Barack Obama vs. Jack Johnson
Almost 100 years ago on Dec. 26, 1908, the great boxer Jack Johnson shocked and shook up the world or at least decent White folks’ sensibilities by becoming the first African American Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World…Johnson defeated ‘The Great White Hope’ Tommy Burns by knocking him out in the land down under (Australia) to earn his crown as Pugilist Number One…Almost 100 years later (Nov. 4, 2008), Barack Obama is looking to become the ‘Undisputed Heavyweight Champ of the Free World’ that is the President of the U.S.A….He is looking to defeat ‘The Great White Old Man’ or ‘Farce’ in Sen. John McCain…
Both subjects are interesting studies in compare and contrast…
Both Barack & Jack have and had reputations for being very ambitious and driven fellows…They have both proven in their times to be relentless and persistent in the pursuits of their desired goals…
Both men are often compared to some of the great men of honor and distinction of the Ages…Jack Johnson often identified himself with the military genius and leader Napoleon Bonaparte in that they were both confidant and brilliant men who were at times underrated by adversaries and yet willed themselves to victory against all odds and comers…Barack Obama is often compared with the restless, energetic, idealistic and charismatic late political leader RFK because they both were willing “to dream things that never were and ask why not”…During their times, both Barack and RFK ran their political campaigns in focusing on and in support of those left behind in America’s Global Conquest of late: the middle class and the poor…As a matter of fact the Obama campaign has been successful in connecting the Kennedy legacy and brand with Obama, getting endorsements from key Kennedy family members including the ailing patriarch and brother of RFK, the popular Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his niece Caroline, the daughter of the late Pres. John Kennedy (Caroline also serves on Obama’s VP Selection Committee)…
Barack & Jack at one point made their homes and names in that tee totaling town known as Chicago, the place where personalities go to become legends…
Both men needed extra protection from huge crowds of White folks for different reasons…Obama’s White crowds mostly cheered him and wanted to hug him while Johnson’s White crowd mostly jeered him and wanted to lynch him…
Obama worked in state and national legislatures to pass laws to protect people’s liberties and freedoms while people in state and national legislatures passed laws to take Johnson’s liberties and freedoms (see The Mann Act)…
Obama, like Johnson before him, have found working class Whites hard to win over…However, Johnson enjoyed and Barack currently enjoys huge support and popularity from the Black community…
They are both revered for their intellectual prowess among friend and foe alike…Both are authors with very readable works and Jack Johnson was even an inventor with patents...What makes Jack’s accomplishments even more unique is the fact that he only had 5 years of formal education whereas Obama has degrees from Harvard and Columbia respectively…
When Barack won primaries and caucuses, the crowd erupted in joy…When Jack Johnson won fights, crowds erupted into riots…
Barack Obama is seen and heard on t.v. and the internet 24/7…Johnson’s fight films were banned 24/7 in many states throughout the union…
Many people desire and want Barack Obama as the next President…Many people desired and wanted Jack Johnson behind bars…
In their respective times both men have proven to be hot magnets for White women for all the right and wrong reasons…Some White women hated Obama for running against a White woman…Some White women loved Johnson for “supporting” White women…
Barack was had by a White woman and was raised by one (his maternal grandmother)…Johnson had many White women whom were truly receptive to his interest and taken by his natural gifts and charm…
Some Black Church Folks saw Jack Johnson as a traitor to his race…Some Black Church Folks see Obama as a traitor to his faith…
Both subjects are interesting studies in compare and contrast…
Both Barack & Jack have and had reputations for being very ambitious and driven fellows…They have both proven in their times to be relentless and persistent in the pursuits of their desired goals…
Both men are often compared to some of the great men of honor and distinction of the Ages…Jack Johnson often identified himself with the military genius and leader Napoleon Bonaparte in that they were both confidant and brilliant men who were at times underrated by adversaries and yet willed themselves to victory against all odds and comers…Barack Obama is often compared with the restless, energetic, idealistic and charismatic late political leader RFK because they both were willing “to dream things that never were and ask why not”…During their times, both Barack and RFK ran their political campaigns in focusing on and in support of those left behind in America’s Global Conquest of late: the middle class and the poor…As a matter of fact the Obama campaign has been successful in connecting the Kennedy legacy and brand with Obama, getting endorsements from key Kennedy family members including the ailing patriarch and brother of RFK, the popular Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his niece Caroline, the daughter of the late Pres. John Kennedy (Caroline also serves on Obama’s VP Selection Committee)…
Barack & Jack at one point made their homes and names in that tee totaling town known as Chicago, the place where personalities go to become legends…
Both men needed extra protection from huge crowds of White folks for different reasons…Obama’s White crowds mostly cheered him and wanted to hug him while Johnson’s White crowd mostly jeered him and wanted to lynch him…
Obama worked in state and national legislatures to pass laws to protect people’s liberties and freedoms while people in state and national legislatures passed laws to take Johnson’s liberties and freedoms (see The Mann Act)…
Obama, like Johnson before him, have found working class Whites hard to win over…However, Johnson enjoyed and Barack currently enjoys huge support and popularity from the Black community…
They are both revered for their intellectual prowess among friend and foe alike…Both are authors with very readable works and Jack Johnson was even an inventor with patents...What makes Jack’s accomplishments even more unique is the fact that he only had 5 years of formal education whereas Obama has degrees from Harvard and Columbia respectively…
When Barack won primaries and caucuses, the crowd erupted in joy…When Jack Johnson won fights, crowds erupted into riots…
Barack Obama is seen and heard on t.v. and the internet 24/7…Johnson’s fight films were banned 24/7 in many states throughout the union…
Many people desire and want Barack Obama as the next President…Many people desired and wanted Jack Johnson behind bars…
In their respective times both men have proven to be hot magnets for White women for all the right and wrong reasons…Some White women hated Obama for running against a White woman…Some White women loved Johnson for “supporting” White women…
Barack was had by a White woman and was raised by one (his maternal grandmother)…Johnson had many White women whom were truly receptive to his interest and taken by his natural gifts and charm…
Some Black Church Folks saw Jack Johnson as a traitor to his race…Some Black Church Folks see Obama as a traitor to his faith…
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Get Your Barack
Obama "A Legacy Of Hope" T-Shirt Today!!!
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