This is just wrong. Let me explain why.

There used to be quite a big thing in wrestling called kayfabe. Kayfabe is the insider term for all the stuff in wrestling that, while fictional, is played as being real. It's as important on screen as an actor not breaking character during a film. In wrestling, though, continuing the act off-screen, in public, on other shows or just on the street also used to be very important. After all, wrestling is a performed version of a sporting event, and with all sporting events, people like to support certain competitors. Thus, not breaking character off-screen helps the product on-screen.

So Kofi isn't callously denying his heritage to get ahead in his chosen career. It's what he is expected to do. Now, kayfabe isn't the same anymore. In the age of the Internet, fans got "smart" to the business. Old wrestlers wrote books. Show writers ackowledged the existence of kayfabe by writing angles for shows where a character came out and broke kayfabe (for example, by going on a rant about other wrestlers and using insider terms to fans). Top WWE stars do interviews on chatshows with a metaphorical wink to the camera. But even given all that, it still exists. And if Kofi has been given the character of a Jamaican to play (a tool that has often been used in wrestling, where a certain nationality represents a certain attitude), then he shall play it, and if he takes particular pride in his work, then continuing the act outside the ring is not in any way unusual.

Why people still try to write about wrestling as if its another sport, then make jabs about how it isn't really a sport, is beyond me. We all got it a long time ago. Do catch up.