15 Things Racially Insensitive Things WWE Should Have Apologized For Instead of LaMelo Ball

Recently the best basketball family in History appeared on Monday Night Raw. During the segment 15 year old LaMelo Ball could be heard saying "beat that nigga ass, beat that nigga ass," which was picked up by a microphone that he wasn't even holding. Despite being on a delay the censor chose not to mute this moment. This lead to complaints being sent to WWE, crying on Twitter and request for Statements. Eventually WWE released a statement which read "The inappropriate language used by a guest during the 'Miz TV' segment was not scripted nor reflects WWE's values." People rejoiced at the "apology" because apparently LaMelo did something heinously racist. I'm just not seeing it. I just found it funny this was racist but the same people hurl racial slurs and boo Jinder Mahal when he says America has a race issue. So, I sat down and put together a list of 15 racist moments in WWE history that they should also release statements about. There's a whole lot more, but these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

1. HHH and Ric Flair - Nappy Headed Entertainer Carry My Bags

During their Wrestlemania feud HHH and Ric Flair weren't shy about the racial undertones used against challenger for the championship, Booker T. During the feud one moment arose when Ric Flair told Booker T a boy like Booker used to carry his bags back in the day. Ric is a well known racist, just ask Teddy Long. HHH also called Booker T a nappy headed entertainer who dances and send the people home happy. He then asked Booker to do a dance for him. Booker lost that feud and didn't become World Champion again until he left WWE.

2. DX - The Nation's Locker Room

During a feud between The Hart Dynasty and D Generation X the Nation of Domination was dragged in. The members of DX spray painted racial slurs across the Nation's locker room. They then blamed The Hart Foundation causing a brawl between those two stables. DX soon appeared and laughed at how they proved just how dumb The Nation was. More on this feud later.

3. The Mexicools - The Whole Damn Gimmick

Three legendary Mexican wrestlers sign with WWE. The next week they're dressed to do lawn care and riding lawn mowers to the ring. They were often seen sleeping backstage and generally being lazy. It was the Lazy Mexican stereotype personified.

4. Muhammad Hassan - Likely Terrorist

Muhammad Hassan's gimmick started with him talking about the racism and Islamophobia in America that he faced growing up here. But then it took a turn when he started having masked men beat and attack opponents and making veiled threats. Then the London Bombings happened and men who were dressed very similarly were seen on camera committing the bombings. WWE then wrote him off and pretended it never happened because they were likely going to turn his character into a terrorist. "But Darrell, you don't know they were going to make him a terrorist, that's like making a black guy a slave. They wouldn't do that."

5. Ted Dibiase - Virgil The Slave

Virgil was The Million Dollar Man's "servant." He did whatever Ted told him to do for money. He took beatings so Ted wouldn't have to and was constantly demeaned and reminded that Ted owned him. He was a damn slave.

6. Kung Fu Naki

They turned Funaki into a damn Jackie Chan Karate Kid parody. They had him walking around dressed like the Karate Kid speaking broken English and doing bad karate. Need I say more?

7. Roddy Piper - Soul Food

What if I told you Roddy Piper spent a couple of minutes taunting his black opponent Tony Atlas by asking him questions about Soul Food. You probably wouldn't believe me, but it's true. I know Piper is a legend and he's deceased but it's not his last entry on this list.

8. Roddy Piper - Black Roddy Piper

What if I told you Roddy Piper's opponent was a black man known as Bad News Brown, you'd believe it. What if I told you Roddy Piper painted half his face black to show he was a down soul brother? You'd think I was lying. But it happened, Black Roddy Piper even speaks in jive. I mean Bad News Brown even flat out called him a racist after he quit wrestling.

9. Roddy Piper - Coconuts For Samoans

Damn Roddy going for the trifecta and the win. WWE loves Samoans, especially ones they can do racist gimmicks with like Umaga and Jimmy Snuka. Speaking of Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper once smashed a coconut on his head because Samoans love coconuts.

10. Brock Lesnar - Mariachi Band

What the flying fuck? Brock Lesnar comes out with a mariachi band and dances mocking Eddie Guerrero and his pride for his Mexican heritage. Then he mocks Eddie's real life drug addictions. At least Eddie won this feud unlike Booker T. Eddie was also kind of pissed and you can see tears forming in his eyes during this one when he talks about how he's proud to be Mexican and his battle with addiction. If this one isn't racist enough for you there's also the time Big Show stole Eddie's burritos. The time they made Chavo into Kerwin White a self hating Mexican and so on.

11. JBL - Hunting for Illegals 

JBL is a shitty person in real life so of course he'd be a shitty person on screen too. Often he hides behind the fact that he's friends with Ron Simmons when someone calls him out on his All Lives Matter Fox News bullshit. But, let's talk about him hunting Illegal Immigrants at the Mexican Border. That's right, he went to the Mexican border hoping to catch illegals. Then he caught one and threw him back over the border because PATRIOTISM

12. DX - Blackface

I don't need to explain this one, but I will. DX was feuding with the Nation of Domination and decided to mock them. They put on black face and rolled to the ring doing their best racial stereotype impersonations possible. I guess this means HHH was our first black WWE Champion, not The Rock. So now we've got two. Also, Billy Gunn did the same shit again 20 years later in TNA while HHH was calling Booker T a nappy headed entertainer.

13. Shawn Michaels - Kick The Black Out of NWO

I know you're breathing a sigh of relief that HBK wasn't in that. Well there was that time he was leading NWO. He said the group wasn't right and something just didn't fit in. Then he super kicked Booker T and all white guys beat up Booker T. They never explained why it was done. It was just "fuck Booker T" it's not like WWE never did that to him anyway. Shout out to his fake African Accent as King Bookah

14. Kamala - Really?

What the fuck? A black man from the jungles of Uganda who couldn't speak, only yell and needed a handler? The reason I didn't put Umaga on this list is because Kamala came first.

15. Mr McMahon - What's Up My Nigga

LaMelo Ball can't say nigga, but it's all good for an old white guy. Anyway, what's up my nigga?

There you have 15 things WWE should have apologized for before they even thought of apoligizing for LaMelo Ball. Maybe next time we can do racist fans. Like when Naomi got called nigger in London. It was gonna be 10 but things just kept popping in my head.

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