Pugnus: And yet he didn't want to go down into the cellar with Jeffries and fight, an offer no white man's pride would have allowed him to refuse. And he must have been fairly sure he wouldn't really be lynched at his fights, otherwise he wouldn't have fought. Now if the stands had been filled with angry ********, he might have been in trouble.
It doesn't take much courage to fight when you know or at least think you know you're the biggest and baddest thing there. It doesn't take as much courage to fight in a ring with a referee as on the street where anything can happen. And that's where I've repeatedly seen lone black males back down from lone white males they'd pissed off, even when the white guy was visibly smaller and less fit. On the other hand, if the black guy has friends or a gun, whitey can be in a very bad spot. Since you are so fond of telling us how physically superior your race is, only want of courage and other mental qualities can be the reason we conquered your lands instead of the other way around, right?