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Driver Bubba Wallace (front left) and team owner Richard Petty (front right) stand for the United States national anthem in the pits of the Talladega Superspeedway
NASCAR went to Talladega Superspeedway on heightened alert after Bubba Wallace, its only black driver, took on an active role in a push for racial equality.
Wallace had successfully called for the ban of the Confederate flag and received threats. “Fans” paraded past the main entrance of the Alabama track displaying the flag, and a plane circled above the speedway towing a Confederate flag banner that read: “Defund Nascar.”
Nascar moved quickly when one of Wallace’s crew members discovered a rope that resembled a noose in their garage stall. The sanctioning body called in federal authorities, who ruled on Tuesday that it had been hanging there since at least October and was not part of a hate crime.
Police face ‘extreme hostility’ as fans clash following Scottish Cup tie
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER