Posted on 06/09/2020 7:22:30 AM PDT by John W
Bubba Wallace wore a shirt that read "I Can't Breathe Black Lives Matter" before Sunday's NASCAR race in Atlanta, and now the circuit's only full-time black driver is pushing for change at the track.
"My next step would be to get rid of all Confederate flags," Wallace told CNN on Monday. "No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. So it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them."
Wallace, who drives the No. 43 car for Richard Petty Motorsports, recognizes his position will not sit well with some people.
"There's going to be a lot of angry people that carry those flags proudly, but it's time for change," he said. "We have to change that, and I encourage NASCAR -- we will have those conversations to remove those flags."
Wallace, a 26-year-old native of Alabama, said he wasn't always bothered by seeing Confederate flags.
"What I'm chasing is checkered flags, and that was kind of my narrative," Wallace said, "but diving more into it and educating myself, people feel uncomfortable with that, people talk about that -- that's the first thing they bring up."
When asked whether he thought his opinion on the Confederate flag was unpopular, Wallace said he sees it as something the sport must take a strong stance on.
"We should not be able to have an argument over that," he said. "It is a thick line we cannot cross anymore."
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Bull shit. You have just declared yourself to be the enemy
Really, Bubba, really?!
OMFG, lame arse mofos will ruin everything.
Woke, SJW, progressivism, liberalism, all utter cancer to this country, utter cancer.
Those that hate the American flag can leave the country.
“My next step would be to get rid of all Confederate flags,” Wallace told CNN on Monday. “
Cool! That would be worth watching. He can run through the campgrounds ripping down the shirts/ flags.
When stock cars stopped being actual production cars and just went to the standardized race cards, NASCAR stopped having any meaning. With the car of tomorrow, the end is complete.
And now they are woke...
You are no better than Wallace.
When were you vested with the right to demand others surrender their rights to your strawman opinions?
If a Confederate Flag offends you, don’t watch NASCAR and don’t go to the South.....although the cowards in statehouses are giving in to the snowflakes and taking them down.......spit!!!
Shed your Democrat ways and put away the flag. Go out and buy an American flag.
We’ve now lost the Bubbas.
At a NASCAR race I feel uncomfortable because of:
the humidity
the heat
the crowds
the smoking
the smell of exhaust and beer
the noise.
Did some one see a Confederate flag?
This racial inequality BS has so jumped the shark!
You don’t like America, go back to the Utopia you call Africa! You won’t, because you wouldn’t last a day in places like the Sudan!
Next thing you know, they’ll have “Bubba” kneeling to give up his name!
“No one should feel uncomfortable at a nsscar race” good then stop wearing your “i cant breathe shirt” and pushing blm. or its gonna be a long time before another black driver has a sponser at a nascar race. you had one job, “drive” and you screwed that up bubba.
I have sensitive ears. Can’t think of much more unpleasant than a race track for motorized anything!
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
[[[Those that hate the American flag can leave the country.]]]
LOL. The impossible dream.
“but diving more into it and educating myself, people feel uncomfortable with that, people talk about that — that’s the first thing they bring up.”
That must be the gay crowd he runs with.
What about the other half that feel uncomfortable about taking it down?
Here, a college professor, on social media, said he would not take a knee. Now some black students want him fired because they feel “unsafe” coming on campus.
I’ve been a NASCAR fan for over fifty years and have been gradually losing interest. I think this has does it.
When we get social justice warriors in the sport instead of race car drivers I’m OUT!
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