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Post by darbus alan on Aug 11, 2022 17:12:36 GMT -5
Let's not undersell the post before either. Sounded like he wanted to break the guy's kneecaps lmao
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Aug 11, 2022 17:13:51 GMT -5
Let's not undersell the post before either. Sounded like he wanted to break the guy's kneecaps lmao We’ll skipping to page 7 was a mistake. Guess I’m reading the whole thread now!
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Post by FHgrad99 on Aug 11, 2022 18:37:55 GMT -5
I read what she put on Twitter. Her saying she "meant something really well and it came across horribly" seems rather absurd to me after reading what she originally tweeted. I don't know how any rational person can take what she posted originally as an attempt at being positive.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2022 18:58:25 GMT -5
I must admit when I first saw Sasha on nxt and she had no gimmick and had no knowledge of her family background I thought she was Filipina. I am evidently just as poor at guessing ethnicities as I am at guessing people's ages.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 11, 2022 19:14:57 GMT -5
Oy vey.
I've always said I partially get the debate surrounding the Rock, given that in North America there's ethnic blackness and racial blackness, the former being the culture one grows in and/or identifies as, the latter being what others project onto them. No one should ever deny the Rock's blackness, but in a broader discussion about WWE's earlier choices concerning who gets pushed to the main event, it wasn't entirely unfair for some (well meaning people, at least) to have conversations about the delicate nature of racial politics, whether Rock would've had the same push if he looked more like his father, etc. Again, not an easy conversation, but one it's at least imaginable to have.
This...uh, this really ain't it.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Aug 11, 2022 20:23:49 GMT -5
You know what else this Rock talk reminded me of?
Isn't Simone Johnson, the Black/Samoan/Cuban daughter of The Dwayne, right there in NXT with Amari Miller?
Imagine being the stupidest person ever, and then losing your accolade to this moron. Amari Miller wins WWE Magazine's Idiot of the Month by a mile.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2022 23:05:16 GMT -5
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Aug 11, 2022 23:58:47 GMT -5
"Sasha Banks is not African-American! Hell, she ain't even old-timey!" (only thing i could think of when reading that stupidity)
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Aug 12, 2022 1:01:29 GMT -5
Has this woman pulled out any "Well... actually" technicalities yet about Rocky Johnson being an Afro-Canadian or Dave Matthews being an African-American?
Way to step in it and step your way close to the exit door! Unless she was trying to appeal to Triple H's 2003 Wrestlemania kayfabe feelings. (I'm joking.)
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 12, 2022 4:55:55 GMT -5
Has this woman pulled out any "Well... actually" technicalities yet about Rocky Johnson being an Afro-Canadian or Dave Matthews being an African-American? Way to step in it and step your way close to the exit door! Unless she was trying to appeal to Triple H's 2003 Wrestlemania kayfabe feelings. (I'm joking.) Huh, didn't know about Dave Matthews. FAN: Temple of Knowledge
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 12, 2022 4:57:08 GMT -5
looks like Bayley and Sasha can re-team now with a third tag name "...no, they don't count"
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Post by Hypnosis on Aug 12, 2022 7:59:50 GMT -5
looks like Bayley and Sasha can re-team now with a third tag name "...no, they don't count"
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Aug 12, 2022 9:18:07 GMT -5
You know what else this Rock talk reminded me of? Isn't Simone Johnson, the Black/Samoan/Cuban daughter of The Dwayne, right there in NXT with Amari Miller? Imagine being the stupidest person ever, and then losing your accolade to this moron. Amari Miller wins WWE Magazine's Idiot of the Month by a mile. I'm Amari Miller, and I'm the Biggest Idiot Ever
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Aug 12, 2022 12:04:14 GMT -5
Twitter is still a useless and terrible form of communication. More news at 11, plus sports!
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 12, 2022 12:24:06 GMT -5
And by the time they were pushing him as a top star they had moved away from all of that. Casual fans who came in by 99 and 00 might never hear of his heritage. I didnt. And it was not pushed to the mainstream. Plenty of anecdotal evidence of that. I dont minimize his acoomplishments. I deny WWE any credit for pushing someone of his race at that time. But this really all comes down to opinion and we are not going to change minds so I am moving on. Been fighting with racists on Facebook who hate the fact that He Man has more than 1 minority character now so I am just on edge I guess. He played his dad in an episode of That 70's Show in 1999, and made reference to his son. WWE's had a lot and I mean a lot of questionable (to say the least) racial stuff, but they were always upfront about Rock being black. and like even as the main eventer they ALWAYS called him a Third Generation star... and talked about Rocky Johnson.
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