A noose was found in the garage stall of a Black driver by the name of Bubba Wallace at a NASCAR race in Alabama on Sunday, less than two weeks after he successfully pushed the auto racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities.
NASCAR announced the discovery late Sunday and said it had launched an immediate investigation. It said it will do everything possible to find who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.”
“We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” the series said in a statement. “As we have stated unequivocally, there is no place for racism in NASCAR, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all.”
Wallace is the only fulltime Black driver in NASCAR’s elite Cup Series. On Twitter, he said “the despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and ow persistent we must be in the fight against racism.”
“As my mother told me today, ‘They are just trying to scare you,'” he wrote. ” This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.
The noose was found on the same day NASCAR’s fledgling flag ban faced its biggest challenge.
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