[lee martell]

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!

[arrogantsob]

I think you are confusing JJ with Paul Robson.

[Stepan12]

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.

I think your confusing Jack Johnson with a famous black singeer and actor of the 20s and 30s

Jack Johnson conducts the "Tiger Rag"

[BatGuano]

You might be thinking of Paul Robeson.