How was Bill Watts a racist??

[Black Thunder]

He was the only white dude that pushed nikkas

jyd was his top star

ernie ladd was his booker

his damn secretary was black

went to wcw and made ron simmons world champ

yet somehow hes got this rep as a racist, i dont understand that shyt

 

[CM_Burns]

I haven't really followed his territory and just know his basic story, but it might have to do with who's writing history or that he said some blatantly racist shyt.

 

[Jello Biafra]

He was the only white dude that pushed nikkas

jyd was his top star

ernie ladd was his booker

his damn secretary was black

went to wcw and made ron simmons world champ

yet somehow hes got this rep as a racist, i dont understand that shyt

Watts always pushed black dudes in promotions where he had control JYD and Ron Simmons being the most notable. Also he and Ladd were supposedly really tight in real life (Watts admits to crying for days after Ladd died) but he also was also an Oklahoma redneck who made the mistake of making the following comments in an interview with the Pro Wrestling Torch:

“If you own a business and you put the money in it, why shouldn’t you be able to discriminate? It’s your business. If free enterprise is going to make or break it, you should be able to discriminate, it’s your business. It should be that by God, if you’re going to open your doors in America, you can discriminate. Why the fukk not? That’s why I went into business, so I could discriminate. I mean really, I want to be able to sell to who I want to and be able to serve who I want to. It’s my business. It’s my investment. So they (the government) come in and say `No.’ I can’t tell a faq to get the fukk out. I should have the right to not associate with a faq if I want to. I should have the right to not hire a faq if I don’t want to. I mean, why should I have to hire a fukking faq, if I don’t like fags? Fags discriminate against us, don’t they? Sure they do. Do blacks discriminate against whites? Who’s killed more blacks than anyone? The fukking blacks. But they want to blame that bullshyt `Roots’ that came on the air. That `Roots’ was such bullshyt. All you have to do if you want slaves is hand beads to the chiefs and they gave you the slaves.’ What is the best thing that has ever happened to the black race? That they were brought to this country. No matter how they got here, they were brought here. You know why? Because they intermarried and got educated. They’re the ones running the black race. You go down to the black countries and they’re all broke. Idi Amin killed more blacks than we ever killed. You see what I mean? That’s how stupid we are. But we get caught up in all this bullshyt rhetoric. And so it’s ridiculous what’s happening to our country. Lester Maddox was right. If I don’t want to sell fried chicken t blacks, I shouldn’t have to. It’s my restaurant. Hell, at least I respect him for his stand. That doesn’t make me anti-Black.”

That was when he was running WCW, which was owned by Ted Turner at the time, Hank Aaron, who was working for the Atlanta Braves which Turner also owned, got wind of the interview and went apeshyt demanding that Turner do something. So Billionaire Ted fired Watts.

I just chalk it up to Watts having certain ignorant beliefs ingrained in him based on the times and location he was raised in but in his actual dealing with people he was a decent dude.