Posted on 06/11/2020 8:45:10 AM PDT by Enlightened1
NASCAR will no longer require its teams to stand during the national anthem. Instead, drivers and team members will be allowed to engage in peaceful protest.
According to NBC sports’ Dustin Long, “NASCAR eliminated the guidelines before last weekend’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. NASCAR official Kirk Price knelt during the invocation and raised a fist. Price, who served on active duty in the U.S. Army for three years, remained kneeling during the anthem while he saluted the flag.”
Bubba Wallace, the sports only full-time black driver, called Price’s protest a “powerful move.”
“If I would have seen it, I would have went there and stood next to him, kneeled next to him because it’s such a powerful move,” Wallace told CNN. “A man, an incredible man, who has served our country, kneeling down. People think it’s disrespecting the flag and going against our military, and it’s definitely not.
“I was so uneducated what the kneeling meant when it started but now reading about it and what it stands for … and I’m still doing a lot of learning myself, don’t get me wrong, I don’t know everything about what’s going on in the world but that’s what we are trying to deliver the message. Listen and learn to be able to better educate ourselves.”
Wallace is set to race Wednesday night in a No. 43 car adorned with a #BlackLivesMatter paint scheme.
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They are literally ramming all of this down people’s throats. How much can people take?
NASCAR wants to kill itself, too?
I guess NASCAR wants to go the way of NFL, NBA, etc. in becoming a forum for disrespecting our country. Let them go quietly into that night then.
Are college football and PBR the last holdouts?
They are the only sports left I’ll watch.
They could start a new one: American Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. No, wait - that won’t work. Something like that, though.
Adios
My
Friend
And how many people here will still watch?
A. M. F.
(And I used to broadcast NASCAR races.)
NASCAR is Expanding Internationally, and China is Next on the List
Nuff said, eh?
NASCAR should allow someone to enter a car that replicates the “Dukes of Hazzard car..... General Lee!” Let it run with the Stars and Bars on the Rooftop! Awesome!
If the crowds continue to show up, then I guess they'll bend over and take quite a lot.
It's sickening.
How many woke jerks does NASCAR think are gonna' be watching races?
I would just as soon they didn’t play The National Anthem.
I want to meet the idiots who came up with all these ideas.
Phase II will require kneeling during The National Anthem.
Sorry NASCAR, ya lost another fan. You can honor gays and allow protests during the National Anthem, but disallow a Confederate Flag. You are forgetting NASCAR’s roots ... running moonshine in the south. Erasing history, you’ll find is difficult, losing a fan (and many like me) is much easier.
First the NFL, now NASCAR. Wow. This is a sad day for all sports fans.
I hope everyone brings in a confederate lag and displays it.
Why don't these clowns self deport if they're so unhappy with the US of A.
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