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Former NASCAR driver’s son makes troubling social media post about Bubba Wallace

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace with team owner Richard Petty Monday in Talladega, Ala.
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace with team owner Richard Petty Monday in Talladega, Ala.
By AJC Sports
June 23, 2020

Dustin Skinner, the son of former NASCAR driver Mike Skinner, said Bubba Wallace should have been 'dragged around the pits' with a noose found in Wallace's garage Sunday, according to a story by the Sporting News.

Wallace, the lone Black driver in NASCAR's Cup Series, has received the support of the NASCAR community after a noose was found in his garage stall Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. But Dustin Skinner's social media post, for which he has now apologized for and was strongly condemned by his father, mentioned that 'his hat is off to who put the noose' in Wallace's stall and should have 'drug him around the pits.'

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