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(14,624 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)doublethink
(6,823 posts)Here it is just popped up on youtube. Peace.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)Karadeniz
(22,492 posts)sheshe2
(83,728 posts)Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)Thats a really rural area.
gibraltar72
(7,501 posts)not race. But we'll be talking about race until this is fixed.
wryter2000
(46,032 posts)"The great equalizer...No one is black or white." That sort of BS is part of the trouble.
But the people down on the track were amazing. Really wonderful
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)I grew up in a car family. My grandad raced midget cars as a young man and, as a young woman, I worked the pit for a friend who was a drag racer. We were always into racing, especially stock car racing, which is what NASCAR was known as before it was cool. We were so hard core we freakin listened to races on the radio! Richard Petty was king in those days, and I worshipped him as a child.
By the time I was in my early twenties, I had Black friends, and I was becoming aware and sensitive to things, especially the culture I grew up in and how different it was from the world I wanted to live in. Racing represented racist hillbilly rednecks in my eyes. I wanted nothing more to do with it. I will never again be a fan, but this moment touched me deeply and for some reason brought back some memories.
No longer a NASCAR fan, but a Bubba fan.
gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)And they are wearing masks.
DeminPennswoods
(15,276 posts)one to greet Wallace as he exited his car.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)spread started increasing in March. Maybe Richard has changed for the good. First by hiring Bubba, and then by flying down to Talladega Monday to show his support.
JudyM
(29,225 posts)Thanks for posting this bit of humanity.