Several sponsors of a race track in the US state of North Carolina have the partnership discontinued because the racist owner of the trail, Mike Fulp, offered slings for sale in a Facebook post. “Buy your Bubba sling today for only $ 9.99 each, it comes with a lifetime warranty and they work great,” the text read.
Last weekend, on the Talladega race track in the garage of Bubba Wallace, the only black Nascar driver, a ceiling found. Because Wallace had spoken out against racism in the previous weeks, Nascar initially assumed that a racist had hung the noose to intimidate the driver. After an investigation by the FBI found that the noose had been hanging since last fall, Nascar adjusted that lecture.
At the insistence of Wallace, Nascar decided to launch the Confederate flag earlier this month no longer allow at races, because of the associations with the slavery past that flag evokes. The flag ban was protested around the race on the Talladega circuit. For example, an airplane flew above the circuit with the Confederate flag and the text ‘Defund Nascar’.
Wallace stated in an interview that people have the right to peacefully protest the ban on the Confederate flag at Nascar races. “The police will not spray pepper spray on their face or shoot them with rubber bullets,” said the driver. Black Lives Matter protesters who have taken to the streets in recent weeks have regularly been subjected to violent police action. For example, an agent sprayed a 7-year-old boy with a caustic.
Bubba Wallace says people have the right to peacefully protest NASCAR’s ban of the Confederate flag. He adds: “You won’t see cops pepper spraying them and shooting them with rubber bullets, will you?” pic.twitter.com/u1NPqodbyg
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) June 26, 2020
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