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Bubba Wallace says people have the right to peacefully protest against Nascar’s ban on the Confederate flag, but suggested police may take a lighter touch than they have against anti-racism demonstrators.
Wallace, Nascar’s only full-time black driver, successfully led a campaign to ban the Confederate flag from racetracks. The flag is widely seen as a racist symbol of the slave-owning south during the American civil war. However, since the ban came into effect there has been pushback, and a group of fans flew the flag outside the Talladega Superspeedway racetrack in Alabama last week.
Bubba Wallace says people have the right to peacefully protest NASCAR’s ban of the Confederate flag. He adds: “You won’t see cops pepper spraying them and shooting them with rubber bullets, will you?” pic.twitter.com/u1NPqodbyg
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