Jack Johnson was making white people uncomfortable long before Jackie Robinson or Muhammad Ali. Here was a man equipped with enough flash and hypermasculine braggadocio to rival today's hardest stunting rapper, who whipped around in sports cars, clad in sable and sporting gold teeth; who drank champagne through those gold teeth; who kept leopards as pets; and who romanced or otherwise bedded a litany of notable white women of desire (Mae West and German spy Mata Hari included). This was a man who also happened to be the first African-American world heavyweight champion.
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