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Jack Johnson, the Old Boxing champ was Pardoned
已故拳擊冠軍杰克·約翰遜被赦免
JACK JOHNSON, WHO IN 1908 became the first African-American boxer to win the heavyweight championship of the world,
杰克·約翰遜，此人于1908年成為了首位贏得世界重量級拳王頭銜的非裔美國拳擊手，
flaunted his defiance of bigotry.
大方地表露了他對偏見的蔑視。
“I am not a slave,” Johnson said in 1912.
“我不是奴隸，”約翰遜在1912年說道。
“I have the right to choose who my mate shall be without the dictation of any man.”
“我有權選擇我的伴侶，無需任何人指手畫腳。”
The U.S. government saw it differently.
美國政府對此則有著不同的看法。
In 1913, after crossing state lines with a white woman,
1913年，在與一名白人女性越過州界線后，
he was convicted under the antitrafficking law known as the White Slave Traffic Act.
約翰遜被判違反了《禁止販賣白人婦女為娼法》（即《曼恩法案》）的反人口販運條例。
A prosecutor mentioned Johnson’s “misfortune to be the foremost example of the evil in permitting the intermarriage of whites and blacks.”
一名檢察官稱，約翰遜的“不幸就是允許白人和黑人通婚這一罪惡的明證”。
He ended up serving a 10-month prison term.
他最終被判10個月監禁。
On May 24, more than 70 years after Johnson’s death, President Trump pardoned him.
5月24日，在約翰遜去世70多年后，特朗普總統赦免了他。
Senator John McCain, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and many boxing luminaries had long supported clemency for Johnson;
長期以來，參議員約翰·麥凱恩、馬薩諸塞州參議員愛德華·肯尼迪和許多拳擊名人一直在為約翰遜爭取寬大處理；
former champ Lennox Lewis and Rocky creator Sylvester Stallone joined Trump at the Oval Office signing ceremony.
前拳擊冠軍倫諾克斯·劉易斯和電影《洛奇》的編劇西爾維斯特·史泰龍一行人共同見證了白宮總統辦公室的這一簽約儀式。
Still, Johnson is a flawed icon, and evidence that he was violent toward women cannot be struck from his record.
盡管如此，約翰遜這位偶像依然有他的污點，他對女性施暴的證據不能從他的記錄中抹去。
But the President’s correction of this century-old racial injustice felt long overdue.
不過，總統對這長達一個世紀的種族不公現象的糾正依然讓人覺得遲到了太久。
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