Who was Jack Johnson?
According to my ex girlfriend, he’s a “really good singer”, I wish I’d delivered a Johnson-esque hook for that (mainly because the “singer” irritates me, but also because he’s not the REAL Jack Johnson as far as I’m concerned). Jack Arthur Johnson was born in the late 1800’s (March 31st 1878), but it’s his later life that I’m more concerned about. He would become the Galveston Giant, a heavyweight boxing champion, and one of the most controversial figures in the history of the sport(and lets be fair, their has been plenty of them). He would become a black man in a white mans world and upset both the whites and the blacks by crossing over the racial divide before it became acceptable (and well before it became to be seen as an embarassing feature of America), and before Rosa Parks “No I’m not”, Johnson had made his stand. Johnson parents, Henry and Tina had six children (with Jack being the second) and were both former slaves who took up blue collar jobs to bring up the kids, and teach
