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| Bubba Wallace Photo: NASCAR |
Lately, I prepare for anything. This morning, the first few tweets I saw were responses to a Trump tweet: a Trump tweet that only shows the President keeps going lower and lower and lower and lower.
For one, Trump needs a distraction as the coronavirus numbers continue to skyrocket in most states. He needs someone to change the subject, and, by attacking the only Black driver in the NASCAR paddock, he gets people talking. Secondly, I'll put it bluntly, Trump needs his base, and that base includes the kind of people that wear tinfoil hats, support the Confederate States of America and the racism that continues to divide our nation.
Sadly, caught in the middle of this, is Bubba Wallace.
Wallace led the fight to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from NASCAR tracks. He should be praised for his leadership in helping an organization that was berthed in the tradition and history of Southern culture to divorce itself from the symbol some white Southerners hold sacred. He and his race team brought attention to the Black Lives Matter cause by running it on his car in a race.
I proudly stand with Bubba Wallace.
Trump decided that today, in the midst of a killer global pandemic he mismanaged, was the perfect time to attack NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. The personal attack against NASCAR's only Black driver comes just two days after the Independence Day holiday and in the middle of a continued discussion about race in our society.
Trump's tweet is mean-spirited, incorrect and wrong at every level, and one has to wonder why anyone in the most powerful office in the land would ever resort to such race-baiting.
For one, Trump needs a distraction as the coronavirus numbers continue to skyrocket in most states. He needs someone to change the subject, and, by attacking the only Black driver in the NASCAR paddock, he gets people talking. Secondly, I'll put it bluntly, Trump needs his base, and that base includes the kind of people that wear tinfoil hats, support the Confederate States of America and the racism that continues to divide our nation.
Sadly, caught in the middle of this, is Bubba Wallace.
Wallace led the fight to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from NASCAR tracks. He should be praised for his leadership in helping an organization that was berthed in the tradition and history of Southern culture to divorce itself from the symbol some white Southerners hold sacred. He and his race team brought attention to the Black Lives Matter cause by running it on his car in a race.
As a leader and as a man, Wallace deserves our accolades and not aspersions from a morally bankrupt failure of a President. He deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work, and I hope President Biden will award him one when he's in office. Make no mistake, Trump's low personal attack will cause Wallace to absorb more hate directed at him from the President's most racist supporters. Hate that has caused him already to need more security.
I proudly stand with Bubba Wallace.
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