When Bubba Wallace took charge in NASCAR’s efforts to be more inclusive and fight for racial justice in 2020 by calling for the sport to ban the Confederate flag, everything changed. The only Black full-time NASCAR driver made headlines around the country and globe, NASCAR officials followed his lead and banned the flag and Wallace’s haters are louder than ever after he spoke out.
Wallace’s life, experiences in that moment and the aftermath and his NASCAR career — including his first season driving for Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing team — are detailed in Netflix’s new docuseries, RACE: Bubba Wallace, which is set to premiere Feb. 22.
“I have a responsibility; it’s automatic that I have a responsibility,” Wallace says in the trailer about fighting inequality and injustice. “True colors are gonna come out.
