No wonder there are so many white supremacists on this group. NASCAR
and racism have ALWAYS been hand in hand.

Erin, Minority Race Fan for Equality (because women and minorities are
NOT safe in the infield of any NASCAR race!)

Slide over Kevin Bacon, there's a new creepy center of the universe in
town. Except this one has less to do with Hollywood stars and more to
do with Homestead straightaways.

While Bacon is mysteriously connected to seemingly every actor on the
planet, Bill France and his NASCAR spawn are interwoven into something
even seedier - racism.

NASCAR and racism? It's eerily easy if you connect the dots:

1. Back in 1919 a fella named George Corley Wallace was born in
Barbour County, Alabama. As he began to shape his philosophies of
racism and segregation into a political career, daredevil drivers
keeping their moonshine one step ahead of the law were shaping the
future face of NASCAR across the South.

2. By the '40s Wallace had advanced his political standing from being
a page in the Alabama senate to that of a powerful personality who
would become a four-term Governor and Presidential candidate.
Meanwhile, another good ol' boy named Bill France was transforming the
outlaw drivers into profits via the founding of NASCAR in '48.
Establishing a criminal element almost immediately, France was
arrested in '46 for conspiracy to violate gasoline rationing
regulations. France, who long had strong ties to the FBI highlighted
by allowing the agency to use his private planes, escaped formal
charges when the government was mysteriously unable to produce
witnesses to testify against him.

3. In 1963 Wallace, clearly the white to Martin Luther King's black,
made his infamous "schoolhouse stand" by blocking admission to two
University of Alabama black students who had legally enrolled. Said
Wallace at the time, "I will not be out-niggered." Earlier in the year
Wallace also delivered his "Segregation now! Segregation forever!"
gubernatorial inauguration speech. That speech was penned by Wallace's
buddy and speechwriter, none other than Ku Klux Klan founder Asa
Carter. Footing the bill for the campaign? You guessed it, NASCAR boss
Big Bill France, who was Florida's chairman of delegation and the head
of the state's Wallace-for-President campaign in '72.

4. Though he attained unfathomable popularity - a '70 Gallup poll
revealed that he was America's 7th most admired man, one place ahead
of the Pope - Wallace never became President. He did, however, name
his fourth child Lee, after Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Meanwhile, Carter moved to Texas and illegally assumed the identity of
Native American "Forrest" Carter. During that time he lifted his white
hood long enough to write what would become the popular Clint Eastwood
movie The Outlaw Josie Wales. And France? After failing to help land
Wallace in the White House, in '72 he handed down control of NASCAR to
his son, Bill Jr.

5. With France family branches Jim and Brian still on NASCAR's board
of directors, it's not surprising NASCAR hasn't strayed from original
roots buried in Southern diplomacy and good ol' boy exclusivity. The
racist attitudes formed as far back as the ?40s still permeate
NASCAR's infields and campgrounds. Magic Johnson may be a token media
move marginally aimed at luring a minority driver to NASCAR, but there
remains a radical reason why TV cameras never show close-ups of fans
in race infields. Because, just like in the days when Wallace-Carter-
France orchestrated racism for political profit, minorities are still
not welcome. Is it merely coincidence that the America's two largest
whites-only gatherings are KKK rallies and NASCAR races?

6. Add it all up and the answers are simple, albeit scary. On NASCAR's
Mount Rushmore should be the face of not only founder Bill France, but
also segregationist George Wallace and KKK father Asa Carter. How is
it that women and minorties can attend a race at a Southern NASCAR
track and NOT worry about the KKK not show up? It's easy if you
connect the dots. They're already there.

Southern NASCAR
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On Jun 16, 1:53*pm, erindor... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:
Whew, you are one long-winded groid!!!!

Martin