kikibalt wrote:
Frank
That article is priceless. We can read so many things into Johnson. We can try to figure him out. Contrast him with other great black fighters. Analyze him politically and socially. Assess his knowlege . But even today,when everything is out there to be weighed,Jack Johnson doesn't get many mentions nor credit. As far as Black history goes in Boxing,Louis and Ali are the monuments. I don't think historians sell Johnson short on his accomplishments,but I've always felt because he married White women ,he will never be on the same playing field with Louis and Ali.
That's what i've always felt Racism is all about. A particular race (the men) protecting their womanhood from another race(of men). Louis had White women,we now know. Ali said he had a White woman once. It was OK for White men to have affairs or rape their slave women. But if a White man was to marry a Black woman,he was ostracized. During our history the result of a Black man marrying a White woman could result in a lynching.
I teach U.S History. Tomorrow I start again . The Founding Fathers all had slaves. The Constitution never addressed slavery because it would have infringed on the drafters of that documents financial and economic conditions. Money before equal rights.
I like watching Turner Classic Movies. It is often a "night light" for me. If the movie is old and in Black and White,I'll leave the TV on. But when they show,"Birth Of A Nation" and Robert Osbourne starts saying although Blacks are misrepresented,it was a great American Classic,I turn off the TV and go to bed.
, but I'm not going to tell you how old she was,... 
