So let me get this straight, Booker T (at the time was in a Tag Team called Harlem Heat with his real life brother) can call HulkHogan the "n-word" on television in front of millions of folks and nothing is done to him but Hulk Hogan says the word as part of a story he was retelling about how people of color he lived around though so much of him that they all the Hulkster to use the word "*****" word as a term of endearment from a friend to another friend (rather you believe the hard "er" or the "a" version of the word is a term of endearment, which I don't) him to use it back and now it's a story? Are you effin kidding me?
This, to me, is the wrestling version of Paula Deen, the media misses the context of the story and went straight to the word they know will spark controversy. I have lost all respect for the media and their "shock jock" form of reporting. Should Hogan had use the word in the story, probably not, but this is a non-story to me. It would be hypercritical of the WWE to wash all hands at Hogan for using the "n-word" and yet they keep Booker T. around even knowing his not afraid to use the word.
So the moral of the story is....blacks can't be racists, it's only white people can be racist. SMH.
(Note: You can find Booker T. saying the N-Word on WCW programming on youtube.)