Hop on board with Wokeness or take a walk

Bubba Wallace, the controversial NASCAR driver best known for a “loop” that wasn’t a loop, doesn’t care what race fans think about a drift to the left in the traditionally blue-collar sport.

Wallace, NASCAR’s only prominent black driver, gained national attention in 2020 by promoting Black Lives Matter and pushing for the Confederate flag to be banned from races.

Wallace then made headlines as the victim of a “hate crime” by claiming someone had left a “noose” in the garage he had been assigned for a race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

An investigation he later proved that the “lasso” was actually a pull-down rope used to close the garage door, and that it had been there for months before Wallace was assigned the garage.

Apparently, this Jussie SmollettLevel fraud did not humiliate the open driver.

Wallace visited Chicago over the weekend for a series of racing-related events.

On Thursday, according to Chicago Sun-TimesWallace spoke to members of the media about NASCAR’s promotional efforts FROM — diversity, equity and inclusion.

“I’ve always said there are three types of people: those who will embrace change, those who are on the fence about change, and those who will never change,” Wallace said.

Assuming that these “three kinds of people” share the same basic rights and receive the same respect in a free society, surely they all have perspectives worth considering, right?

Not according to Wallace.

“You can never get into the minds of people who will never change, so we don’t really focus our energy on those people,” he said.

Presumably, “those people” constitute an expendable segment of the NASCAR fan base

Still, in this particular interview, Wallace had yet to explain what kind of “change” requires the casual sacrifice of so many loyal fans thus far.

Then he did.

“Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t like the changes we’re making as a sport to take advantage of different demographics and make the sport more welcoming and inclusive, and that’s on them. They have to live with that. For us , we keep moving forward,” he said.

And there it is: “welcoming and inclusive”: the key phrase of the moralist awakens the preening for “I’m better than you”.

Turned on Breitbartwriter Dylan Gwinn noted that the abrasive Wallace merely “combines the two roles he plays: social justice warrior and heel.”

Steve Straub of The Federalist Papersa news and opinion website dedicated to constitutionalism and limited government, suggested that Wallace “may be fanning the flames of a race-based controversy, further straining an already polarized fan base.”

In fairness to Wallace, many unwoke Americans also find the Confederate flag a repulsive symbol of tyrannical rule and an unworthy cause, although one suspects that many modern Americans who fly this flag do so as a general showcase of Southern culture, rebellion, or, at worst, an emblem of lost values ​​they mistakenly associate with the Confederacy.

Still, without speculating about Wallace’s character or motives, it’s hard not to find his antics exhausting, if not exhausting.

Wallace does not seem to understand that it is impossible to be “welcoming and inclusive” while at the same time leading Black Lives Matter T-shirts and wearing the Black Lives Matter badge in his racing car.

Many Americans, including, one suspects, most NASCAR fans, view Black Lives Matter as little more than a front for revolutionary Marxism, and with good reason.

Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as sinister a figure as ever to roam the halls of a federal agency, spent years paranoidly chasing down imaginary communists in Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement .

It was then, and King was not a communist.

Black Lives Matter activists are not descended from the protesters who peacefully marched against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, enduring official repression but managing to inspire sweeping laws promoting minority civil rights and guaranteeing voting rights.

Black Lives Matter activists chanted “white privilege” as they toppled and defaced statues. They promised it destroy the family. They made war on western civilization.

These are the actions not of warriors for justice but of Maoists eager to replicate the cataclysmic China. Cultural Revolution in America

If Wallace thinks he’s being “welcoming and inclusive” while supporting Black Lives Matter, he might want to think again.