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Title: Bubba Wallace to Drive Black Lives Matter Car at Wednesday’s NASCAR Race/Confederate Flags Banned
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Sports Illustrated
URL Source: https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/20 ... -matter-car-paint-martinsville
Published: Jun 10, 2020
Author: Dan Gartland
Post Date: 2020-06-11 03:26:46 by Bill D Berger
Keywords: None
Views: 437
Comments: 16
NASCAR drivers’ cars are usually covered bumper-to-bumper in ads for everything from motor oil to home insurance. But Bubba Wallace’s No. 43 Chevy will promote something very different during Wednesday night’s race at Martinsville. Wallace, NASCAR’s only current Black driver, and his team, Richard Petty Motorsports, unveiled a special Black Lives Matter paint scheme for the race. The car features “#BlackLivesMatter” over the rear wheel, while the hood and back bumper have the phrase, “Compassion, Love, Understanding.” The top of the hood has an illustration of Black and white hands interlocking (you may recognize the image from Drew Brees’s apology Instagram post). “We knew that the Martinsville race was open—we did not sell a sponsorship for that—and it sparked an idea of, why not run a blackout car?” Wallace said in a video posted on RPM’s Twitter page. “Our team brought that idea to me and I jumped all over it. ... Why not dive in straight to the root and put #BlackLivesMatter on the car?” What makes Wallace’s statement especially powerful is that it’s not the safe thing to do. It goes much further than RPM’s vague statement about “recent tragedies” released last week. NASCAR fans, according to a 2011 Scarborough Research poll, are 80% white and only 9% Black. Forty percent of them live in the south. Confederate flags are still flown by fans at racetracks, despite NASCAR’s 2015 request that they be left at home. (NASCAR refused to outright ban the pro-slavery banner at its tracks, but Wallace this week called for the organization to issue a true ban.) If you want to kill a significant portion of your brain cells, click through to either of the tweets above (or this one from @NASCAR) and read the replies. Twitter isn’t the real world, but you can bet that the idiotic replies are reflective of at least a small part of the audience. There are some morons who will stop watching NASCAR because a driver dared to speak out in favor of equality. But there are surely also some people who had never heard of Wallace before, were impressed by his willingness to take a stand and will tune in to see how he does in the race. Poster Comment: Same Guy: NASCAR Bans Confederate Flag After Black Driver Demands ActionThis is a major statement in that sport
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#1. To: Liberator, Esso, Ada, NeoconsNailed, Former Lurker (#0)
Why stop there NASCAR? Why not give black drivers a two-lap head start - because...George Floyd.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Ha ! With "White Privilege" Driver !!! Ya can't make this shit up !
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. " The best thing about old age is that it doesn't last forever. DON'T VAXX ME BRO
I don't think Bubba will finish this race.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I am thinking the Dukes of Hazzard and General Lee would stand a snowball's chance in hell on this one. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"Racist" ! "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. " The best thing about old age is that it doesn't last forever. DON'T VAXX ME BRO
It's all going completely insane. It already was, but now it's 10x more so. It's been clinical all our lives but has reached total psychopathy. Dr. Robert Clarkson used to scoff at the many forms of "worship of the holy negro" that surrounded us in his time, and if he could see things now! I simply can't believe how literally insane it is -- and all because of kike supremacy over the ex-free world and then some. It's an unbearable, loathsome travesty AND GETTING WORSE EVERY DAY! _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Please, don't give them any ideas. NASCAR is losing fans due to their needless grovelling and the season being all messed up due to the wuFlu. Bubba Wallace RAGE QUITS in iRacing to lose NASCAR sponsor NASCAR's first prostrating adventure in 2020... Kyle Larson, a Japanese/American driver, was the first to lose his job and sponsors this year while playing a video game. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. He's black. I don't think he's ever had a win in the NASCAR Cup Series though. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. He finished 11th out of 39 in last night's BLUE-EMU MAXIMUM PAIN RELIEF 500 at Martinsville Speedway in an empty arena, due to WuFlu. Blue-Emu is the sponsor that dropped Bubba due to his temper-tantrum during iRacing while the season was suspended during the lockdown. (Edit) FWIW, the hood and rear quarter panels are some damned expensive real estate on a NASCAR racecar. I'm thinking maybe a million, give or take. Since Bubba blew his sponsorship I guess Richard Petty had to put something on there. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Do I have to cover my Confederate tatoo to enter their properties?
Beats me, I haven't been to a race for two years. I suppose you could buy a ticket starting at about $100 and find out when spectators are allowed back someday. It used to be a pretty cool experience. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Might have trouble with the fast turns, probably some aerodynamic disadvantages too. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Rimz'r Us winner for all show, no go.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. No shit, what do I know ... I don't follow any racing except horses. And I haven't done that since I left California. Del Mar and Santa Anita were almost a second home for years. "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. " The best thing about old age is that it doesn't last forever. DON'T VAXX ME BRO
I'm not much of a sports fan, but I've followed NASCAR for nigh on 60 years. They're losing me. Kneeling just doesn't get it for me. Their recent worship of military and everything government started making me uncomfortable 10+ years ago. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#2. To: Bill D Berger (#0)
#3. To: Bill D Berger (#0)
#4. To: Bill D Berger (#0)
NASCAR Bans Confederate Flag
#5. To: Lod (#3)
I don't think Bubba will finish this race.
#6. To: Bill D Berger (#1)
#7. To: Bill D Berger, 4um (#1)
Why stop there NASCAR? Why not give black drivers a two-lap head start - because...George Floyd.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#8. To: noone222, 4um (#2)
With "White Privilege" Driver !!!
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#9. To: Lod, 4um (#3)
(Edited)
I don't think Bubba will finish this race.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#10. To: Esso (#9)
#11. To: Screen Name, 4um (#10)
Do I have to cover my Confederate tatoo to enter their properties?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#12. To: Esso (#11)
#13. To: Dakmar (#12)
#14. To: Dakmar, 4um (#12)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#15. To: Esso (#8)
He's black.
#16. To: noone222, NASCAR, 4um (#15)
I don't follow any racing except horses.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
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