Post by PKO on Aug 18, 2011 21:08:05 GMT -5
This is a really odd thread. Not the original point of the thread, but some of the things in it are just....odd.
I think, without a shadow of a doubt, if Bobby Lashley hadn't left he would have been a multi-time champion by now. Other guys listed (MVP, Shelton, Mark Henry) I don't think the reason they never got to the top was their race.
I saw Boogeyman's name listed somewhere but I daren't read the post in case someone is implying he should have got a Heavyweight title and I have to cry myself to sleep.
I don't think WWE is racist, but there is a small problem in all of entertainment, that I think WWE unfortunately falls into aswell:
That is, they may unknowingly and unwittingly embrace old racist traditions, without actually being racist themselves.
The entertainment industry unfortunately acts as if "white" is "mainstream" and "black,spanish,asian" is "alternative". You hardly ever see a hollywood movie with an all black cast unless ist's a movie about being black, or the struggles of being black. You hardly ever have a mostly asian cast of a movie unless it's a movie about being asian. If it's a movie about love and romance, relationships, sports, business, friendship ect, it's all white, as if white is what should represent all the "normal" issues and that "other" races should only represent race-specific things. These are just traditions that were set up about 70 years ago during white supremacist times, that after the civil rights movement, unfortunately have stuck around. For example, people seem to identify "all American looking" as white and blonde. Why is that? Is it really that difficult to name one example of someone saying that someone is all American looking that isn't white and blonde? Yet, most people who identify a white and blonde person as "all American looking" aren't even racist at all, yet they just don't know any better that they're embracing an old racist idea simply because it's a tradition that has still, somehow, maintained itself as a part of current american culture.
So I do believe that there is a slight racist EFFECT in entertainment, and that includes WWE, unfortunately. You're going to have your 1 asian diva at most, your 2 black diva's at most, your 1 spanish diva, and your 10 white and blonde divas, give or take a couple, because it's that unthoughtful mentality that "white" is "mainstream" and anything other than "white" is "alternative"m and it's most likely a subconscious thing.
This is a GREAT post.
I think, without a shadow of a doubt, if Bobby Lashley hadn't left he would have been a multi-time champion by now. Other guys listed (MVP, Shelton, Mark Henry) I don't think the reason they never got to the top was their race.
I saw Boogeyman's name listed somewhere but I daren't read the post in case someone is implying he should have got a Heavyweight title and I have to cry myself to sleep.
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That is, they may unknowingly and unwittingly embrace old racist traditions, without actually being racist themselves.
The entertainment industry unfortunately acts as if "white" is "mainstream" and "black,spanish,asian" is "alternative". You hardly ever see a hollywood movie with an all black cast unless ist's a movie about being black, or the struggles of being black. You hardly ever have a mostly asian cast of a movie unless it's a movie about being asian. If it's a movie about love and romance, relationships, sports, business, friendship ect, it's all white, as if white is what should represent all the "normal" issues and that "other" races should only represent race-specific things. These are just traditions that were set up about 70 years ago during white supremacist times, that after the civil rights movement, unfortunately have stuck around. For example, people seem to identify "all American looking" as white and blonde. Why is that? Is it really that difficult to name one example of someone saying that someone is all American looking that isn't white and blonde? Yet, most people who identify a white and blonde person as "all American looking" aren't even racist at all, yet they just don't know any better that they're embracing an old racist idea simply because it's a tradition that has still, somehow, maintained itself as a part of current american culture.
So I do believe that there is a slight racist EFFECT in entertainment, and that includes WWE, unfortunately. You're going to have your 1 asian diva at most, your 2 black diva's at most, your 1 spanish diva, and your 10 white and blonde divas, give or take a couple, because it's that unthoughtful mentality that "white" is "mainstream" and anything other than "white" is "alternative"m and it's most likely a subconscious thing.
This is a GREAT post.