At Atlanta in 2022, NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver raced with a “Black Lives Matter” paint scheme and wore a shirt that read, ‘I Can’t Breathe.’ And this came after a stronger threat came to young Bubba Wallace and was proven baseless. We are all aware of the 2020 ‘Noose incident,’ right? NASCAR got protective about their driver, and the FBI was involved in finding the reasons. The flying of Confederate flags was banned by NASCAR that year onwards.
While many fans wanted to keep this custom running, some stood against NASCAR’s decision to fly Confederate flags just outside the tracks. And this was the mixture of emotions for two events, one which happened with Bubba, and the other was the heinous act against George Perry Floyd Jr. And, Wallace was at the center of the line that the sport had drawn.
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“The time is now to listen, to understand and to stand against racism and racial injustice,” NASCAR President Steve Phelps declared on June 10, 2020, before banning the tradition completely. And, even if Bubba was not quite vocal about it back then, he recently used four decisive words to address how he felt about the change.
