Alicia Fox Says ‘It Makes Sense’ How WWE Treated Her After History of Blackface

Alicia Fox was one of the veterans of the WWE women’s division during the Divas era in the company. However, she parted ways with WWE earlier this year and now Fox stated that it made sense why WWE treated her badly, after the company’s history of blackface.

Alicia Fox’s final advertised match for the company was on April 22, 2019. Eventually, fans noticed how Alicia Fox no longer had WWE on her Instagram bio, believing she exited the company. Fox herself then confirmed she parted ways with WWE earlier this year.

While speaking to Elijah Burke on The Pope’s Point of View podcast, Alicia Fox talked about her time in WWE. Fox stated that she had a better understanding of why she was treated the way she was in WWE, especially after the company’s history of blackface.

”We are independent contractors. They borrow our bodies. More importantly, y’all are wrestlers, either trying to go to the machine or most of us are trying to still run so far away from it. The thing is, is like they’re not the only machine in town and they haven’t been. So what is the nostalgia about? Because human nature, by its nature, can experience nostalgia for the past. No wonder the wrestling fans are like, ‘Oh my god, wrestling!’ no matter where they are.

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As long as that particular company has been doing blackface and our bosses have been doing these characters, it makes sense to me now why they were treating me like this. For me, I didn’t study the history of wrestling going forward. I lived that experience linearly. I did what they told me to do, I drove those hours. I was on a tour bus with my fiancé being driven around. I also wasn’t bringing camera crews in to exploit my friends on an already exploited agreement.”

Alicia Fox is working with Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling promotion under the name  Vix Crow. We will have to wait and see what the future holds for the former WWE Superstar, as it is unlikely she will ever return to WWE.

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