The New Day have made pancakes a part of their act on weekly WWE Television. Whether it is in backstage segments or with them at ringside, chances are that the New Day will have some pancakes around them.
Xavier Woods was interviewed by Newsweek and responded to the accusations that the New Day’s love of pancakes perpetuates a racial stereotype.
Woods says that the idea came from their Lumberjack match several months prior. Here is what he said:
“I said, ‘Well, if I’m a lumberjack, what do they eat? They eat flapjacks.’ It was hilarious. So, we said the next week, ‘Are we going to do pancakes? Yeah, sure. Why not?’ And that’s where the pancakes came from. If there’s ever any source of contention or anything like that, I think that it’s a situation where you should take a look at yourself and think about how deep you are looking into something that’s not really there.”
Woods also says that the New Day are “very aware of how we present ourselves,”. They also don’t want their wacky antics dissected under a racial lens “simply because we are African-American males.”
Woods continued:
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“All we want is a blank slate. And if people continue to refuse to give us one, then they’re doing nothing more than continuing to hold up the social constructs that we’re trying to break down.”
Mic drop.
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