Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about how black folks love Jack Johnson until
Speaker 1: they didn't. I didn't know. You didn't get. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't kid. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't get I didn't I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't, So dig it. December twenty six,
Speaker 1: nineteen oh eight, Jack Johnson became the first African American
Speaker 1: World heavyweight boxing champion. He knocked out Tommy Burns. White
Speaker 1: folks was upset and they didn't respect it because Tommy
Speaker 1: Burns was only the champ because the previous champ, James Jeffries,
Speaker 1: had retired. Fast forward with the nineteen ten James Jeffrey say, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm sick all this talk about Jack Johnson. He came
Speaker 1: out of retirement and said, and I quote, I'm only
Speaker 1: going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving
Speaker 1: that a white man is better than a Negro. Then
Speaker 1: white folks so mad. When Jack Johnson ko Jeffers in
Speaker 1: the fifteenth round sparked racial violence all across America twenty
Speaker 1: five states, fifty cities, twenty deaths, hundreds of injuries, Congress
Speaker 1: ended up banning the fight. You couldn't even watch it now.
Speaker 1: See Jack Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas. They called
Speaker 1: him to Galveston Giant. He died in a car wreck
Speaker 1: in nineteen hundred and forty six. He was sixty eight
Speaker 1: years old, living in Franklinton, North Carolina. After beating the
Speaker 1: wheels off James Jeffries, he won sixty of a hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollar purse sixty five k in nineteen teen. That's
Speaker 1: a little bit under two million in twenty three. Now,
Speaker 1: Jack Johnson had three wives, all love. The was white,
Speaker 1: and back in the early nineteen hundreds it was a
Speaker 1: black heavyweight champ and a world heavyweight champ. See. Jack
Speaker 1: Johnson worked his ways up the black sector and became
Speaker 1: the black heavyweight champ. But once he became the world
Speaker 1: heavyweight champl Jack Johnson wasn't fighting black folk no more,
Speaker 1: and black folk was upset with Jack Johnson about that, Like, damn,
Speaker 1: Jack Johnson, fight all those black people, then when you
Speaker 1: get over there and fight them white people, you can't
Speaker 1: fight black people no more, even though you know how
Speaker 1: hard it is for black people to fight white people,
Speaker 1: and you over there man in white women. Damn Jack Johnson.
Speaker 1: Those things, along with being convicted in nineteen twelve for
Speaker 1: transporting women back and forth over state lines for prostitution
Speaker 1: and him eventually during a year in prison because of it,
Speaker 1: just had black folks like, we're good on Jack Johnson
Speaker 1: and I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,