Daily Caller: President Donald Trump pardoned the first black heavyweight boxing champion Thursday.
Jack Johnson was convicted by an all-white jury in 1913 of transporting a woman across state lines. Johnson was convicted for violating the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes, and served close to one year in prison.
The pardon comes after Johnson’s great-great niece had been pushing for a posthumous pardon. Actor Sylvester Stallone was also a huge advocate for Johnson’s pardon and joined Trump in the Oval Office for the pardon announcement.
Johnson was charged due to racially motivated injustice, Trump said and hopes this pardon will help “to correct a wrong in our history,” ABC News reported.
“I am taking this very righteous step, I believe, to correct a wrong that occurred in our history, and to honor a truly legendary boxing champion, legendary athlete and a person that, when people got to know him, they really liked him and they really thought he was treated unfairly,” Trump said. more here
“Trump is a racist.”
-You know who.
Did John L. Sullivan do anything worth pardoning? I heard that a French Ballerina dancer literally kicked the shit out of him in a Paris bistro. The Boston Strongman. World Champion .
“Trumps just doing this to try and not look Racist”
-You know who
Gosh I hope Trump is president for 8 years, it will truly add an exponent to my enjoyment of life. What a perfect antidote he is to Obama.
Hey Mr. President, for old time’s sake, pardon Bill Cosby, John Dillenger, and Willie Sutton. Drive these progs batty!
And for good measure pardon Philip Nolan, the man without a country.
tomorrow we will wake up to the usual race-baiters yelling how dare Trump ‘culturally-appropriate’ something the Halfrican should have done
yeah, progtard pretzel logic is hard to wrap one’s head around … but, there it is
President Donald Trump: just doing the work that the narcissistic, arrogant, lying, corrupt, out-of-touch, dope-smoking, shame gland missing, belly-aching, finger-pointing, Treasury-looting, economy-wrecking, healthcare-destroying, process-circumventing, Peace-Prize stealing, productivity-obstructing, divisive, chaos inciting, lawless phoney-baloney, tone-deaf, plastic banana republic socialist hood-ornament wouldn’t do!
Everyone has known for almost a century that Johnson was railroaded because he was uppity and wouldn’t stop marrying White women. Numerous Presidents had the opportunity to pardon him, but couldn’t be bothered to do so. Everybody thought when Obama was elected he would do it, but he didn’t need to either because he had the African-American vote sewed up anyway. So Trump just picked up a bunch of Black votes with a pen and the small amount of time it took to sign the paperwork.
Now that’s a shrewd move if I ever saw one.
if i were a black dude, i would prefer white women too
Anon 8.58 was me.
What the Rat Fink said
Donald Trump, private citizen at the time, was a promoter of boxing events, for instance at his hotels.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid gets KNOCKED out by his own brother!
Priceless…
Oh yeah what RF said too.
@ GG
I am hoping for my troops sake as well!!
Type into your search engine…DJT and Don King or Mike Tyson.
Van Jones, Kanye, Jack Johnson…
obama better air his Netflix propaganda piece “Training the next generation” real soon because he’s losing the last generation he brainwashed ala Trumps pen.
Hey, i saw Donald trump kick Vince McMahon’s ass at a wrestling show. It was just as legit as Obama’s basketball or golf skilz.
yeah, big deal…what difference, at this point, does it make????
yeah that was a hillary quote…..
actually, i spect it makes a whole hell of a lot of difference in certain communities…
this man – THE DONALD – is AWESOME……everyday, he amazes me with some strange off-the-wall move that says “hey, stupid……THIS is how it is DONE….”
NOT tired of WINNING!!!!!
Oh yea, sure. The racist Trump pardons him decades after his death. If he really cared about black people, he would’ve pardoned him immediately!……………..
I just love politically correct pardons, LOOK!!!!! It’s black people. Give me a break.
The blacks are still going to hate trump, even if he gives them reparations.