Soon we'll see what's more important to NASCAR fans: The racing or racism
In 1997, then-Ole Miss football coach Tommy Tuberville told fans of his program something many of them didn’t want to hear: The presence of the Confederate flag inside the stadium, at tailgates and woven all through the iconography of the program was killing its ability to recruit.
So Ole Miss fans did what any reasonable group of people would do: After some initial resistance, they dumped the flag, moved on with their lives and enjoyed game days as much as ever.
You’d like to think NASCAR fans will take the same route to the 21st century after the organization announced Wednesday that displays of the flag “will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.”
So pretty soon we’ll learn what matters more to NASCAR fans: The racing or the racism?
In the complex world we live in, things are rarely that simple. But this one is.
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