NASCAR seems willing to listen. President Steve Phelps was scheduled to talk for a second time Thursday with Drumwright, a senior minister at the Citadel of Praise Church and Campus Ministries in Greensboro, North Carolina, for a serious discussion about NASCAR’s push for racial diversity.NASCAR has been swept up in the reckoning over the nation's racist past.
Wallace — the lone Black driver in the Cup Series — helped prod NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag just a few weeks ago. The 26-year-old Wallace emerged as social activist but two weeks later a member of his race team found a garage door pulldown rope fashioned as a noose in their garage at Talladega.