7 Incidents of racial insensitivity in the WWE

3. Rowdy Roddy Piper’s blackface

The facts that this happened back in the Wild West days of the WWE and Piper’s Yoda-like connection with the crowd shouldn’t make us overlook its distastefulness. The doom that follows when brake wires are cut somehow transmutes itself to volcanic pops in the WWE.

Piper’s aping of MJ was juvenile but he somehow made the save. His explanation, in an interview many years later, of why he did it was disjointed in the least.