10 WWE Gimmicks With Racist Undertones
1. Gang Wars
Vince McMahon's 1997 roster-filling concept never overtly stated the pre-existing tensions between the Nation Of Domination, Los Boricuas and the Disciples Of Apocalypse other than that of the severance between respective leaders and original Nation members Faarooq, Savio Vega and Crush.
But the subtext of tribal hatred between the African American militants, Puerto Rican street toughs and White Supremacist bikers would have been apparent even if Ron Simmons hadn't promised a "bigger blacker Nation' shortly after firing the inaugural members of his group.
It was happening elsewhere on the roster too - Bret Hart later admitted regret for being particularly critical of various American locales during the vicious USA/Canada turf war, whilst the Truth Commission was McMahon's odd take on the South African post-apartheid group of a similar moniker.
The nadir of the undulating tensions between the factions came during an aborted storyline featuring the troublemaking D-Generation-X vandalising the Nation's dressing room with hate speech in an effort to increase hostilities with the Hart Foundation.
The company hurriedly saw sense, but that was as much due to the scale of virtually everything else happening at the time. With Stone Cold Steve Austin and others catching fire, the company clearly didn't need bigotry. It was a shame they'd felt otherwise in the first place.