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BREAKING: NASCAR apologizes to 'LGBTQ+ community' after allowing Gov Abbott to wave green flag
Post Millennial ^ | 6/1/22 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz

Posted on 06/01/2022 10:05:05 AM PDT by markomalley

NASCAR apologized to the LGBTQ community on Wednesday, for so-caled "recent actions" that may not have "alligned" with the auto racing giant's "mission to be a welcoming sport for all."

"As we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, we acknowledge that recent actions have not alligned with NASCAR's mission to be a welcoming sport for all," the statement said.

"We remain steadfast in our commitment to create a more inclusive environment – in our workplaces, at the race track & in the stands," the post concludes, along with along with a graphic featuring the so-called "progress" pride flag and a message wishing fans a happy pride month. That "progress" flag is representative of dozens of sexual orientations, gender identities, and racial identities where they link with sexual orientation or gender identity.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


TOPICS: Poetry; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: fdrq; lgbtq; nascar; nasqueer; nastycar; naswoke; oldwokedixie; racing; rainbowcars; sports; wokecar; wokecare
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To: markomalley
I watched a lot of the Coca-Cola 600 Sunday. I recognized more driver names in the broadcast crew than I did on the track. With the new rules and the wokeness permeating NASCAR, I won't be back.

I used to plan my weekends around the Cup race.

101 posted on 06/01/2022 11:58:31 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: srmanuel
 
 
They sure are reaching to make their (pointless) point too. Abbott?? Since when was he on the public hotseat over any homo issues. Guess any old Repub governor would do and he was handy.
 
 

102 posted on 06/01/2022 12:07:53 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

Beto is the darling of the left. My liberal relatives who live nowhere near Texas think he’s the bees knees.


103 posted on 06/01/2022 12:09:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: markomalley

Thank you for posting this...I saw a tweet from NASCAR that was full of “rainbow” this and that, including starters flags, apologizing for something. But I had no idea what they were apologizing for.

They’re “apologizing” for having Gov. Abbott wave the green flag?

This is crazy beyond belief.


104 posted on 06/01/2022 12:16:35 PM PDT by livius
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To: markomalley

Republicans not welcome to their races anymore.


105 posted on 06/01/2022 12:16:48 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: markomalley

I don’t care for NASCAR don’t watch it so he can go broke and it will they’re forgetting who their core audience and fans are


106 posted on 06/01/2022 12:19:33 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
I don’t care for NASCAR don’t watch

I prefer watching dart competitions.

107 posted on 06/01/2022 12:20:31 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: markomalley
Unfortunately most allegedly conservative NASCAR fans will not care.

Nope. They're like some fat kid who can't stop eating what's killing him. ...more NASCAR

108 posted on 06/01/2022 12:28:55 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: CodeJockey

Formula 1 has an e series.


109 posted on 06/01/2022 12:29:36 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: markomalley

Now we have Brokeback Racetrack.


110 posted on 06/01/2022 12:29:37 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: markomalley

NSACAR ???

You could pour a box of fruit loops in a toilet, give it a flush, and have some redneck “calling the race” and it would be indistinguishable from the real thing.


111 posted on 06/01/2022 12:40:59 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intIend to RULE.)
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To: Mr. Rabbit
 
 
Where butch hunks can be seen driving *fabulous* cars around the track.
 
 

112 posted on 06/01/2022 12:43:30 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: markomalley

OK, I’m F’n done with these asshats.


113 posted on 06/01/2022 12:44:37 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what you get when gullible children run a 'news' channel.)
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To: markomalley

Hey NASCAR, get woke, go broke.
Nascar has become a bunch of sissy boys.
Stages? Crappola.
Restricter plates? Crappola.


114 posted on 06/01/2022 12:48:22 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: imabadboy99

Because those organizations sold their souls to Corporate America for the almighty dollar.


115 posted on 06/01/2022 12:51:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: markomalley

This is what irritates me. It is mostly White Southerners who keep NASCAR going, so why haven’t these good folks simply told NASCAR to shove their Confederate Flag Hating, Queer Loving crap up their a$$es and just quit patronizing NASCAR???

All it would take is one year of empty stands and maybe whoever runs it would give the boot to them. Hell, if NASCAR had to go back to a group of guys working on cars in their own garage, and tell the Sponsors to F**K Off, I think the sport would be better for it.

And since that don’t happen, it must mean most people don’t care enough about racially divisive BS and Queer nonsense to start with, and that means America is going downhill.


116 posted on 06/01/2022 1:08:23 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: markomalley

How many sissies are NASCAR fans? Very few, I’d guess.


117 posted on 06/01/2022 1:14:25 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: markomalley

Inclusive? Well surely that includes the flag that a number of my ancestors fought under. Right? You know the one.


118 posted on 06/01/2022 1:30:58 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: markomalley
Having said that, I was on the track one time in Bristol. Was amazed at how small the track was and how steep the banking was.

There is a race track within a half mile of our home, a third of a mile oval with high banks like the one you described. It's been there since the early 1960s, I think, but I only visited it to attend a semi-pro football game in the 1960s...(Franklin Miners 6, Jersey Sharks 0) until there was a support your police rally a couple of years ago. Before the race season opened this spring, I heard the activity on the track and stopped in out of curiosity. Watched them do some time trials for qualifying.

119 posted on 06/01/2022 1:34:07 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Its customers are the corporate giants who advertise on the cars and the TV broadcasts

That hasn't been working out too well for NOOSECAR lately either. Only a handful of cars now have season long primary sponsorships. The days of knowing every race team just by the color scheme of its sponsor are gone. Every race is a different wrap. Even its premier series doesn't have a season long sponsor. It is no longer the Winston, Nextel, Sprint or Monster Energy Cup series, but rather the NASCAR Cup series. Then we have the gimmicks. Every time my old local track, Freeport Speedway NY, got in financial trouble, the gimmicks would come out. Crasheroos, No Ford races, VW Bug ONLY races, open cockpit modified races...still, that track is long gone. NASCAR is doing the same stuff, the Chase, multiple road(?) courses, the "Roval", dirt races in the LA Colosseum and Bristol and don't forget all the iterations of the Car Of Tomorrow. NASCAR is circling the drain and ever since that lecture by Suarez and the virtue signalling pit road parade at Talladega, they're taking that ride without me.

120 posted on 06/01/2022 1:54:13 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them)
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