Unforgivable Blackness - McCain seeks pardon for Jack Johnson

I watched this program when it aired back in January on PBS. Husband could not believe I would watch a program about a boxer but I did and it was great. He was the first Mohammad Ali. Years ago I took up Bondo, a Burmese kick/boxing martial arts. I had to watch Unforgivable Blackness/Jack Johnson's story by Ken Burns as I find all of his work to be educational and inspirational. I found this piece at The Daily Beast. First news I've heard coming out of John McCain that is not ugly.

Just because John McCain isn’t president doesn’t mean he can’t seek pardons: The Arizona senator is lobbying for a pardon for the late boxer Jack Johnson. In 1908 Johnson, also known as the "Galveseton Giant," was the first African American boxing heavyweight champion of the world. Not surprisingly, his dominance in the squared circle made him public enemy number one in the minds of racists all over the nation. In 1913 Johnson was unjustly convicted of "transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes" because his girlfriend was white. As Ken Burns put it in his documentary Unforgivable Blackness, Johnson's enemies "failed to beat him in the ring, (so) his enemies took him to court." Burns has joined McCain and Representative Peter King in pushing for the pardon that would right "a grave injustice."