An owner of a North Carolina racetrack is being criticized and losing business after he mocked stock car driver Bubba Wallace.
Mike Fulp, who owns 311 Speedway in Pine Hall, North Carolina, mentioned Wallace on Wednesday, June 24 in Facebook Marketplace.
In addition to the rope ad, Fulp has been marketing a series of new races at his track on social media, with names like “America We Stand” and “Heritage Night.”
In an interview about the fallout from the ad with the Greensboro News & Record newspaper — which reported that internet sleuths took screenshots of now-deleted Facebook comments from the track owner about George Floyd’s death and giving Blacks “a bucket of Kentucky Fried chicken, 2 watermelons and a plane ride back to Africa’’— the 55-year-old sounded disconsolate about losing sponsors, seeing his employees harassed and quitting, and getting death threats over his rope ”joke,” as he characterized it.
Wallace, who’s NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, spoke to NASCAR earlier this month about the offensive nature of Confederate flags being flown at their events.
