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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Wasn’t Jack Johnson an open Communist and didn’t he do the crime? Why should he be anything but despised as the low life Commie he was?


11 posted on 03/31/2009 2:54:52 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog
I've never heard anything about Johnson being a Communist and really doubt it considering his background and educational level.

He did have his personal problems though, and was a wife-beater. Still, the Mann Act violation was trumped up since he liked white women and had married a white prostitute, triggering all kinds of lurid accusations against him.

Jack Johnson

12 posted on 03/31/2009 3:03:57 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: yarddog
Wasn’t Jack Johnson an open Communist and didn’t he do the crime? Why should he be anything but despised as the low life Commie he was?

It has never been illegal in this country to be a Communist.

I may be mistaken, but I believe the woman he was convicted of transporting across state lines for immoral purposes was his (white) wife. If correct, this was pretty obviously a miscarriage of justice.

14 posted on 03/31/2009 3:07:46 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: yarddog

I think you’re confusing him with Paul Robeson, the singer/actor, who was a committed Stalinist.


23 posted on 03/31/2009 4:35:42 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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