50 Cent was among the celebrities on hand for the Daytona 500 Sunday, and he may have felt somewhat out of place. The rapper observed that there were very few black people at the track and tweeted about it:
50 Cent at Daytona. -> RT @50cent Damn I don’t see no black people lol
— D’Arcy Maine (@darcymaine_espn) February 24, 2013
50 appears to have deleted the tweet, but several people retweeted it, and Yahoo! Sports’ Dan Wetzel wrote about it.
NASCAR appears to be trying to invite diversity to the track by inviting 50, rapper T.I., and retired linebacker Ray Lewis to participate in race festivities. African-American athletes like Randy Moss and Michael Jordan have had racing teams (though Jordan’s was motorcycles), so it’s not as if racing is just a (southern) white thing. But it looks like the core of NASCAR fans remains Caucasian, as 50 noted.
50 still seemed to have a great time regardless. He mixed it up with plenty of drivers:
The star power is huge today, @50cent & 5-time @jimmiejohnson hang out before the #Daytona500. #NASCAR twitter.com/NASCARonSPEED/…
— NASCAR on SPEED (@NASCARonSPEED) February 24, 2013
Thank you to our man @50cent for hanging with us today!! twitter.com/rchilders55/st…
— Rodney Childers (@rchilders55) February 24, 2013
Lap 7 – @50cent is on our pit box!!!!! ·······oh yeah @55markmartin is 15th @aaronssports #nascar twitter.com/MWRteam/status…
— M. Waltrip Racing (@MWRteam) February 24, 2013
@kevinharvick hanging with @50cent before #daytona500 twitpic.com/c6jbws
— JJ (@Mother_Function) February 24, 2013
Photo credit: Twitter/Mike Hoag
