NASCAR bans the Confederate flag at events

I saw several comments on a local article claiming he did it.

Were the flags being flown at the track (put up by the event/track itself)? Or individual people are just waving them on their own?

Either way, everyone involved should have insisted that something was done earlier instead of being wishy washy and sitting by while the racism continued.  I guess it doesn't affect many of them personally, so it is easy to ignore and overlook.

We are looking to move. Whenever I see a house that I like online, we drive around the neighborhood looking for confederate flags. If we see one we’re out of there.

A few weeks ago, hubby and I went to look at a property and all the neighbors flanking the property and across the street were sporting trump flags, and I told hubby to just keep driving!!!

Told the realtor exactly why we passed it up when she asked what we thought of the property.

No, the tracks were never flying the flag. It’s usually individuals who are camping at the track - in tents or RVs, which is allowed in larger tracks with room in the infield. They will often have a pole with maybe a US flag and the flag of their favorite driver. Some have Trump flags. Some had rebel flags. A lot of people (especially in the south) do not feel that flag represents racism - they say it’s about heritage - so there wasn’t a huge push to tell people what they were allowed to put on their own flag pole. But Bubba spoke up and the drivers and NASCAR supported him and made a change. I work in the sport. The flag really doesn’t mean anything to me even though I live in Georgia. I’m from Iowa. But I’m glad they banned it b/c I think it made us look bad and made people uncomfortable, so it was time for them to take a stand.

KAS was very clear that it was fans with the flag, not the event or track.

Who do you think the push would have come from? I mean, look at NASCAR demographics. Last time NASCAR tried to discourage the flag, it wasn’t a popular move and it failed.

I believe they allowed 5,000 fans in attendance.

There is a race in Texas in July and apparently they can have 50% capacity, which would be 62,500 fans, but they don’t expect to see that many in attendance.

It also depends a lot on which state they’re racing in and what that state’s governor has said.

So, in TX, our governor has said outdoor sports venues can open and operate at 50% capacity.

Definitely depends on the track / state. Not consistent yet as MyShelley said.

- Homestead up to 1,000 military members (and family) invited by the city of Homestead, who owns the track
- Martinsville was next, no fans
- Talladega up to 5,000 fans could buy tickets who lived within 150 miles of the track
- Pocono - 2 races this weekend with no fans
- Indy & Kentucky - first two weekends in July, no fans
- All Star Race - moved from Charlotte to Bristol, up to 30,000 fans (which is about 25% of their capacity)
- Texas - with fans

Nothing else is out officially yet.

Flying it in the campgrounds means people are flying it from their RVs.

Of course they could do something about it, but why would they when their fans didn’t want them to? The last time they tried it backfired and caused the flag to be flown *more*, so they backed off.

I mean, high schools here still fly that flag, but we have to hold NASCAR to a higher standard?

I’ve never seen it, nor has DH and that covers a lot of Austin, Dallas/Arlington, Lubbock and San Antonio areas so I wouldn’t say common. Though I can see the possibility in certain rural areas. I would be interested to know where that is. She’s in the DFW area IIRC. Richland High School in that area was the Rebels (not sure if they still are), perhaps they did.

Also, just because one entity does something wrong doesn’t mean we shouldn’t hold others accountable when they also do the same thing wrong. That’s just bad logic, unless we lived in a perfect society nobody would ever be held accountable if things worked like that. Of course the high schools shouldn’t fly the flag, but NASCAR doesn’t get a pass just because some may choose to do so.

The revolutionary flag makes more sense for anyone called the rebels no?

Welcome to Texas.