*Always remember others may hate you
but those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.
And then you destroy yourself.*
This came in my e-mail. Makes a lot of sense to me.
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*Always remember others may hate you
but those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.
And then you destroy yourself.*
This came in my e-mail. Makes a lot of sense to me.
Petty Stumps For TBS' NASCAR Coverage...
Recently, AQB noticed famed driver Richard Petty pumping TBS' Memorial Day weekend races, the Carquest Auto Parts 300 and the Coca-Cola 600.
When we last saw Petty, he was with Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel reporter Derek McGinty, being interviewed for a segment on the HBO show about the lack of blacks in NASCAR.
It's stretching things to charge that Petty is a bigot - a few clips of an interview aren't enough to substantiate such serious charges - but he certainly didn't come off as sympathetic to the plight of black drivers.
AQB spoke Thursday with Turner spokesman Greg Hughes, who said "We use him as part of our program because he's a racing legend. Richard Petty's name is synonymous with NASCAR.
"Obviously we don't condone any negative attitude towards blacks or any minority groups. (The Real Sports piece) never entered into our consideration of Richard Petty," said Hughes, who added that Petty was hired before the program aired.
Just as it isn't fair to brand Petty a bigot on the basis of HBO's story, we certainly wouldn't indict Turner Sports for a series of promos that last a few seconds. TBS and TNT have a solid record of hiring minority broadcasting talent such as Kenny Smith, Glenn "Doc" Rivers and ex-football analyst Mark May. It's just hard to look at Petty in the same light after his appearance on Real Sports.
Below are Petty's comments from the HBO show:
On tough times endured by Scott, whose victory at the 1963 Jacksonville 100 remains the only by a black driver:
"He wasn't the only one that was having a hard time. As far as the other things that he run into, no, I had no idea what was going on there.
"I grew up in a neighborhood that was a white neighborhood and colored people lived right down the road. So, I never thought anything about it until I went away from my little community and then I seen things were different."
On the phrase "colored people," which McGinty notes is not a racial slur but a reminder of times past:
"I grew up in the '50s and minorities, or whatever you want to say, were colored people and they accepted that - that's the way it was."
On Ribbs, who was fined $27 in 1978 for driving backwards on a Memphis street, an event which occurred before he tried his hand at NASCAR:
"Willy T. came down here and tried to run a race or two and got hisself in trouble with the law and they kicked him out of the car.
"Everybody said 'Hey, if he cannot control hisself then we don't want him on the racetrack.' None of the white boys run into this kind of stuff. In Willy's case, the spotlight was more on him and he would have had to walk the line even more than a white person. But he didn't and he's not here."
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lololololol..
the guy was probably backing out of a driveway and the local 'good old boys' didn't want to see anyone get hurt...
no, it's probably not fair to brand him a bigot on a few comments.
But I do brand him perrty ignirant and not too brite.....he shur could drive the wheels off a car but sure ain't a gud spokesperson for NASCAR..