Had Jack Johnson been a white man, he would have attained an influence in the world which few other men have attained. He would have commanded a place in society and world affairs of great significance, because there is that in his make-up which has enabled him to push forward in spite of numerous obstacles, to one of the highest pinnacles of human achievements. It is not only that he became a champion boxer, an honor quite sufficient for any one man, but he possessed qualities that kept him in the hearts of his friends.

The difficulties which confronted him and which he overcame were sufficient to try the mettle courage and ability of any man, even though he should have been on equal footing with everyone else, but Jack was not. Because of his race, he had from the start the burdens of prejudice to bare, and to contend with conditions and human jealousies which in no wise would ever had attached to a white man.

When he successfully fought his way to the world championship, instead of his acheivement mitigating these prejudicies and jealousies, they were intensified, and more than that, there were many who called themselves good Americans and who considered themselves honorable, charitable and sportsman like, who stubbornly refuse to credit Jack with the same degree of consideration and respect that would have been given to a white man, even though that white man did far worse things in the world of morals than were ever done by Johnson, or rather which were often charged to him, when in fact he had not done them.