Well, we are introduced to another racist and sexual harrasment case. I look for NASCAR to pay heavy to this woman. Meet Mauricia Grant
We owe Isiah Thomas and Sean Salisbury an apology.
That's how bad the discrimination and sexual-harassment allegations 32-year-old Mauricia Grant brought against NASCAR are.
Compared to the environment allegedly condoned at the popular racing series, the former Knicks coach's reputation for calling female executives "bitch" and the ex-ESPN analyst's habit of photographing and displaying his steak were greatly overblown controversies.
After reading through Grant's official lawsuit complaint, you'd get the feeling that NASCAR was filming an updated version of "Roots," beginning with the slave-ship scene where the captain is looking for a "black wench belly-warmer" to tide him over on the long journey home.
Damn! If you're looking for confirmation of NASCAR stereotypes, you can pretty much find them all in Grant's $225-million lawsuit. According to Grant, her white male co-workers repeatedly flashed their weenies, dropped the N-word, asked to see her breasts, talked sympathetically about the KKK and called her a stupid, nappy-headed ho. And when none of those tried and true seduction techniques worked, "Mo" Grant says they resorted to spreading rumors that she was a "Ho-Mo."
I mean this in the most non-offensive, non-gender-specific, Rick James way, Mauricia Grant is not a Ho-Mo, she's a soon-to-be "Rich Bitch."
Yeah, she caught NASCAR ridin' dirty, and the settlement headed her way is going to make Anucha Browne Saunders and Chamillionaire blush. If you remember, Saunders won $11.5 million for tolerating Zeke the Freak's primitive sexual advances and bitch moves. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I don't recall Zeke showcasing Magic's Stick during his romancing of Saunders.
No, what Grant experienced is on a whole different level, which should more than compensate for her entry-level status at NASCAR and the fact that her direct supervisors did not participate in much of the harassment.
What she claims to have experienced will also render Brian France's position that he and her supervisors were unaware of her Mississippi Burning pretty hard to believe.
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