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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Roy Wood Jr. honors trailblazing Black race car drivers, including Wendell Scott, who made NASCAR history, and Willy T. Ribbs, the first Black driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:02.0 | My grandson prefers monster trucks. |
0:12.0 | It's not a big fan of racing vehicles. |
0:14.0 | It's very loud. |
0:16.0 | Oh, welcome to CP time. |
0:18.0 | The only show that's for the culture. |
0:22.0 | Today, we'll be discussing black race car drivers. |
0:26.0 | And I know people don't often associate black people with racing. |
0:30.0 | But these days, we've got plenty of them. |
0:32.0 | Bubba Wallace, Chase Austin, Tyreson fast and the furious. |
0:38.0 | But their success would not be possible without the black race car drivers of the past. |
0:44.0 | Drivers like the trailblazers of the Atlanta stock car club. |
0:48.0 | The ASCC was a black driving lead that was holding races back when NASCAR was just a gleam and a white man's eye. |
0:55.0 | That's right. |
0:57.0 | Black people have been driving fast even before NASCAR. |
1:00.0 | And it's a big part of our history and culture, although apparently that is not an acceptable excuse to get out of a speeding ticket. |
1:08.0 | I don't care if they was in a school zone. |
1:10.0 | Them kids need to keep their head on a swivel. |
1:12.0 | Kiss my ass. |
1:14.0 | In the 1940s and 50s, the ASCC held races all across the southeast in front of thousands of black fans. |
1:22.0 | Can you imagine that? |
1:25.0 | A stadium in Georgia full of cheering black fans? |
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