NASCAR released a news Sunday (June 21) from Talladega Superspeedway after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace’s No. 43 car. The news broke just before 11 p.m. but the discovery was made that afternoon.
Officials responded with a statement vowing to identify any individuals involved in the act as soon as possible. No one person was attributed to the release.
“Late this afternoon, NASCAR was made aware that a noose was found in the garage stall of the 43 team,” the statement read. “We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act. We have launched an immediate investigation, and will do everything we can to identify the person(s) responsible and eliminate them from the sport. 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.”
The statement, however, was ridiculed as “another Jussie Smollett case” by a host of right-wing personalities.
A number of conservative commentators have either showed skepticism or downright dismissed NASCAR’s claims that a noose was found in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall.
But Mark Dice decide to take one step further and offered alleged evidence.
History will remember that because of the current hysteria in the country, someone thought the garage door pull rope handle was a "noose" meant to intimidate NASCAR's only black driver, and nobody spoke up to explain what it was out of fear they'd be called racist. #BubbaSmollett twitter.com/MattWeaverAW/s…
All of NASCAR rallied behind him because the basic garage door pull rope is racist.
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Here's a close up. Just the garage door pull handle that's been a standard on the garages there for years.
Now the garage door pull handle (the fake "noose") has been cut off on bay 4. Here's a before and after photo. The looped handles are standard on many of the doors. h/t @TheLastRefuge2
In the end of his hour-long rant against Bubba Wallace Mark Dice posted a video where he asked if the loop that has been tied to the garage is the alleged noose that everyone was talking about:
People have been tying a loop in their garage door handles like that for years. We had one in ours when I was younger, the loop helped pull the door down and when you locked the door from the inside at night you would put the loop around a hook so the door couldn’t be pulled up.
But in any case, this so-called evidence was offered by Mark Dice and not the Conservative US we are here to report the news that was widely ignored by the mainstream media!
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