Reggie White, one of the National Football League’s greatest defensive players of all time, has accused Jesse Jackson of taking “a quarter of million dollars from NASCAR and not do[ing] anything with it. “It’s really disappointing to me that Jesse and his organization would take a quarter of a million dollars from NASCAR and not do anything with it to try to get black drivers into the sport,” White said in an interview on FOX News Channel’s Fox & Friends Wednesday morning. NASCAR has reportedly given at least $250,000 to Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition as part of an effort to increase the number of minority racers in the sport.(see full story at CNSNews.com )(7-17-2003)
