Alfred Boima Konuwa III of the Podnasty Podcast issued the following video and comments, giving his take on why Hulk Hogan’s “ban” from WWE won’t last, and he will be back eventually. You can read a few excerpts and watch the full interview below:
What is everybody missing in the discussion of race that has ensued since Hogan’s comments? The fact that it’s not about WWE’s on-camera history of institutionalized racism, it’s the absence of black voices behind the scenes.
Making racist remarks against black people as part of the WWE, is like walking into a bar during the daytime and denouncing crossfit.
They’re drinking alcohol on a Wednesday afternoon, you think they give a damn about fitness?
If you’re going to be a bigot, why not do so in a company with no black board members, no black corporate executives, no black writers, never had a black WWE champion, and even outside of the WWE, there are no black journalists or columnists who cover pro wrestling regularly with the exception of ME! If I joined the Nation of Islam tomorrow, pro wrestling would look like Duck Dynasty.
Remember Michael Hayes? He’s a top writer in WWE and in 2008, he literally said to Mark Henry “I’m more of an N-word than you are.”
That’s worse than simply calling somebody the N-word, he went that extra step and reasoned that Mark Henry lacked specific character traits that therefore made him seem less black.
There’s so much wrong with that comment, if racism was scrabble, that’d be a triple word score.
But Michael Hayes was suspended for a couple months, slapped on the hands and he was back as a top writer faster than you can say Rush Limbaugh.
Hulk Hogan is just the latest scapegoat of a familiar institutional problem in professional wrestling, and for that matter, in the United States. So should he really be the focus of this problem?
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