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NASCAR Driver Loses Sponsorship Over Father’s Racial Slur … 35 Years Ago
dailycaller.com ^ | 8/25/18 | Molly Prince

Posted on 08/26/2018 8:12:46 AM PDT by ColdOne

A sponsor announced on Friday that it has ended its partnership with NASCAR driver Conor Daly after it was reported that his father used racially insensitive language during an interview in the early 1980s.

Lilly Diabetes pulled its sponsorship from Conor’s No. 6 car in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race, citing his father’s alleged use of the N-word 35 years ago, reported Fox News.

Derek Daly, a retired Indy 500 and Formula One driver, was fired days earlier from his role as WISH-TV’s Racing Analyst due to the controversy.

In a statement, the elder Daly admitted to using the word, but denied its connotation.

“I was a foreign driver now in America, driving for an American team, with an American crew, and with an American sponsor – and that if things did not go well, the only ‘”n” in the wood pile’ would be me,” Derek Daly wrote, saying that the expression was common in his native Ireland and didn’t carry the same racist connotation.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: conordaly; derekdaly; lillydiabetes; nascar; racing; witchhunt
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1 posted on 08/26/2018 8:12:46 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

They don’t put you in prison in the corporatist totalitarian state, just take away your job, your ability to make a living for saying the wrong thing.


2 posted on 08/26/2018 8:15:44 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: ColdOne

How stupid is this? Very. Shame on Lily.


3 posted on 08/26/2018 8:17:16 AM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: ataDude

It’s beyond stupid.


4 posted on 08/26/2018 8:20:51 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ataDude

Not stupid. Vicious.

Both father and son had better keep a close watch on their 6.

Someone had to cull through a set of 35 year tapes to find this one comment. Then, push that onto Social (lynching) media.

Make no mistake - this was a hit, pure and simple.

So just who ‘released’ this gem???


5 posted on 08/26/2018 8:22:12 AM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: ColdOne

When is someone going to punish the blacks and the browns economically and socially for the blatant anti-white racism and bigotry that occurs almost daily now, much less decades ago?

Specifically, the anti white male varuett>


6 posted on 08/26/2018 8:23:45 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I heard that back in 1947, my father said the word: Negro.


7 posted on 08/26/2018 8:24:16 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magn us Conservatus)
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To: ColdOne

So if they want to play that game, let’s go after Algore because his dad voted against the Civil Rights bill.


8 posted on 08/26/2018 8:25:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ColdOne

Insanity


9 posted on 08/26/2018 8:25:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Done by capitalist and private enterprise entities that are acting like a Soviet style regime.


10 posted on 08/26/2018 8:30:13 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: BenLurkin

Are there no limits to this madness? When is someone going to say enough, this is ridiculous?


11 posted on 08/26/2018 8:30:13 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ColdOne

Its America’s “Cultural Revolution”


12 posted on 08/26/2018 8:32:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ColdOne
and the sins of the fathers...
13 posted on 08/26/2018 8:32:29 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Nextrush
I heard that in 1947, my father said the word: Negro.
14 posted on 08/26/2018 8:34:57 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magn us Conservatus)
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To: PGR88

This is exactly how the Khmer Rouge operated.


15 posted on 08/26/2018 8:35:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ColdOne

The way it’s done in Norkland:
A political offense results not just being sent to the camp, not just one’s family, but also the next three generations.


16 posted on 08/26/2018 8:39:43 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: ColdOne

Does the LBJ family sponsor any NASCAR drivers.


17 posted on 08/26/2018 8:40:24 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ColdOne

I thought that the most common word in the Irish language was the “F” word.


18 posted on 08/26/2018 8:48:39 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: PGR88
"Its America’s “Cultural Revolution”"

Yeah, instead of Mao's little red book we have Zuckerberg's.

I get the feeling that the President is the last gasp of the values of 20th Century America.

19 posted on 08/26/2018 8:50:12 AM PDT by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'sm younger than that now.)
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To: Vaquero

So stupid. The thought control commissars are hard at work. Go back a little and all these people most likely had relatives who may have used insensitive wording on occasion.

They have no problem casting stones when it fits their agenda.

Pray for guidance.


20 posted on 08/26/2018 8:50:52 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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