Ltg thread

[LongTermGuy]

Get off your knees you Ignorant damn Fools......Step down from your positions!!

[icansayit]

Oh my....this is special....tweet..reload amd tweet!

[LongTermGuy]

......other world life forms drawn by heat and conflict"~"Gangs are controlling the streets. And as bad as things are...they can get worse. MUCH worse."

[LongTermGuy]

[LongTermGuy]

​Breaking ...NASCAR to change the checkered flag to all black flag - because the white squares are racist.

[LongTermGuy]

​"asking for a friend"

[LongTermGuy]

[LongTermGuy]

**For this Fourth of July... if you want to have a big party, but you live in a communist state, just tell


them you’re protesting British Rule.
Protests are exempt from social distancing, dontcha know.

[icansayit]

​Breaking ...NASCAR to change the checkered flag to all black flag - because the white squares are racist.

They bow down to the demands to REMOVE all Confederate symbols from the
RACE TRACK and INFIELD.

Like asking a Redneck..."When do you stop drinking Beer?" Answer: "When it's all Gone!"

[SassyLady]

They bow down to the demands to REMOVE all Confederate symbols from the
RACE TRACK and INFIELD.

Like asking a Redneck..."When do you stop drinking Beer?" Answer: "When it's all Gone!"

They already have.

Why NASCAR’s New Ban on the Confederate Flag Is Such a Big Deal

In a remarkable sign of the times, NASCAR has banned its most recognizable brand.


Hell froze over this week when NASCAR announced its decision to officially ban confederate flags from their racing venues. In a statement as shocking and unexpected as anything we’ve seen in sports since maybe 1947, the racing league said,

The presence of the confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry. Bringing people together around a love for racing and the community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special. The display of the Confederate Flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.


Make no mistake about it: this about-face against decades of history in what has been a citadel of white supremacy happened because Bubba Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR, challenged them to make the flag a relic of their history instead of a defining brand.

“I haven’t really slept much thinking about this race—everything that’s going into it and everything going on in the world. Trying to race to change the world here,” said Wallace just before a race in Virginia for which he painted his car black, with the words Black Lives Matter on each side. “It’s not that we’re saying no other lives matter,” said Wallace. We’re trying to say that black lives matter, too.”

Wallace hasn’t been alone. A video was released including stars like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, and Jimmie Johnson where they spoke of the need for anti-racism, with Earnhardt tweeting it out with the statement, “I will listen and learn #BlackLivesMatter.”

To call this a sea change in NASCAR is a profound understatement. The Confederate Flag is to NASCAR as soccer is to Brazil or pizza to New York City: a seemingly inextricable part of its branding. People who grew up on the Dukes of Hazzard, who drove their Confederate flag covered car, the General Lee, know exactly how deep in the culture this goes.

Already, NASCAR is feeling the heat, with social media posts spewing vitriol at them by the ton and NASCAR driver Ray Ciccarelli, announcing that he is retiring in protest of the ban. In a now deleted Facebook post, he wrote,

I don’t believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly whatever flag they love. I could care less about the Confederate Flag but there are ppl that do and it doesn’t make them a racist all you are doing is f—ing one group to cater to another and i ain’t spend the money we are to participate in any political BS!!

(If you’ve never heard of Ray Ciccarelli that is because he has never won a NASCAR race.)

What’s tragic about this is that NASCAR’s roots are not in bigotry or pining for the lost cause of the enslavement of African people. Stock car racing started with bootleggers who were juicing up their cars to outrun the cops and the Ku Klux Klan (many of whom were interchangeable.) The Klan were strong believers in prohibition and ready to enforce it with violence. The stock car bootleggers were true rebels. Not in the traitorous Confederate sense, but in the style of rabble rousing non-conformity. The original stock car drivers had more in common with the white folks in the streets this month calling for black lives to matter than they did with the Confederate flag waving Trump supporters who have been the backbone of NASCAR’s business for so many decades. What they are doing right now honors their true tradition, buried under decades of Confederate sewage.

This is a pivotal moment in sports history—from NBA players marching in the streets to NFL players challenging their league to stand up for black lives, to this remarkable decision by NASCAR. Whether this moment becomes a movement in NASCAR will depend on the drivers themselves keeping up the heat. They can’t be content with woke branding and think that they have done their part. They, far more than any other sport, are going to have to challenge their fan base to pick a side. They say you can’t be neutral on a moving train. Can’t be neutral in a car doing 200 miles per hour either.

https://www.thenation.com/article/so...federate-flag/

[icansayit]

They already have.



https://www.thenation.com/article/so...federate-flag/

Will get hurt RIGHT where they need it the most. POCKETBOOKS and fewer sponsors backed by the DOWN HOME MIDDLE OF AMERICA Folks...will end it soon.
Just my prediction. And today..saw a photo of a DRIVER NR-43 backing 'BLM'>>????????

[SassyLady]

Will get hurt RIGHT where they need it the most. POCKETBOOKS and fewer sponsors backed by the DOWN HOME MIDDLE OF AMERICA Folks...will end it soon.
Just my prediction. And today..saw a photo of a DRIVER NR-43 backing 'BLM'>>????????

Bubba Wallace ... only black driver.

[LongTermGuy]

[LongTermGuy]

" I said KNEEL!!"

[LongTermGuy]

Pennywise approves!