NASCAR to fans: No more Confederate flags at our races, okay? [More Capitulation]

Hotair ^ | 07/02/2015 | AllahPundit

[rainee]

Gun buyback while they’re at it?
So sick of this crap!

[Delta 21]

See ya later NASCAR. Denying your heritage is wrong.

Thanks for the memories.

[MacNaughton]

I drove on I-20W by the Talladega Superspeedway on an April Sunday afternoon in 2002 during a race. Had the interstate to my self. Looked to my left at the campgrounds surrounding the race track. There were more Confederate flags flying than actually existed between 1861-1865.

[tsowellfan]

Next they'll be banning the "N" word from Rap music sung by white musicians

[Sacajaweau]

Bring 2!!

[Ancesthntr]

OK, I understand the angst about how the Confederate Flag has been murdered by PC. I understand people’s pride in the ancestors’ courage, etc., and I love tradition myself.

What I don’t understand is why people are so in a tizzy about a Democrat flag? The Democrats invented the Confederacy, they were for slavery, a Democrat designed the flag at the center of this controversy, Democrats invented the KKK, Democrats invented Jim Crow laws and Democrats fought the civil rights laws through the mid-1960s...flying the Confederate flag the whole time. So why are a bunch of conservatives (most of whom are, I presume, Republican) so upset? I ask this question in all sincerity, without trying to insult anyone, but merely trying to get people to think?

Also, I’d like to get the national conversation turned toward the FACT that the Dems are the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation, and that the Republicans are the pro-civil rights abolitionists. You all want to preserve history, in the form of a flag? Better to preserve the accurate record of the behavior of an entire political party that oppressed a race and now denies it.

[joebobsr]

Seriously, alienate your primary fan base? What PC capitulating idiots they are.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Soon they’ll ask everyone not to bring an American flag in.

[Paine in the Neck]

Based on the comments on NASCAR's facebook page it looks like they've got a problem.

I notice that, locally, Stripes Convenience Stores just switched over their signage to Sunoco, Official Fuel of NASCAR. I guess I'll be buying my gas elsewhere.

[apillar]

Actually the way I'm reading it NASCAR just seems to be playing CYA (probably at the advice of their marketing team or lawyers). They are essentially saying they don't want the flag at their events, but then they say they are not going to enforce a ban and are only asking people to refrain from flying it. This just gives them an out the next time some race-baiter shows a picture of a bunch of confederate flags at a NASCAR event, they can shrug and say, “Hey, we have a firm policy against it, don't blame us.”

[CatherineofAragon]

I am struggling in vain to understand why there is no pushback on this issue. I don’t get it.

It’s the same here in Virginia. Terry McAuliffe said no more flag decals on license plates for Sons of Confederate Veterans; whoever has one must send it back.

I would say come and take it at gunpoint if you can.

[UCANSEE2]

OR ask to change the American Flag. No..... they wouldn't do that would they ?

U.S. Citizens Sign Petition to Ban the American Flag & Issue a New Design for the New World Order

[DAC21]

Eleven more races in the South on the schedule. Didn’t realize NBC has the broadcast rights. You just know they will have all kinds of new and creative camera angles to not show the crowd and the Confederate Flag.

[xzins]

My sense is that stock car fans have always seen themselves as rebels. So, I think this is a bad decision by NASCAR.

[CatherineofAragon]

If you think it’s just about the flag, you’re sorely mistaken.

The left is just starting with the South; they’ve always despised us as the last bastion of conservatism and traditional values.

Do you really think they’ll stop with us? They won’t. They will just move on to their next target until our white Anglo-Saxon roots are effectively wiped from the record.

They already want statues of George Washington pulled down, and the Jefferson Memorial.

Wake up.

[hoosierham]

The Confederate flag is viewed today as a symbol of rebellion against the dictatorship of Washington,D.C. elitists ,which is why many people display it and why the big government types hate it. The idea of telling the central government to “leave us alone” is very appealing to most self-reliant people. Those people who have become accustomed to the federal handouts and promotions based on race rather than ability LOVE the big daddy in Washington..

[CivilWarBrewing]

Hey NASCAR, how many black drivers do you have again? NASCAR is RACE-IST!

[CivilWarBrewing]

EVERYONE SHOULD GO TO THE NEXT NASCAR RACE, WITH A CONFEDERATE FLAG READY TO UNFURL AND FLY IN THE STANDS!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

This is gonna backfire on them.

[West Texas Chuck]

Wow, if somebody comes to my house and asks me to sign a petition banning anything but the dingleberries that are the American left that person will be crawling out of my yard.