President Trump Posthumously Pardons Boxer Jack Johnson…

theconservativetreehouse.com ^ | 5/24/18 | sundance

[a little elbow grease]

"Agreed. As a one time boxing fan (no longer) I would like to mention as a matter of interest Joe Choynski. (1868-1943). Joe was American of Polish Jewish descent. He knocked out an inexperience novice Jack Johnson in three rounds 1901. Both incarcerated for disturbing the peace. They formed a friendship and Choynski taught Johnson to really box. Not everyone was prejudiced in those days."

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Great to learn that.

[dirtymac]

Where was Obama on this? what a hypocrite Liar hateful racist. yes he hated black people too, unless they were useful democrats

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Remember: Obama REFUSED to pardon Johnson!!!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Obama REFUSED to pardon Johnson, but he had no issue pardoning terrorists. Obama was given every single reason you can think of to pardon him but he REFUSED.......

From Wikipedia....

” In April 2009, Senator John McCain, along with Representative Peter King, film maker Ken Burns and Johnson’s great-niece, Linda Haywood, requested a presidential pardon for Johnson from President Barack Obama.[70] In July of that year, Congress passed a resolution calling on President Obama to issue a pardon.[71] In 2016, another petition for Johnson’s pardon was issued by McCain, King, Senator Harry Reid and Congressman Gregory Meeks to President Obama, marking the 70th anniversary since the boxer’s death.[72] This time citing a provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed by the president in December 2015, in which Congress expressed that this boxing great should receive a posthumous pardon, and a vote by the United States Commission on Civil Rights passed unanimously a week earlier in June 2016 to “right this century-old wrong.”[73]

Mike Tyson, Harry Reid and John McCain lent their support to the campaign, starting a Change.org petition asking President Obama to posthumously pardon the world’s first African-American boxing champion of his racially motivated 1913 felony conviction.[74] Obama declined to pardon Johnson.”

[Impy]

Very good move politically.

[a little elbow grease]

Yes............. should be another half of a million votes for DJT..........especially from those of the age who understand Johnson’s life as a man and a boxer.