As much as I didn't care for the Confederacy, I recognized it was but the first step to their ultimate prize. It was a "Hill to Die On", and unfortunately people are going to realize that far too late.
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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“...Has the South got nothing else to be proud of?...”
Well, the South kicks Yankee butt every year in college football...There’s that....
He’s also a lousy 2nd or 3rd tier driver. Just another EEOC hire.
He doesnt have the stamina
fainted on air
https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/bubba-wallace-faints-during-live-nascar-interview/
he’s a half breed.
NASCAR should replace all white drivers and their crews with blacks. That would make a woke statement.
Leftists are now saying the same thing about the American Flag. And a year from now you'll be taking a knee (again) mewling that we need to take down Old Glory, virtue signaling like a Karen. Or probably you'll go full prostrate.
And anybody “of reasonably normal IQ” should care about your HISTORICALLY IGNORANT, SELF-righteous, & frankly STUPID personal opinion, exactly WHY??
IMO, you need to do some serious research BEFORE “shooting off your mouth”.
Yours, TMN78247
Has the token ever won a race?
LAUGHINT AT ignorant, CLUELESS FOOLS, like YOU for example.
Yours, TMN78247
LAUGHING AT ignorant, CLUELESS FOOLS, like YOU for example.
Yours, TMN78247
Bubba is all scalawag and cuck. He is such an invertebrate zip wad.
He’s right up there with Danica Patrick
When will they NASCAR institute the mandatory kneeling and licking of the obama statue that they will have erected?
Yeah. I think we need to rid ourselves of all history. Why have history to be used as teaching moments. Our Education system has already come to that conclusion by almost eliminating all history.
Just think if we can remove all history then we can start with the new history starting any where we want.
Quick, hide the General Lee in the Barn along with your collection of The Dukes of Hazard DVD’s.
I’m sure Soros and BLM will be happy to sponsor him. I can see it now. BLM on the hood, Pepsi, Nestle, Target, King Arthur Flour stickers, his car number, 1,000,000, a and an ANTIFA trailer in the parking lot selling black masks, umbrellas, and skateboards.
“Rightly or wrongly, it has the same odor as the Nazi flag ...”
Wrongly.
Free Speech is a bitch.
I don’t are if someone decides to fly a Nazi Flag, the Japanese Hinomaru or a Confederate Flag, (the symbols of our past Enemies) it’s their Right as a Free American to do so.
You can choose to shun those who do, which is also your Right as a Free American.
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