How racist was Saba Simba?

Publish date: 2024-05-08
I, normally being one to take issue with such a topic, don't really feel compelled by this one. I think this is a whole lot of fuss over nothing. But give credit to Tasty on getting a whole lot of something out of a little bit of nothing. Seriously, it's wrestling. I don't think any of it is meant to be blatantly racist. Stereotypical? Of course, but how do you really get around that? Any character someone plays is based off of something or someone in reality, yet when portraying it in a fictional scenario it's called "Stereotyping".

EXAMPLE TIME !!!!!!(sung in melody of course)

Let's say I were the one drafting the ideas for the tag team Cryme Tyme. I want a tag team of guys who act like urban gangsters because I know that in society they are glorified through Rap/Hip-Hop(which I don't have a problem with, lifelong rap fan talking here) and that the kids will think their cool. A great idea to go along with that, is that I can have these characters who are urban gangsters steal stuff from people in comedic fashion which the fan base will find funny as well. Who am I going to get to play those characters? Why not Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes, I totally think urban gangster wrestlers when I think of those guys, don't you? Or maybe I should have Edge and Christian team up for that role, those guys would totally fit the bill right? Fuck NO.

If I want characters like that I probably want two guys who look like they could possibly be those characters. It just so happens that back in 1988 this group called N.W.A. showed up on the rap scene and kind of defined that character. Not long after that some of the members went solo doing the same thing, and promoting other talent that would go on to redefine that character as well in Snoop Doggy Dog and Tupac.

They helped this phenomenon called rap explode into the American culture, becoming more and more popular, meaning more and more people were doing it. Since you don't change a good thing for the most part the recipe never changed much besides becoming more over the top, more gaudy, and more accepted. As it happens to be that Shad and JTG are black guys who could pull it off, they might be the best candidate for the roles. Nothing racist about it, nothing really stereotypical. If you want someone to play a role, the person must fit the role. I'm sorry but I am not going to buy The Great Khali as The Great Gangsta Khali, or some other person who just couldn't fit that role.

Moral of the story is, that it's not stereotyping or racist to have someone play a character in a fake wrestling show. For all we know Tony Atlas could have come up with the gimmick, odds are he didn't, but you never know which means there's really no point in blowing it up into a big fuss about racism. That is about the last thing that needs to be drudged up, that horse is dead, it's been beaten to death, leave it alone. I personally think that racism is a joke, it's not even real, we make it real though when we argue about it and bring up all the bullshit of the past opening old wounds, and rekindling past aggressions. It's kind of funny, racism itself has no power, yet people allow it to have power over themselves. I see it an the most avoidable thing there is. If you give it life it will live, if you just shut the fuck up about it though and live and let live, racism dies.

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