http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_co/boxing_pardon

I never understand these things. He's long dead so an "official" pardon is meaningless.

I never understand these things. He's long dead so an "official" pardon is meaningless.

I understand what you are saying, but for the USA, whom has been alive for 200+ years, it is admitting there was wrong done in its past and that wrong is being corrected by over-turning a ruling that was laid upon the citizen Jack Johnson.

It can serve as a lesson by going over all the details and telling the story.
Jack Johnson was a part of history and that history and his life is lesson to all.

We must never forget what has come before us.

The Pardon will go "in the books" and be written as a Pardon instead of just seeing he was a criminal.

Jack Johnson is not dead in spirit.

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I understand what you are saying, but for the USA, whom has been alive for 200+ years, it is admitting there was wrong done in its past and that wrong is being corrected by over-turning a ruling that was laid upon the citizen Jack Johnson.

It can serve as a lesson by going over all the details and telling the story.
Jack Johnson was a part of history and that history and his life is lesson to all.

We must never forget what has come before us.

The Pardon will go "in the books" and be written as a Pardon instead of just seeing he was a criminal.

Jack Johnson is not dead in spirit.

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Great answer Benny!

And Heath Ledger's Oscar?

Pointless. He still got ****ed over in his lifetime. It doesn't mean anything now.

Pointless. He still got ****ed over in his lifetime. It doesn't mean anything now.


But it may to his family. and at least the goverment would acknowledge a wrong doing.

But it may to his family. and at least the goverment would acknowledge a wrong doing.

Yeah that's a good point. But it really gets on my nerves when the government issues some empty apology and goes, "We're cool now, right?"

It's like they did with the Japanese people they wrongfully interned during World War II.

Yeah that's a good point. But it really gets on my nerves when the government issues some empty apology and goes, "We're cool now, right?"

I know were you're coming from, but its better than just ignoring it and pretending it never happened, right? Late apologies suck, but they're better than never.

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Late apologies suck, but they're better than never.

** More like pols are better than ever at papering over their soiled bums with meaningless feel good tissue. IF the charge and conviction was no good, are we to believe that this generation of congressmen is somehow more noble and just than previous congresses?

Heck, Johnson's relatives need to put in for what Alaskan senator Ted Stevens just got from the head Congressman who's attorney general just vacated Uncle Ted's 7 felony convictions. That and some of that trillions of treasury green tissue paper Congress is throwing at US bank fraudsters who have run the world's ship of states into the mother of all icebergs.

You can take Jack Johnson's new pardon to ebay and a dime and a cup of diner coffee to go will buy it. Talk about damning Jack with faint praise indeed......:ok: