Based in the southern state of Georgia, WCW would have had some sensitivity on issues of race you would have presumed. Apparently not. In 1993 the company cast an implied white supremacist character called Colonel Robert Parker. He would act as the manager of Booker T and Stevie Ray, who were portrayed as jailed african americans. You can imagine how inappropriate this looked; an old white man dressed like a plantation owner who would lead two black men in chains to the ring. Mercifully, this angle never made it to TV, with corporate intervention presumably taking place. However, it did make it off the drawing board, getting as far as an unaired tv taping. In 'Death of WCW', author Bryan Alvarez lays blame for this angle on the door of WCW's executive vice president Bill Watts. Unsurprisingly, Watts was moved out of his position just a short while later.
