An astonishing moment. Bubba Wallace, Nascar's only black driver, greeting black fans, wearing BLM t-shirts -- in Alabama, at goddam Talladega. All this a day after finding a noose hanging in his team's garage & a week after he demanded that the series ban the Confederate flag. https://twitter.com/DianneG/status/1275221048217292804

Nascar has been a white man's sport since the beginning. It's delayed & delayed on banning the Confederate flag. It's embraced Trump & before him the Bushes & before them Reagan. It's essentially excluded black drivers. (There was one, Wendell Scott, long ago.)

But the drivers & Nascar itself rallied around Wallace, today. So did the owner of the team he races for, Richard Petty, the living legend, the embodiment of Nascar, a guy who once said he'd fire anyone who knelt during the national anthem. https://twitter.com/keselowski/status/1275229445360672769?s=20

I know that none of this strikes most of you as particularly progressive. But I'm moved when I see people sincerely struggle with issues that they never had to think about. Little steps, maybe, but meaningful steps. https://twitter.com/bobpockrass/status/1275241452260425728?s=20