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Bubba Wallace wants Confederate flags removed from NASCAR tracks
ESPN ^ | June 9, 2020 | ESPN

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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KEYWORDS: byebyebubba; chatforum; confederate; halfbreed; itsaflag; nascar; sports
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To: Reno89519

Bull shit. You have just declared yourself to be the enemy


21 posted on 06/09/2020 7:34:35 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: John W

Really, Bubba, really?!
OMFG, lame arse mofos will ruin everything.

Woke, SJW, progressivism, liberalism, all utter cancer to this country, utter cancer.


22 posted on 06/09/2020 7:34:39 AM PDT by cranked
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To: headstamp 2
They hate the American flag too. That’s next.

Those that hate the American flag can leave the country.

23 posted on 06/09/2020 7:34:52 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: John W

“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.


24 posted on 06/09/2020 7:35:08 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: ilgipper

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...


25 posted on 06/09/2020 7:36:08 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Reno89519

You are no better than Wallace.

When were you vested with the right to demand others surrender their rights to your strawman opinions?


26 posted on 06/09/2020 7:36:42 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: John W

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!!!


27 posted on 06/09/2020 7:36:43 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: bert
Enemy? Of what? Racism? Of the KKK? Of hate and bigotry? What are you, a lifetime member of the Democrat party? People flying the Confederate flag are no different than BLM, Antifa, etc.Sad. Your problem, not mine. So I'm your enemy, big deal. So to are any real Republicans, conservatives, and Americans.

Shed your Democrat ways and put away the flag. Go out and buy an American flag.

28 posted on 06/09/2020 7:37:42 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: John W

We’ve now lost the Bubbas.


29 posted on 06/09/2020 7:37:44 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: John W
No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race.

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?

30 posted on 06/09/2020 7:38:51 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: John W

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!


31 posted on 06/09/2020 7:39:34 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: John W

Next thing you know, they’ll have “Bubba” kneeling to give up his name!


32 posted on 06/09/2020 7:39:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DesertRhino
Future racing...from your basement


33 posted on 06/09/2020 7:41:10 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: John W

“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.


34 posted on 06/09/2020 7:41:12 AM PDT by Ikeon (Simple minds think alike. , they dont hold a lot of options,)
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To: Thommas

I have sensitive ears. Can’t think of much more unpleasant than a race track for motorized anything!


35 posted on 06/09/2020 7:41:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MarvinStinson
"Who the hell is Bubba Wallace ?"

Bubba Wallace -- "NASCAR's only Black driver"

36 posted on 06/09/2020 7:41:31 AM PDT by TXnMA (Anagram: "PANDEMIC --> DEM PANIC")
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To: Reno89519

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.


37 posted on 06/09/2020 7:42:36 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Reno89519

[[[Those that hate the American flag can leave the country.]]]

LOL. The impossible dream.


38 posted on 06/09/2020 7:43:43 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: John W

“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.


39 posted on 06/09/2020 7:43:52 AM PDT by odawg
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To: plain talk

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!


40 posted on 06/09/2020 7:43:57 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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