In a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, Wallace, known as Bubba, thanked NASCAR and the F.B.I. “We’ll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been,” said Wallace, the sole black driver in NASCAR’s top series. While NASCAR characterized the noose as a pull rope for a garage door that was “fashioned like a noose,” some people insisted the noose was just a rope with a handle, and that Wallace and stock-car racing executives had overreacted. Wallace said Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show that he considered the knot to be a noose that someone took time to create at the end of a door pull. Though the noose was not functional, he said, the sight of it “makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.”

Source: New York Times June 24, 2020 23:04 UTC