Guest Commentary
The Crime Did Not Fit, But The Jury Would Not Acquit: The Irony of Donald Trump and the Petition to Pardon Jack Johnson
Guest Commentator
What Trump definitely will not do, is what he should do. Admit that Johnson did not commit a crime, and apologize for the corrupt actions of the Justice Department that prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated an innocent man, destroying his career and altering much of his life in the aftermath.
Jack Johnson was boxing's heavyweight champion from December 26, 1908 until April 5, 1915; an era of Social Darwinism, white supremacy, legal segregation, eugenics and routine…
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