BUBBA WALLACE CAN NOW BREATH AS FBI GAVE HIM CPR.

"First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that this wasn’t what we feared it was," Wallace said after NASCAR initially reported a noose was found in his team's garage at the Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly and treating this as a racial threat. I think we’ll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been. Make no mistake, though some will try, this should not detract from the show of unity we had on Monday and the progress we’ve made as a sport to be a more welcoming environment for all." - Darrel Bubba Wallace. 

ICHEOKU says with those words the man who started the NASCAR noose controversy summarily brought same to an end and hopefully the ever race-stoking media will now allow the matter to rest. Call it racial paranoia that an ordinary garage door pull-rope was made into a racially charged noose that nearly boiled over before the FBI determined that it was not. It is commendable that Bubba Wallace saw reason in the FBI conclusion and decided to end the controversy, primarily fueled a rush to judgment. It was unfortunate that many people including ICHEOKU compared Bubba Wallace to Jussie Smollett, but unlike Jussie Smollett, who despite the abundance of evidence to the contrary insisted on his victimhood, at least Bubba Wallace shunned making the story political. It was investigated and he accepted the outcome of the investigation and now wants the case closeD and permanently put behind him. Wonderful.

Good enough too, the other side rallied around him despite being the target of the rage generated by the controversy; unlike New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, who the opposite side did not allow to exercise his First Amendment right to free speech about American flag. ICHEOKU says personally does not like it when sports people mix sports with politics because of the hybrid nature of their fans who have varying political beliefs. But since sports is what gave their voice power, does not mind their adding their voice as they see fit to the political discuss in the nation as basketball King LeBron James frequently does. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that there is more tolerance on the right side than there is with the left side, which always insists that it is either their way or the highway. Imagine if a conservative racer had said that "Black Lives Don't Matter or that All Lives Matter", what the left would have done to him including demanding that he be fired by NASCAR and that all sponsors pull their ads. But he said what he said in a proverbial showing a bull the red cloth, yet he was supported not scorned. Instead of ostracizing him, they rallied around him and gave him their brotherly love, believing that he has right to his politics and freedom of speech. Tell that to the left and you are toast. 

Anyway, lets hope that the matter is now rested and that the guy is honorable enough not to allow himself to be used as a pawn in the ongoing cultural war between the right and the left, admitted that his initial fears were well founded. Hopefully too, what happened will not become a distraction to both NASCAR and to himself, because once fans start seeing him as an agitator, it is over for him. Also lets hope that some fans will not start boycotting NASCAR for their rush to decisions including banning the confederate flag which some people attach emotional wellbeing on. ICHEOKU says does not know about Bubba Wallace's winning record in car racing and never heard of him until the noose controversy erupted, but many people including ICHEOKU now knows him. But hey, all is good that ends well.