No Crime' In Bubba Wallace Case Noose Had Been In Garage Since '19

[pipedreams]

Now after the big PR stunt.

"The FBI says the noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama had been there since 2019 -- and they've determined "no crime was committed."

In fact, NASCAR says the item in question is a "garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose" that had been positioned in the garage since last Fall."

https://www.fox8live.com/2020/06/23/fbi-noose-bubba-wallaces-garage-there-since/

https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/23/bubba-wallace-noose-investigation-no-crime-talladega-superspeedway-nascar/

[DWARREN123]

Another case of nothing burger but everyone got upset.

[willie-pete]

I didn’t.

 

 

 

 

15 FBI agents ; wonder what that cost ?

Edited June 23, 2020 by willie-pete

[Rellik]

Smells of twanna jussey.

Edited June 23, 2020 by Rellik
Added the twanna memorial.

[Historian]

Things can get hyperbolic with stuff like this.

 

[Al Czervik]

How is it that a noose is a symbol of racism?  What about a slip knot, a bowline knot, water knot loop, double figure 8 loop, or a running knot?

I may have various examples in my garage, on my boats, docks, etc.  

How many Americans of different races or ethnicities have been sent to the other side (not suicide) via hanging?  Is there any hard data, because I'm going to make an uneducated guess that more folks of caucasian persuasion have been sent to their next destination via the rope.  Stats that I could find since 1976 show 65% white v 34% black for all executions.

[railfancwb]

The lynching museum, in Montgomery Alabama I think, says there were 4000+ lynchings within the time frame it covers and about 3/4 were black people. 

[Al Czervik]

10 hours ago, railfancwb said:

The lynching museum, in Montgomery Alabama I think, says there were 4000+ lynchings within the time frame it covers and about 3/4 were black people. 

Throughout history, there is one thing you can count on, people can do some sick ****, be it with rocks, blades, fire, blunt objects, ropes, nails, spikes, water, bombs, and bullets.  

Just look at our neck of the woods, two entire continents were taken from the folks that lived here leaving tens of millions dead.  Entire cultures and languages were wiped out.  Maybe we should ban conquistador helmets.

[PPQer]

Over the years, when NASCAR kept trying so hard to get a black team or driver, I predicted it would end up being very comical and that whenever a black driver gets rubbed out of the way, it will be claimed to be racist.  When they get into fights in the infield, it will be racism.  When they make wrong decisions in draft races, they'll whine that nobody will work with them, or that they're always expected to push.  There will be accusations, investigations, and eventually lawsuits.  If a black driver can't do well, or win, they'll claim racism and expect advantages to be given.  If NASCAR draws more black fans, there will be beat downs in the stands.  Attendees with their children present, who would typically try to avoid trouble, will be targets. 

Everything that goes on in every race will view through the prism of race baiting, and I suspect now, people will start going to the races just to start trouble.

It looks like Jussie Wallace is going to make my predictions come true.

 

 

Edited June 24, 2020 by PPQer

[BamaBud]

15 hours ago, railfancwb said:

The lynching museum, in Montgomery Alabama I think, says there were 4000+ lynchings within the time frame it covers and about 3/4 were black people. 

Run by the Southern Poverty Law Center?

No bias there!

[railfancwb]

2 minutes ago, BamaBud said:

Run by the Southern Poverty Law Center?

No bias there!

Even with their bias they couldn’t claim that 100% of those lynched were blacks. 

[PPQer]

 

https://www.takimag.com/article/bubba-smollett-jussie-wallace/?utm_source=whatfinger

THE UNTOLD STORY
Bubba Smollett, Jussie Wallace

The years of antiwhite hate hysteria over nooses supposedly being planted by white racists to terrorize blacks will eventually induce some white guy to actually do it. But, judging by what we know so far about the latest brouhaha—over a purported noose found in the garage of Bubba Wallace, the half-black NASCAR race driver—Noose News seems to remain Fake Noose.

I first wrote about Wallace in 2013 in my Taki’s column “Nature, Nurture, and NASCAR,” when he was only 19, but already was being hyped as NASCAR’s Great Black Hope, the Tiger Woods of stock car racing.

Strikingly, when I last followed the sport in the late 1960s, there was a black driver, Wendell Scott, who was consistently strong, finishing among the top ten racers each year from 1966 to 1969.

Unlike Scott, who got his start as the fastest bootleg corn likker driver in the county, Wallace is not a natural prodigy, but instead is a product of the Tiger Woods era of child competitors given every advantage by their parents. Wallace’s father, a wealthy white business owner, paid for his son to compete in youth motorsports from age 9 onward.

Soon he was the star of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program. The widespread hope has been that Wallace will be the American Lewis Hamilton, the half-black English driver who is a six-time Formula One world champion. He now drives the most legendary number in stock cars, Richard Petty Motorsports’ No. 43.

Unfortunately, Wallace hasn’t yet proven more than mediocre at the highest level, finishing 28th among drivers in each of the past two seasons.

Worse for Wallace, NASCAR has been in decline since its peak moment in the national consciousness, which can be dated precisely to Feb. 18, 2001, when Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in the last turn of the last lap of the Daytona 500.

It’s not just the ensuing safety reforms that have eroded stock car racing’s 1990s popularity. NASCAR is basically an ethnic pride parade for the people who aren’t allowed to hold ethnic pride parades, and the 21st century has been a bad one for the white working class.

This year, Wallace jumped on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon, which is, perhaps not coincidentally, much beloved by corporate America’s deep-pocketed sponsors, with the support of NASCAR. He had his car painted with the BLM slogan for the Talladega race.

Then, over the weekend, one of his crew supposedly found a “noose” in his car’s garage stall. Bypassing Wallace, the worker went straight to NASCAR higher-ups, led by Steve Phelps, and they organized the usual corporate freak-out, demanding the FBI and Department of Justice investigate and threatening to ban for life the unknown malefactor.

As you have likely noticed in your experience with hate hoaxes going back to Tawana Brawley’s in 1987, the most gullible suckers tend to be the national media, followed by the Fortune 500, and then the local press.

The only institutions that have consistently kept their heads have been local cops, who weren’t invited to assist in finding the nooseman. Local police are used to people telling them tall tales all the time, so they aren’t surprised when somebody makes up lies about fashionable hate crimes. Not surprisingly, the current riots are focused on bringing down the autonomy of local police and replacing them with somebody more on board with The Narrative.

Amusingly, we haven’t yet seen any security-camera video from Talladega, nor have we been shown a mere camera phone still shot of the “noose.” Even some reporters were skeptical. A cryptic paragraph in Fox Sports noted:  Phelps would not comment on any specifics of the investigation, nor would he say whether the noose came from the rope that is typically attached to the garage door to close off the garage. He said any suggestion that NASCAR staged the event offended him.

Over the course of Monday, various online volunteers, led by @TheLastRefuge2, crowdsourced the most plausible explanation: This wasn’t a noose at all, it was merely a loop tied at the end of a cord hanging down from each garage door for ease in pulling the door down. They came up with a photograph of that stall’s garage door pull rope last November, showing what an excitable person who never made it to Tenderfoot in the Boy Scouts might think was a terrifying lynching noose, but is really just a loop to put your hand in when tugging on the door.

The Last Refuge posted side-by-side photos of Wallace’s stall No. 4 last November and this weekend, showing that the lower few feet of cord, which had been formed into a loop in 2019, is now missing. Moreover, somebody had untied the loop in the rope attached to garage door No. 5 next door.

This raises a few possibilities. Perhaps a vicious white racist had snuck into the closed-off area full of expensive equipment and cut off the loop in the garage-door twine to use as a symbol of racial hatred.

Or, possibly, the looped rope had broken off in somebody’s hand as he was pulling on it to shift the garage door, and he tossed it in the garage. Or who knows what other variation on these polar possibilities?

If the latter, this wasn’t necessarily a hate hoax, which is just one category of hate hysteria, along with hate hypochondria and hate hallucinations. We’ve seen many delusional manias about nooses like this recently, such as the recent Twitter spasm of fear and loathing about a pickup truck driving around Southern California with a tow rope.

In truth, the theory that whites tie nooses to terrorize blacks and their ancestral memories of lynching was more or less invented in 2007 by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to get six star black Jena High School football players out of jail for stomping a white boy unconscious.

I can recall feeling as baffled as Jena whites did over the Revs’ allegations. To whites, like the Coen brothers in 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, nooses have to do with cowboys and outlaws, not blacks. The notion that a noose is a well-known symbol of white supremacy is just a recent concoction, appealing to people like Jussie Smollett, as is so much else in The News these days.

 

[LostinTexas]

I just wonder how long one needs to search for something to cry about. It would really help to know the difference between a noose and a knot.

You'dathunk he had better things to do.

Edited June 25, 2020 by LostinTexas

[holyjohnson]

NASCAR doesn't make enough to afford Power Garage doors?

 

they must have an Old Hobo with a newspaper and spit cleaning windshields too.