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Originally Posted by IndySprintCar Good post. The answer is simple. The end goal for those companies will always be to make profit. If a percentage of those company's customers are ethnic, having a spokesperson throw out an inflammatory slur runs completely counter to that goal...and you can't have that. I guarantee you when the marketing heads of those corporations met to discuss how to deal with this, "second chances" and "political correctness" were never discussed. What was discussed was what to do about a spokesperson that just alienated customers with money to spend. That is the sole topic of that discussion. You make it about ********, political correctness, etc...and you'll be wrong. Kyle, like all of us, is completely free to drop N-bombs whenever and wherever he wants. The first amendment guarantees that. But, if you're gonna make millions fronting for a company with black customers, don't be shocked when you say something that pisses those customers off and the company fires you over it. If you don't like that reality, go race something at your local track out of your own pocket and you can run your mouth however you want. If you want to make $10,000,000 per year and have big time corporate sponsors, know the rules of the game you signed up for...and don't act shocked when a driver loses his ride for breaking one of them.

Exactly!