TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in the elite Cup Series who just two weeks ago successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues.
“I don’t think anybody really connects it to any kind of racism or anything,” he said. “It’s just a Southern thing. It’s transparent. It’s just a heritage thing.”
Deliberate ignorance at this point.
Thanks, Trump. You are guilty of Stochastic Terrorism.
NASCAR…vowed to do everything possible to find who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.”
So that would be the extent of their punishment?
Rednecks gotta redneck. Lock 'em up…
There is something fishy about this story… not that the NASCAR crowd is above this kind of stuff, on the contrary it’s right up their alley. But still something is off.
Nothing says that the confederate flag isn’t about oppressing black people like hanging a noose in Bubba Wallaces garage.
So why the hell does every story on this give print space for people like Ed Sugg’s here to lie and say it’s not? When one side is CLEARLY lying, without the reporter confronting the lie, false balance journalism stops acting as ‘journalism’ and just becomes a vehicle for disingenuous liars to spread the lies to others.
The follow up-question is never asked: “Now that you’ve been made aware that the Confederate flag is disrespectful to America, and is very widely celebrated as a symbol of hatred, racism and disloyalty to America, will you stop selling it?”
Yesterday:
Vehicles lined the boulevard outside Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, waving the flag and a plane flew above the track towing a banner of a Confederate flag that read, “Defund NASCAR.”
Meanwhile, Trump has made defending confederate statues a part of his reelection campaign . . .
Essentially cutting off their income. If they can’t race, they can’t earn any money. I can see, once identified, the team losing sponsorships and all the rest.
Now, if Wallace decides to go after them for a hate crime, that’s a civil/criminal action and yeah, he could probably win the suit - then there’s more punishment for that.
What bothers me is some that are equating this with the guy who made up the hate crime attack on himself in Chicago and it turned out to be a hoax. I don’t understand anyone that would make something like this up because then it becomes the metric for actual hate crimes and detracts from the seriousness of the situation. So now there’s doubt sown out there as to whether or not this actually happened and did he do it himself to make a case.
“I don’t think anybody really connects it to any kind of racism or anything,” he said. “It’s just a Southern thing. It’s transparent. It’s just a heritage thing.”
This just stands on its own. Not much else to wrap around it.
Wallace,Truly a brave man…
F1 driver Lewis Hamilton is also bringing it.
Excerpt:
Who’s worse? The bully that beats you down and torments you or the bystanders that turn away when their words or actions could make all the difference?
For me, and so many others around the world, seeing George Floyd’s murder triggered a sense of deep pain, anguish and frustration. For some of those who saw my social media posts, it may have been hard to understand why I reacted the way I did. After all, from the outside looking in, the life of an unintended American martyr in the city of Minneapolis, a place I’ve never visited, has nothing to do with me. But an all too common display of police brutality in the US has led to a global awakening to the systemic racism, witnessed and experienced by every person of colour across the world, and something that is only too familiar to me.
From the article on Lewis Hamilton, above:
As Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” Now is the time to learn more, say more, and most importantly, do more. Winning championships is great, but I want to be remembered for my work creating a more equal society through education. That’s what drives me.
Beat me to it.
Most certainly transparent. Profitable still, apparently.
very fine people
Trying to interpret the message being sent here: don’t take away a flag that symbolizes my history, which is totally non-racist. To make the point about now non-racist the flag is, and how non-racist I am, here’s a noose.
More like: “We’re violent racists who want to be both appreciated and feared.”
