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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:59:27 PM
Jack Johnson, black heavyweight boxing champion, was sent to prison in 1913 for . . .wait for it . . .having a romantic relationship with . . . a white woman. They couldn’t beat him in the ring. They even brought one of the top contenders Johnson had never been able to fight out of retirement to “bring him down.” He couldn’t. So the cops arrested him and sent him to prison for "violating the Mann Act," ruining his life for something that hurt nobody except the “sensibilities” of the openly racist people of the time. They tried to get a resolution through Congress to pardon him in 2004, but it failed. They tried several times more later and all but one failed. Obama has a chance to prove his administration will eliminate racism in this country (at least in his own office) by signing it and pardoning Johnson. This was one of the worst miscarriages of justice ever perpetrated “under law.” Obama has a chance to make it right, even though Johnson died a felon because of an unconstitutional racist law. Will he? I’ll be watching. What enrages me is members of this Congress having the temerity to accuse Rush Limbaugh, who doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, of being a racist (based on "made-up" quotes) after the same body actually passed LAW that was so blatantly racist, causing people like Johnson to be ruined. (
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