted of a crime that didn’t even exist at the time of the event. He did nothing wrong. Google around. There’s plenty of information.
The “Great White Hope” wasn’t EXACTLY about Johnson. The boxer in the movie was Jack Jefferson But it was pretty close for Hollywood.
What??
Jack Johnson was a famous athlete, but wasn’t he also a well known communist sympathizer? I’m still googling to confirm one way or another.
If Johnson committed a crime, we cannot just wish it away, and absolve him of guilt posthumously.
We need to get over this current urge to retool the past and make it fit the dialogs of today.
Most black groups will either ignore this gesture, or find something to criticize, saying this paternalistic pandering makes the president’s ‘racism’ that much more obvious!
It was a horseshit law...just like prohibtion was.
I don't know why the name change, but everyone with more than 3 working brain cells knew that both were based on Johnson's life. IIRC, it was mentioned in the Playbill and in ALL of the published reviews of the movie, when it came out.
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