NASCAR has become a microcosm
of the Democratic Party.
American Thinker,
by
Warren Beatty
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
10/14/2020 1:22:39 PM
I was listening to the NASCAR race at Concord, N.C. last Sunday. I was several times "treated" to a commercial decrying racism and racial inequality. After hearing it for the third time, I began to think about the transformation NASCAR, whose TV ratings are down, is trying to pull off.
NASCAR, founded in 1948, was content to sanction races for seventy years. Then, on October 1, 2018, it appointed Steve Phelps as its president. Of the appointment, Matt Weaver, Autoweek columnist, wrote, "And for the first time since the decline of NASCAR's mainstream popularity began, the sanctioning body is publicly admitting what Phelps is calling
Another Pro Sport that I no longer watch... I really need to thank them for freeing up all my time that I was spending watching sports...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
winmag 10/14/2020 1:33:15 PM (No. 572356)
Get woke, go broke.
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I used to enjoy watching NASCAR racing. There were big, relatable personalities like Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, and Dale Earnhardt. They were hard core racers.
But times have changed and NASCAR veered left with the cultural tide.
I have tuned them out and turned them off. Nothing to see here anymore.
Like Dennis Prager says, “Anything the left touches, it destroys”.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche 10/14/2020 1:49:00 PM (No. 572368)
NASCAR whistles past the graveyard. Cowards who blindly accept the "conventional wisdom" in lieu of facts they're choose not to see. Necessarily self-destructive and they're not better people for it. Whatever else may be true, Bubba Wallace is nobody's answer to anything.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 10/14/2020 2:15:01 PM (No. 572385)
15 FBI agents sent to check out a "noose". And all the drivers from all around fell over themselves to support the offended black guy. Pathetic.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
tennisbum 10/14/2020 2:25:39 PM (No. 572394)
For most of his life, Bubba was content to be the mocha boy and ride on the almost white wave by getting everything his dad would provide while never saying a word. Now that he has discovered that there is lots of attention and possible gold to be black, he is officially black. He doesn't need to do anything except breath and NASCAR will declare him the winner no matter that he comes in 37th. Will be the MVB. Yes B. Really sad to see. Give it to him cause he will never earn it on track.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ribicon 10/14/2020 2:30:08 PM (No. 572400)
Chick-fil-a chairman and CEO Dan Cathy said WHITE people should shine bLACK people's shoes as a gesture of conciliation, which reinforced my decision to stop being a regular customer after they changed their charitable giving practices. NOOSECAR president Steve Phelps could double down the same way; tell WHITE people they need to wash bLACK people's cars. Why not? It's only money, right?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 10/14/2020 2:34:17 PM (No. 572405)
Somebody in the Talladega (Alabama) garage saw a rope with a loop used garage door closer and freaked out. People are so frantic not to be judgmental and offensive that they've turned totally judgmental and offensive. Now there's a cottage industry for psychologists explaining to us dumb hicks who never were racist before that in reality we're incorrigible racists, accused by Non-racists® as pure as the driven snow who equate Caucasians with the devil. It's tempting, I must admit, to turn on the auto (self directed) -hatred. But God looks at the inside. So will I. It's unbiblical to do otherwise.
Bubba Wallace is no Lewis Hamilton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JiYOvCHwFY (record lap at Spa Francorchamps: 1:41.27)
Look at the way this Mercedes sticks to the track. Eau Rouge, early in the lap, is a 17 degree rise that generates 5 sideways Gs on the driver's neck. Later in the lap Lewis tracks around several left bends at a steady 200 mph. Pretty incredible car, perfectly set up. Pretty incredible driver. His next Formula 1 victory will be his 92nd, topping Michael Schumacher's 91. Hamilton and Mercedes look to have a lot of wins yet to come. I like Ferrari and love McLaren, but Mercedes is the team of the present. And Hamilton is the best F1 driver in a strong field of drivers
You may remember the Porsche 919 Evo with all the cumbersome Le Mans restrictions taken off. Twin turbocharged engine with 720 bhp; electric motors with 440 bhp more, making 1,160 bhp in all. Crazy speed. During its extended goodbye tour, the Porsche beat the (12.9 miles, 73 turns) Nordschleife course record of 6:11 by fifty-one seconds: 5:19.546. (Look it up; it's almost like a video game. The driver, Timo Bernhard, definitely had a major set of attachments.) This Porsche set a record at Spa Francorchamps of 1:41.77, thought to be unbeatable on that great 4.3 mile track with all its elevation change. But Hamilton beat it by a half second. Look at the two cars "side by side" at Spa. Exhilarating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqTuxSzO6c
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
web 10/14/2020 2:50:29 PM (No. 572427)
We all understand the problem very well. Too many black criminals think they can commit crimes and resist arrest without consequences, because they have Black Privilege. Their whole life they've been given free stuff and undeserved respect simply because they have dark skin. The police are one of the few institutions who can still hold them accountable for bad behavior, and they don't like it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
subman47 10/14/2020 2:54:26 PM (No. 572429)
If sports would just be sports and stop lecturing to their respective fans they all would be a lot better off. They can't seem to grasp that fact. But if they check their ratings then they know that they're all in trouble. To MLB, the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, NASCAR and others, time to take a reality check. Because if you don't the Networks will.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/14/2020 3:16:13 PM (No. 572451)
NASCAR got woke and became NOOSECAR......
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/14/2020 3:26:10 PM (No. 572468)
Very sad to see what has happened to NASCAR. My son grew up watching it. I grew to love it later in life when we moved to TN. Watched many great Races at Bristol during the time of Dale Earnhardt, Tony Stewart, the Bush Brothers and of course Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon. Part of the problem, as I see it, is those guys have retired, or are ready to retire. There aren't any "Stars" on the Track anymore. And I believe if the guys mentioned above were still Racing, and were told there would be Sensitive Training, or anything related to that, they would have told the Powers That Be where to stick it. Can anyone see Dale Earnhardt going to a Training session and not breaking out laughing at the person speaking! Those guys were tough, on and off the Track. That's what made them Icon's! They don't make them like that anymore!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/14/2020 3:51:46 PM (No. 572508)
The companies/corporations who sponsor NASCAR are all in for Wokeness - and therefore, so must NASCAR.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 10/14/2020 5:24:23 PM (No. 572595)
NASCAR is following the NBA right into the toilet with it's pandering to a phony narrative.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
volksford 10/14/2020 6:18:22 PM (No. 572643)
Nascar can go straight to hell
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
XCenturion 10/14/2020 8:49:27 PM (No. 572755)
I guess the only sport left that won't offend anyone is fishing. Oh, wait sorry. It wouldn't be long until some snowflake takes offense for using the name Black Bass or Rainbow Trout!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GO3 10/14/2020 9:01:22 PM (No. 572772)
Amen to #9!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 10/14/2020 10:54:09 PM (No. 572877)
I used to watch NASCAR some, and my SIL and her husband were avid fans, went to many races. They don't/ won't go any more and I don't watch any more.
Leftists wreck everything that they touch.
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