Jack Johnson America's First Black Sports Superstar 

Please do Booker T. Washington next

Please do one on the invention of arc welding , I’m a welder and want to learn the transition from hot rivets to arc welding The change in engineering must of been immense

..FOOD FOR THOUGHT: DID JOHNSON TAKE A DIVE TO WILLARD ?

Well that could either be very racist and she was on about his skin colour or innocent and how strong he was physically .

@@yecora10 Not everything is racist what includes black people and the color brown or black...

I believe the reference to “Jack Johnson black” is historically in reference to the actual Strength of the coffee, as was Jack Johnson.

Why would anyone find this hard to believe?

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Never heard ov him but I'm English it blows my mind how racism was culturally acceptable years back when I was a kid 50 years was 2 much tine 2 get my head around noe I see its not long at all I'm 37 n can't imagine sports excluding any race . Its who's best at it n let's b real black men dominate certain sports 100m for example n white men are best swimmers we've come along way but there's allways room 4 improvement 1 love from uk

Damn right lol 💯🚬🤣

Ha ha…. Of course though it was speeding that killed him….. great fighter… 🥊

That sounds like an innuendo

Not the best thing to do, but still pretty funny.

Saw it a few months back. Fantastic stuff.

It was excellent and made sense that Jones narrated since he played Johnson on stage in "The Great White Hope" as well as the movie adaptation. It was his big break.

Thanks for the heads up, don't know how I've missed it.

Co-sign! I don't think Ken Burns has ever directed a bad documentary.

Still say that's one of Ken Burns' best short-form biographies. Not a fan of boxing or wrestling, but Johnson's story is so inspiring. Johnson's tragedy is he wanted to live his life according to his own terms in an era where no one wanted to accept him as a human.

You mean the whites?

@@jrsmith1008 I’m not hating you, stop playing victim. Also if you are a true Christian, it’s I identify as a Christian and that it. America isn’t a Christian nation, it’s a nation where you can be a Christian.

I wonder if he would have beat Mohammed Alli if they had both been the same age.

@@marsuvesblack9645 Americans are phony Christians

@@marsuvesblack9645 America IS largely a christian nation tho

How can a guy that big be so quick and smooth?

I'm really AMAZED he didn't get LYNCHED !!! LOL.Especially dating & mating white women back then.

Small typo on the chapter 6 timestamp but otherwise good job

Unforgivable Blackness

If you haven’t, read the Patton Papers. There is so much history touching on the life of so many important people including Pershing.

Pershing, Sir John Monash and Arthur Currie should all be covered on this channel.

Me 2.

Chesty Puller would be another video I’d love to see

😂😂

Polyphonic has a solid video on her

I'm gonna look her up thanks foxy

@@tonythetiger1600 thank you! She deserves more appreciation! Especially if you are a huge music lover ❤️

@@foxhoundp9949 I j7st finished vid n yh she 1 cool lady it made me sad how she's looked past coz she really ticked all the boxes 1 a women 2 black n 3 bi ... elvis shouting her out was cool I like abit of elvis now n then jonny cash 2 xx

@@tonythetiger1600 I feel that comes mostly from white people trying to hard to be pc without understanding the conditions all artist but especially black artists had to deal with at the time to become famous. They don't realize that groups like the crickets (Buddy Holly) was strictly told to never play "(derogatory term) music" and openly talked about how he was influenced by black artists and respected Elvis for forcing his influence on the white folks. Elvis grew up in the same sleezy conditions most poc were having to deal with. It's a weird comparison but like Eminem gets to be one of the most famous white rappers with actual rap cred because he's from the same streets and experience. He earned it. Elvis could have also been easily thrown away for a number of pretty faces at the time because of his openness to promote black artists. Yes he used and was influenced by black artists but unlike many people of all races he used his platform to elevate those people. To openly denounce racism in music and he was so popular no one could do anything about it. It's an important detail often over looked in his life much like Monroe as well. It's dumb because the people they elevated at the time because pc people won't talk about it, we've forgotten for the most part. Keeping icons alive is the job of not just that marginalized communities job. They often get erased and not listened to already. It's partly the job of privileged people to step aside, shut up and give a platform to the people in need, people who often don't have a voice.

You should watch the unforgiveness blackness.

@@savagedarksider5934 on my watch list!

@@savagedarksider5934 what’s it about?

Technically that was Thomas Molineaux if you ever heard of him. You should look him up and read on him. Good and tragically sad story. But, he is really the first.

@@GabriellaGabrielle biography movie about this boxer!

Hmmm... maybe they did. 🤔

Ok?

That's awesome

Sounds good to me! 🍻

Sorry, meant professional

It can be argued he was the actual first black superstar athlete. He reached stardom a few years before johnson.

@@garycollier3659 You know you can edit comments, right?

@@forcedtohaveahandle cheers mate, never knew that, getting on in years😀

Not safer, JJ was 6’6” way too big for bicycle racing.

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Pretty sure you never fought in the Jim crow era 😅

Bruh this was during the Jim Era...people obviously cared about race then...still do...just because some of us don't care about race, doesn't mean most people do care...

He was notorious for abusing women and his infidelity. But at least he fought racism.

@@michaelthomas8147 nobody is perfect... beyond his personal life his outside fight was badly needed to fight racist

@@eldios831 Asking that you not beat your female spouse is not demanding perfection. This demonstrates how the l eft prioritizes their agendas. Combating waaaacism is higher up on the pr ogressive stack, so incidents of w oman beating can be ignored or downplayed to achieve that goal.

I second this! I think it would be interesting to find out how crooked or not he is, how competent is he, how many shitty pies has he had his hands in throughout his past....ya know thinks like that lol

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.