The shocking thing isn’t that NASCAR finally banned the Confederate flag from its race tracks; the shocking thing is that this is actually still considered a shocking thing.
Here we are 155 years after the United States of America defeated the Confederacy in a bloody Civil War and, yet, astoundingly, there are still NASCAR fans who are actually upset because they will no longer be able to proudly display a flag flown by an army that fought to keep black Americans in chains.
How pathetically sad is it that Ray Ciccarelli, a NASCAR Truck Series driver, announced on social media Wednesday night that he planned to quit the sport shortly after NASCAR’s decision to ban Confederate flags at races?