President Donald Trump has been lambasting NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who is African-American, after an FBI investigation into a noose left in his garage stall found no evidence of a crime. The investigation showed that the noose had been left in the garage long before Wallace started using it, leading Trump to say that Wallace should apologize to NASCAR.
But there’s no evidence of any wrongdoing on Wallace’s part, and many believed the noose was evidence of an attempt to intimidate him. On Monday, Wallace responded to the president by denouncing his unprovoked attacks.
In a statement, Wallace told the “next generation” that “your words and actions will always be held to a higher standard than others. You have to be prepared for that. You don’t learn these things in school. You learn them from trial and tribulations, the ups and downs this crazy world provides.” Continue reading.