Racism in wrestling

[NeanderCarl]

Racism in wrestling over the years has been laughable in it's blatantcy, especially so in the WWE. Now, WWE decides to celebrate it's ethnic history with this...

http://www.wwe.com/content/media/touts/feature/29062/6365884

A feature on it's greatest black superstars over the years. Clockwise from top left: a drug dealing, jive-talking, bucket-of-chicken-eating pimp... a wrestler whose name was supposed to be Boo Boo... (OK, I'll give them Ernie Ladd)... a white millionairre's slave... a chauffeur... an untamed, non-English speaking, barefooted jungle beast... and a dude with a dog collar and chain around his neck.

Yeah, WWE. You celebrate black history. You've really done them proud.

[Chavo Classic]

Where's the Rock dammit?

[Shadow]

THE ROCK ISN'T BLACK!

[NeanderCarl]

Here's a trivia question for you buffs out there. Excluding the guys in the photo above, how many of the following dodgy wrestling gimmicks or moments appeared in the WWE over the years?

* a spear-throwing, loin-cloth wearing, barefooted tribesman
* lying, cheating, stealing Mexicans
* a black militant group
* a Puerto Rican street gang
* lawnmowing Mexicans
* evil lip-synching Japanese
* "The African Dream" ie. a big, fat white American
* a white millionairre using the word "nigger" on live TV
* evil salt-throwing, sneak-attacking Japanese
* fun loving, theiving, stolen good peddling hoodlums
* a 1970s pimp
* a 1990s pimp!
* thuggish, sneak-attacking Muslim extremists
* cowardly Frenchmen
* kilt-wearing, ginger-haired uncivilised Scots
* upper-class, stiff upper lip, refined Englishmen
* drunken, scrappy Irish (complete with pet leprechauns)
* America-despising, immasculated, overlooked Canadians
* uncivilised, carcass munching, headshrinking, barefooted, non English speaking, thick headed Samoans
* evil fat Sumo wrestling Japanese
* a dude accompanied to the ring by his big, black "Momma"

Anyone get the answer?

That's right... all of them.

[Chavo Classic]

a dude accompanied to the ring by his big, black "Momma"


I still can't believe they did this. :D

[NeanderCarl]

Oh, not forgetting bumbling Commie Russians, insincere Italians, mafioso, and outback dwelling Australians.

[FourFifty]

What about the overly horny sexual chocolate who tries thearpy to cure his sex drive just to grab some dude's wang?

[NeanderCarl]

Also, untrustworthy Iranians... apple munching, cocky Puerto Ricans... bull-fighting Mexicans... thuggish Cuban immigrants... Pineapple picking Hawaiians... and now the beach patrolling Jamaican, who will no doubt morph into a stoner character before long... the list never ends...

[Savio]

I miss sheltons momma

[NeanderCarl]

Even the black characters not stuck with a disagreeable gimmick, such as Booker T, have had their criminal pasts highlighted as part of their character development.

[NeanderCarl]

And with Ron Simmons' voculabulary now limited to the single word "Damn!"... I'm starting to think that Bobby Lashley may have been the only black wrestler in WWE history to have been presented in a wholly positive light, where the colour of his skin did not play a factor whatsoever. And HE's the one who wanted out for racial discrimination! :lol:

[Kane Knight]

Everyone's a stereotype in WWE.

[Chavo Classic]

Everyone's a stereotype in TPWW.

[NeanderCarl]

voculabulary

How did THAT happen?

The irony of fucking up the word "vocabulary"... hehe...

[Xero]

A racism thread wouldn't be complete without this...

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[Kane Knight]

Xero, mah nigger!

[NeanderCarl]

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:lol:

[NeanderCarl]

Completely off topic, I know, but it made me laugh.

[Indifferent Clox]

they also prominently display redneck american stereotypes... And that's not even a gimmick...

also did vince drop the N bomb?

[NeanderCarl]

also did vince drop the N bomb?

* a white millionairre using the word "nigger" on live TV

One and the same.

[Savio]

yeah during the Lashley and umaga feud vince said "Let these niggers fight"
and the crowd cheered

[Xero]

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[NeanderCarl]

CAN YOU DIG IT... NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[NeanderCarl]

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[NeanderCarl]

Oh, man... can I just point out, having posted that, I'm absolutely not a racist.

[NeanderCarl]

Rep for anyone who makes a Vince McMahon version of that vid!

[NeanderCarl]

Kramer vs "The Blacks"

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[Kane Knight]

Oh God. Booker should start a new gimmick. Nigger T.

[Heros Welcome]

Kramer vs "The Blacks"

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[Xero]

ROFL

[The Optimist]

You can not tell me that Funaki was supposedly "evil" with a straight face.

[Gerard]

* a white millionairre using the word "nigger" on live TV


He said "nigga" not "nigger". If he had said "nigger" id think they would have been bombarded with complaints and made to issue an apology.

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Heres the vid of it anyway. Bischoffs prediction of the new crowd chant really came to fruition i must say.

[DrA]

Yeah, and those stereotypes are what made the WWE so great. If I wanted to see bland assholes beat the crap out of each other, I would watch UFC.

[NeanderCarl]

Yeah, and those stereotypes are what made the WWE so great. If I wanted to see bland assholes beat the crap out of each other, I would watch UFC.

OUCH!

[FourFifty]

Yeah, and those stereotypes are what made the WWE so great. If I wanted to see bland assholes beat the crap out of each other, I would watch UFC.

You are my new favorite poster in the wrestling forum.

[NeanderCarl]

Yeah, and those stereotypes are what made the WWE so great. If I wanted to see bland assholes beat the crap out of each other, I would watch <strike>UFC</strike> <strike>TNA</strike> <strike>ECW</strike> <strike>ROH</strike> <strike>SmackDown</strike> wrestling in 2008

[Lock Jaw]

Again, nothing to do with the thread:

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[Johnny Vegas]

lol at people saying the Rock isn't 'black'. If i remember American history correctly, if your father is/was african american, then the son is. Also, he did too much shit-talking to be anything else. ;) HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE NATION at one point...man, i miss those days

[El Fangel]

Originally Posted by DrA http://tpww.net/forums/images/buttonsgreen/viewpost.gif (http://tpww.net/forums/showthread.php?p=2030257#post2030257)
Yeah, and those stereotypes are what made the WWE so great. If I wanted to see bland assholes beat the crap out of each other, I would watch WWE/WWF wrestling in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

[Jalapeño]

btw

* evil salt-throwing, sneak-attacking Japanese

what was his name? i can't remember

[Mr. Nerfect]

How the WWE can not celebrate black history month without The Rock, Ron Simmons or Owen Hart is beyond me.

[Lock Jaw]

How the WWE can not celebrate black history month without The Rock, Ron Simmons or John Cena is beyond me.

[NeanderCarl]

btw

* evil salt-throwing, sneak-attacking Japanese

what was his name? i can't remember

Mr Fuji, Yokozuna, Pat Tanaka, Sato, Kato, Tajiri (if you replace salt with mist), Toru Tanaka, Kabuki, Shinobi, virtually every single Japanese or purported Japanese wrestler ever to work in WWE.

Each one of them using the former Orient Express theme music.

[NeanderCarl]

Did that Kenzo Suzuki use salt? He had a geisha girl anyway, that's nearly as bad. Hakushi and Shinja, there's another two...

[Xero]

Rep for anyone who makes a Vince McMahon version of that vid!

I don't have an MP3 of that song but...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g122/sandman3g/Wrestling/vincerocks.gif

[BigDaddyCool]

You forgot to mention John Cena

[NeanderCarl]

* John Cena