Jack Johnson is the kind of inspiration a man needs once or twice a year

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I don't think Johnson had been evolutionary developed to sense fear. How this man was never assasinated given the racial prejudice of his era is beyond me, that's the real number 1 Boxing mystery of all time.

 

Wtf? You trying to say Johnson wasn’t a fully evolved human being? That’s the kinda crap that he had to put up with back in his day

 

Damn, talk about misunderstanding something entirely. All I said was that he was fearless, calm down.

 

Ok. Just checking

 

When you are discussing the biggest, brassiest set of balls ever to enter a ring, Johnson's name should be at the top of the list.

 

We can have all the heavyweights' champs' balls side by side, and they would not be nowhere near the size of the Jack Johnson's. Johnson was marring white women in the day when just looking of em would get you hang. I am shocked he was not killed in his heyday of champ, I would think after the beating he gave to say Jeffries, what really would stop the crowd from rushing the ring, dragging Johnson down the street and hanging him??

 

100%.

 

There were attempts.

 

Clarence Darrow once defended a black doctor called Ossain Sweet, who was charged with murder after he shot dead two members of a white lynch mob.

At one point he said: "If the only evidence that you had to work with was Dr Sweet and his tormentors, wouldn't you have to conclude that the negros were the superior race?"

You could say the same thing about Jack Johnson and his tormentors.

 

Chip on the shoulder much?

When and where?

Perhaps everyone wasnt as racist as we are are led to believe?

Oh how things have changed.

 

Yep.
Jack Johnson had a serious pair of balls.
Back then being America was simmering in discrimination and prejudice. Jim Brown was in full force.
A black teenager could get lynched because a white girl acussed him of whistling at her.
A 8 years old black kid could be badly beaten by the local sheriff because he dared playing with white kids.
A light skinned black man could be castrated by a mob because he had sex with a white girl (gladly nothing happened to the girl, because it was assumed she was "fooled" into thinking the guy was really white).
Those are not make up stories, those barbaric cases happened and were common back in the day.

Much respect to Johnson.