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Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
Reuters ^ | 24 May 2018

Posted on 05/24/2018 10:16:28 AM PDT by mandaladon

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To: mandaladon

Don’t you love how Reuters embeds the story “Judge rules Trump can’t block Twitter users” smack in the middle of this one if you don’t have ad blocker on? They can’t possibly let a sliver of positive news go unchallenged.


21 posted on 05/24/2018 11:36:31 AM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: pepsionice

It’s been 106 years. 20 some-odd POTUSes have come and gone. They all had their chances to do a pardon. If one of them had pardoned him before he died on June 10, 1946, it would have been more than just a gesture. But a nice, if belated, gesture even so.


22 posted on 05/24/2018 11:48:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: mandaladon

Of course liberals are upset, because Trump is obviously racist from their perspective......how dare he pardon a black man........oh wait, WHAT?

You got to love it when the race card just doesn’t fit the action.


23 posted on 05/24/2018 12:16:36 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes, Sen. Byrd, whom Hitlery is on record saying he was her “MENTOR” in the Senate. But no— the real liberal white guilt klan loving democrat machine will never own up to what they really are— elitist lying manipulators of political power. And... most importantly as such, Leftist Fascists (all the way from FDR to today).


24 posted on 05/24/2018 2:12:52 PM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: mandaladon

Good.

Should have happened years ago.

His case is demonstrates in Big Letters and Bold Colors that there are laws which are amoral and should have never existed...


25 posted on 05/24/2018 3:44:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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The charges were the consequence of his taking a WHITE woman across state lines.

His pardon was LONG overdue. The racism directed at Johnson (for beating the white boxers and becoming the first black heavyweight boxing champion) was real, and it was an outrage.


26 posted on 05/24/2018 5:28:41 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To follow up on my last post: his prosecution is also one of the uncounted examples of a well-meaning but bone-headed law (because it could NEVER be applied in a remotely fair manner) that was used to selectively prosecute someone that the authorities took a dislike to.

In Jackson’s case, it was because of his race. This is exactly why the FEWER laws we have, the freer we are from potential (and real) government tyranny ..

.. the Founding Fathers understood this all too well, and bequeathed to us our Republic, with its checks and balances, and Federalism ... which is now on life support ...


27 posted on 05/24/2018 5:32:06 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

Typo in my last post .. itshould have read:

“in Johnson’s case ...”


28 posted on 05/24/2018 5:33:27 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: dfwgator

Any truth to the rumor that President Trump forced Sly to chase a chicken at the WH?


29 posted on 05/24/2018 5:35:29 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Plenty of people know who Jack Johnson was. They even made a movie of his life a few years back.


30 posted on 05/24/2018 7:23:49 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: DiogenesLamp; mandaladon

you forgot George Bush.

https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/5/senator-john-mccain-applauds-president-trump-for-issuing-posthumous-pardon-of-boxing-legend-jack-johnson


31 posted on 05/24/2018 7:55:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: trebb

#5. Another thing “beneath her” is Hell. It’s open 24 hours for eternity.


32 posted on 05/24/2018 9:14:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I won’t go there - without the grace of Jesus’ blood, I would be deemed every bit as bad as her in His eyes.


33 posted on 05/25/2018 1:24:15 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrite<i> Yet anoths who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: mandaladon

Jack Johnson must have been a Republican.


34 posted on 05/25/2018 8:49:34 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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