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Originally Posted by roscoguy
Your story aside, you & many others still seem to be missing the point.
Bubba Wallace, "NASCAR's only Black full-time driver" didn't find the noose. A member of his team did. It truly seems to be a coincidence that it was hanging in the garage stall he was assigned, but is apparently unique in all of NASCAR. " Across the 1,684 garage stalls at 29 tracks, NASCAR found only 11 total had a pull-down rope tied in a knot and only one noose — the one discovered Sunday in the No. 43 garage stall." NASCAR completes investigation into No. 43 at Talladega | NASCAR
That being the case, what would this team member assume? That a rope fashioned with an actual noose at the end meant nothing? Even with the dark history of lynchings in the past? This wouldn't even have been the first time that a noose was purposely left as a symbol of hate & bigotry in recent times. Fortunately, it turned out to have been directed at no one in particular, but who could have known that at the moment it was found? Under those circumstance, nearly anyone would have reported it. Just because it turned out to have been unintentional, it doesn't make it a hoax. |
Nearly anyone would have reported it? If it had been there for months than probably many people have seen and even used it. So I believe many people ignored it and took it for what they thought it was, namely a rope with a clever loop. Some may have thought it was a cleverly done noose for the door but they didn't make the dark connection. One person saw it and made that connection, either right or wrong. Nascar could have investigated it without making it a national upheaval. Why didn't they? That's a very interesting question. Let's say the noose was done with ill intentions. Should it have gotten to this level? Remember Nascar is a business. How many businesses deal with racially sensitive situations each and every day, hundreds, thousands? Should each one be national news and ammunition for chaos? For some the answer might be yes. For others, like me, the answer is punish wrong doers for their actions but don't use individual incidents to push a political narrative or as an excuse to use it for violence. How many swastikas are painted on the side of Jewish homes and synagogues? How many make the news? Maybe swastikas really don't have any bad memories for Jews. Oh, Jews are white, never mind. There are so, so many horrible things happening everyday in this world, things that don't simply hurt feels but actually take lives and we make a monumental deal of a rope fashioned like a noose. So much for our priorities.