WWE boss Vince McMahon is in hot waters as he has been hit with a bias lawsuit over scripts. What would be of this lawsuit? Well, the New York Post got it all covered;
World Wrestling Entertainment ordered up racially-tinged plot lines for its scripted matches that included having a Muslim wrestler admit he was responsible for 9/11 and another in which a black wrestler was held “captive” in a cage, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Britney Abrahams, a black writer for WWE’s “Smackdown” and “Monday Night RAW” TV series, alleges she was fired last year in retaliation for her complaints about story pitches which perpetuated “offensively racist and stereotypical jargon,” according to the lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court on Monday.
Abrahams’ racial discrimination suit against the WWE and its controversial leader Vince McMahon claims her boss, lead writer Ryan Callahan, pitched the idea of having a Muslim wrestler named Mansoor reveal that he was “behind the 9/11 attacks.”
Another plot line was to have a black wrestler known as “Reggie” held “captive in cages” as he was being “hunted” by the white wrestler Shane Thorne, according to the lawsuit.
Abrahams said she “objected to her superior’s racially motivated misconduct, specifically stating that a gimmick where a white man hunting a black African American man for sport is racist,” the suit said.
When she voiced her objection to Callahan, he is alleged to have laughed and sarcastically replied: “Oh, what? Is that a bad thing?” according to court papers.
Another incident involved Raw women’s champion Bianca Belair, who is black, allegedly scripted to say: “Uh-Uh! Don’t make me take off my earrings and beat your ass!”
In her court filing, Abrahams alleges that the lines are “based upon cruel, ugly stereotypes of dark-skinned, black women.”
Another allegedly pitched scenario involved having a black wrestler Apollo Crews, who is Nigerian-American, speak with a “stereotypical and exaggerated Nigerian accent,” the lawsuit said.
Abrahams claims she was fired for taking home a “WrestleMania 38”-branded chair even though other employees did so as well, according to court papers.
In reality, the incident was used as a pretext to fire her in retaliation for her complaints about racist story pitches, according to court documents.
The WWE has been doing this for years, so not sure if she has a leg to stand on.