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Featured Editorial: NASCAR Still Has Work To Do to Eliminate Its Image as a Racist Safe Zone

from St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Featured Editorial: NASCAR Still Has Work To Do to Eliminate Its Image as a Racist Safe Zone St. Louis Post-Dispatch At a time when the rest of the country is focused like a laser beam on improving race relations and seriously addressing all vestiges of systemic racism, some NASCAR fans insist that, no, now’s the time to celebrate America’s slaveholding past. Just two weeks after NASCAR announced a ban on displays of Confederate flags at its events, fans unleashed new expressions of hate this week. A noose was discovered in a garage used by the premier circuit’s sole Black driver, Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr., at Alabama’s Talladega Speedway. READ MORE

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