Regardless of the fact that cars kill an American every 12 minutes (making cars the #9 cause of death in America), NASCAR sells beer while advertising hard liquor on Fords racing during the Coke-Cola 600 while Ford and Coke-Cola finance gay marriage.

Does NASCAR care? No.

Do you?

http://nascarboycott.blogspot.com

I waited a bit to post about the NBC/NASCAR fiasco. I’ll declare that the staging of news is one tactic that makes my skin crawl and writing about it soon after learning of the memo, via the lovely Michelle Malkin,…

DATELINE merely conducted an interesting study to see if prejudice against Muslims exists in a social setting. I gather from the above information that nothing really happened, but yet until the story is aired, I don’t know if that conclusion can really be taken as of yet.

NBC is indeed a sponsor of some NASCAR events on their network, so they had certainly had nothing to gain by the DATELINE social psychology experiment. On the other hand, FOX News ran a very critical look at this DATELINE experiment, and with weekly NASCAR telecasts that bring in millions in advertising revenue, you can’t excuse the role that FOX has in their involvement in attacking the DATELINE social psychology experiment.

From merely my personal experience, I once had a Muslim friend from Pakistan who frequented a business I ran back in 1979. It was during the Iranian hostage crisis which raised real anger at MidEast culture in those days.

My friend Mohammad, had a father who ran a clothing factory and he had these great shirts that only sold for about a $1.00 each. They seemed like a terrific deal to possiby import and market in the U.S. I started wearing them, but unfortunately with a strange look and collar that had a foreign of even “MidEastern” looking culture, I started getting way too many dirty looks and funny attitude from persons as though I was part of some sort of role in the Iranian hostage crisis.

The NBC DATELINE social psychology experiment is interesting. Have Americans grown beyond generalizing all MidEastern and Muslim culture as the same? Do most Americans accept that there are good and bad persons in these cultures nowadays compared to the past or not?

Maybe the DATELINE social psychology experiment failed. But no doubt there are many places where a MidEast looking person could face a severe threat of a beating or violence such as many taverns, bars, or some small towns, where all MidEast looking persons may well still be generalized as terrorists or antiAmerican by many.

It was only in recent times that Southern juries have been finally brave enough to bring charges against Southern racists who shot and killed Jewish and Black civil rights volunteers who were merely involved in attempting to register Blacks to vote during the early 60’s. In some cases, some of these racists are still of of jail because of foot dragging by judges or other things that prove that not that much has really changed since the early 60’s.

And this Sunday, most Blacks and Whites will still worship God seperately in what Billy Graham once referred to as the nation’s “most segregated hour” in churches largely seperated by racial divisions.

It is still interesting for social psychology studies to see how far social conditions have advanced or not. The DATELINE study would be interesting to see if any difference in airport security treatment based on a MUSLIM appearance exists. This may seem prudent based on the past role of a scant few MidEast elements who have given all from this region a cloud of suspicion by airport security, but still interesting to witness with a hidden camera investigation.

And it would be interesting to see to what extent that “driving while Black”, is still a good reason for police stops in some White neighborhoods. I remember having dinner with a Black friend of my business in 1979, and we were stopped by a policeman who made up a phony traffic violation which never happened as a reason to stop us. It put me in an unfortunate position that I felt very badly about of having to defend my friend as almost to say, “It’s alright officer, he’s with me”. That’s not right. But has that changed very much nowadays or not?

I can’t really fault DATELINE for conducting an interesting study to see how much racial or ethnic prejudices have changed or not. A curious mind should be interested in such a social psychology investigation, not try to intellectualize reasons to sweep such a study under the rug and pretend that society is race or ethnic blind, which of course it certainly is not as of yet.

… for the light blogging recently. Life of late has been a series of urgent semi-crises combined with long stressful workdays. I’m trying to be faithful, but to be frank there have been days when the news and sports I

Herein lies the dilemma for Democrats and liberals in general: How do you cover up the fact that you feel such haughty disdain for the very people you absolutely must convince to vote for you so that you can regain power in Washington?
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