2. The racism that targeted Johnson for unjust persecution also profited from his matches. Promoters, newspapers & movie makers all played up the racial angle for money.
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3. The true heir to this tradition of racist promotion is of course Trump himself, who wanted to do a season of The Apprentice with a white team fighting a black team.
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4. “It would be nine blacks against nine whites, all highly educated, very smart, strong, beautiful,” Told Howard Stern. The white team would be all-blond, but the black team would be an “assortment” of light-& dark-skinned blacks. Stern: “Wouldn’t that set off a racial war?”
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5. And of course, the way Trump targets black athletes (as with NFL protesters) is in the tradition of the scapegoating of Jackson.
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6. All of which is to say that Trump's pardoning of Johnson, however welcome, was rife with irony: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148534/trumps-pardon-jack-johnson-rife-ironies …
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Most recently employed in the largest money fight of alltime, Mayweather vs McGregor. Yet the media failed to pickup on it. “Great White Hope” is one of the classic scams
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in some ways he seemed like a surfer wannabe Dave Matthews but his early stuff was good.
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wrong Jack Johnson bro
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