Word: samoan
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Johnson, who turns 30 on May 2, is a third-generation wrestler and the son of an African-American father and a Samoan mother. His life has not always been so peachy, and in talking about it, he seems to let down his guard. He admits that only six years ago he'd sunk to a low point. His attempt to make it in the NFL had fizzled and he was living on a "p___-stained mattress" in Alberta, Canada. He says that even now he has few real friends on the WWF circuit. "I like doing things by myself...
Just fish, rainwater and floating coconuts were all two West Samoan fishermen had for sustenance as they difted on an aluminum catamaran for 132 days...
...Vanilla Ice effect--the defensiveness, plain on Eminem's records, of the white rapper. Certainly Caucasians have no monopoly on Rude Boy culture--last summer the Wayans brothers out-Farrellyed the Farrelly brothers with the $157 million gross-out hit Scary Movie. And the Rock is African American and Samoan. But there's an undeniable white-boyness to much of this trend--that familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish cool that comes from being societally on the outs. So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces...
...fraught with danger--contestants have done me bodily harm on many occasions," he quipped. "The worst are the Samoans: Samoan women cannot resist picking me up and throwing me around...
...when I offered myself as a candidate. I told him I was more interested in putting the "kick" back in sidekick, mocking him ruthlessly at every opportunity. He then tried several methods to dissuade me, including telling me the salary was $26,000 a year, demanding I have Samoan heritage and making vague sartorial threats. "You're going to have to do a lot of cross-dressing segments," he said. "Andy looked good in low-cut gowns...