As you know, Hulk Hogan was banished and wiped out of the WWF. Kicked out because of angry racist banter he made years ago about his daughter's boyfriend.
After watching his emotional interview...I can't help to think that the Hulkster is still a good guy. People make mistakes. Should he be wiped from the memory of WWF for this? I think his humble truthfulness of character speaks volumes for him.
One comment that I agree with is when he spoke about "inheriting" racism from his environment.
Depending on where you grow up, the community around you can be racist and you wouldn't even know it. When I was a kid, the N-word was used normally everyday. We also used other racist slurs as well, not knowing that they were harmful. We just thought that they were just words. It seemed normal to us. Even when I lived in Arizona in my early twenties, I still took that naivety with me. One of my good friends was Hispanic and we would go have lunch together. One time I said the Sp--ck word (a reference to Mexicans), and my friend became silent. He sternly told me never to say that word around him ever again and that I was lucky it was him I said it around. He told me if it had been someone else from his neighborhood, I'd be killed.
That opened my eyes at that point, and I seriously rethought those offensive words I used.
I didn't mean to use them and have someone get offended. I didn't know that that word was offensive until that point. I apologized to my friend, and we still remain friends to this day.
So, I can see Hulk Hogan's point on inherited racism; however, he wasn't a teenager or a dumb kid in his early twenties...he was a grown man already retired from wrestling when he made the comments. Is he saying that he was naive towards those words all these years?
I agree but disagree with Hulk Hogan. He is really only showing his emotions now, because of his humiliation at being banned from the WWF.
Should he be let back in? This I don't know. It is the WWF's call.
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