LETTERMAN's top ten reasons there are no BLACK NASCAR drivers

**hhsilver** · 03-06-11, 08:57 AM

From Snopes . com (unban Legends site)

Claim: David Letterman offered a "Top Ten" list about why there are no black NASCAR drivers.

Status: False.

Origins: Jokes are often used to pass along negative stereotypes about members of other groups because the veil of humor is seen to bestow a form of plausible deniability about the nature of the messages being imparted. (When called upon about offensive statements contained therein, the joke's teller believes he has the safe retreat of "But I was just telling you this funny story I heard; it's not like I think that
way" or "Don't shoot me if you find this racist; it's David's list, not mine.")

The catalog of behaviors quoted above is an example of racism dressed up to look like a humor offering. Couched in the form of a David Letterman "Top Ten" list, it expounds upon any number of denigrating clichés presenting blacks as car-stealing, gun-toting criminals who dress in saggy gansta-style pants, wear their caps sideways, and drive about in flashy cars blaring loud rap music with their "hos" by their sides.

This list has been circulating on the Internet since at least early 2005 (sometimes under the alternate titles of "The Top 10 reasons why there are no ****** NASCAR drivers" and "Top Ten Reasons Why There Are No Rap Stars in NASCAR"), and although we don't know the identity of its creator, it isn't something that originated on the Late Show with David Letterman (as a search of that show's Top 10 archive will confirm). The compilation started out as an uncredited "Top 10 Reasons" list, but as it made the rounds of the Internet, someone inevitably tacked David Letterman's name onto it.

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I'm sure no one here would believe this garbage came from Letterman, but I thought I'd quote the above anyway,

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:21 AM

hhsilver there are jokes about everybody grow a sense of humor why don't you. That list was hilarious.

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 10:24 AM

I even admit. Was funny.

**opie1988** · 03-06-11, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by ttrace35

I even admit. Was funny.

Trace-

Are you an african/american?

I dig you regardless, brother. Just curious.

**Dank_Fire** · 03-06-11, 10:28 AM

Good Stuff

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:28 AM

Originally posted by ttrace35

I even admit. Was funny.

You're racist. You're racist, You're racist you're racist you're ra ra ra ra ra ra racist.

You're damn right it was funny. Shoulda had a reference for no Hi-C cup holder in Nascars, no storage space for watermelons and Nascars too big to fit through the KFC drive through window.

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:30 AM

Originally posted by opie1988

Trace-

Are you an african/american?

I dig you regardless, brother. Just curious.

Tracy is my bi-atch. I smack that ho around the SBR forumns all day long.

**pavyracer** · 03-06-11, 10:31 AM

This post is very racist. There is no room for making fun of other races in sport forums.

**jgray** · 03-06-11, 10:32 AM

I didn't need Snopes to know that wasn't a real Dave list. My first clue was that the list was funny...

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by pavyracer

This post is very racist. There is no room for making fun of other races in sport forums.

You never said that when people here made fun of asians, whites, hispanics, or arabs. Happens pretty daily around here.

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by opie1988

Trace-

Are you an african/american?

I dig you regardless, brother. Just curious.

I'm black. But the shit was funny. My people do a lot of shit to deserve this kind of treatment. How can I get mad?

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 10:39 AM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Tracy is my bi-atch. I smack that ho around the SBR forumns all day long.

You can smack me around forums all you want pal. In real life I would eat your food kid. Why not make another thread about how you love jersey shore? Or another thread about cokks?

**opie1988** · 03-06-11, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by ttrace35

I'm black. But the shit was funny. My people do a lot of shit to deserve this kind of treatment. How can I get mad?

I appreciate your sense of humor, brother.

I find white trash jokes plenty funny as well. If its funny.....its funny. Who cares what race you are??

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 10:41 AM

Originally posted by opie1988

I appreciate your sense of humor, brother.

I find white trash jokes plenty funny as well. If its funny.....its funny. Who cares what race you are??

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:42 AM

Can't have an expired drivers liscense
Can't play basketball and drive a car at the same time
40 oz won't fit in the cup holder
when they park the car in the hood it's always on blocks the next morning
windows too tinted to see through
Popeyes ran out of sponsorship money

hehe

**jonmic** · 03-06-11, 10:42 AM

That was hilarious...very true

**Fishhead** · 03-06-11, 10:43 AM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Popeyes ran out of sponsorship money

hehe

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:44 AM

Originally posted by ttrace35

You can smack me around forums all you want pal. In real life I would eat your food kid. Why not make another thread about how you love jersey shore? Or another thread about cokks?

Blah blah blah so says Mr. Internet tough guy.

You're only a flight away Tracy (transvestite name). DON'T give me a reason to jump on that plane and smack your transgender ass around.

**stealthyburrito** · 03-06-11, 10:44 AM

sure letterman would've been in hot water with this in this pc world if it were real.

but hilarious nonetheless

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:48 AM

How come there are no Asian Nascar drivers?

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 10:48 AM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Blah blah blah so says Mr. Internet tough guy.

You're only a flight away Tracy (transvestite name). DON'T give me a reason to jump on that plane and smack your transgender ass around.

Ok pal. I'm a gangster for real. And I have a ten foot long rap sheet to prove it. But. Ok.

**Nicky Santoro** · 03-06-11, 10:49 AM

i knew this wasn't letterman. this is not him. i was just about to say how this is possible to allow this on tv. if this were real, letterman would be threatened by all blacks and have the black community protest. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have him fired. i thought it was real until someone said it was fake. i had a feeling. no way they would allow this type of humor on tv, especailly in today's society.. but it was a great list.. i wonder who really wrote this list.

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 10:51 AM

Originally posted by ttrace35

Ok pal. I'm a gangster for real. And I have a ten foot long rap sheet to prove it. But. Ok.

Stealing hubcaps doesn't make you a gangster. You'd be even more gangster if you'd never get caught. You'd get wrecked son. Learn when the odds are not in your favor and don't play.

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 10:59 AM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Stealing hubcaps doesn't make you a gangster. You'd be even more gangster if you'd never get caught. You'd get wrecked son. Learn when the odds are not in your favor and don't play.

Shut the fukk up with this bullshit. Neither one of us are flying to meet anybody. We will never see each other. Your just a clown. Nobody even pays you any mind. You made a basketball thread, went like 10 and 0. And still nobody gives a shit. You were just talking to yourself in your own thread(don't make me pull it up). Its because your a circus clown. You think people like your watermelon and chicken jokes. You just make yourself look stupid and more stupid with each passing day.

**C-Gold** · 03-06-11, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by ttrace35

Shut the fukk up with this bullshit. Neither one of us are flying to meet anybody. We will never see each other. Your just a clown. Nobody even pays you any mind. You made a basketball thread, went like 10 and 0. And still nobody gives a shit. You were just talking to yourself in your own thread(don't make me pull it up). Its because your a circus clown. You think people like your watermelon and chicken jokes. You just make yourself look stupid and more stupid with each passing day.

Yet you and your lover King Mayan still stalk me around.

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 01:31 PM

Ok bud.

**ttrace35** · 03-06-11, 01:37 PM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Yet you and your lover King Mayan still stalk me around.

I see you started a new basketball thread. 19 out of 21, and still nobody cares. Your known as a clown around here. How you can't see that, I don't know. Anyway. I'm done. The only attention you get is from me and Mayan. Now just him.

**LordVodka** · 03-06-11, 01:43 PM

I was about to say how the hell did he get away with that cause you know with today's politically correct bullshit they would fire him if he put that list out.

**King Mayan** · 03-06-11, 02:48 PM

TTrace, be careful with the snitches.....

**King Mayan** · 03-06-11, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by ttrace35

I see you started a new basketball thread. 19 out of 21, and still nobody cares. Your known as a clown around here. How you can't see that, I don't know. Anyway. I'm done. The only attention you get is from me and Mayan. Now just him.

I can't even talk crap to him no more, runs fast to the mods

...... I have to stop worrying about fat trolls...

**Boscoe** · 03-06-11, 03:22 PM

I can't imagine what moron would actually believe that was a letterman list.

**pittmatt80** · 03-06-11, 03:25 PM

I'm sorry but that was hilarious get a sense of humor to those of you who didn't like it.

**meader99** · 03-06-11, 03:29 PM

I seem to remember Carrot Top doing this at one of his stand ups.

**stevenash** · 03-06-11, 04:00 PM

Lettterman is a freaking genius.