Posted on 07/25/2025 3:04:25 PM PDT by janetjanet998
One of Kazeem Famuyide's earliest memories is sitting on his father's lap watching Hulk Hogan wrestle in the 1988 Survivor Series.
His love of Hogan in the ring became inextricable from what would become a lifelong obsession with the sport — including a yearlong role touring the country and writing scripts for WWE's top talent…
… But for the 38-year-old Famuyide and other Black wrestling fans and sports commentators, Hogan's death this week at 71 has resurfaced an irreconcilable contradiction in the iconic wrestler's legacy: Hogan's undeniable role in broadening wrestling's appeal to fans of all backgrounds versus his well-documented racism.
“Well documented racism...”. Somebody needs their asses sued.
He called his daughters black bf a n**ga. He apologized profusely and most black wrestlers who he worked with over the course of a decades long career agree he was not a racist and appreciated his attempts to make amends. Actual racists do not apologize for racism. He made a mistake.
Mr. Hulk Hogan had no racism in him. Just look at who he wrestled with and his friends. He did not give a S—t! His standards were are you a good wrestler. Race, creed, nationality meant nothing to him.
He loved our nation with a passion.
Jesse Watters really liked him—I thought Jesse’s whole program last night would be about Hulk Hogan. Jesse isn’t black but his hair kind of is.
Now I am speculating, but it sounds to me like the fist full of papers Joe McCarthy waved about for all the communists he had just found, which were actually recipes or something like that.
Agreed. If Hogan were alive it would be actionable.
It may still be.
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The 80% black parish where we have property even has blue-city black-fatigue. But they are rural folk. Really cool rural folk.
I grew up in the South in a segregated society. I believed in segregation, I believed in all that crap I was taught. I believed they were inferior. My beliefs were wrong. In the oilfield I worked in many different nations, both Arab, White, and Black. All of them had superior engineers as were ours from the United States.
I was wrong and my wife is from Mexico and an engineer.
Race card declined.
I had to also learn about diversity. I have a sister who married a Catholic.
I’m guessing he said that before he became a Christian.
No cause of action. You can’t slander the dead. The essence of defneation is emotional and financial injury caused by unjust reputations damage. The dead by definition can’t suffer such damages
What does his buddy Mr. T have to say about that?
It was a private conversation, never intended to be public. A father, upset that his daughter was involved in an inter racial marriage. How many among us would prefer that for our children? He admitted on the tape, a recognition that his feelings were “a little racist”. He was already conflicted in his thoughts.
In his public life, he never showed this. His ACTIONS showed a different perspective. One moment of frustration, in private, should never define any person life of accomplishment.
Who among us could live up to that standard?
I got ghetto fatigue just reading the headline!
Why apologize? Black racists don’t.
You can’t slander/libel a dead person.
I noticed that nobody at the AP put their name on this crap.
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