NASCAR is racist?

Story does not surprise me in the least. I do a pretty fair amount of bidness in the Charlotte area and the typical white male senior executives look at race relations as a necessary evil of doing bidness. Do they really deep down believe it - not a chance. If they want to be a nation wide organization its the face they need to show to to the general public.

 

NASCAR won't change, cannot change until the France family is no longer running it. They have some decent "liberals" on the payroll they rolled in to help change their image but they were thrust in a soup of bias and sexism that they can't get out of it. Brian France makes some of the worst sexist statements out of anyone -- not to mention John Darby, Robin Pemberton and the like -- each of which were sleeping with various female officials over the years. The whole sport is disgusting. Mo's lawsuit is one of many coming up the pike -- NASCAR should brace themselves for what's headed there way next.

 

Some stories on this matter say the suit is for $250M; others say $225M. Anybody know why there's a difference?

 

If any part of this stuff about Brian France is true, he needs to leave. His gimmicks aren't working, and if he's not smart enough to show respect to employees, how is anyone going to respect him as either a person or the head of a major organization?

Captain Obvious, yes, but still ...

 

Seems to me it's time for NASCAR to ban confederate flags at its events.

 

Update: two Nationwide Series officials have been sent home from Kentucky Speedway and have been placed on administrative leave for violation company policy. According to JF's story, the duo were among the 17 co-workers named in the suit.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=ap-nascar-harassmentlawsuit&prov=ap&type=lgns



1stADD: The two that were sent home — Tim Knox and Bud Moore — were the two that exposed themselves.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_sp_au_ra_ne/car_nascar_harassment_lawsuit_11

 

Is that either of the Bud Moore's who were involved with NASCAR in its earlier days?

 

That could be it. I also noticed that some of the claims are made under NY state law -- I'm guessing that NYS laws are a bit more plaintiff-friendly on sex/race discrimination than Florida and other Southern states.

 

Little Bud Moore (the long-retired driver) is 66 years old, while the more famous car-owning Bud Moore (no relation) is now 83.

It's possible. Not likely, but possible.

 

Jesus H. Lake Speed, that's a lot of fucking Bud Moore's.