Ring of Honor's Cedric Alexander recently discussed The New Day, and issues facing African-Americans and other minorities in wrestling, in an interview on Glenn Clark's Jobbing Out podcast.
Clark and co-host Aaron Oster talked with independent wrestling veteran about the Briscoes turning down WWE and the notion of guys like Alexander making a living in a low politics environment vs. risking it all going to work for Vince McMahon. That brought them to a joking question about whether or not Cedric would be one of Adam Rose's Rosebuds like other indy workers have done ("oh God no"), and that led to talking about Kingston, Woods and E's act.
This opens up a whole different can of worms here, because everyone I know that watches WWE is offended by The New Day... extremely offended because of the whole racial thing," Alexander said. "It's like, 'oh we're three black guys, we'll sing, we'll dance. You've got Kofi Kingston, who's a phenomenal athlete, Big E Langston is a gigantic, threatening man and Xavier Woods is extremely intelligent. So why make them sing and dance when they obviously can be more... serious, I guess?
When they first started this thing, it was like two or three weeks that they did it where Xavier would come out and be like a Malcolm X type of thing. He was preaching black power without saying black power, which I think is fantastic because you don't offend anyone. But when you've got three black guys singing and dancing, stereotypes get fed too much and I hate it.
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