John McCain continues his white guilt trip, wants pardon for wife beater Jack Johnson
Reggie Reardon
APNewsBreak: McCain again urges pardon for boxer
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writer
Dec 16, 11:34 am EST
WASHINGTON (AP)�Two lawmakers are appealing to President Barack Obama
to pardon renowned black boxer Jack Johnson, imprisoned a century ago
because of his romantic link to a white woman.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Rep. Peter King of New York, both
Republicans, were sending a new letter to the president Wednesday,
after receiving their first response from the Obama administration
last week. In that response, the Justice Department�s pardon attorney,
Ronald L. Rodgers, told them the department, as a policy, does not
process pardons for dead people.
�We were sorely disappointed� by Rodgers� position, the lawmakers
wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press. They
asked Obama to �disagree with Mr. Rodgers� assessment, concur with
Congress and swiftly issue a posthumous pardon for Mr. Johnson.�
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Both houses of Congress passed resolutions this year urging a
presidential pardon for Johnson, who became the first black
heavyweight champion in 1908� 100 years before Obama was elected the
first black president.
Johnson�s victory led to a search for a �Great White Hope� who could
beat him. Two years later, Jim Jeffries, the American world
titleholder Johnson had tried for years to fight, came out of
retirement but lost in a match called �The Battle of the Century,�
resulting in deadly riots.
Rodgers wrote that notwithstanding the department policy, Obama still
has the authority to pardon whomever he wishes, �guided when he sees
fit by the advice of the pardon attorney.� The White House did not
immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
�A posthumous pardon would represent a final vindication to Mr.
Johnson�s family and to the ignominious stain on our nation�s
history,� McCain and King wrote, �and highlight the achievements of an
athlete who was forced into the shadows of bigotry and prejudice.�
In 2004, the Committee to Pardon Jack Johnson, which filmmaker Ken
Burns helped form, filed a petition with the Justice Department that
was never acted on during the Bush administration. Burns� 2005
documentary, �Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack
Johnson,� explored the case against the boxer and the sentencing
judge�s acknowledged desire to �send a message� to black men about
relationships with white women.
In 1913, Johnson was convicted of violating the Mann Act, which made
it illegal to transport women across state lines for immoral purposes.
After his conviction, he fled the country, but agreed years later to
return and serve a 10-month jail sentence.
�Mr. Johnson�s conviction was motivated by nothing more than the color
of his skin,� McCain and King wrote. �As such, it not only injured his
family, but also our nation as a whole.�
When he unveiled the resolution in April, McCain said he was sure that
Obama �will be more than eager� to issue the pardon.
Dick Waterman
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There is nothing in Jack Johnson history's that says he was a wife
beater.
The use of the outdated and obscure Mann Act was brought out of the
dust bin and tailored just to have a means to go after Johnson.
Our country's laws were unjustly used to punish a man because he fell
in love with a white woman.
A Presidential Pardon is long overdue for this great fighter.
Cotton Fields
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Dick Waterman <Jinx...@aol.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 20, 1:21�am, reggie...@aol.com (Reggie Reardon) wrote:
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> > APNewsBreak: McCain again urges pardon for boxer
> > By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writer
> > Dec 16, 11:34 am EST
> >
> > WASHINGTON (AP) Two lawmakers are appealing to President Barack Obama
> > to pardon renowned black boxer Jack Johnson, imprisoned a century ago
> > because of his romantic link to a white woman.
> >
> > Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Rep. Peter King of New York, both
> > Republicans, were sending a new letter to the president Wednesday,
> > after receiving their first response from the Obama administration
> > last week. In that response, the Justice Department s pardon attorney,
> > Ronald L. Rodgers, told them the department, as a policy, does not
> > process pardons for dead people.
>
> beater.
Wife abuser is more like it. He forced his first wife, the one
who committed suicide, to travel with his slut mistresses. When
their pussy wasn't enough on the road, or he saw some strange
pussy he wanted, he dumped all the bitches he was with until he
got the pussy.
> The use of the outdated and obscure Mann Act was brought out of the
> dust bin and tailored just to have a means to go after Johnson.
>
> Our country's laws were unjustly used to punish a man because he fell
> in love with a white woman.
Abused a women who killed herself because he was always fucking
every slut in sight but her.
> A Presidential Pardon is long overdue for this great fighter.
Shove your "great fighter" and your pardon up your ass.
SkippyPB
wrote:
Back to the dark ages with you Mr. Cotton Fields. First, let's look
at the time that Jack Johnson lived in and judge his actions by what
was the norm for then not now. What we call wife abuse today was not
considered a problem back then. Yes, it was and is wrong, but THEY
didn't KNOW or believe it was wrong. Just like 50-odd years before
they didn't think slavery was wrong.
Secondly, yes everyone knew Jack Johnson traveled with his first wife
AND two other mistresses. It involved consorting with prostitutes.
Rampant philandering. Obviously his female companions were willing to
put up with the 'abuse' of not being the only one. The man seemed to
have women lining up for mistreatment, He didn't enslave them. Any
of them could have walked away but they didn't.
Now there is some small shred of evidence that Jack Johnson's first
wife, Etta, shot herself rather than take said abuse. There is no
definitive proof that is the reason she committed suicide. Etta's
suicide has been interpreted as the act of a depressed woman who could
not deal with society's intolerance of her interracial marriage. I've
also read this as the desperate act of a wife who could no longer deal
with traveling around the country along with her husband's two
mistresses or getting beaten by him for voicing her displeasure in the
situation.
Finally, despite all of that, his arrest and imprisonment under the
Mann Act was just flat out wrong. And also remember it was Belle
Schreiber, the prostitute and Johnson's mistress whose testimony got
Johnson convicted the second time he was tried under the Mann Act. Who
knows what charges and pressures she was facing so that the DA could
get his ounce of flesh.
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But anyway I suspect he caught his missus getting a good seeing to from
a big black man when he came home from the office and now hates all
coloured people.
The fact of the matter is that people were jealous as hell : Women like
big strong athletic men. The fact he was hung like a donkey, was as hard
as nails and was a black as the ace of spades merely made him more
attractive to those women and more an object of hatred for the
authorities who felt he was taking the piss.
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even less.
John 'Zulu' McCain
Peter 'Watusi' King:
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wrote:
Shitstain McCain his "street name" in his home state, carryed it
by only 5%, is a a fine demonstration of just how polluted,
corruped, and ineffective is our maggot riddled Congress.
Salvtion will occur when it totally collapses. Then build
something even better.
striker
SkippyPB
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wrote:
Had McCain conducted a survey among the very senior of seniors in the
black communities, he might have come to a far, far different
conclusion.
Jack Johnson was an enbarrassment to those communites.
DCI
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