{"id":59751,"date":"2020-06-22T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59751"},"modified":"2020-06-22T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T00:05:17","slug":"the-confederate-flag-didnt-bother-bubba-wallace-until-it-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59751","title":{"rendered":"The Confederate Flag Didn\u2019t Bother Bubba Wallace. Until It Did."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Confederate Flag Didn\u2019t Bother Bubba Wallace. Until It Did.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2020-06-19<\/p>\n

Juliet Macur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nBarry Cantrell<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The only black driver in NASCAR\u2019s top tier<\/a>, he has emerged as an impassioned activist who got the flag banned at races in the largely white sport after years of putting up with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Darrell \u201cBubba\u201d Wallace Jr.<\/a>, the only black driver in NASCAR\u2019s top racing series, has drawn widespread attention and acclaim for his principled stand that got the Confederate flag banned<\/a> from races in a largely white sport.<\/p>\n

Yet, after years of often quiet acceptance of the sport\u2019s \u201cracist label,\u201d as he put it, nobody was more surprised than his mother that he had become a central figure in the sports world\u2019s upheaval regarding race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked,\u201d his mother, Desiree Wallace, said in a telephone interview. \u201cI said, \u2018Wait a minute, is this my son? The one who doesn\u2019t really care about anything but getting in the car and driving?\u2019 I\u2019m tripping that he\u2019s gone from being a racecar driver to becoming a daggone activist. Who does that? Not Bubba.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet a series of events, particularly the killing of a black man, Ahmaud Arbery<\/a>, while he was jogging in a predominantly white neighborhood in Georgia<\/a>, flipped a switch in Wallace, he and those who know him said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only black driver in NASCAR\u2019s top tier, he has emerged as an impassioned activist who got the flag banned at races in the largely white sport after years of putting up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,23674,20],"tags":[30870,30863,30865,30901,27319,30867,30868,2640,7222,2327],"class_list":["post-59751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-auto-racing","tag-bubba-wallace","tag-darrell-bubba-wallace-jr","tag-desiree-wallace","tag-juliet-macur","tag-nascar","tag-national-association-for-stock-car-auto-racing","tag-new-york-times","tag-sports","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59753,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751\/revisions\/59753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}