Apply that thinking to the Nazi flag and see how far you’ll get in life. Symbols have meaning, and the Confederate flag is a symbol of people willing to include *a need to maintain slavery* in the articles of secession when they left the goddamn Union.

Or prisoners suffering in inhumane conditions, abused by guards, working for pennies, and exploited at every opportunity? The ones which are overwhelmingly black and brown, because the system is inherently primed to screw them over merely by virtue of their skin and being poor--when you say "all lives matter," those…

Retracting, cooling off--but I'm way past the edit threshold for my original post. If the driver initiated the livery change, I’m almost certainly wrong. Didn’t know that there was an orientation involved with the hate connotation, not exactly a detail I’ve sought to learn more about.

If Hamlin initiated the change, then yeah, that’s probably a reliable indication that my reaction was absolutely the wrong take, and points in his favor. I retract my previous outrage.

Without sarcasm, I can say that you’re certainly correct. I don’t follow NASCAR, so while I somewhat recognized his name, I wasn’t really aware of his success/popularity. With regards to the ‘it’s his third win of the season’ explanation, I’m very hesitant to buy that after the increased tensions over banning the…

Fuck this piece of shit. How does he still have a ride?

I’d argue that the streets are *safer* since there are fewer of these racist, petulant, armed assholes running around.

Where’s the fucking ban-hammer for Emilio? He’s only gotten more overtly racist asshole-scum since I hit ‘dismiss’ with a nice dessert of 'fuck off' after-the-fact.

Fantastic read, as always, Mr. Harriot.

Yeah, I’d bet about everything I own that Trump didn’t write the tweet response rescheduling the rally, either—the tone isn’t petulant or combative, the punctuation is readable, and it doesn’t mention the fake news once. His handlers are desperately trying to keep him from digging his current hole any deeper. Besides…

Guess who’s getting dismissed, troll:

I was recently made aware of the documentary “Uppity” on Netflix—I hadn’t heard of Willie T. Ribbs before, but holy shit could he drive. The amount of success he had behind the wheel was insane, and if it wasn’t for racism, I can only imagine the heights, fame, and success he could have attained.

I think we agree that Trump *would* own slaves if he thought there was any way his lawyers could make it work for him.

Thanks for not mincing words on the headline—or anywhere else, for that matter. Even if it’s not popular with some of the commentariat, I’m glad to see people trusting expertise and advocating caution in the interest of the health and safety of the population.

Oh, you sweet, summer child:

Hypocrisy hasn’t negatively affected the GOP thus far, why would it start now? Trump is just going to bring this up as a negative against Biden with absolutely zero self-awareness, and when the follow-up question of “What about ‘grab ‘em by the pussy’ and the numerous numerous sexual assault/rape allegations against…

https://jalopnik.com/i-had-one-story-rejected-by-four-jalopnik-editors-and-i-1784994352

Glad to see you chime in any time you want to be a little less serious/respectable in tone. I’ve missed that a bit when reading a few of your pieces over at Business Insider (but I realize that’s a different audience, so no Fancy Kristen was expected).

Rory, my first and only demand is that you run the one piece of Torchinski’s that all previous editors-in-chief have quashed.

Agreed. Though I’m getting some Dodge Charger vibes which is fine, I like the look of that car), like a few others here, it just makes me long for the days when stock car racing meant more of a “car you can buy in a showroom, just gutted and with a cage/safety equipment.”