Bill Lester will attempt this weekend to become the fastest driving black man to not be pulled over in Georgia. He is trying to become the first black man to qualify for a NASCAR race in 20 years.

Hey, best of luck to him. I have no idea how good a driver he is. Or, perhaps more important to his success, I don’t know how good his car is. I hope he just comes out of nowhere and wins the thing, so we can all witness 80,000 white southerners in attendance at the Atlanta motor speedway turn to each other and say, “Someone wanna fuckin’ explain this to me?”

The guy says he doesn’t want to be known as a black race car driver, but just as a race car driver who happens to be black… which tells me he doesn’t have a lot of interest in real cutural change. Which is fine. Not everyone has to be a crusader. But it’s a little disappointing to me that he won’t be sponsored by The Black Panthers and drive around with a big black fist painted on his hood.

Instead, he will be sponsored by “Waste Management.” Indeed, there is progress left to be made.