NASCAR and the racing groups that support the organization’s efforts to develop more diverse drivers and pit crews have become the latest companies to be accused of discriminating against white men.
America First Legal, run by former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, filed a petition on Thursday asking the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate NASCAR and Rev Racing for “illegal discrimination against white, male Americans.”
“This illegal activity should not be allowed to continue,” senior counsel Nick Barry said in a statement.
“NASCAR should not select drivers based on their race and gender, but on their ability to drive,” he continued, adding: “All racial discrimination is wrong, even if it is a popular ‘social justice’ cause. day.”
NASCAR and the racing groups that support its efforts to develop female and minority drivers and pit crews have been accused of discriminating against white men.Getty Images
America First Legal argued that NASCAR and Rev Racing’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts — such as the “Diversity Driver Development Program,” the “Diversity Pit Crew Development Program” and the “NASCAR Diversity Internship Program” — violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race and gender.
The program previously said it was aimed at women and ethnic minorities but updated on Sept. 1 to say it seeks applicants of “diverse backgrounds and experiences,” according to the petition.
Below the original language, the Diversity Driver Development Program’s “Driver Qualifications” page limits entry to “female[s] or members[s] from one or more of the following ethnic minority classifications: American Indian, Alaska Native or native/indigenous, Asian or Pacific Islander; Black or African-American; Latino or Hispanic,” the petition said.
The program for the pit crew and the training program have the same language, he claimed.
America First Legal is petitioning the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate NASCAR’s and Rev Racing’s DEI practices. Getty Images NASCAR has reportedly changed the language describing qualifications for the Diversity Driver Development Program, the Diversity Pit Crew Development Program and the Diversity Training Program to say that they seek applicants of “diverse backgrounds and experiences.”AP
Although the language has since been changed, America First Legal claims NASCAR and Rev Racing continue to engage in illegal hiring practices “under the cloak of ‘diverse background and experience’ rebranding.”
“NASCAR and Rev Racing’s commitment to racing and sex-based hiring is unwavering — the website changes described above appear to be designed solely to conceal their ongoing, intentional and illegal discrimination against white, male Americans,” the petition states.
It then cited the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education, saying: “Discrimination based on immutable characteristics such as race, colour, national origin or gender ‘generates a sense of inferiority’ in its victims ‘which may affect their hearts and minds in ways that otherwise would not happen. [un]done.’”
America First Legal, run by former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, has previously accused more than a dozen companies of discrimination. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
The Post has reached out to NASCAR for comment.
This is not the first time America First Legal has targeted a company’s DEI practices.
It has previously accused more than a dozen companies – including Morgan Stanley, Major League Baseball, McDonald’s and Starbucks – of discrimination.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has yet to respond to any of these requests.
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