Circled Sqaure wrote:Daz wrote:Circled Sqaure wrote:The reason why you have a smaller pool is because WRESTLING IS NOT A BLACK SPORT. It just isn't. it has no meaning to black people. Not many kids who have athletic talent dream of being a wrestler, let alone black kids. You have a smaller pool to pick from because the amount of black wrestlers is smaller compared to the majority of other races. Titus O'Neil may have been interested in wrestling, but chose football instead.
And any point you may have had in this discussion just went flying out the window.
I'm a black wrestling fan and that's what I've gathered growing up in an inner city environment. Most people find it corny, same with hockey. There's something comforting about watching people who look like you. It's not hard to wrap your head around. I'm not going to insult your post like you did mine because I'm new here and don't have that epic insider 1337 elite status you do.
Don't hold post count against me, if you've got a point you want to make, you go right ahead and make it. That's your right.
As it's my right, to find your generalization quite ridiculous, especially as you say now, it's based on your own individual experience. You're not representative of every black wrestling fan, or every black person globally, neither are you representative of every black community who has access to WWE programming. So you're really not able to say with any sort of authority that Wrestling is not a Black Sport. I'll go out on a limb and say the players in the NFL and the NBA are predominantly black. Does that mean Football and Basketball aren't white sports, cause white people can't find comfort in the players? Of course not. It's asinine to say so.
The fact wrestling takes place all over the world and has an abundance of different styles, to me at any rate, shows that it's a sport/form of entertainment with wide spread appeal, regardless of race or gender. The talent pool of black wrestlers isn't small by any stretch of the imagination. There's a wealth of talented black wrestles on the indies, in fact I'd say right now, 3 or 4 of the top wrestlers working on the independents (and globally_ are black. The fact the WWE hasn't produced an African-American talent that can relate to black communities at large, says more about WWE than it does about Wrestling as a whole, and only re-enforces the points I, and others, have already made in this thread. And nobody is saying a talent should have the rocket strapped to them, simply because they're black, the argument was about how talent of varying minorities is treated. They don't have to be WWE Champion to be treated respectfully.
And don't misunderstand me, I by no means believe that WWE have intentionally held down black talent because of the colour of their skin. I think the fact there hasn't been a major black star break out is indicative of larger problems with their creative system. They don't position their talent, no matter the colour of their skin, in ways in which benefit them. The difference is though, when I white mid-carder gets lost in the shuffle, he doesn't get saddled with a gimmick relating to his ethnicity. There's a reason why Mark Henry is one of the few black stars of the last decade or so to get a run in the Main Event. It's no coincidence that his gimmick has nothing to do with the colour of his skin. He could be Mark Henry, world's strangest man, whether he were white, black, Asian, Hispanic, or whatever else.
