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Social justice at NASCAR's forefront as new season begins

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR received warnings — “Go Woke, Go Broke” — from every corner of the internet last summer.

Fans said they didn't want to hear about social justice, and banning the Confederate flag at racetracks would drive them from the sport forever.

If there has been an exodus, NASCAR has not noticed. A predominately white sport with deep Southern roots and a longtime embrace of Confederate symbols, NASCAR was forced last summer to face its own checkered racial history during the country’s social unrest: Bubba Wallace wore an “I Can't Breathe” T-shirt on pit road and raced a car with “Black Lives Matter” painted on the hood; his peers promised to listen and learn; a NASCAR official knelt during the national anthem; and the

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