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NASCAR opened its 2006 Nextel Cup Series with the Daytona 500 last Sunday, an exciting race that thrilled fans and created enough off-track stories to keep the buzz going until next week. The race at the Daytona International Speedway is considered the "Super Bowl" of stock car racing. Hundreds of thousands of fans converge in sunny Florida to kick-off the most popular spectator sport in America.
The Daytona 500 resembles another high profile sporting event held this time of year: the Winter Olympics. Both the Winter Olympics and NASCAR are similar in the racial make-up of the fans and participants. This lack of diversity drives the multi-cult nuts! Sportswriters and the media attack both these events for having the audacity to appeal only to white people.
Various anti-white writers have had their say about the "racist" Winter Olympics. Expect them to begin the drumbeat against NASCAR again. NASCAR has attempted to head off the inevitable assault in the manner of most white sports management in such circumstances: apologize profusely even though they have done nothing wrong, and then promise to punish their white fan base and participants, in a futile attempt to appease the race hustlers, who as it always turns out, can never be satisfied.
I guess it is too much to expect one white man of authority somewhere to find the guts to stand up to this kind of humiliation and tell them where to stick it. NASCAR CEO Brian France is NOT that man. Under France, NASCAR has embarked on an aggressive program called: Drive for Diversity. Its goal is to "drive" as many white men out of the sport as possible and replace them with non-whites (and also in this case non-males.) Diversity, as defined by our society is another term for "affirmative action," meaning replacing better qualified white men with lesser qualified minorities or females.
Here are some of NASCAR's on-track initiatives from their website (with my comments added):
Joe Gibbs/Reggie White Driver Development Program
(Reggie White has unfortunately died, although he probably is still included in the decision making. Maybe Joe Gibbs can bring the same diversity to NASCAR that he has brought to the Washington Redskins, which amounts to reducing white players to the QB and kicker position. Give Gibbs enough time and he'll have white participation in NASCAR down to the guys that change the tires and wave the checkered flag.)
Bill Lester
(The Tiger Woods of NASCAR without the genetic advantage of some Asian ancestry. Toyota has been a great supporter of Bill Lester and many of NASCAR's diversity initiatives, which is odd since they oppose diversity in their home country, but maybe the Japanese know something we don't.)
Some off-track initiatives:
NASCAR's Diversity Internship Program: The 2004 program completed a successful summer with 30 interns working throughout the industry with NASCAR, tracks, teams, media partners and sponsors.
(Somebody has to wash all those cars.)
Urban Youth Racing School: NASCAR supports the Urban Youth Racing School, a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia that provides inner-city youths, from ages 8-18 years, with the opportunity to learn about motorsports.
(Question: are the bruthas from Philly doing such a great job in their regular school studies that they have extra time to spend on stock car racing? This is worse then the Midnight Basketball program which was one of the all-time stupid ideas in the history of education.)
Supplier Diversity Program: NASCAR recently developed a supplier diversity and minority vendor program to foster a more diverse supplier base. The program invites women and minority-owned businesses to be considered equally as subcontractors and suppliers for all goods and services purchased at NASCAR.
(Memo to suppliers and vendors: Quick, put your business in your wife's name, because when NASCAR says that minorities and women will be "considered equally" they mean that they're going to give them your customers.)
NASCAR College Tour Presented by Coca-Cola:- In this joint effort, NASCAR and The Coca-Cola Company visit Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions to build awareness about the motorsports industry and its exciting career opportunities.
(What is a hispanic serving institution? Odd, most hispanics in the universities I've attended were usually serving me  in the cafeteria. I guess if they can get enough white co-eds to hang around the NASCAR booth at orientation then they can build some "awareness" among minorities.)
Scholarships: NASCAR provides funding for scholarships to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions, including the United Negro College Fund and Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
(Another transfer of the white middle class's hard-earned income to non-white minorities; it isn't any better when the private companies do it.)
Marketing & Consumer Awareness: NASCAR launched urban marketing outreach efforts in Atlanta and Los Angeles in 2004. During the spring Atlanta race last year, a test program was developed and implemented. The "Welcome to Atlanta NASCAR Weekend" was so successful that plans are currently taking shape to recreate this theme of awareness and opportunity for urban communities.
(For some real fun they should combine Atlanta's black college free-for-all known as "Freaknik" with a NASCAR race. That would be some video worth having!)
Also:
In Los Angeles, many events surrounding the September race weekend brought awareness of NASCAR and generated excitement within the urban communities. One example is the "Bud Hispanic Heritage Night" at the L.A. Galaxy game. Earvin "Magic" Johnson helped NASCAR's awareness efforts at his area businesses, including displaying show cars and NASCAR information at his movie theatres and Starbucks outlets in South Central L.A. His T.G.I. Fridays hosted NASCAR "watch parties" for the "Pop Secret 500."
(No need to comment on the wisdom of having Magic Johnson as a NASCAR spokesman since I have already devoted a whole article to it, but I imagine that NASCAR got the same greeting in South L.A. that Reginald Denny did.)
(Also nice of NASCAR to join in on an L.A. Galaxy game, you know what goes on at one of those games don't you? There are more Mexican flags than American flags and the national anthem gets booed. Mix in the Mexican flag wavers with the Confederate Flag wavers and you'll see some real "excitement.")
It is a misguided fantasy to expect blacks and hispanics to become race fans. The only sports that black people play are the ones that are completely subsidized by the government. Football and basketball are run by the local government rec center at the peewee level then by the school systems up until adulthood. That means that every step of the way the equipment, facilities, training, and coaching, are provided by somebody else: you the taxpayer. But to make it in auto racing you have to pay your own way through the lower levels until private companies voluntarily decide to sponsor you.
Some people disparage NASCAR drivers for not being athletes. I guess that's true if your idea of an athlete is a 325-pound offensive guard or a 270-pound 1st baseman. The typical stock car driver is wiry, quick, with incredibly fast reflexes. NASCAR drivers don't just compete, they put their lives on the line every race. I guess you could say offensive lineman do the same, risking a heart attack dragging their incredibly fat rumps around the field for a full 15 minutes of actual game time.
Stock car racing emphasizes those qualities that are unique to whites and white culture  highly developed spacial cognition so as to be able to control high performance vehicles at high speeds, and a keenly developed mechanical ability to build and operate such a uniquely complex machine. Note how white men are the best in the world at operating any machine from a stock car to a fighter jet to a spacecraft. If non-whites were any good at those things then the pilot instructors at the Air Force academy would be crying for black recruits like the silly old football coach does.
Much is made of black people's fondness for basketball and their devotion to the game as they fill up basketball courts in every city. The same can be said for white kids and their love of cars. In every white neighborhood in America, urban or rural, North or South, from California to New Jersey, the place to be is in the garage working on cars, not outside the garage shooting hoops. The love of the automobile runs deep amongst our people. We enjoy working on them, driving them, and racing them. Fathers and sons gather together in the family garage to work on cars and spend time with each other. Those memories and the lessons and skills learned are an important part of who we are.
A significant part of the history of stock car racing involves the many father-son and brother-brother combinations. Petty, Yarbough, Labonte, Allison, Jarrett, and of course the Earnhardts. Any sport that defines its stars along bloodlines is a sport that is connected to its people.
Stock car racing is tremendously popular and profitable. One of the common arguments for integrating blacks into a sport is to take advantage of some special quality supposedly possessed by blacks that people want to see and that will improve the entertainment value and thus the profits. That was the argument for bringing Jackie Robinson into baseball and has also been the rationale given for bringing blacks into every other sport.
That argument cannot be taken seriously in the case of NASCAR. "Quick-twitch athleticism" or "loose hips" or any of the other imaginary qualities bestowed upon the black race will not confer any advantage here. And since blacks hardly attend the very few sports they dominate there is little chance they will spend hundreds of dollars for NASCAR tickets so they can camp out in the infield. In short, they are not wanted, interested, or needed. Why then is there such a great effort to force them in? That is a question that every fan, indeed every white person in America should be asking themselves.
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NASCAR opened its 2006 Nextel Cup Series with the Daytona 500 last Sunday, an exciting race that thrilled fans and created enough off-track stories to keep the buzz going until next week. The race at the Daytona International Speedway is considered the "Super Bowl" of stock car racing. Hundreds of thousands of fans converge in sunny Florida to kick-off the most popular spectator sport in America.
The Daytona 500 resembles another high profile sporting event held this time of year: the Winter Olympics. Both the Winter Olympics and NASCAR are similar in the racial make-up of the fans and participants. This lack of diversity drives the multi-cult nuts! Sportswriters and the media attack both these events for having the audacity to appeal only to white people.
Various anti-white writers have had their say about the "racist" Winter Olympics. Expect them to begin the drumbeat against NASCAR again. NASCAR has attempted to head off the inevitable assault in the manner of most white sports management in such circumstances: apologize profusely even though they have done nothing wrong, and then promise to punish their white fan base and participants, in a futile attempt to appease the race hustlers, who as it always turns out, can never be satisfied.
I guess it is too much to expect one white man of authority somewhere to find the guts to stand up to this kind of humiliation and tell them where to stick it. NASCAR CEO Brian France is NOT that man. Under France, NASCAR has embarked on an aggressive program called: Drive for Diversity. Its goal is to "drive" as many white men out of the sport as possible and replace them with non-whites (and also in this case non-males.) Diversity, as defined by our society is another term for "affirmative action," meaning replacing better qualified white men with lesser qualified minorities or females.
Here are some of NASCAR's on-track initiatives from their website (with my comments added):
Joe Gibbs/Reggie White Driver Development Program
(Reggie White has unfortunately died, although he probably is still included in the decision making. Maybe Joe Gibbs can bring the same diversity to NASCAR that he has brought to the Washington Redskins, which amounts to reducing white players to the QB and kicker position. Give Gibbs enough time and he'll have white participation in NASCAR down to the guys that change the tires and wave the checkered flag.)
Bill Lester
(The Tiger Woods of NASCAR without the genetic advantage of some Asian ancestry. Toyota has been a great supporter of Bill Lester and many of NASCAR's diversity initiatives, which is odd since they oppose diversity in their home country, but maybe the Japanese know something we don't.)
Some off-track initiatives:
NASCAR's Diversity Internship Program: The 2004 program completed a successful summer with 30 interns working throughout the industry with NASCAR, tracks, teams, media partners and sponsors.
(Somebody has to wash all those cars.)
Urban Youth Racing School: NASCAR supports the Urban Youth Racing School, a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia that provides inner-city youths, from ages 8-18 years, with the opportunity to learn about motorsports.
(Question: are the bruthas from Philly doing such a great job in their regular school studies that they have extra time to spend on stock car racing? This is worse then the Midnight Basketball program which was one of the all-time stupid ideas in the history of education.)
Supplier Diversity Program: NASCAR recently developed a supplier diversity and minority vendor program to foster a more diverse supplier base. The program invites women and minority-owned businesses to be considered equally as subcontractors and suppliers for all goods and services purchased at NASCAR.
(Memo to suppliers and vendors: Quick, put your business in your wife's name, because when NASCAR says that minorities and women will be "considered equally" they mean that they're going to give them your customers.)
NASCAR College Tour Presented by Coca-Cola:- In this joint effort, NASCAR and The Coca-Cola Company visit Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions to build awareness about the motorsports industry and its exciting career opportunities.
(What is a hispanic serving institution? Odd, most hispanics in the universities I've attended were usually serving me  in the cafeteria. I guess if they can get enough white co-eds to hang around the NASCAR booth at orientation then they can build some "awareness" among minorities.)
Scholarships: NASCAR provides funding for scholarships to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions, including the United Negro College Fund and Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
(Another transfer of the white middle class's hard-earned income to non-white minorities; it isn't any better when the private companies do it.)
Marketing & Consumer Awareness: NASCAR launched urban marketing outreach efforts in Atlanta and Los Angeles in 2004. During the spring Atlanta race last year, a test program was developed and implemented. The "Welcome to Atlanta NASCAR Weekend" was so successful that plans are currently taking shape to recreate this theme of awareness and opportunity for urban communities.
(For some real fun they should combine Atlanta's black college free-for-all known as "Freaknik" with a NASCAR race. That would be some video worth having!)
Also:
In Los Angeles, many events surrounding the September race weekend brought awareness of NASCAR and generated excitement within the urban communities. One example is the "Bud Hispanic Heritage Night" at the L.A. Galaxy game. Earvin "Magic" Johnson helped NASCAR's awareness efforts at his area businesses, including displaying show cars and NASCAR information at his movie theatres and Starbucks outlets in South Central L.A. His T.G.I. Fridays hosted NASCAR "watch parties" for the "Pop Secret 500."
(No need to comment on the wisdom of having Magic Johnson as a NASCAR spokesman since I have already devoted a whole article to it, but I imagine that NASCAR got the same greeting in South L.A. that Reginald Denny did.)
(Also nice of NASCAR to join in on an L.A. Galaxy game, you know what goes on at one of those games don't you? There are more Mexican flags than American flags and the national anthem gets booed. Mix in the Mexican flag wavers with the Confederate Flag wavers and you'll see some real "excitement.")
It is a misguided fantasy to expect blacks and hispanics to become race fans. The only sports that black people play are the ones that are completely subsidized by the government. Football and basketball are run by the local government rec center at the peewee level then by the school systems up until adulthood. That means that every step of the way the equipment, facilities, training, and coaching, are provided by somebody else: you the taxpayer. But to make it in auto racing you have to pay your own way through the lower levels until private companies voluntarily decide to sponsor you.
Some people disparage NASCAR drivers for not being athletes. I guess that's true if your idea of an athlete is a 325-pound offensive guard or a 270-pound 1st baseman. The typical stock car driver is wiry, quick, with incredibly fast reflexes. NASCAR drivers don't just compete, they put their lives on the line every race. I guess you could say offensive lineman do the same, risking a heart attack dragging their incredibly fat rumps around the field for a full 15 minutes of actual game time.
Stock car racing emphasizes those qualities that are unique to whites and white culture  highly developed spacial cognition so as to be able to control high performance vehicles at high speeds, and a keenly developed mechanical ability to build and operate such a uniquely complex machine. Note how white men are the best in the world at operating any machine from a stock car to a fighter jet to a spacecraft. If non-whites were any good at those things then the pilot instructors at the Air Force academy would be crying for black recruits like the silly old football coach does.
Much is made of black people's fondness for basketball and their devotion to the game as they fill up basketball courts in every city. The same can be said for white kids and their love of cars. In every white neighborhood in America, urban or rural, North or South, from California to New Jersey, the place to be is in the garage working on cars, not outside the garage shooting hoops. The love of the automobile runs deep amongst our people. We enjoy working on them, driving them, and racing them. Fathers and sons gather together in the family garage to work on cars and spend time with each other. Those memories and the lessons and skills learned are an important part of who we are.
A significant part of the history of stock car racing involves the many father-son and brother-brother combinations. Petty, Yarbough, Labonte, Allison, Jarrett, and of course the Earnhardts. Any sport that defines its stars along bloodlines is a sport that is connected to its people.
Stock car racing is tremendously popular and profitable. One of the common arguments for integrating blacks into a sport is to take advantage of some special quality supposedly possessed by blacks that people want to see and that will improve the entertainment value and thus the profits. That was the argument for bringing Jackie Robinson into baseball and has also been the rationale given for bringing blacks into every other sport.
That argument cannot be taken seriously in the case of NASCAR. "Quick-twitch athleticism" or "loose hips" or any of the other imaginary qualities bestowed upon the black race will not confer any advantage here. And since blacks hardly attend the very few sports they dominate there is little chance they will spend hundreds of dollars for NASCAR tickets so they can camp out in the infield. In short, they are not wanted, interested, or needed. Why then is there such a great effort to force them in? That is a question that every fan, indeed every white person in America should be asking themselves.
