NASCAR/Racing Blog

Sun. 06/15/08 04:33 PM

The Lawsuit

See related article

I agree with what you wrote about the racial discrimination suit against NASCAR.

And, curious to learn your thoughts on the following...do you believe that one, NASCAR's efforts to embrace diversity in their family are sincere? Or, as often is the case, is just surface and good for a moment of great PR/Branding?

If it is the first, than what do you think they will do internally to educate everyone and externally to educate and invite diversity in?

That is my concern always when a company or organization claims they embrace diversity. Do they really...with all the responsibility that comes with it, or is it a surface attempt to quiet folks for a moment?

NASCAR has a great history, but it has also been a very one way of thinking institution that does not compliment society in 2008.

Just my two cents.

The Playbook, Charlotte, NC

Jump to top

About this Weblog

Doug Guthrie is a Detroit News reporter who started his journalism career as an award-winning motor sports writer with The Grand Rapids Press.

About this forum

Acceptable Use

The Detroit News does not tolerate offensive language in its forums. Once you register, your posts go up automatically, but we kill offensive posts that are brought to our attention. Users who violate our acceptable use policy can and will be denied access. See a problem? Tell us.

Feedback

We value your feedback, so please let us know if you have any questions or problems.

Threading in forums

We are working on adding threading to the forums. Clicking on the headline of a post will now get you related posts in a few different ways.

- If the post was sent to us in response to an article, clicking on that post's headline will retrieve all comments on that article, and clicking on the "See related article" link will send you to the article itself.

- If the comment was submitted in response to a cybersurvey, clicking on the headline will take you to the cybersurvey and its related comments.

- If you click on the headline of a forum post that was simply posted in the forum, you will get all posts with that same headline.

If you want to add a comment to a thread in the forum, use the same headline as the post to which you want to respond.

If you find a problem, please tell us, and thanks in advance for your patience as we work to improve the forums for you.