McCain presses Obama to pardon black boxer

Full story: The Boston Globe

Sen. John McCain on Friday pressed President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman.

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Do Not Punk ME

Los Angeles, CA

McCain is ludicrous! Why should Johnson receive a "Pardon" for expressing a human emotion, culmmnating in confinement by a society of people who had extreme racial animous. He did nothing wrong! No superficial "PARDON" is warranted. McCAin do something meaningful this gesture is BS!!

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