Posted on 06/21/2020 8:16:03 PM PDT by Stravinsky
NASCAR said it is investigating after a noose was found in the garage of black driver Bubba Wallace on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama.
"Late this afternoon, NASCAR was made aware that a noose was found in the garage stall of the 43 team. We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act," NASCAR said in a statement. "We have launched an immediate investigation, and will do everything we can to identify the person(s) responsible and eliminate them from the sport.
"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."
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What kind of snowflake would be scared by a noose?
Bubba lost his only sponsor in April for “rage-quitting” the Bristol Speedway Irace.
I bet Petty Racing was preparing to replace him and this is simply to make him untouchable for the year. Petty will now have to wait till next season to replace him.
Wallace doesn’t care about BLM, he’s just hijacking their narrative in a desperate act to keep his ride.
Auto-strangulation ???
Wallace said he never saw it. It was reported by one of his staff.
i don’t know about that- many black folks secretly applaud blm’s racist tactics- and most won’t wait for trials, they convict in the court of public opinion and nothing will ever change their minds- not trials, not evidence- nothing- Even ‘staunch conservative’ blacks you would think would wait for trials and evidence to be presented before convicting in the court of public opinion, come out and condemn before evidence is presented in actual courts- I’ve heard them time and time again- they are mostly conservative, but deep down- they harbor a chip against ‘white society’, and every now and again let it slip- people you would never suspect of that kind of knee jerk emotional convictions before the defendants eve have a chance to defend themselves—
I’m done with bubba- Was rooting for him awhile back, but nope- no more- not after these last few stunts of his- just about done with nascar too- they are all in with blm- all in with kneeling- - and all heir idiotic new rules and race crap like ‘competition yellow’ and ‘stages’ crap- uh uh- just ruined nascar-
I overheard some of them this afternoon, "Did you hear the latest thing your President did?" "Well, MY President is Obama" (big laughs all around) and then the conversation segued into applause about Kaepernick and his kneeling. All this from people who in all other respects seemed to be sensible and socially conservative. It's appalling.
Looks like he’s making a career out of having dark skin.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in turn 4 crash.
Yep
You need a special ticket to get into the pits garage area. Also, camera are around the area, since you don’t want your competition to sabotage your car. I’m not going to say Bubba did it, but it’s unlikely someone (a fan) did it.
Aha! But who put it there?????
Except “SRO” doesn’t mean anything anymore in NASCAR. Many of these tracks have been removing sections of their grandstands — because attendance was declining for years even before this whole fiasco.
Here’s a telling sign of trouble for NASCAR: The company itself owns 13 tracks that were going to host more than half the races in the original 2020 Cup schedule. After going through a period of robust growth in the 1980s and 1990s that expanded NASCAR beyond its traditional hotbed in the South, they haven’t opened a new track since 2001.
Does he have any Black pit crew or others with ready access?
I am pretty sure that Petty does NOT have to wait until end of season to replace a driver.
Have followed many kinds of racing for over 60 years & never heard of such a thing.
BLM or pantyFA put it there to frame NASCAR people. The ONLY goal is to destroy every corner of America and its traditions so totalitarian Communism can be rolled atop the eliminated Constitution.
Dale Earnhardt died!
Bubba Wallace is the new Jessie Smollet.
NASCAR’s only black driver is said to have found a noose in his garage. He’s a black lives matter supporter and he said he will not be intimidated.
I call Bull $hit.
Yes. Almost no chance it’s actually the MAGA-supporting white man they want it to be.
I know.
They are nearly salivating at the prospect, and even if it isn’t true, they want to forward some hint to their readers that a red MAGA hat wearing Trump supporter is somehow involved.
Disgusting, but...this is what they do.
Yes.
I live in the Bluest of states, and I get this all the time at work, because I am not vocal about my politics at work unless someone solicits an honest opinion directly.
Gee, what a concept...keeping your politics and religion out of the workplace, who’d have thunk it?
Funny thing about Leftists and some Liberals...they assume, in groups up here, that everyone thinks like they do.
When you are in a group, they will sometimes say things that nearly make you bite through your tongue, and assume you are “one of them”. About the most I will say usually (in a calm, measured voice) is a simple “I feel quite differently about these types of things than you folks do.”
And they often get the hint and clam up. They don’t really want to discuss it...they often just want to stroke each other.
I did have a hilarious (to me) work episode back in 2008 when Sarah Palin was on the ticket.
I worked at the time with a woman (since retired) who is a complete Liberal. (not a Leftist...I avoid them like the plague) I had worked with her closely for many years, and we knew each other well and occasionally socialized. I knew she was a Liberal, and she knew I was a conservative, but we had become good friends in our close work collaboration. She taught me all I know about extensive, in depth, effective software testing in medical applications. She was quite talented, and had written an entire EMR with scheduling, order entry, resulting, and billing back in the Seventies which ran on a mainframe with dumb terminals with light pens. Very much ahead of her time. She was very, VERY sharp.
We occasionally would have dinner together (often when working a large project) and though we didn’t talk politics often, she was the kind of person who would say “I know you are a conservative-what are your thoughts on...” and she would let me speak without interrupting me. After one particularly thorny thing she asked my political opinion on and I laid out for her my reasons, all she could say in response was “Well, you have certainly thought that through...I can’t poke any holes in that.” That meant a lot, coming from someone like her a 40 year employee whose job at the end WAS to poke holes in EVERYTHING she could think of when she was testing software.
Well, she and I were testing a new system, and when we did these tests, we had to create fake test patients in the test system. When I was looking at some examples, I saw that many of them (which she created for me) had fake tests on a patient “Alaska, Sarah”. She wouldn’t have put a fake “Palin, Sarah” in there, but her reference was clear, and I grinned. She liked to name groups of patients in themes, and for this round of testing, she was using States as the last name.
That was a bone she good naturedly threw to me as an inside joke, and I found some enjoyment in it.
However, I wasn’t the only one privy to the patients, other people had to handle them in the course of their testing, and one day when I was in her office, this other woman (A wiry lantern faced Irish woman nearing retirement) who worked with her came storming in and loudly complained “What is this about this Sarah Alaska patient? I am sick of seeing her name appearing, and don’t want to see it anymore!”
Before the other woman I was working with could respond, I said with a slow grin “Well...I don’t know. I kind of like seeing that name, and wouldn’t mind seeing more of it in the years ahead!”
She gaped at me, her mouth opening and closing wordlessly like a landed fish and then backing slowly away managed to stutter out “You...you...you’re...you’re one of THEM!”
I swear, I am grinning at the memory of that as I write this!
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