Jack Johnson: Trump pardons black heavyweight champion
24 May 2018

Actor Sylvester Stallone (right) and boxer Deontay Wilder (left) were present for the pardon signing
US President Donald Trump has pardoned boxing's first black heavyweight champ, convicted in 1913 of taking his white girlfriend across state lines.

Joined in the Oval Office by actor Sylvester Stallone and boxer Lennox Lewis, Mr Trump said the move corrected a historic US wrong to Jack Johnson.

Johnson was arrested in 1912 with Lucille Cameron, a white woman who would later become his wife.

He was world heavyweight titleholder from 1908 until 1915.

Mr Trump shook hands with current and former heavyweight champions at the White House during the announcement of the full pardon on Thursday.

Johnson's story was dramatised in Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Great White Hope
Linda Bell Haywood, the maternal great-great niece of Jack Johnson, was also present, as was current heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.

What did Trump say?
"I've issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon posthumously to Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world," Mr Trump said.

"He served 10 months for what many view as a racially motivated injustice."

"Keep punching, Jack," Mr Stallone said at the Oval Office announcement
Mr Trump had said he was considering pardoning Johnson back in April, after Mr Stallone brought the case to his attention.

"Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson," Mr Trump said last month on Twitter.

"His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial."

During the announcement, Stallone - who famously depicted a boxer in the 1977 film Rocky - lifted his head upwards and said: "Keep punching, Jack."

"Thank you all! Justice has been done!" he tweeted after the announcement.

Mr Trump also jabbed former president Barack Obama, saying that many people "thought it was going to be signed in the last administration, and that did not happen, so it was disappointing for a lot of people."

Mr Obama had declined to pardon Johnson, in part due to allegations of domestic abuse, according to the New York Times.

Who was Jack Johnson?
Born in Galveston, Texas, to former slaves, he became the first African American to win the world heavyweight crown in 1908, defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

He held on to that title until 1915 when Jess Willard, a white cowboy from Kansas, took the title with a knockout in the 26th round in Havana, Cuba.

In 1910, when Johnson defeated "great white hope" Jim Jeffries in the so-called Fight of the Century in Reno, Nevada, race riots erupted across the nation, claiming more than 20 lives.

Johnson's story was dramatised in Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones in 1969.

Why was he arrested?
He was charged with violating the 1910 Mann Act, a so-called moral purity law that made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral" purposes.

US prosecutors argued that Johnson's relationship with Lucille Cameron was a "crime against nature", and an all-white jury took less than two hours to convict him.

His career in ruins, Johnson skipped bail and fled to Europe to live in exile.

He spent years fighting overseas before surrendering to US authorities in 1920. He served 10 months in prison.

In 1946, he died in a car crash.

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DEONTAY WILDER CHECKS CRITICS OF HIM THANKING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR JOHNSON PARDON: "I'M VERY WOKE"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s9W1nom_OI

WATCH: President Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5u_GKzXWXc

Buh I tot abbeybailey said Trump hates black??

obonujoker:


Buh I tot abbeybailey said Trump hates black??

Even Obama that abbeybailey worships did not see it fit to pardon Jack Johnson during his 8 years tenure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJvR6J5y4I

OLAADEGBU:


Even Obama that abbeybailey worships did not see it fit to pardon Jack Johnson during his 8 years tenure.

Ode. Jack Johnson has been dead over 70 years and a racist pig is going a nothing burger gesture over something that makes no sense to the Blacks living in America now. It's the KKK friends of Trampy Grandfather that did the injustice to JJ while he was alive. Hush your mouth and keep kissing the fat pig behind.

Lucasbalo:
Ode. Jack Johnson has been dead over 70 years and a racist pig is going a nothing burger gesture over something that makes no sense to the Blacks living in America now. It's the KKK friends of Trampy Grandfather that did the injustice to JJ while he was alive. Hush your mouth and keep kissing the fat pig behind.

God bless Trump...Hang urself if u dont it. Oponu oshi

tolexy007:



God bless Trump...Hang urself if u dont it. Oponu oshi

Shiiithole brainstem. Like Trump give a fvck about you in what he called a shiiithole.

Lucasbalo:
Shiiithole brainstem. Like Trump give a fvck about you in what he called a shiiithole.

I know u a criminal a useless and lazy gangstar, and u know trump net will soon catch u and send u to prison, that is y u always jump from thread to thread to attack any one who says something nice about Trump......Thunder will soon fire.

tolexy007:


I know u a criminal a useless and lazy gangstar, and u know trump net will soon catch u and send u to prison, that is y u always jump from thread to thread to attack any one who says something nice about Trump......Thunder will soon fire.

Hungry piece of Basura from a cave. By the way,what the heck is your deal about US when you are dealing with useless leaderships in Nigeria ?. All the many problems in your country enough for you to deal with to be obsessed about Trampy that think of you as an animal in a shiiithole. One of trampy biggest supporters ( Roseanne Barr) here just called someone of your color ape descendant and a guy that's barely surviving in a poo hole is foaming in the mouth. Thunder is firing your family with hunger already. Your titanic is sinking and a blowhard is worried about a place you don't even know anything about. No wonder your life is a mess.

tolexy007:


I know u a criminal a useless and lazy gangstar, and u know trump net will soon catch u and send u to prison, that is y u always jump from thread to thread to attack any one who says something nice about Trump......Thunder will soon fire.

Oloriburuku, I am not hiding my face like a punky hungry alley cat like you. I am just as American as the worthless pig. I critique the racist pig here in America too.All you need to do is Google Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun Times to see how millions of Americans loathes the lying pig. Critiqueing your leadership is the highest form of patriotism. We do not lick the behind of our leaders like you do in the cave. Go mend your hunger with your less than $1.50. Thunder of hunger is firing your family as we speak. Okrika wearing yellow eyed piece of junk.

Lucasbalo:


Ode. Jack Johnson has been dead over 70 years and a racist pig is going a nothing burger gesture over something that makes no sense to the Blacks living in America now. It's the KKK friends of Trampy Grandfather that did the injustice to JJ while he was alive. Hush your mouth and keep kissing the fat pig behind.

Have you ever heard of a posthumous pardon before? Barak Obama had the chance to correct a wrong but he obviously had a different agenda and it was not for the cause of the African Americans. It had to take President Trump, who you call a racist to do the right thing but your liberal mindset has blinded you from reality and history.

Lucasbalo:


Hungry piece of Basura from a cave. By the way,what the heck is your deal about US when you are dealing with useless leaderships in Nigeria ?. All the many problems in your country enough for you to deal with to be obsessed about Trampy that think of you as an animal in a shiiithole. One of trampy biggest supporters ( Roseanne Barr) here just called someone of your color ape descendant and a guy that's barely surviving in a poo hole is foaming in the mouth. Thunder is firing your family with hunger already. Your titanic is sinking and a blowhard is worried about a place you don't even know anything about. No wonder your life is a mess.

I was expecting you to deny or disprove the fact that you are a criminal but you failed the test.

[quote author=OLAADEGBU post=68025253]

Have you ever heard of a posthumous pardon before? Barak Obama had the chance to correct a wrong but he obviously had a different agenda and it was not for the cause of the African Americans. It had to take President Trump, who you call a racist to do the right thing but your liberal mindset has blinded you from reality and history.[/quote Roseanne Barr, a big an very vocal supporter of racist pig named Trampy just called someone that looks like you apes. That's your Lord right there. Nazi worshipper.

Lucasbalo:


Roseanne Barr, a big an very vocal supporter of racist pig named Trampy just called someone that looks like you apes. That's your Lord right there. Nazi worshipper.

You should use the same yardstick to judge your fellow democrats such as yourself who think they have the reserved rights to be racist to Donald Trump and his supporters.

OLAADEGBU:


You should use the same yardstick to judge your fellow democrats such as yourself who think they have the reserved rights to be racist to Donald Trump and his supporters.

Lucas/Abbeilay is an embittered soul..how does he sleep at night?

Lucasbalo:
Ode. Jack Johnson has been dead over 70 years and a racist pig is going a nothing burger gesture over something that makes no sense to the Blacks living in America now. It's the KKK friends of Trampy Grandfather that did the injustice to JJ while he was alive. Hush your mouth and keep kissing the fat pig behind.

Reread your comment and see that it has no iota of common sense to even latch unto.

obixcel:
Reread your comment and see that it has no iota of common sense to even latch unto.

Shot your trap village skunk. JJ has been dead for over 70 years. The racist is tearing America apart from the seams and a village fool with no sense is here lapping up his shiiithy a*s.

obixcel:
Lucas/Abbeilay is an embittered soul..how does he sleep at night?

Fool. Mosquitoes don't bite me at night unlike some village masquerade I know. I live a life you can only think of in your dream.

obixcel:


Lucas/Abbeilay is an embittered soul..how does he sleep at night?

I pity him for he has been wailing, moaning and whining for the past 500 days since President Trump was sworn into office.

obixcel:


Reread your comment and see that it has no iota of common sense to even latch unto.

You are right, he is all emotion-laden with zero fact.

Lucasbalo:


Shot your trap village skunk. JJ has been dead for over 70 years. The racist is tearing America apart from the seams and a village fool with no sense is here lapping up his shiiithy a*s.

You don't even know the difference between shooting and a posthumous pardon. Do you even realise that America has been divided before Obama ever dreamt of becoming a President?

Lucasbalo:


Fool. Mosquitoes don't bite me at night unlike some village masquerade I know. I live a life you can only think of in your dream.

I thought your likes vowed to leave America if Donald Trump becomes the President? Those who have integrity like Professor Wole Soyinka have made their promise good but you refuse to eat your humble pie and come back home with your tail between your legs.

OLAADEGBU:


I thought your likes vowed to leave America if Donald Trump becomes the President? Those who have integrity like Professor Wole Soyinka have made their promise good but you refuse to eat your humble pie and come back home with your tail between your legs.

Dummy, this is my home and nothing you and your racist pig Trampy can do about it.

Lucasbalo:


Dummy, this is my home and nothing you and your racist pig Trampy can do about it.

You better relocate back to Obodo country before President Trump arrests you for treason.

OLAADEGBU:


You better relocate back to Obodo country before President Trump arrests you for treason.

Fvck You and the racist pig. I am a better American than that racist a*shole.

Lucasbalo:


Fvck You and the racist pig. I am a better American than that racist a*shole.

Do you use the same racist terms on this one?

OLAADEGBU:


Which one do you call a pig?

Trump the serial cheater and conman who grabs women by their pus*ies. The master racist piggy named Trampy.

Lucasbalo:


Trump the serial cheater and conman who grabs women by their pus*ies. The master racist piggy named Trampy.

There's only one serial cheater

OLAADEGBU:


Did you say serial cheater?

Yes, like cheating on his ex wives and present wife Melania with Stormy. If he's not faithful to his numerous wives, how can he be faithful to Americans.

Lucasbalo:


Yes, like cheating on his ex wives and present wife Melania with Stormy. If he's not faithful to his numerous wives, how can he be faithful to Americans.

You are the ones getting confused. Who is the hypocrite here?