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04-01-2009, 07:17 AM
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McCain seeking pardon for Jack Johnson..
Pretty interesting. Didn't know McCain had boxing roots. For those unaware of this story, see or research "The Great White Hope".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/.../boxing_pardon WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president. McCain feels Johnson was wronged by a 1913 conviction of violating the Mann Act by having a consensual relationship with a white woman — a conviction widely seen as racially motivated. "I've been a very big fight fan, I was a mediocre boxer myself," McCain, R-Ariz., said in a telephone interview. "I had admired Jack Johnson's prowess in the ring. And the more I found out about him, the more I thought a grave injustice was done."
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