Thread by @CurtisHouck

I just pulled up our Snapstream recording of the ESPN special on Bubba Wallace and I'm only five minutes in -- I already want to smash my monitor into a million pieces then throw it into the Potomac. #NASCAR

One word to describe Bubba Wallace that I'll admit I didn't accept until the last few months -- narcissistic

Here's what I think the problem is -- Bubba, like everyone (and I mean everyone -- even those who claim they don't), wants to be liked and enjoys the spotlight to a certain extend.

And, with that and the woke-ification of just about everything, he sees the aura of the fame.

Last point on this for now -- Bubba has repeatedly said he doesn't care what people think about him.

But based on how much he's talked about people not respecting him, how much racism he's said he's put up with, how people want him to fail, etc. -- he sure does seem to care!

I will say this about the Bubba Wallace special on ESPN -- the sections on Wendell Scott and Bubba's parents fighting/divorce/severed relations with him are powerful.

I've long known this, but Wendell Scott went through while having the success he did was incredible. #NASCAR

Okay, now this part lamenting the fallout from when it was concluded Bubba Wallace wasn't the victim of a hate crime and it wasn't a noose but a garage pull.

His sister says the FBI's conclusion is "bulls***," the doc equates those denouncing him as racist kooks, and on and on.

Bubba Wallace maintains it was a noose left for him: "Look at the picture. What's it look like to you? Is that a noose...or is that just another fisherman's knot?....No. That took time to do."

He adds fans booing him are "sad," lack "facts," & that his life is better than theirs

Bubba's ending: "We were all brought here for a purpose and it's not to hate each other b/c of the way you look....I don't know if my purpose is to drive race cars...That's why you're tested every day to figure out what your purposes in life. Hating somebody? It's taught."