Bobby Lashley Opens Up About The Racism That He Has Experienced During His Current Storyline With Lana

Bobby Lashley was recently interviewed by Sports Illustrated. During this interview, he spoke about his current storyline with Lana and Rusev.

Lashley ended up revealing that he has received a lot of hate during this storyline. This includes a lot of racially discriminatory comments.

Here is what Lashley said when asked about portraying an interracial couple:

Yes, I’ve experienced a tremendous amount of hate. We as a society come out and we’re anti-bullying, anti-hate, anti-this, anti-that, but I think we actually pick and choose who we hate and bully.

Because everybody still knows me, and knows what I do and what I’m capable of doing—what I’ve done in my career as far as the military, being a single father, putting myself through college, graduating with honors, and I could keep going. But I received a tremendous amount of hate here across the board personally for the things that, I guess, I do. It’s all over the board.

It’s from the fact that this is interracial, because I’ve had guys saying the n-word to me and, ‘I’m going to kill you, we’re going to get you when you come down south.’ I just kind of sit back and laugh about it. I’ve even experienced some people that are in the business of wrestling—tweeting things and posting pictures, and I just sit back and laugh. A lot of times we feel that the person being hated on or being bullied should be a frail person. But now you take somebody like myself and Lana, who is a gorgeous woman, and we don’t look like the typical people that are bullied.

I’m glad I have thick skin. Because if I didn’t have thick skin, some of the things that I’ve had to experience would be very difficult to take.

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On a related note, here is what Lana had to say about the death threats that she has received during this storyline.

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