According to a report from The Daily Beast, pro wrestling star Hulk Hogan has been disassociated from the entertainment group that he made his name from, the WWE.
The report goes on to elaborate on how Hogan was caught on a sex tape with a woman. On the tape, there is audio that captures Hogan using the “n-word” more than once in reference to Melanoid people. In an interesting twist to the news story, it has also been revealed that WWE CEO Vince McMahon referred to another white WWE star–John Cena–as the “n-word” right in front of a Melanoid wrestling star by the name of “Booker T”. McMahon then proceeded to walk away form Cena in an exaggerated walking style that easily implies he is ridiculing a Melanoid person.
With the recent controversy surrounding Hogan, one must look at a recent chain of events that occurred leading up to the latest story. In 2014, an article was featured in November of last year, a story on Sole Collector (a sneaker publication and website) did a story on how Hogan loved to flaunt his large collection of Air Jordan sneakers to people via social media. In fact, you can view a quick video clip of him showing off some of his collection of Jordans below.
According to Hulk Hogan, his usage of the “n-word” has been validated because certain Black people deemed it ok for him to use as he pleases. This mindset of the wrestler is reminiscent of the “slumming” phenomenon, in which whites will hang out with a few Blacks in order to appease their appetite for debauchery before returning back to their communities to “sanitize” themselves of any semblance of Black culture. As most people in American society know all too well at this point, Air Jordans have been perceived to be synonymous with Black culture, style, and overall “swag”, as seen in the eyes of many non-Melanoid people.
Historically, many suspected white supremacists “slum” in order to get their “Black fix” while keeping their racist ideologies intact. It is also done to overcompensate for trying to convince Black people that they can be trusted, because they’re the “cool white people”. Now that Hulk Hogan’s racial tirade has been revealed, is it quite possible that he resorted to slumming for this very same reason?
Meh. Nothing new here. What Hulk did and said is no different than the guy who does your taxes/works at Burger King/is your local governor. Now that we know he’s an admitted racist, as black people all we have to do is cut him off financially. Don’t support him in any way. No toys, no videogames, no t shirts, nothing!
CUT HIM OFF REALLY?? LMAO NEGROES LOVE THEIR MASSA WAY TOO MUCH TO CUT THEM OFF
He is a typical caucasian thing. Smile in your face,talk smack behind your back. Nothing he said or vince mcahon said and did surprises or bothers me. It just makes me more vigilant when i am around any of those racist flip flopping assholes. Strictly business,nothing personal when dealing with those things.
WWE and slumming? Never! My problem that I have is the WWE trying to come off like they are racially sensitive and Hulk is an embarrassment to WWE. Trust and know going back to the 80’s this form of entertainment has NEVER gave 2 shits about black issues,black ppl. They are using current social tones to give the appearance that they must get rid of Hulk due to his racism. We see the writing on the wall..they don’t want to pay him. I’m not sticking up for him in any way,just not going to buy that the WWE cares about blacks people.
As usual the racism comes out over a White girl (in this case Brooke Hogan) having sex with a Black male.
Worst thing a daughter could do to her father.