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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
He fought Herbert Slade, a Maori from New Zealand, in1883.
There is a difference from the racist statements that Sullivan made to the reality. I dont deny he was a racist and in many ways not a likeable man, but he wasnt a coward.
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And since when is a half-Maori/half-Irish New Zealander like Slade a black man? Fuck, someone tell the Kiwis next time they're doing the Hakka!
You're even more ignorant of people's ethnicity than you are of boxing, if that's possible.
You are holding boxing up as somehow representative of honour and manliness, yet in the same breath put forward a racist, drunken, and cowardly John L Sullivan as a paragon of boxing.
Sullivan was afraid to fight a black man - whether he was physically afraid of getting a beating (maybe), or whether he was afraid of adverse publicity (probably), it is evident he was afraid. What he was afraid of is immaterial.