Boycott TNA (Wrestling Company) IMMEDIATELY
I was flipping through channels and I came across Spike TV, and they had some wrestling on (I used to be a big fan of wrestling in my early teens, in the late 90s), I saw a familiar face but something was wrong, but I wasn’t sure…then I realized what the hell was wrong they had a segment with a wrestler wearing BLACKFACE, are you fucking kidding that in the year 2006 this is viewed acceptable? Where the hell is Spike TVs Standards & Practices lawyers?? If it was some other group of people being disrespected someone would have a big enough problem that it wouldn’t air. Everyone involved with this travesty from the racists that wrote the storyline to the wrestlers that apparently have no self-value. If I was a wrestler, even if it was my only way to make a living and I was instructed to do something like this, I would be leave. I wonder what the Black wrestlers of this company thought when they saw this?
Here are the pictures:
Non-Blackface
if you don’t understand why I’m so pissed maybe you should start some reading over here.
people, what are your thoughts?
EDIT—————-
wow… I sort of remember this, so I guess the TNA shouldnt really suprise me considering 2 of the same guys are involved in both. Probably more tomorrow.
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eskay said,
Wrote on May 26, 2006 @ 6:44 pm
Incredible
Tom said,
Wrote on May 27, 2006 @ 2:38 pm
I can see where the offence can arise, and I personally would have steered WELL clear of this impersonation myself.
However, I think it should be noted that the impersonation was of a single person – Devon in this case, not black people as a whole.
The “skit” did not make fun of Devon for being black, it did not target him as inferior or otherwise lacking because of the colour of his skin.
The wrestler who performed this impression is unfunny for sure. He lacks talent definitely. The skit may have been ill-considered and not as humourous as they would have liked it to be, but racist it was not.
More likely was an extreme case of hyper-sensitivity on your part.
In my opinion of course.
Djlethal01 said,
Wrote on May 27, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
Tom, thank you for your comment however if you read up on the history of blackface I don’t see a way you can do it and just say its untastefully done and not also racist. Maybe the parties involved weren’t doing it consciously to be racist agianst black people but doing Blackface in any form in my book is racist.
I am really dying to know who wrote the skit and what the black wrestlers of the comapny thought.
drewfizzle said,
Wrote on May 28, 2006 @ 8:03 am
This skit was more than likely written by Jeff Jarrett. Jeff Jarrett is one of the founders and featured wrestlers on TNA. His character is somewhat of a guitar wielding redneck. However I would suspect that the two featured wrestlers had some say in the skit as they did the simliar skit in the WWF(E). I have been a wrestling fan for many years and have noticed many queationable racial skits. If you watched wrestling consistently nowadays you would be boycotting the entire sport. When it comes to stereotypes they dont just pick one but rather ever conceivable stereotype possible. Whether it be gay, redneck, ghetto, pimpin, etc.
TNA is a minor company trying to compete with the bid dog WWE. There little skit is nothing compared to the stuff WWE puts on. If you were to watch a month of WWE I guarantee you would find something to boycott.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on July 11, 2006 @ 1:46 am
hi folks i d just like to say that tna is the best wrestling i have ever seen, and kip james aka mr blackface is simply trying to compete with the superior wrestling of the younger wrestlers, kip james gets by based on his character in wwe/wwf so it is simply him repeating wwf’s old antics, if u stayed tune guys like aj styles, chris sabin, sonjay dutt, and petey williams would knock your socks of with their moves,trust me the young boys of tna put old school wwe style wrestling to shame, do me a favor b4 slaming tna because of the actions of 1 man, watch an ultimate x match, its a a match where cables form an x above the ring and the guys have to climb to the center to get the x, these kinda match and the young guys r tna. kip james, aka mr.ass is simply an old fool, plus in tna the wrestlers have more lee way less script writing, its more likly bg and kip where told go out there n tease the dudleys, n kip was doing his job as a heel (bad man) by pissing people off.
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Jake said,
Wrote on March 1, 2008 @ 12:01 am
You are so fucking dumb. So its ok for two BLACK guys to make a movie about being dressed up as WHITE chicks but this is wrong? It’s people like you who always have to be bitching about something just shut the hell up.
Michael.Stoddard said,
Wrote on March 23, 2011 @ 2:13 pm
Anonymous
hi folks i d just like to say that tna is the best wrestling i have ever seen, and kip james aka mr blackface is simply trying to compete with the superior wrestling of the younger wrestlers, kip james gets by based on his character in wwe/wwf so it is simply him repeating wwf’s old antics, if u stayed tune guys like aj styles, chris sabin, sonjay dutt, and petey williams would knock your socks of with their moves,trust me the young boys of tna put old school wwe style wrestling to shame, do me a favor b4 slaming tna because of the actions of 1 man, watch an ultimate x match, its a a match where cables form an x above the ring and the guys have to climb to the center to get the x, these kinda match and the young guys r tna. kip james, aka mr.ass is simply an old fool, plus in tna the wrestlers have more lee way less script writing, its more likly bg and kip where told go out there n tease the dudleys, n kip was doing his job as a heel (bad man) by pissing people off.
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Pal, I don’t care what you say. This (and all other forms of racism) is just downright disgusting for ANY wrestling company to do, no matter what else they showcase on their show. Not only that, but the product has only been getting worse with each passing year, especially since Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff took over last year on January 4. Personally, I wish the whole promotion would go out of business so that a REAL (i.e., intelligently run, managed, and booked) promotion can take its place and [hopefully] compete with good ol’ Vinny Mac.