IndyCar released — then silently disappeared — a remarkably racist t-shirt

Yesterday, my area of the internet discovered an astonishing bit of merchandise for sale on the IndyCar website. It was a t-shirt for the ✌️“Freedom 250”✌️, the publicly-funded political campaign event masquerading as an IndyCar race, with which Roger Penske is very happy to help. Given the circumstances, it was inevitable that at least one horrific thing would happen, and this t-shirt has become the first. It is no longer available, so please allow me to provide a screenshot:

Yes, that says, “One Nation, One Race” (and yes, it was on sale for FIFTY DOLLARS). It’s the kind of t-shirt that gets designed by someone who knows what they’re doing and then sneaks it past their idiot manager who thinks it’s fine. In fact, I guarantee you no one of any importance at IndyCar ever looked at this shirt before it went on sale, and I’ll tell you how I know. IndyCar’s “One Race” is not the ✌️“Freedom 250”✌️. It’s the Indianapolis 500. There is no way in hell anyone who works directly for Roger Penske would ever even let him find out such a t-shirt was made, even if it wasn’t also a breathtaking display of white nationalism.

Now, Penske is a noted Trumpist, and this incident has made many people point to that as evidence that IndyCar is a white nationalist organization. I’ve done enough speculation in this post already, so I won’t speculate any further. I’ll just point out that the internet found out about this shirt, and it disappeared within the hour.

I follow lots of motorsports news websites, as you know, and I was waiting for a better reported story about this to come out before writing my own post. No one covered it. So I figure I’ll put up this little memento, and we’ll see if we ever hear about this again or if the store manager person is keeping the Captain in the dark about it.