A lot of other blogs have written about Bubba Wallace and the noose that wasn’t there. I’m not going to go over the details in depth.
It’s enough to say that someone on Wallace’s pit crew said that there was a noose left in his garage at Talladega after he painted #BlackLivesMatter on his car.
Wallace made the TV circuit, bringing his story of being targeted for racial harassment before American TV audiences. Anyone who doubted that this event was a hate crime, because the last couple of “nooses” found were not actually nooses, were “simple-minded people afraid of change.”
Bubba got a parade on the track.
After a noose was found in his garage stall last night, @NASCAR drivers show their support for @BubbaWallace at Talladega. #IStandWIthBubba pic.twitter.com/uFlxmP27qa
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) June 22, 2020
The FBI investigated the noose and found that it wasn’t a noose and especially wasn’t a hate crime directed at Wallace. The noose in question was a loop tied in the end of the garage door pull. Every garage door had a similar loop and the one in Wallace’s bay had been there, on security camera, since late last year.
#nascarnoose solved. These images are all from the garages at Talladega SuperSpeedway.
Image 1 shows rope “nooses” are affixed to every garage bay door as a pull down.
Image 2 shows Bubba’s bay 4 in Nov. 2019.
Image 3 is of bay 4 after the incident. Notice the rope is cut. pic.twitter.com/2rHdSdgtOo
— Dr. James Washington (@JamesWashngton) June 23, 2020
Wallace responded to the FBI findings by saying the loop was “a straight-up noose” and “whether tied in 2019, or whatever, it was a noose.” Al Sharpton came to his defense, bringing all the integrity of the Tawana Brawley case with him.
Bubba Wallace impugned the character of NASCAR, other drivers and their crews, the fans, and the good people of Alabama. He even got the Governor of Alabama to criticize the people of her state in a rush to judgment.
On a side note: the things I would give to see on governor say “The last several of these noose incidents have turned out to be misunderstandings of innocuous items, I do not believe the residents of my state are racists, let us wait for the FBI to finish their investigation before I condemn my fellow [state residents].”
This is the same stuff other blogs have covered. What I want to get into is why this happened, or why I believe it happened.
Consider that this is his pinned tweet.
There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport..I am the 1. You're not gonna stop hearing about "the black driver" for years. Embrace it, accept it and enjoy the journey..
— Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) November 8, 2017
Clearly identity politics is part of his marketing ploy.
Wallace won the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series in 2014, came in 2nd at Daytona in 2018, he came in 3rd at the Brickyard in 2018, and 14th at Talladega. He was the 2010 rookie of the year and is now ranked 21st in the Nascar Cup Series.
His career seems to be trending downward. Richard Petty has no tolerance for losers. If Bubba was the victim of a hate crime, he’d be untouchable for at least another year or two. He couldn’t be fired by Petty Motorsports without having the excuse that he was being silenced or marginalized or something.
He might even pick up additional sponsors.
Considerer the case of Danica Patrick. She did not make a lot of NASCAR fans happy. She was a good racer in Indy but not in NASCAR. She had zero wins, seven top tens, one pole position, her best finish was 24th place, and she ended her career with a rank of 47.
A big deal was made about her being a woman in NASCAR but her record wasn’t all that impressive. If she was a dude named Dan, her record would not have made her the spokesperson for GoDaddy. So what did? Her jubblies in those infamous GoDaddy commercials.
If you want to race with the boys and be treated like one of the boys, you don’t use your girls to get sponsorships and recognition that is way above your rank.
NASCAR fans had little patience for this.
Bubba seems to have gone down the same path. He’s not the best driver. He’s the black driver, and when he starts to slip to the back of the pack, it’s not his driving skills but his skin color that he’s going to use to get back out in front of the camera.
Maybe I’m being aggressively cynical but it seems like Bubba needed a way to keep his career going without a top ten finish at Talladega and the current zeitgeist and a garage door pull provided that like manna from heaven.
Consider what Kaperknik did- use controversy to energize what would be an otherwise mediocre sports career.
Plus, there’s no shortage of rich white people happy to virtue signal on their behalf.
All Bubba Wallace is doing is damaging is own brand. Didn’t know BLM liked NASCAR.
NASCAR is doing that all on there own. NASCAR = National Auto Sport Center Around Rednecks. So the ban the battle flags and say FU to their base. NFL is the same way. They are both circling the toilet bowl
NASCAR is also “undergoing a gradual shift” on guns as of last year.
Bubba Wallace and the #43 car had no sponsors at the last race, and that was the reason he was able to paint his car with the black lives matter scheme.
This was a phony racist noose incident like Jussie Smollett being attacked in Sub Zero Chicago Winter Weather at 2am by two mysterious black Nigerian “white men” screaming “MAGA Country!” I do not remember ever hearing about an actual proven racial incident involving a noose, but plenty of hoaxes, and too many “suspicious, but suddenly the college won’t even talk about that noose” stories. I also remember the “Census Worker Lynched!” story that was a suicide ten years ago this Summer.
Because it was a noose, I was suspicious, and when no one from NASCAR showed a picture of the noose, I knew that it was going to be a false, made up, publicity stunt, that needed to play out. I wonder what the other NASCAR Drivers, Crew, and Talladega Track Staff honestly think of their being slimed and defamed as racist Alabama Klansmen?
Richard Petty Racing might run out of backup cars?
Danica Patrick was not especially successful in Indycar either – her one and only win was a rain shortened race in Japan that was called while underway due to conditions. Her pit timing was off the main pack and when they called it for conditions, she was in the lead as the leaders were or had just recently pitted.
She was a typical middle of the pack driver – better than any of us but unless she could bring some sponsorship, she was going to be watching the races on TV like the rest of us.
Also bear in mind that Danica Patrick wasn’t the first woman driver in Indy cars. Janet Guthrie placed top 10 at the Indy 500 before Danica Patrick was even born. For that matter, Wendell Scott, was the first black driver in NASCAR so long ago that he died of old age before Bubba Wallace was born.
Some people are so desperate to be a victim for the attention that it borderlines the psychotic.
The lesson leftists refuse to learn is that your plumbing and pigmentation has no economic value whatsoever. None.
The economics are simple. Your value as an employee is directly related to the money you bring into the business. Bring more, get paid more. While a Danica Patrick may make a bit of a splash because she is easy on the eyes, if she is not winning the races, that becomes last year’s fad real fast. Same with those that are the first black driver, of the first black quarterback, or the first female coach, or whatever. If you do not produce more income for your employer than it is costing them to keep you on, you are gone.
Additionally, creating a scandal (noose? Attached to the handle of the garage door pull? What are the odds?) will only stave off your dismissal for a short time. It does not generate sufficient income for your employer to save your job.
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I am going to have to give Bubba a break on this one. I agree it wasn’t a threat but that’s a noose.
I don’t disagree. But Bubba damn sure could have done without that Don Lemon interview.
And to be fair to him, it appears that he wasn’t the one who found it either. Supposedly, he knew nothing about it until the President of NASCAR told him.
This “race” crap is doing more to segregate colors than anything else. Only “black lives matter “. So what this will do is make EVERY OTHER COLOR stay away from blacks. If you want to only look at race no one will look at you. Its getting very very old
This is what happens when liberalism infects ANYTHING. It gets destroyed.
I’d like to point out, once again, how much better at being journalists you are than any actual news source.
Headline this morning I saw on CNN: “See the noose left in bubba Wallace’s garage”
I click it and not a single pick of it….
Keep up the good work gentleman.