{"id":183,"date":"2003-11-19T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/nascar_an_affirmative_action_b\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T20:43:31","slug":"nascar_an_affirmative_action_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/nascar_an_affirmative_action_b\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR: An Affirmative Action Bastion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/2647535\/detail.html\">This is funny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ku Klux Klan members were apparently busy distributing a newsletter and fliers as some local residents found them attached to their mailboxes on Monday, Local 4 reported.<br \/>\nThe newsletter called &#8220;The Flame,&#8221; along with a flier, was attached by rubber bands to mailboxes in Ypsilanti and Pittsfield Township.<br \/>\nThe materials reportedly called for the boycott of McDonalds, NASCAR and Coca-Cola for what the KKK says are the companies&#8217; tendency for discriminating against whites by hiring blacks and Hispanics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NASCAR?  I&#8217;m admittedly not a knowledgeable NASCAR fan; for all I know its pit crews and support staff could be teeming with blacks and Hispanics.  But from what I&#8217;ve seen (the drivers), NASCAR is about as diverse as North Dakota.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leanleft.com\/archives\/001972.html\">Lean Left<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/nascar_an_affirmative_action_b\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to NASCAR: An Affirmative Action Bastion?\"><p>This is funny: Ku Klux Klan members were apparently busy distributing a newsletter and fliers as some local residents found them attached to their mailboxes on Monday, Local 4 reported. The newsletter called &#8220;The Flame,&#8221; along with a flier, was attached by rubber bands to mailboxes in Ypsilanti and Pittsfield Township. The materials reportedly called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}