Vince McMahon notoriously used the N-word during a comedic segment at WWE Survivor Series 2005, and D-Von Dudley recently expressed his views on the incident.
The segment featured McMahon backstage with John Cena, who was still portraying his rap gimmick, and saw Vince enthusiastically using the word as slang, with Booker T showing up at the end to emphasize the comedic intent by saying, “Tell me he didn’t just say that!”
During a recent appearance on Maven’s YouTube channel, Dudley discussed WWE’s most racist moments and shared his thoughts on the segment.
You can check out some highlights below:
On his reaction to the segment: “I don’t know what to say about that. Luckily, I wasn’t in the company [TNA] during that time. I was in another organization, but damn.”
On if he had been in WWE at the time: “I think that’d be the point in time with fear of talking to Vince like so many people have, I think that fear would be gone. I’d be like, ‘Dude, that ain’t f**king right.’ You don’t do s**t like that. You just don’t. I don’t even like it when black people do it, but I always felt like in the movie Malcolm X, where he said, ‘A lot of these guys traded in their white sheets for suits.’ Not saying that Mr. McMahon did that. I’m not saying that at all, but a lot of people in this organization, I felt, did that.”
