Damn this guy has balls. Look at that car. Fearless. I am so impressed.
Not even 2 weeks after Bubba Wallace, a black man who races in NASCAR, successfully got the auto racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities, he’s been the victim of an ugly hit back.
A noose was found in his garage stall.
Now, I’m not going to pretend to know how fans reacted when their precious flag of hate was pulled from events. I don’t pay mind to anything going on in the world of auto racing. But I’m going to just go ahead and assume they weren’t happy about it. And pissing off rednecks is bound to come back at you.
NASCAR announced the discovery late Sunday and said it had launched an immediate investigation. It said it will do everything possible to find who was responsible and ”eliminate them from the sport.”
”We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” the series said in a statement. ”As we have stated unequivocally, there is no place for racism in NASCAR, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all.”
On Twitter, Wallace said the ”the despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and ow persistent we must be in the fight against racism.”
”As my mother told me today, ‘They are just trying to scare you,”’ he wrote. ” This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.
The noose was discovered on the same day NASCAR’s fledgling flag ban faced its biggest challenge. The ban took effect before last week’s race near Miami, but there were only about 1,000 military members admitted into that race. At Talladega, in the heart of the South, as many as 5,000 fans were allowed in, even though rain postponed the race until Monday.