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Unforgivable Blackness: The Jack Johnson Story Trailer · The Twin History Podcast

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  I would rank Jack Johnson as the greatest heavyweight boxer of
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  all time. So today we're doing a special
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  mini episodes and it's just myself, Johnny McCann, because
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  my twin Joseph has been detained for unspecified reasons.
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  I first became aware of Jack Johnson maybe when I was in my
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  early 20s, and I was always awe struck by him because he lived
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  his life the way he wanted to live it.
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  I was going to empty chair Joseph like Clint Eastwood,
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  empty chair Obama at the 2012 Republican convention.
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  I mean, we love Clint, but I don't want to end up looking
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  insane, so I think I would just keep it as it is.
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  At a time when black people were being lynched for merely looking
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  at a white woman, Johnson flaunted his romantic
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  engagement, shall we say, with white women.
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  So throughout our life, Joseph and I have been able to date
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  white women with impunity. Johnson is like a mythical
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  figure, and it may not be clear, but both our wives are white.
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  He was in the dressing room before the fight and he he asked
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  for more money from Shewa McIntosh, who pulled a cotton on
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  Johnson and told him that if he didn't get into the ring, he'd
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  be skinned alive. He said like no one can ever
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  hurt this man, not even if you have an act.