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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Steve Greenberg

Like him or not, NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace isn’t trying to reach ‘people who will never change’

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace speaks to reporters Wednesday before the start of Bubba’s Block Party at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center on the South Side. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Some critics of Bubba Wallace paint him as being overhyped and over-promoted, a good driver — but not a great one — who is one of the faces of NASCAR merely because he’s the only Black full-time driver in its top tier of racing.

Other knocks on Wallace are that he can be both a hothead and a diva, likes the spotlight a bit too much and — oh, no, here comes the “W” word — is hell-bent on turning NASCAR “woke.”

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