Nancy Rankin edited the first sentence of Glorious Thursday, June 9, 2011.
- If Jack Johnson had let James Jeffries beat him on July 4, 1910, which would have proven once and for all that a whilte man was ten times better than a Negro, then black folk wouldn't have been walking around with their backs straight and chests puffed out, smiling like Cheshire cats, upsetting good, God-fearing white fold who didn't mind seeing their Negroes happy, but didn't like seeing them proud.
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