NASCAR Finally Gets It Right by Inducting Wendell Scott into the Hall of Fame

This may come as a bit of a shock to, well, no one outside of NASCAR. But NASCAR, meaning the entity that is the governing body of the sport, does not always get it right. This time, when NASCAR included Wendell Scott in its latest Hall of Fame class that will be inducted in January of 2015, it definitely got it right and made amends for one of the great wrongs of the past. It may have been years, even decades, behind in doing so, but at least it was a huge step in the right direction for a sport that hasn't always done a good job of shedding negative stereotypes. It certainly didn't get it right on December 1, 1963, when Scott—a black man attempting against enormous odds to drive competitively in a white man's world—w...

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