3. The Look at Us Cause Of The Month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_w9LHztw5I 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 thatno one! They gave up after two weeks. Someone either forgot to ask an editor to put together a video, or WWE simply couldnt 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, its been an embarrassing journey. If any major company should not get to celebrate Black History Month, it's probably WWE. Hell, even this weeks featured wrestler Mark Henry was pushed with the racist Silverback 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. Theres the idiotic R-Truth character who seems to exist for the sole purpose of acting like a dancing idiot for McMahons 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 hasnt meant anything in years, Darren Young who they make act like an emotional mess who cries over Christmas presents, and lastly, theres Titus ONeil, who, kinda, sorta gets a good faith push. Thats it. If youre 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 dont get to act like you havent 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.
Andrew Soucek
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