Jeremy Clements Suspended for Making "Insensitive" Remarks in Interview

Jeremy Clements explains remark

Nationwide Series driver Jeremy Clements explained in detail Thursday exactly how he finds himself suspended indefinitely from NASCAR competition.

In a one-on-one interview with ESPN, Clements would not verbalize the specific comments he made, but when pressed for clarity about whether or not it was racial, he paused. Asked again, "Was it racial or not? Maybe not in context, but in term?" Clements replied: "Correct."

"When you say 'racial' remark, it wasn't used to describe anybody or anything," Clements said. "So that's all I'm going to say to that. And it really wasn't. I was describing racing, and the word I used was incorrect and I shouldn't have said it. It shouldn't be used at all."

Clements said he only said the word once. The remarks, he said, were made Saturday following the driver's meeting at Daytona International Speedway. Upon exiting the meeting, Clements said a female NASCAR employee who was escorting a reporter from MTV approached him.
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I think we can all guess what the word was.
What an idiot. Good luck finding a sponsor, Jeremy.
 
mike honcho said:
Yeah he just should have said she has a Fat Ass.Now comes the part where matt says he didn't say anything like that.
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Time for you to lay off the moonshine.
Again, if you don't like my posts just put me on ignore. (I will even post instructions for you on how to do so) But since you seem to enjoy responding to me whenever possible I am guessing that's not going to happen.
 
I still don't agree with the indefinite suspension.

As for an MTV reporter being upset :rolleyes: Have they seen the stuff people say on their air all the time???
 
Matthew2470 said:
Time for you to lay off the moonshine.
Again, if you don't like my posts just put me on ignore. (I will even post instructions for you on how to do so) But since you seem to enjoy responding to me whenever possible I am guessing that's not going to happen.
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Hey honcho, come get some Franklin County Moonshine... you and I can share some with Matthew. :D
 
Why did it have to be an MTV reporter ? Nascar needs that kind of exposure. Why couldn't it have been some idiot on line reporter that nobody reads.
 
If it's the word I'm thinking, honestly, so what??????

I'm sick and tired of the double standard with these racial terms. If we've evolved as a society in a way that racial terms are terms of endearment in some circles, then don't get offended when others use it. Many of the words that are deemed "insensitive" by our PC society are used in television and music. If you don't think that desensitizes people to words like the c-word or the n-word or anything else, you're just wrong.

If you get a group of African-Americans together, you'll hear the n-word more in five minutes than you'll ever hear in Tuscaloosa, Alabama or Jackson, Mississippi. If you get a group of teenage girls together, you'll hear "bitch", "whore", "slut", the c-word and so much more used as a term of endearment that it will make your ears bleed.

Either these words are acceptable or they aren't. And MTV :rolleyes: They're part of the problem. Watch 30 minutes of "Jersey Shore" and "16 and Pregnant" and the other filth they air and then tell me you're offended by Jeremy Clements. :rolleyes: It's kind of like all these Hollywood film-makers who profit off of making violent movies and then blame the gun manufacturers for gun violence.

If it's wrong for Jeremy Clements to make racial slurs, it's also wrong for Kanye West and 50 Cent to do so. But hey, Kanye's only racist against white people so that's okay.:rolleyes:

This PC **** gets on my nerves -- especially when there's an expectation in our society nowadays that one certain group of people have to be PC and can't say insensitive things while every other demographic gets a free pass.

Out.
 
no need to get all twisted up over it Jags, you got it all posted right there in your signature. Section 12-4-A. True lawyerspeak for any situation or behavior. They got the ball, the bat, and the stadium, complete control. Nothing is going to change that.
 
StandOnIt said:
no need to get all twisted up over it Jags, you got it all posted right there in your signature. Section 12-4-A. True lawyerspeak for any situation or behavior. They got the ball, the bat, and the stadium, complete control. Nothing is going to change that.
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I guess all I'm saying is, the entertainment industry sets the example for our youth. Their programming desensitizes our youth to teenage and even pre-teen sex, drugs, alcohol, violence and more -- and don't tell me it hasn't gotten worse because it has. You have Katy Perry making bubble gum videos with a bubble gum sounding song designed explicitly to appeal to little girls where she's singing about sex on the beach and so on. You have Quentin Tarantino making movies about massacres. You've got these ******** videogames, Grand Theft Auto and so on. Rappers like Kanye West who drop the "N" word more times in one single song than you can even imagine.

These people set the example. But our society lets people like Lindsay Lohan walk free and idolizes football players and celebrities that have done things that you and I would be rotting away in prison for the rest of our lives -- while viciously attacking the good guys like Tim Tebow, Robert Griffin and anyone else who subscribes to the Christian faith. We, as a society, have made it clear - the racial slurs, the derogatory terms about women, the drug use, drunk driving, vehicular manslaughter - all these things are acceptable....unless Average Joe does it, then we crucify them.
 
This was judged to be not detrimental to stock car racing 12-4-a. Life is definitely not fair, nor will it ever be. Ask Kurt Bush..or now Jeremy Clements

 
Gentlemen, please. As someone said earlier, it's NASCAR's sandbox and NASCAR's rules. We can get our panties in a wad and curse the day NASCAR was born, but it changes NOTHING.
If you don't like the way TPTB run things, the only way to get their attention is to quit watching/attending.
You have 2 choices --- accept it, or lump it. End of story.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Gentlemen, please. As someone said earlier, it's NASCAR's sandbox and NASCAR's rules. We can get our panties in a wad and curse the day NASCAR was born, but it changes NOTHING.
If you don't like the way TPTB run things, the only way to get their attention is to quit watching/attending.
You have 2 choices --- accept it, or lump it. End of story.
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:confused: I'm having a hard time understanding why you, or any mod, would seek to shut down a civil conversation on a chat site?

It's chat. It's purpose isn't to change anything.
 
I'm not shutting off civil conversation in any way shape or form. I was merely pointing out what I thought was obvious. We can discuss until the cows come home, but in the end, we have to accept or not accept NASCAR's decision.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
If it's the word I'm thinking, honestly, so what??????


If you get a group of African-Americans together, you'll hear the n-word more in five minutes than you'll ever hear in Tuscaloosa, Alabama or Jackson, Mississippi. If you get a group of teenage girls together, you'll hear "bitch", "whore", "slut", the c-word and so much more used as a term of endearment that it will make your ears bleed.
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And whitey or white boy. More than a few rap songs scream about killing the white man, etc. Yeah, i'm with you, it's time to end the PC BS.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Gentlemen, please. As someone said earlier, it's NASCAR's sandbox and NASCAR's rules. We can get our panties in a wad and curse the day NASCAR was born, but it changes NOTHING.
If you don't like the way TPTB run things, the only way to get their attention is to quit watching/attending.
You have 2 choices --- accept it, or lump it. End of story.
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NASCAR wants to keep watering their product down and that's fine. But let's not blame the tracks or the cars when five million more fans exit the sport because the drivers are afraid to have personalities off the track and are afraid to race on the track. You're right, NASCAR's sandbox. And over the last few weeks, they've sent a message that their drivers have to be PC robots.

All I'm saying is they'll lose five million more fans over it.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Did I miss a post that outlined what was actually said or is everyone still arguing the unknown? o_O
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Smoke14 said:
The only person still arguing the unknown is Andy. ;)
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I know everything.

If Clements had made the comments to or about the female NASCAR official, I'd agree 100% with the suspension. But he didn't. He made candid comments that he shouldn't have made to a reporter off the record (this part pisses me off actually -- "off the record" means you don't hear those comments) around a female NASCAR official.
 
I refuse to discuss this matter until the comment made is known, I am not going to wad up my panties over speculation after spending all that time ironing them.
 
I'll say this - it's not just what he said to the MTV reporter in the vicinity of a NASCAR official. If he hadn't made the comments he made about NASCAR fixing the pole for Danica and hadn't made the comments about how terrible the Daytona 500 was, I think he would've gotten off with a fine and a very stern talking to.
 
Ah yes, I finally found a crappy version at least. This is Jeremy and Nascar drivers in general. The rest of us too for that matter.

 
One final thing. I think if Clements was driving for another owner or had sponsors, this thing would be handled differently. But because he's funding his own operation and thus, public pressure won't force him out of the sport, that's likely why NASCAR reacted the way they did.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I guess all I'm saying is, the entertainment industry sets the example for our youth. Their programming desensitizes our youth to teenage and even pre-teen sex, drugs, alcohol, violence and more -- and don't tell me it hasn't gotten worse because it has. You have Katy Perry making bubble gum videos with a bubble gum sounding song designed explicitly to appeal to little girls where she's singing about sex on the beach and so on. You have Quentin Tarantino making movies about massacres. You've got these ******** videogames, Grand Theft Auto and so on. Rappers like Kanye West who drop the "N" word more times in one single song than you can even imagine.

These people set the example. But our society lets people like Lindsay Lohan walk free and idolizes football players and celebrities that have done things that you and I would be rotting away in prison for the rest of our lives -- while viciously attacking the good guys like Tim Tebow, Robert Griffin and anyone else who subscribes to the Christian faith. We, as a society, have made it clear - the racial slurs, the derogatory terms about women, the drug use, drunk driving, vehicular manslaughter - all these things are acceptable....unless Average Joe does it, then we crucify them.
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Ok I researched Katy Perry
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please more names of young women that is corrupting our society, just womens names for my google images researching, I want to know all about them.
 
Greg said:
Ok I researched Katy Perry View attachment 6019 please more names of young women that is corrupting our society, just womens names for my google images researching, I want to know all about them.
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Taylor Swift needs to do more to corrupt society
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lots of wasted potential not on display.
 
In this new pc world you have to know when to speak and when to shut up, and he just said the wrong thing at the wrong time.
 
Why did people start assuming it was a racial comment?
NASCAR doesn't want anyone messing with their latest cash cow (Danica). Anyone that gets in her way will get killed by NASCAR. It is extremely unfair, but that is what has become of the "sport".
 
paradigm said:
Why did people start assuming it was a racial comment?
NASCAR doesn't want anyone messing with their latest cash cow (Danica). Anyone that gets in her way will get killed by NASCAR. It is extremely unfair, but that is what has become of the "sport".
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So , it wasn't a racial comment , it was a Danica comment?
 
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