{"id":73292,"date":"2020-06-09T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=73292"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:21:03","slug":"nascar-drivers-release-video-condemning-racial-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-drivers-release-video-condemning-racial-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Drivers Release Video Condemning Racial Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will listen and learn!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMattters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMattters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AYoYdY8IlX\">pic.twitter.com\/AYoYdY8IlX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BubbaWallace\/status\/1269693667796795394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With racial tensions at an all-time high, several NASCAR drivers released a video speaking about racial injustices in our nation. The video starts off with Bubba Wallace, NASCAR&#8217;s sole African American driver in the sport. Wallace has been very vocal about his opinion on the matter, he was seen sporting an &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Breathe&#8221; shirt under his race suit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport..I am the 1. You&#8217;re not gonna stop hearing about &#8220;the black driver&#8221; for years. Embrace it, accept it and enjoy the journey..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BubbaWallace\/status\/928382162063249408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the video includes drivers such as Daniel Suarez, Ty Dillon, Jimmie Johnson, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, and others.<\/p>\n<p>After finished seventh in Sunday\u2019s race, Johnson explained that he took an active role in organizing the drivers\u2019 message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was involved in helping put it together, and I was just really proud of the drivers who got involved,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHonestly proud of NASCAR and what they did, but it\u2019s been a personal journey on a much deeper level this week for me to listen and learn, and as a lot of us drivers started chatting about the week and experience and a lot of this was led by Bubba. Really have to give him a ton of credit, including Ty Dillon, the accountability that those two really put on the garage area, put on me \u2011 not directly on me, but I could just see \u2011 it made a difference, and I think that resonated with a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent a lot of time listening and learning this week, and that message rang clear with many of my other driver friends, and we kind of found that message, and that was the message that made it into the video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR also released this statement on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ALtTVvzfoy\">pic.twitter.com\/ALtTVvzfoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASCAR (@NASCAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR\/status\/1267593213117968384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With racial tensions at an all-time high, several NASCAR drivers released a video speaking about racial injustices in our nation<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":73294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,5029,22],"tags":[7845,7846,7659,127,41,1632],"class_list":["post-73292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-racing","category-event-coverage","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-blm","tag-bubba-wallace","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/w640xh480_GettyImages-1247921759-e1591726818156.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-j48","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73295,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292\/revisions\/73295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}