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🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Monday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. |
0:05.2 | Buckle up, hit that like button and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about today is NASCAR and then more specifically Bubba Wallace. |
0:12.7 | Alright, so this story actually starts a couple of weeks ago when Wallace, who is this series current only full-time black driver, began driving this Black Lives Matter car. And look, Wallace didn't just stop with that car or the shirt that says, I can't breathe. He's actually been very outspoken about |
0:24.8 | change in NASCAR and how that ties back to the nationwide protests that we've seen starting |
0:29.0 | dialogue after dialogue all over the country. And, in fact, on June 8th, we saw Wallace say |
0:33.4 | this. My next step would be to get rid of all Confederate flags. There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good |
0:40.3 | time with their family that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object |
0:45.2 | they have seen flying. |
0:47.2 | No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. |
0:50.2 | So it starts with Confederate flags. |
0:51.7 | Get them out of here. |
0:52.7 | They have no place for them. And you know, here, as far as what the situation was, NASCAR had actually already banned the |
0:56.8 | Confederate flag for use on all cars and official merchandise. Also back in 2015, they asked |
1:01.5 | fans to not display the Confederate flag at races, but it had never officially been banned. However, |
1:05.7 | just two days after Wallace made those comments on CNN, we saw NASCAR releasing a statement saying, The presence of the Confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment |
1:13.6 | to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors, and our |
1:17.7 | industry. Bringing people together around a love for racing in the community that it creates |
1:21.9 | is what makes our fans and sports special. The display of the Confederate flag will be prohibited |
1:25.8 | from all NASCAR events and properties. |
1:27.9 | And from there, we saw Wallace cheering on that decision at a race later that day. |
1:31.4 | Though at the time of that event, NASCAR really didn't have to worry about enforcing that rule because |
1:34.9 | NASCAR had not actually started to allow fans back into stadiums yet. |
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