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For every point I'm given, I'll have earned two, because I'm a Negro.
Source: On selecting a referee for the Tommy Burns fight, 26 Dec 1908. Johson beat Burns to became the first black heavyweight champion..
-- Jack Johnson, (Mar 31 1878-1946), US boxer; He defeated Tommy Burns to become the world's first black heavyweight champion, 1908; he was a powerful symbol of the independent black man.