D’Lo Brown Recalls DX Parody Skit of Nation of Domination, Thinks It Could’ve Worked Just as Well Without Use of Blackface

– During an interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former WWE Superstar D’Lo Brown recalled D-Generation X’s feud with The Nation of Domination, along with the skits where DX parodied the Nation. The skit infamously featured WWE Hall of Famer Sean “X-Pac” Waltman dressed as Mark Henry and wearing blackface for the segment. Brown discussed the skit and shared his thoughts. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Brown on if there was any concern on the segment using blackface when it was originally done: “No. There have been a lot of stories out there. I can tell you that none of us had any big concerns about it. In retrospect, we could have done that segment without the blackface and I wish we hadn’t. It would have been just as good. Obviously, I wish we changed that. We didn’t. Looking back with 2022 eyes, not a fan. In 1997-98 eyes, it was a way of getting these two factions to war because we knew both of our factions were over enough or connected with the fans enough that we could go out there and draw money and fill houses with it and put up ratings on TV. We look at the individual matchups we could have and that’s what piqued our curiosity. People look past the obvious elephant in the room.”

On how the segment couldn’t be done years later: “You couldn’t pitch that idea three years later. You’d get laughed out of the building three years later.”

D’Lo Brown on how the Nation of Domination parody segment would’ve worked just as well without blackface: “It’s so true. If there was never any blackface, you would have never known the difference and it would have been just as entertaining. That whole segment was DX entertaining everybody and they could have done that easy without the blackface. I get people looking at it with 2022 eyes going, ‘were you mad, were you angry?’ Today I am but in 97-98, I wasn’t. We were just trying to create a good segment. It was a different time. Thankfully, we don’t live in that time anymore and we’re here today. I wish we could go back and retro book it and have it a different way.”