Why Jack Johnson’s Family Should Refuse Any Exoneration

As to judging how politicians spend their time, I completely agree with McGrain. Things like that are the very basis of whom one votes for, or SHOULD be. You're damn right I'm gonna judge someone I elect as to how they spend their hours representing me. Are you really saying you wouldn't? That's kind of scary.

 

I care if there is gross incompetence of mismanaged time.

But I'm not going to divy up his daily schedule, and tell him when he can take a ****, and when he has to meet with who.

We elect politicians whom we have faith will carry out whats best for us. We don't elect them to breath over their shoulders.

Literally nobody has a problem with our senators dedicating a little time to Johnson. Does that give you guys a little clue about how out of touch you are on this?

 

That's not the question at hand. You made a statement that you don't care about how elected officials make up their day. I mean you literally wrote that. Now you're turning that into "McGrain and Sal are out of touch." How are you connecting those dots?

Personally I don't give two sh/ts about Jack Johnson, and neither do 95% of America or better. That says all anyone needs to say about how far to pursue this issue.

 

You said it's not worth the time and resources to pardon a character like Johnson.

I think I made a good case as to why pardoning Johnson is important, and how the resource expense on such an initiative would be drastically minimal compared to real issues.

Just so you know, nobody echoes your sentiments. The people, politicians, nor the media feel what you feel. If you have any pulse on our controversy hungry world of politics, that must tell you something.

 

I care. I just have faith that our most senior senators of the US know how to efficiently be productive. And that they have am much better understanding of how to manage their time than we do. So how they manage their time is not a concern of mine.

It's by far the most logical and reasonable assessment here.

There is not a single serious complaint of Reid of McCain neglecting the American people because of time management.

 

Well we'll have to disagree as to how logical all this is, but I respect your right to think that way. That's good by me.

 

The US Justice Department never grants posthumous pardons. It's a policy.
It was a formality that is part of the process. The real decision lies with the President.

It symbolically satisfies opinions like yours, but has no real bearing on the process.

Also, the justice departments resource expenditure isn't even the concern. And what they said doesn't reflect your point about the Senates resource expenditure.

You are taking things at face value, and applying them in places where they don't fit.

"What they're doing here is bucking it back to President Obama," King said. "So I would respectfully urge him to grant the pardon. This is the president's call."

 

When Johnson was convicted, the judge in the case said "Let this be a lesson to all black people about having relationships with white women."

Johnson, and America deserves this pardon.

 

A few things.

My five worst actions would not rate in Johnson's top 30! Never arrested, in court, etc...

America is so openly racist they elected the first black president with a Muslim name with over 50% of white people voting for him. I don't see that in any European, or Asian nation electing a minority president, do you?

Johnson is not a special case and he was worse than Mayweather. Again he assaults women, he assaults the sick, he was a pimp, he fled on a bond, he was kicked out of other nations.

The black intellectuals of Johnson time didn't like him or worried he would reinforce the worst type of stereotypes, and beating up a women these days is even more taboo than it was 10 years ago.

But I want to revise something. A Presidental Pardon doesn't take a lot of time, and if Obama, who tried his best to empower minority types wants to, he can add JJ to his pardon list.

As for guilt, my family was from the North. Slavery was everybody's story, as the African Chiefs used to capture natives and sell them off. Mostly UK ancestry were slave owners.

Before African slaves the USA actually had Irish Salves, and before that some Europeans were slaves in Africa. But you might not know that because it doesn't fit the narrative.

 

You're comparing 2008 USA to 1910 USA in terms of race relations?

 

The justice department isn't the only party to hear the pardon request. In fact, they aren't the primary party. It's a formality.

Yeah Obama will really be bothered by a call asking if Johnson can be pardoned.
Maybe he can fit it in before the "Coffee with Comedians" bit featuring Jerry Sienfeld?

Or perhaps he can take the call next time on the golf course?