POLAR OPPOSITES ON RACE BUT BROTHERS-IN-ARMS REGARDING WOMEN

He was known as the Galveston Giant—a boxer who fought his way toward the first world heavyweight title held by an African-American. But in 1912, Jack Johnson became something else: a wanted man. Accused of violating the Mann Act, which forbade transporting a woman across state lines for “immoral purposes,” [Johnson]’s relationships with white women got him in trouble with the law.

Now, 72 years after his death, President Trump has pardoned Johnson. The pardon took place during an Oval Office ceremony during which Trump referred to Johnson as enduring “what many view as a racially-motivated injustice.” President Obama’s administration had considered pardoning Johnson, too, but declined to do so due to allegations he physically abused women...

https://www.history.com/news/white-slave-mann-act-jack-johnson-pardon 

In the past whenever I saw anything about Jack Johnson, I usually turned the page pretty quickly.

Regardless of any successes Johnson had, no matter how many times he told the white man who wanted to put a boot on his neck to go screw himself, the fact remains that this man was addicted to white skin on women like a crack addict loves cocaine.

Don't get it twisted. This man wasn't arrested for interracial dating. Jack Johnson's case isn't an earlier version of  THE LOVING CASE which helped overturn racist miscegenation laws. Johnson got arrested for relentlessly chasing a significant number of white women.

This debate is not about who loves who or what their skin color difference might be. This is about a black man screwing white women as a symbol of his own, individual, personal, racial freedom.

And according to a Paula Giddings book I read,Jack Johnson wasn't first to use white women in this way.

According to Giddings, one of the reasons the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fell apart was because white women saw black men as their "freedom" from gender oppression while black men saw white women as freedom from "racial oppression"  

Needless to say, this caused fractures in the black solidarity. Eventually SNCC would oust white people from the organization. The re-alignments based on sex are rarely ever mentioned as part of the reason.   

And I don't know that this has changed much for some of the simple minded among us in the black community

Google Search: Black Athletes And White Wives

However, the reason a lot of most men, including black men, see nothing wrong with a "successful" man collecting women to screw like one might collect  expensive watches is because a lot of men still see:

1) women as objects
2) success as getting rich enough to be able to do whatever you want. 

And for way too many black men, over the decades, it appears that being able to screw a white women if they want was their most important freedom.

I mean, it would have to be a black man's most important freedom to have sex with white women and date them in 1912.  Lynching was all the rage for white people in that era. Furthermore, the KKK wasn't pretending to be some fringe hate group back then either. It was damn near a political party.

Yes, Jack Johnson went to jail on trumped up charges created by white supremacists. However, as it was 1912 when he was going through all these shenanigans. I'm surprised he didn't die for this little white women addiction of his. However, he was "only" in jail for 10 months.  Johnson wound up dying later in a car crash on his way to see another boxer fight.

But you know what? I could be completely off the mark as to Johnson's motives because it also occurs to me that Jack Johnson may have screwed white women the way soldiers invade a country and violate the women of that foreign nation.

Not that Johnson raped anybody, but the violation of  "their

women" is standard operating procedure for men when they invade other countries because they want to send the men that they are defeating a unmistakable message. And that message is,

"You are powerless to stop me." 

Part of white men raping black women who were slaves was a kind of messaging between groups of men too.

I explain all this to day that Jack Johnson dating white women --in a very public manner--  and having sex with them could have been his way of telling the white men of 1912,

"I'm putting it to your women and you can't do a thing about it."

...Except white men could do something about it. And they did.

White men put him in jail. But his "only" being there for 10 months in early 1900s tells me that yesterday and today aren't that different. Johnson must have been making money for a white man somewhere.

Making money for a white men is the only way I can figure out a black man lets it be commonly known that he sleeps with white women (or rapes white and light women in Cosby's case) between 1880 and 1980 and isn't put to death for it...or at least put in prison for life.

Even so, Jack Johnson pushed back against the white establishment at every turn to let some black folks tell it. Maybe he did --except when he was chasing white women for sex. Or maybe he was just being a simple-minded sexist man-child who believed that talent, success, and power means you do what you want when you want to whoever you want, with white women being used as trophy f*ck buddies instead of trophy wives.

...like somebody else we know who lives in the White House

TRUMP & ALL THE WIVES HE REPORTEDLY CHEATED ON

Regardless of Johnson's true motives, he undermined his own black legacy with addiction to sex with white women

- whether his wanting to have sex with white women was actually  adesire to consume and get close to whiteness in an intimate way 

OR 

- it was a display of hatred for white men in a very Eldridge Cleaver sort of way, minus the cowardice of rape.

Either way, Jack Johnson sounds like something I'd scrape off the bottom of my shoe, much like Aget Evil Orange.

The two them, Trump and Johnson, both appear to be men that use what we now call "Toxic Masculinity" to define their success.

"I'm rich and powerful 

so now I can do what I want 

to anybody I want."

This is a terrible way to view and use power. But this is a different story for a different day.

In the meantime, I think we should all find it virtually impossible to defend any black man who beats women --especially if the wife he beat was a black woman.  In this case, however, it is even more important to me that some black folks are trying to get me to care about a black man who likely wouldn't spit on a black woman if she were on fire.

Sorry. That's not happening. That's never happening. I don't care how big his personal successes were.

Besides, Trump and Johnson may be on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to race and racism. And black folks are proud of that, as they should be. But it seems to me Trump and Johnson are on the very same side of the fence when it comes to sexism, misogyny and Toxic Masculinity

--which is why Trump liked this ugly man enough to pardon him despite Johnson being black.

All of this is why I'm proud of President Obama for declining to pardoned Jack Johnson. Barack Obama is married to a black woman he respects and raising daughters he expects other men to respect.  As he is a black feminist father I would have expected nothing less from him.

FEMINIST-IN-CHIEF: BARACK OBAMA ON BEING A FEMINIST FATHER

http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/08/feminist-in-chief-barack-obama-on-being.html

One day black men (and Pick Me-s that follow them over a cliff) are going to go as silent on Jack Johnson as they are on their ex-Hero Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. 

In fact, I think it's happening already. Congratulations to all of us because I don't see nearly as many black people celebrating Johnson's pardon as I do white people in the news patting themselves on the back for demonstrating their racial fairness.

In the meantime, since there's no such thing as being pro-black when you only care about half the race, I'm going to sit here being glad that it was the latest white supremacist president that wound up pardoning Jack Johnson.

Some black folks can celebrate with Trump and Trump Buddy Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) if they want to. All I can say to that is, "Good luck and goodbye." But, I'm putting Jack Johnson right back in that box marked "All Your Skinfolk Are Not Your Kinfolk."


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ON A SIDE NOTE: 

Is It a Coincidence That Today’s Most Outspoken Black Male Athletes Are Married to Black Women? (Hint: Nah)

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/is-it-a-coincidence-that-todays-most-outspoken-black-ma-1824084782

It's Not A Coincidence A Black Man Married to a Black Woman Made BLACK PANTHER Without Using A Paper Bag Test For Casting Black Women 

http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2018/03/black-panther-dark-skinned-feminist.html