WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (Feb 7)

By Andrew Soucek /

3. The €œLook at Us€ Cause Of The Month

Last year on the Feb 2nd episode of Raw, WWE aired a video of Ernie Ladd, announcing they were celebrating black history all month long. The Feb 9th episode featured the Junkyard Dog, the week after that€no one! They gave up after two weeks. Someone either forgot to ask an editor to put together a video, or WWE simply couldn€™t find room within the span of three hours to air a 90 second video honoring the cause they set out to highlight. Well this year the company is joining in on the celebration again, despite having a horrible, offensive history of pushing black wrestlers. From Tony Atlas as Saba Simba, to Slick, to Cryme Tyme, to The Godfather, it€™s been an embarrassing journey. If any major company should not get to celebrate Black History Month, it's probably WWE. Hell, even this week€™s featured wrestler Mark Henry was pushed with the racist €œSilverback€ moniker for a bit. Don't forget Michael Hayes got to call him the n-word backstage once and still keep his job. How does any one in power look at themselves in their collective mirrors? So let's look at the current roster. There€™s the idiotic R-Truth character who seems to exist for the sole purpose of acting like a dancing idiot for McMahon€™s amusement, the entertaining New Day who are also pushed as clowns, D-Von Dudley whose had about 30 seconds worth of promo time since his return, Henry himself who hasn€™t meant anything in years, Darren Young who they make act like an emotional mess who cries over Christmas presents, and lastly, there€™s Titus O€™Neil, who, kinda, sorta gets a good faith push. That€™s it. If you€™re a young, black fan the one person you have on the main roster to kind of have look up to is Titus. So in conclusion: Screw off WWE, you don€™t get to act like you haven€™t been a horribly offensive company for the past few decades for one month a year for the sole purpose of making it look like you're a company who actually cares.