Topic: NASCAR has a "di-VER-sity" program?

[Pandora]

Apparently, it does.

CHARLOTTE—An aspiring stock-car driver is suing NASCAR, claiming he was denied the opportunity to compete in NASCAR’s diversity program because he looks “too Caucasian.”

NASCAR argues that in trying to change the “face” of the sport, it has the right to select drivers for its diversity program based on skin color, attorneys for the sanctioning body and its former diversity program administrators have told a U.S. District court.

.... NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program was created to develop minority drivers and crewmen and help them advance through the NASCAR ranks with the goal of reaching the sport’s top series. Since 2004, the program has included 41 drivers, with most being selected multiple times. There currently are six drivers in the program racing in various NASCAR regional series.

.... According to NASCAR’s brief in support of summary judgment, Rodriguez based his claim on two references by an Access employee that he looks like “the poster child” or “the poster boy” for the Ku Klux Klan.

[Sectionhand]

Apparently, it does.

CHARLOTTE—An aspiring stock-car driver is suing NASCAR, claiming he was denied the opportunity to compete in NASCAR’s diversity program because he looks “too Caucasian.”

NASCAR argues that in trying to change the “face” of the sport, it has the right to select drivers for its diversity program based on skin color, attorneys for the sanctioning body and its former diversity program administrators have told a U.S. District court.

.... NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program was created to develop minority drivers and crewmen and help them advance through the NASCAR ranks with the goal of reaching the sport’s top series. Since 2004, the program has included 41 drivers, with most being selected multiple times. There currently are six drivers in the program racing in various NASCAR regional series.

.... According to NASCAR’s brief in support of summary judgment, Rodriguez based his claim on two references by an Access employee that he looks like “the poster child” or “the poster boy” for the Ku Klux Klan.

Newest race ... " The Driving Miss Daisy 500" ! Every car has a little old white lady in the back seat .

[IronDioPriest]

God, how I hate this kind of sh*t.

Drivers: Drive fast, learn the ropes, work your way through the ranks, get sponsors, and do your very best. That's how it's done. If you're an excellent competitor you won't be excluded because of your skin color, I promise.

NASCAR: There is no merit to diversity for its own sake. Please stop now, my head hurts.

[Glock32]

I never got into NASCAR, despite being born and raised in its very heart. I feel sorry for all the old school fans though. They've seen their sport, their pastime, their own unique culture that grew around the sport, being relentlessly tinkered with or unceremoniously swept under the rug to appease some suit-and-ties in Marketing. It's all so formulaic now, everything. Nothing is real and organic anymore, everything has its desired characteristics laid out and is then contorted into meeting them or at least giving the conspicuous appearance of meeting them.

I get so sick of these...entities...pissing on my shoes and telling me it's raining.

[Alphabet Soup]

NASCAR puts most of the onus on Access as far as the legal liability for choosing diversity drivers, but NASCAR also backed Access attorneys, who stated in their summary judgment brief that “the act of excluding (Rodriguez) from an affirmative action program because he appeared to be Caucasian is consistent with NASCAR's stated goals of recruiting drivers who would change the face of NASCAR and make it look more like America.”

To which ~AS~ quipped...



Adios muchachos and happy days, er landings

[Predator Don]

NASCAR puts most of the onus on Access as far as the legal liability for choosing diversity drivers, but NASCAR also backed Access attorneys, who stated in their summary judgment brief that “the act of excluding (Rodriguez) from an affirmative action program because he appeared to be Caucasian is consistent with NASCAR's stated goals of recruiting drivers who would change the face of NASCAR and make it look more like America.”

To which ~AS~ quipped...



Adios muchachos and happy days, er landings

NASCARS gay driver developed AIDs and died. So much for diversity.

[Pandora]

I never got into NASCAR, despite being born and raised in its very heart. I feel sorry for all the old school fans though. They've seen their sport, their pastime, their own unique culture that grew around the sport, being relentlessly tinkered with or unceremoniously swept under the rug to appease some suit-and-ties in Marketing. It's all so formulaic now, everything. Nothing is real and organic anymore, everything has its desired characteristics laid out and is then contorted into meeting them or at least giving the conspicuous appearance of meeting them.

I get so sick of these...entities...pissing on my shoes and telling me it's raining.

Should have known the jig was up at this juncture:

NASCAR nixes Bubba Watson driving Dukes of Hazzard car at Phoenix

[Predator Don]

I never got into NASCAR, despite being born and raised in its very heart. I feel sorry for all the old school fans though. They've seen their sport, their pastime, their own unique culture that grew around the sport, being relentlessly tinkered with or unceremoniously swept under the rug to appease some suit-and-ties in Marketing. It's all so formulaic now, everything. Nothing is real and organic anymore, everything has its desired characteristics laid out and is then contorted into meeting them or at least giving the conspicuous appearance of meeting them.

I get so sick of these...entities...pissing on my shoes and telling me it's raining.

Should have known the jig was up at this juncture:

NASCAR nixes Bubba Watson driving Dukes of Hazzard car at Phoenix

They still say an invocation before each race....I'm sure it upsets someone. Time to visit the NASCAR site and leave a message.

[LadyVirginia]

Newest race ... " The Driving Miss Daisy 500" ! Every car has a little old white lady in the back seat .

 

[Glock32]

NASCAR puts most of the onus on Access as far as the legal liability for choosing diversity drivers, but NASCAR also backed Access attorneys, who stated in their summary judgment brief that “the act of excluding (Rodriguez) from an affirmative action program because he appeared to be Caucasian is consistent with NASCAR's stated goals of recruiting drivers who would change the face of NASCAR and make it look more like America.”

To which ~AS~ quipped...



Adios muchachos and happy days, er landings

NASCARS gay driver developed AIDs and died. So much for diversity.

Was he gay?  Isn't he the one that infected LaGena whats-her-name?

[John Florida]

  Now it's going to infect the biggest thiong in the country. Sauce!

[Libertas]

I never got into NASCAR, despite being born and raised in its very heart. I feel sorry for all the old school fans though. They've seen their sport, their pastime, their own unique culture that grew around the sport, being relentlessly tinkered with or unceremoniously swept under the rug to appease some suit-and-ties in Marketing. It's all so formulaic now, everything. Nothing is real and organic anymore, everything has its desired characteristics laid out and is then contorted into meeting them or at least giving the conspicuous appearance of meeting them.

I get so sick of these...entities...pissing on my shoes and telling me it's raining.

Should have known the jig was up at this juncture:

NASCAR nixes Bubba Watson driving Dukes of Hazzard car at Phoenix

They still say an invocation before each race....I'm sure it upsets someone. Time to visit the NASCAR site and leave a message.

NASCAR is run by a bunch of social-engineering pansies!  They've run from their southern bootleg-running genesis and it all started to go down hill once they started making all the cars look the same.  They pumped in more drivers from other parts of America (which if they are qualified is fine with me) but their roots are in the south like it or not.  And now this other diversity crap and this Bubba Watson thing with his General Lee car is just fricken ridiculous!  Bubba ought to bust in and tear up that track before the race anyway and at the end of a burnout get out and moon NASCAR officials!  I know it won't happen, would be sweet though!

[ToddF]

Um admin.  Save this plz? 

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