According to Big E during an interview with Yahoo Sports, Vince McMahon was completely on board with the New Day kneeling on Smackdown to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement. With some strong ties to the Republican party and what some would categorize as conservative values, it does come as a small shock to hear this about the head of the WWE. But with McMahon stating many times that one of his heroes was the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., maybe this shouldn’t be that surprising.

“When Kofi and I got to the Performance Center that day, we felt like we had to do something,” Big E said. “We went and had a conversation with our boss, Vince McMahon, and he was completely on board. We felt like that even if it was just a five-second gesture, it was important to let people know that the things that affected them, we were feeling too. We’re not above this because we’re on TV or because we make money, we’re still people. I was born Black, I will die Black, I have lived my life as Black American much longer than I will ever be a WWE wrestler.”

He continued, “Right after George Floyd passed, we had lengthy conversations, the three of us in our text group. I can’t think of anything that hit me so much in my lifetime. I think a lot of it had to do with the pandemic and the fact that we had all of this time to think. There were very few distractions. It was something I kept thinking about day and night. It really weighed on me. I felt that even though I didn’t know how to change the structure or end systemic racism, I wanted to do something with my anger and frustration, I wanted to do something positive and we were all on the same page with that.”


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