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I'm going to give pepsi the benefit of the doubt here, but I am troubled that this seems to be still a genuine sourced of disagreement. This is my position and what I believe happened:
-Bubba's crew found what they believed was a noose
-FBI called in
-NASCAR offers full suppport
-FBI concludes this was a garage door pulley installed a long time ago, and Bubba was not the target of a hate crime

Now we've moved on to , it seems, "well, it's a noose meant for.. somebody" it seems to me. Like, is that how desperate for racism and outrage we're at now? This garage door opening rope is the equivalent of Ed Nortons swastika tattoo and a specific message of "NOT WELCOME" to blacks? Why would we even think that?

I would have preferred Bubba Wallace to go on CNN yesterday and thank NASCAR for their support, the FBI for investigating, and to take a light hearted "wow, I'm sure glad I wasn't the target of racism, let's all take a deep breath". Nope. We instead get "that's a noose". And everyone knows the very negative reaction to that word. It, in a very real way, stokes racial tensions. So yes, he may be accurately describing the knot, but that's besides the point. Which is maybe the point here, isn't it? Everyone wants something to get upset about.