The emails went as far
as to contain such terms as Taco Bender, Beaner and the like. All pretty much
directed toward JPM. Why such ire? Was it because Montoya won the race? Had he have finished eleventh would
I have still received such stupid comments? First I don’t believe that the rank and file of Cup fans feel such
fervent anti-Hispanic feelings, nor do I believe such stupid utterances have any business in NASCAR, or for that matter in
anybody’s vocabulary. What would have been said if the race had occurred in Canada? I suspect not much. Would I have received emails that said icecycle lickers?
Snow shoe plodders? And just what in the hell is a taco bender anyway?
Another tone is that
NASCAR has no business wandering off to California, much less to a foreign country
like Mexico. The
races should be down south where they belong; where they stated with the good ol’ boys, maybe once in a while they could
go up north to say Phoenix, that’s kind of southwesterly, maybe.
There are arguably less
than a hundred people in the whole world that can successfully compete at the Cup level. We
should welcome them to our great sport of stock car racing and see just what they have for our home grown drivers; if
they can win at the highest level more power to them. It just means to me that our home grown drivers need to get a
little better.
Racing is a competitive
sport where hopefully the best compete against the best, no matter who they are, or what their native language happens to
be. I thought that we had really come a little farther than that, but maybe we haven’t. It indeed disturbs
me.
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Comments;
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2006 StockCar Review.
