Apr 20, 2012
Friday
Driver sues NASCAR, claims he was excluded from diversity program for being ‘too Caucasian’
Caught in the Catchfence™
April 20, 2012 – 11:14 am | Print
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An aspiring stock-car driver is suing NASCAR, claiming he was denied the opportunity to compete in NASCAR’s diversity program because he looks “too Caucasian.”
NASCAR argues that in trying to change the “face” of the sport, it has the right to select drivers for its diversity program based on skin color, attorneys for the sanctioning body and its former diversity program administrators have told a U.S. District court.
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