RIP to the Hulkster


ECSU_NCCU_Christopher said:
I can't speak for others, but the problem I have with Hulk Hogan is that he continue all the way until his death to deny his anti-black racism and operate in a way that he felt he was not anti-black (regardless of his various comments and actions over the years).

It is telling when the New Day says they don't want nothing to do with you, even though they understand they are viewed as minstrel show by some black people and black wrestlers (which Xavier Woods have talked about).

Pro Wrestling started out as almost exclusive white form of entertainment in the USA, so of course wrestling would go through the phases of having black tokens for various reasons. JYD was the main draw in Mid-South, Iceman Parsons stud up to Crocketts in Mid Atlantic in front of all of the wrestlers during a meeting when they tried to down play the popularity of him and another black wrestler, and Coco helped continue the pattern of drawing majority black crowds in the Memphis territory periodically (CWA\USWA).

MVP put it best: Imagine growing up being invested in a character\persona and finding out the person behind that character\persona hates you and all those like you.
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This is a perfect post to segway into a positive historical emphasis and de-emphasize a hater.

Those guys you mentioned all spent part of their early careers at the old Houston Wrestling during the 70's and 80's. Parsons made his debut in Houston.

Those guys stand on the shoulders of giants from the 50's and 60's named Bo Bo Brazil, Thunderbolt Patterson, Tiger Conway Sr. and Rocky Johnson. I recall guys from the baby boom generation talking about them frequently. I recall seeing Rocky Johnson wrestle during my childhood and Tiger Conway in brief action.
 
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LAW DAWG said:
This is a perfect post to segway into a positive historical emphasis and de-emphasize a hater.

Those guys you mentioned all spent part of their early careers at the old Houston Wrestling during the 70's and 80's. Parsons made his debut in Houston.

Those guys stand on the shoulders of giants from the 50's and 60's named Bo Bo Brazil, Thunderbolt Patterson, Tiger Conway Sr. and Rocky Johnson. I recall guys from the baby boom generation talking about them frequently. I recall seeing Rocky Johnson wrestle during my childhood and Tiger Conway in brief action.
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I agree with what you said.

Bo Bo Brazil trained alot of black wrestlers, for example he trained Ray Candy who trained HBCU graduate Jerome Young better known as New Jack.
 
CEE DOG said:
Lawd please let football season start. These ninjas arguing whether a dude being a racist or not. Next they gonna be arguing about who thumped the most boogers in grade school 🏫
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Nah, we not arguing over if he is racist. We know that. MY argument is that all those old school wrestlers, owners, and promoters were. AND that to a certain extent "all" of us are racist so why we being so hard on the Hulk for saying out loud what a lot of us are thinking.

Some people say he doubled and tripled down on it. I didnt know about all that. 🤣

...and what kind of football are you ready for. I know you not a black BAMA so that's good. 🤣
 
Tigerpride said:
Nah, we not arguing over if he is racist. We know that. MY argument is that all those old school wrestlers, owners, and promoters were. AND that to a certain extent "all" of us are racist so why we being so hard on the Hulk for saying out loud what a lot of us are thinking.

Some people say he doubled and tripled down on it. I didnt know about all that. 🤣

...and what kind of football are you ready for. I know you not a black BAMA so that's good. 🤣
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I think at the end of the day Hogan wanted to be viewed in a positive light because he was possibly addicted to the attention (regardless of his true views on black people in general). This is the same man that asked the judge that he could keep his durag on in court because he did not want people to see his bold spot, the same man that that said he was offer a spot in a now famous rock band to play guitar, and the list goes on. I just wish Hogan had just came out and said he was an anti-black racist and moved on.

I think one of the most out of touch excuses Hogan gave was that he grew up using the word and it was not in a negative sense. Keep in mind Hogan was born in the 50s in Florida, grew up in a while only neighborhood, and went to segregated white only schools for most of his school years. He spoke honest truth without realizing he was confirming his anti-black racism.
 



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