In an interview with The Huffington Post, Mark Henry spoke about WWE attempting to give him the nickname “Silverback” in 2007, a reference to the silverback gorilla. It was quickly phased out.
On the “Silverback” nickname: “A lot of people remember the Silverback thing. Honestly, I could not do it. I told them: ‘I can’t do that. I got two little black kids at home.'”
On the WWE not being racist: “Black culture, we dance and sing. We’re entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.”
You can find the entire show, which also features comments from Koko B. Ware, here.
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