"I came in 2001, and the person I had to deal with was JR," Booker said. "I don't know if he had changed by the time I had gotten there, but I never once had that interaction with JR, as far as him telling me something like that. JR was the one guy ... who convinced me to tell my story as far as what I went through because ... this is what he told me, and I quote: 'You can help so many people with your story.' That's what I remember about JR."

However, in WWE, Booker did experience an incident with a wrestler upset about Martin Luther King Day being celebrated. "I almost got into a fight with him. I literally wanted to fight with this dude, but I said, 'Let me think better of this situation right here, because no one heard this but him and I." However, Hurricane Helms backed him in a talent relations meeting, which led to the wrestler getting fired from WWE. "Racism is ... not just here in America. It's all across the board. It really is."