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There is life after political correctness ...
As countless Americans become fed up with political correctness run amok, large corporations will eventually get the
picture. It will be some time in coming due to the arrogance and inbred nature of many globalist corporations Board of
Directors, but it is coming.
One example is NASCAR which gave in to the political extortion that has become the politically correct modus operandi. Not
only did they find that the demands were hypocritical but are also never ending.
So they just said -- enough is enough.
Our message to Coke and others is to read this carefully. Your day is
coming too.
NASCAR Reportedly Cuts Funding to Jesse Jackson
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
July 29, 2003
(CNSNews.com) - NASCAR has reportedly cut off all funding for Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, USA Today reported. According to the newspaper, "A person familiar with NASCAR's
internal decisions confirmed that the racing organization has not paid Jackson's group any money in 2003 and doesn't plan to."
The newspaper reported that NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) has given a total of $250,000 to the Rainbow/PUSH sports division, generating criticism from conservative groups
and racing fans, which see the money as appeasement.
NASCAR officials did not respond to two telephone calls to its corporate offices in Daytona Beach, Fla., with an unidentified NASCAR employee saying the public relations staff was in a meeting.
Jackson's Rainbow Sports office was also not available for comment on the reports, but Charles Farrell, the head of Rainbow Sports, was quoted by USA Today as saying "We have had no contact
whatsoever with NASCAR that would indicate that they are changing the status of their support for Rainbow/PUSH."
Peter Flaherty, president of the Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), was supportive of the reported decision.
"We are delighted that NASCAR has apparently met our demand and the demands of its fans," Flaherty told CNSNews.com. The NLPC, which filed a formal complaint regarding Jackson's finances
with the Internal Revenue Service in 2001, began the effort to end NASCAR's financial relationship with Jackson in April.
"NASCAR, just like Toyota who stopped supporting Jackson after our protest last year, has found out the hard way that there is a price to be paid for association with Jackson," Flaherty said.
A conservative black group that had also been critical of NASCAR's contributions to Rainbow/PUSH also applauded the report that NASCAR was ending its support of Jackson.
"This is a major win," said Project 21 member Horace Cooper on Tuesday. "No longer will an outstanding sports league support an individual whose moral failings make him unfit to promote progress
on race relations and personal responsibility in our urban communities," Cooper added.
A spokesman for the Bobby Labonte racing team, part of Joe Gibbs Racing, declined to specifically comment on the NASCAR/Jackson controversy in an interview with CNSNews.com.
"NASCAR's donation policy is completely theirs and totally separate from what Joe Gibbs does. That is entirely theirs," said Tim Sullivan, a spokesman for Gibbs' Bobby Labonte race team. Sullivan noted
that race teams such as Joe Gibbs Racing, owned by the former head coach of the Washington Redskins, serve as independent contractors to NASCAR.
Joe Gibbs Racing is currently involved in its own initiative with football legend Reggie White to increase minority participation in the sport.
"We are going to scour the country looking for minority drivers who we think have some talent," stated Gibbs in a May 17 press release announcing the partnership with White.
The minority initiative will also help to clear up inaccurate racial perceptions about motor sports, according to Sullivan.
"The fans [of NASCAR] are predominantly white, but it goes back to minorities have not been exposed to [the sport]," Sullivan explained.
"People can show up [at NASCAR events] and say, 'It's all white people here.' Well, you are exactly right. But until we get out there and educate and expose a new generation of fans to the sport, I don't
think we are going to see results of what is happening now for five, 10 or 15 years," Sullivan added.
'Last bastion of white supremacy'
NASCAR has been subjected to what some consider racially charged rhetoric about professional stock car racing.
As CNSNews.! com reported in June, Bill Shack, a board member of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, said auto-racing organizations such as NASCAR are "the last bastion of white supremacy."
Shack said at the time that race-car organizations don't reach out to minorities because they "don't particularly...want you out there, no more than they wanted Tiger [golfer Tiger Woods] out there."
Shack made his remarks at a June 24 during workshop called "Motor Sports: Increasing Minority Participation" at the 32\super nd\nosupersub annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition meeting in Chicago.
Jackson's Rainbow Sports Director Charles Farrell later defended Shack's comments, telling CNSNews.com that even NASCAR would concede "there is a perception that stock car racing is a
good ole' boy's southern redneck cracker sport."
Reggie White added to the pressure on NASCAR to stop funding Jackson when he accused Jackson of wasting the $250,000 given to him by the racing organization.
"It's really disappointing to me that Jesse and his organization would take a quarter of a million dollars from NASCAR and not do anything with it to try to get black drivers into the sport," White said in an
interview on FOX News Channel's Fox & Friends on July 16.
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