NASCAR bans fans from flying the Confederate flag at races
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NASCAR bans fans from flying the Confederate flag at races
In the wake of worldwide protests against racism and injustice, NASCAR announced on Wednesday afternoon that fans will be banned from flying the Confederate flag at NASCAR events around the country, following a call from Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace to ban the racist symbol. The announcement came on the same day that Wallace, the only black driver in NASCAR's top series, will drive at Martinsville Speedway with a special Black Lives Matter paint scheme.
NASCAR had previously "disallowed the use" of the Confederate flag in any official capacity, but it was still common to see fans flying the flag at the infield of tracks. As of Wednesday, the "display of the Confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties."
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) June 10, 2020
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Uh oh. Some people will be throwing a fit.
After the Marines banned the flag and other branches of military are planning the same.
I wonder when the calls for a boycott will start...
that flag of fucking traitors should have been banned from public display the day after their surrender 155 years ago. time to start changing street signs, military bases cities and towns named after white supremacist scum. tear down their statues and blow the faces off the trash depicted on stone mountain in georgia. if we hadn't appeased these racist losers after the civil war, we wouldn't be where we are today. flying that traitor flag would be the same as flying the flag of any of America's defeated enemies on memorial or veteran's day. banish that racist shit rag to history past where it belongs.
It has always struck me as odd that the United States builds monuments and does other things to honor the memory of traitors!
(I wonder-- are we the only country that honors those that committed treason against us?)
It was done as reconciliation and healing.
How much was accomplished could be debated to infinity.
some still can't accept the fact their forefathers lost that war
It's worse than that. I lived in the Low Country of SC for too many years.
90% of the original white inhabitants had moved to Oklahoma and Texas to escape the Civil War fighting and never came back.
The low Country residents of today that are bitching are the descendants of the carpetbaggers from the Great Lake States that replaced the original inhabitants after the war.
But they've grown up with a huge chip on their shoulders as if they themselves lost the war.
Does that include T-shirts?
I would hope so. That is a display.
Well there goes a good percentage of NASCAR fans. I am sure the leftists out there will be happy to pick up the support slack./S
But I thought all those confederate loving bigots must be Southern Democrats, right? That's what I keep hearing from Republicans, that all the bigots and racists flying confederate flags must be Democrats who started the KKK, right? Why would the "right" or Republicans be sad about this if they are the Northern Union Army supporters they seem to always claim to be while deflecting any connection to the confederates who fought to keep owning humans as cattle or those ex-confederates that pushed segregation into the 1950's? Unless of course they are the same confederate flag flying bigots who abandoned the Democrat party in the 1960's after Northern Democrats banded together to pass the 1964 civil rights act and 1965 voting rights act that was then signed into law by a Democrat President, but I keep hearing from Republicans, who are now the vast majority in all those ex-confederate States, that those people don't exist anymore... weird...
Why ? Do a majority of NASCAR fans fly traitor flags at the races?
The majority of NASCAR fans are southerners.
Obviously some here don't know that. The majority of them also drink beer and speak with a Southern accent as well. Want to roast them for that?
If you ever watched a NASCAR race you would know that the Confederate flag is second to the US flag that people fly at the events. Usually it is flown beside or just below the US flag.
NASCAR also is suffering from declining attendance, sponsors, and tv ratings.
I stopped watching the sport once Jeff Gordon retired. By that time their move to make all cars look and drive exactly the same (a more boring version of IROQ); many of the drivers I loved to watch were over the hill after thoughts, or simply gone; and the biased uneven ruling body became more concerned with image than letting the drivers settle things on the track.
Good for them that they put the political correctness of people that don't even watch the sport, above fans that have supported them their whole lives. I am sure the 15 minutes leftist adulation will save their sport./S
John, I know a few people that fly the Confederate flag. All but one served in the US military, and have the medals and veteran benefits that go along with it. You would shit real bricks before telling any one of them they were flying "traitor flags".
Maybe if you actually asked people why they flew the Confederate flag rather than just condemn them with your leftist political correctness you would learn something. Many fly the flag as a form of protest against the federal government's abuse of power. Most do believe in states rights over federal rights. Some are just rebels that love the reaction they get from left wing virtue signalers.
Of the ones I know that fly the flag only 1 is racist. He is a Latino naturalized US citizen- more on the white than brown side. He really, really, really hates African Americans; and he would be more than happy to tell you exactly why.
Nice, physical threats of violence if we don't accept their views.
So should we do the same with those who fly the swastika? Should we have a fire side chat to listen to the Nazi's reasoning for being a white supremacist? Should be give voice to those who claim total disproved bullshit narratives of racial superiority or inferiority? The confederate flag means one thing and one thing only, support for the confederacy whose foundation was based on the inequality of the races and "that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
If someone is so fucking stupid that they can't see that the confederate flag has that unmistakable damning connotation and is an affront to the vast majority of black Americans, than they deserve to be lumped in with the other pieces of shit waving their confederate flags along side swastikas. If they really are so monumentally ignorant of the facts behind the confederacy and their symbolism, then hopefully they will go back to school and learn something about the actual nation they are supposed to be protecting.
Welcome to the 21st century NASCAR.
Well, say goodbye to the single most indulgent "sport" out there. I can easily see many of those 30 percenter NASCAR fan rebelling against their beloved stock car racing.
I guess they won't be joining the USMC now either.
Well even if they tried, , the marine Corps wouldn't take them.
After all, many of them still have a strong sense of honor left:
Former Secretary Of Defense James Mattis Rips Into Donald Trump In A Scathing Statement.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership,” he wrote, adding that he “watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled.”
Before Mattis became Trump’s Defense secretary, the four-star Marine Corps general led the U.S. Central Command, the combat command responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mattis, a revered Marine with a military career spanning four decades, was hailed for his battlefield prowess and kinship with rank-and-file servicemembers.
Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace
Perfect name.