WWE Writer Allegedly Dishes Racist Smackdown

31. this is starting to sound like nascar...

Posted at 9:01AM on Apr 24th 2008 by VAN HALEN ROCKS

32. Hayes is one of the best of all time. Mark Henry is burning bridges, snitches wear ( you know)...remember Hayes IS the writer of what goes down.

Posted at 12:04PM on May 1st 2008 by Tim Blaze

33. hey UGO- are you boycotting OBAMA? i bet not! blacks can say anything they want that is racist but let a white person and then it is time to end thier career!!! stop being onesided!!!!!!! OBAMA HATES WHITE PEOPLE!

Posted at 9:52AM on Apr 24th 2008 by betty

34. So he used the N word, big deal. It's getting so there is no such thing as freedom of speech in this country & speaking one's mind is punished.

Posted at 10:47AM on Apr 24th 2008 by Kerry

35. 60 days without pay for saying a word. that is just gay. It isn't like a word actually hurts someone. Like the old saying goes, "Sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me."

Posted at 1:47PM on Apr 24th 2008 by moreofaNthanU

36. I heard this same guy almost got fired for gettng plastered and mouthing off and the boss' daughter's wedding a couple of years ago.

Posted at 12:17PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Lady D

37. That's a racist comment? It is merely a word. If you are defensive about it perhaps you've gone into agreement with it.

Posted at 1:00PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Angelaondair

38. now I'm JUS sayin.......Get a life. The "N" word as you put it, when you speak to the whites, is used on a daily basis by "N"'s. Does it have a different meaning when a person of color uses it?

Posted at 1:04PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Angelaondair

39. So not only is WWE the fakest,soap opera type of show on tv,its also racist,what a shocker.Spend your money on real fighting over at UFC,where there is real blood and they don't know who will win before the fight starts.As for #27,barack Obama is half white,so it would be pretty hard for him to hate white people,does he hate his own mother then????????

Posted at 1:08PM on Apr 24th 2008 by roberto

40. I think it is funny how black people of today always go back to the past to justify themselves. If not for the horrible past, that none of them actually went through themselves, then they would still be over in africa getting eaten by lions.

Posted at 2:00PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Getoverit

41. Michael Hayes is an idiot. The wrestling business has always been racist. And I don't care what anybody says, white people will never be black so they should stop saying what black people should and should not say and do, and quit saying things like 'black people say it.' SOME say it. Not ALL.

Posted at 2:20PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Jenny

42. Hayes is a drunk and has been for ages. He should be evaluated for alcoholism while he is off. He has always had a crazy temper and, frankly, he him being away from Smackdown will be a good thing since the show stinks right now. Hayes is outdated and not with the times and WWE should use this time to get another writer onboard. Remember when Hayes had his ponytail cut off by Waltman on a flight? Hayes was passed out drunk as usual and Sean Waltman cut it off then later pinned it up on the wall in the arena. HAHA. Hayes should be fired just for being such an ass.

Mark Henry could crush Hayes like a bug if he wanted but apparently he realized Hayes wasn't worth the effort.

Posted at 2:46PM on Apr 24th 2008 by PT

43. Wile I agree that WWE should have done something against Hayes for his inappropriate language, I also fee that the wrestler who sued the same language toward Hayes earlier in the evening (reportidly MVP)should ALSO be disciplined. Maybe not to the same degree, but he should not get away scott free. If the word is so horrible, NO ONE should be using it and it is a HORRIBLE double standard that someone can take exception to the word being used yet still use it themselves. When someone starts using that sort of language in a laid back social situation it sort of opens up it's acceptance in that setting.

Again, I am not trying to defend Hayes, but for someone to use "that word" in a close social setting and another person to use the same word in the same setting and only one of them to get in trouble is B.S. One COULD argue that Hayes would be the LESSER of the two because he reportidly din NOT call Henry that word, Hayes reportedly called HIMSELF that word... AFTER someone else called HIM that word.

In a semi related note... Someone a month or so ago got in trouble for using the term "Shuckin & Jivin" because it is "A RACIST TERM", the first place I ever heard that term (and place I heard it the most) was The American Dream Dusty Rhodes and it was not being used in a racial manner. Eventually we won't be able to say ANYTHING without offending someone.

Posted at 5:28PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Byrd

44. As a black person who watched wrestling all my life (less so much after my teenage years but never the less I have flipped past it) I have to say the WWE has always been racist and probably for good reason. Look at their demographics, mostly white, you could add more adjectives like southern or less affluent or working class but I don't want to often anyone. Those people don't want a black champion they want to see black people in silly roles or as the big black evil enforcer. Thats the business, so you have to expect that those in the management might has a smidgin of racist in their thinking. I am not offended when I hear something like this; the words are not important its the actions that go with the words that are more important. Jumping at someone every time they drop the N-bomb is unproductive; focus on real racist issues in society like Pat Buchanan and people like that who say that clinton and Obama are the same candidate but if she doesn't win they will vote for Mccain. Or worse the people who directly say I am not voting for a black person (or a half black person) Thats really sad.

Still Mark Henry is a big MF he is the last person's s-list I would want to be on.

Posted at 7:26PM on Apr 24th 2008 by That guy

45. according to what I have read it seems that everyone here is talking in tongues
don't believe everything unless you hear it from the horses mouth
but then and again to each his own
I am sure their is more to the story
wonder who is backstabbing who?

Posted at 9:32PM on Apr 24th 2008 by axewoman