Over the past few years, NASCAR has ramped up its efforts to increase diversity and inclusion. And while some have criticized those efforts, NASCAR star Bubba Wallace does not sound too worried about those people.
Last week, the NASCAR star hosted Bubba’s Block Party at the DuSable Black History Museum in Chicago, in an effort to help grow the sport to the Black community. During the event, Bubba Wallace had a pretty brutal message for anyone standing against NASCAR’s diversity efforts.
“I’ve always said there’s three types of people: the ones that will accept change, the ones that are on the fence about change and the ones that will never change,” Wallace told reporters Thursday according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “You can never get to the minds of the people that will never change, so we don’t really focus our energy on those people. We try to convince the ones that are on the fence about change. ‘This is what can happen. Stick with us, and let’s ride it out to the end.’
“And the ones that are OK with living life on the edge and accepting change right away, let’s do it.
“Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t like changes that we’re doing as a sport to tap into different demographics and make the sport more welcoming and inclusive, and that’s on them. They have to live with that. For us, we continue to march forward.”
It’s certainly easy to see where he stands on the issue.
[Fox News]
