8 WWE 2014 Storylines That Will Never Be Resolved

4. New Nation Of Domination Becomes What?

One of the more exciting moments in WWE came earlier in the year when a frustrated and angry Xavier Woods took the microphone and lambasted the state of affairs that he and his fellow African American wrestlers were facing in WWE. He encouraged Big E Langston and Kofi Kingston to stop taking the indignity of the way they were being handled and to get angry. The audience understandably sniffed a revision of the controversial Nation of Domination angle from the late 1990s that propelled the Rock to the kind of stardom where he now gets to beat up Vin Diesel on screen for a living. They were intrigued, and it genuinely seemed a positive advancement considering just how incredibly archaic WWE€™s attitudes towards its African American performers and audience has been in the past (Cryme Tyme anyone?) But the promo was the absolute height of development for this narrative. After this all anger was seemingly dropped and mistreatment forgotten. It was never really brought up again, and we were implicitly instructed to forget anything had ever happened. http://youtu.be/xfs5_XbQvZo#t=2m20s Until we started getting vignettes for a clichéd African American gospel clergy who called themselves €˜The New Day€™. The audience collectively let out a gulp as the weeks that got closer to their debut, and our worst suspicions were confirmed when they popped up. Somehow all that anger and frustration had gone and in its place was the cheesiest, phoniest, and most awful gimmick any organisation could ever give to any wrestler ever. The WWE hadn€™t just dropped the storyline, they had reversed it completely. Three African American wrestlers who were being underutilised and had legitimate grievances, were now suddenly thrust into the unenviable position of impersonating Rocky Maivia, rather than the Rock as we had all hoped. Even if this is a ploy to get them to do a heel turn, this is an insulting and painful way to go about doing things. We saw the promos, we know the history of how African American performers have been treated in the Fed. Why did it have to go this way without even a shred of explanation or context?