Read if you are not a racist.

[mmissile]

How about Larry Nance?

http://www.dragracingonline.com/special/blackhistory_1.html

 

[bobtile]

Don Prudhomme????

 

[themechanic]

Don Prudhomme????

American/French Creole

 

[Moparallen]

FWIW, I (and my cousin) were on Wendell Scott's pit crew in the early 60s. He home was in Danville, VA and drove NASCAR Cup races. I lived in Asheville, NC at that time.

I admire Mr. Scott. I know he faced adversity that most racers never faced and he continued to race hard. I admire him and you. I just want to remind people that not all southern white people are racist...

 

[Budnicks]

I was in high school during the de-segregation years (76-79). Many of the black students rode the bus to school. Those were tumultuous times; lots of racially motivated fights and such. But there was one black guy who had a 1969 Chevelle he drove to school. I had a 1968 Camaro at the time. He was a car guy and got along well with everybody. Some of the brothers gave him a hard time for talking to the white guys but he didn't let it stop him. Having something in common, like an appreciation for muscle cars, would have helped relieve the racial tension but it never occurred to the school administrators.

Here's another informative and historical web page about black race car drivers.

http://www.blackdragracers.com/thepast_vol5_iss5.html

I was in HS 1974-77 during that time too,
wasn't a big deal here on the west coast in NorCal anyway,
SoCal & inner-shity's was a different deal
de-segregation it actually started in 1971 IIRC

Really big deal in the deep Jim Crow Democrats south

 

[mmissile]

American/French Creole

Like obama?

 

[Budnicks]

Like obama?

he was halfrican,
half African/Kenyan {father Marxist} & Russian/American {card carrying commie mother}

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Don Prudhomme wasn't, he {or family} was of Hawaiian/Samoan descent
where he got his color IIRC

 

[Hemi 354]

I admire Mr. Scott. I know he faced adversity that most racers never faced and he continued to race hard. I admire him and you. I just want to remind people that not all southern white people are racist...

I only with that I had a camera back then, but we were a poor as he was. The only reason that we got attached to him and his sons was because we would work for nothing....just wanting to get into the racetrack. Many times, we would ride along with him going to some of the smaller tracks, run the race, then head back to Asheville late that night. And remember, this was during some times in NC / SC / VA and Tennessee that it wasn't cool to be associating with black people. Sure, we caught some heat and ridicule for this, but it didn't matter back then. As I said before, we were as poor as Wendell. We would share some of the things we found out about some of the Holman-Moody guys, because those cars were set up, tuned and build just a couple of miles away.

 

[khryslerkid]

I graduated in '74 and everyone got along just fine in our town.

I was working at a gas station and this big black guy was casing the store as I was taking care of a customer at the pump. When I walked back to the store I asked him if he needed any help. That guy gave me a whole bunch of crap! Next thing I know I hear a woman's voice yelling at this guy. She had gotten out of her car and walked up after seeing what was taking place. She cussed that guy out. Told him to take his black *** back to the city where he came from and don't bother these good people in this town! He left like a dog with his tail between its legs. I thanked her and followed her back to her car so I could wait on her next. (Busy station at the time).

By the way, she was black. There wasn't any segregation in our town until certain people made it that way...

 

[WileE]

Racism was at its lowest in the era I grew up in......hippie days.
"History is always written by the winners,,,therefore always biased"
Napoleon Bonaparte'
In the end we lost the peaceful social war.....but enjoyed an advantage for a while at least.

Huh ? What ? Lowest ? Don't know where you were, but racism was rampant, from Selma, to George Wallace to all the race riots from Detroit to Newark to Watts, etc,etc. I remember all of these events.

 

[mmissile]

Good drugs will put you in another universe. The blacks were arming for the race-war with whitey. I met a black guy who was a radical-black-activist in the 60-70's. I met him in the 90's, and he was selling off all his weaponry.....to white folks with money. He grew weary of his relatives ripping him off/stealing guns. This guy could've armed the entire metro-Detroit black society. He had some very rare stuff that I bought as investments. I cashed in, in the last 5 years. I'd like to thank Reggie....but he's passed-on.

 

[Budnicks]

We had areas like Richmond {Ca} & Oakland {Ca} parts of SF
even some parts of Berkeley, especially around the campus
that were really bad for the adolescents Black Militant/Black Panthers
NWO {?} & other black or militant org. gangs/groups causing issues...

But IIRC it was more about the Viet Nam/Hippie or protestors crap,
about the war up here, much more than the schools so much...
IIRC they were already pretty much integrated by then...

I remember going to & growing up in Oakland as a baby to about 6 y/o,
I went to Emerson Elementary in Oakland Ca. pre-K & K-1st grade
the only reason it was integrated, was mostly me & my 2 white sisters...lol
Kind of reverse integration, so to speak, but we had no real issues...
A-typical kids stuff on the playgrounds etc., my sister Candy was a hard ***/tough girl,
we lived only a block or so away from the school, we had many friends...
But we stayed at the school for daycare, played outside with my friends,
they were all of color, yellow, brown & black, a true melting pot...

We lived off the area of 49th & Telegraph Ave...
My single/divorced mom worked in the area, for chump change,
slave labor basically...
She sewed bras for Macy's Dept. Stores, 12 hrs a day, until I was 6-ish
But we all live together right along side of Colored & various
different levels of Caucasians...
{mostly elderly White, not really any young Caucasian children, back then}

We moved back to Concord Ca. {where I was born 1959, suburbs}
when my Mom got remarried, never really had many issues there,
"ever there race wise", it was suburbia, away from the inner-shity race BS...

Anyway, long story shortened...lol
Funny thing is I met a few of them at Fremont, Sacramento & Sears Point Raceways
many years latter, we were still acting like good friends, we all had the same interests,
just like we never were separated...