Dale Earnhardt Jr reflects on twitter controversy of NASCAR National Anthem
This week, NASCAR team owners issued statement regarding the National Anthem. Those comments enticed a response from the President himself.
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With a single tweet, Dale Earnhardt Jr found himself in the middle of the National Anthem controversy. The tweet below was retweeted 150k times and loved by nearly a half million people.
“All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable-JFK”
It was just a quote. But, that quote put Dale Jr at the forefront of the controversy. So much so, that the publicist for the NASCAR driver lost his voice. Reporter after reporter gave him a call.
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“I’m gunna kinda take a break and go back to gif’s and jokes,” Dale Earnhardt Jr explains his plans for twitter this week via the Dale Jr Download.
She’s like my rev-limiter.
-Dale Earnhardt Jr
“I got a little carried away this weekend. This weekend, Amy did’t go [to the track]. So, I think that maybe I don’t know what to do with myself when she’s not around. I was trying to say that ‘I need to do better.’ She’s like my rev-limiter.”
“Everybody at the racetrack is saying that my ‘Give a damn’s’ gone this year. I didn’t feel like anything changed. At what age does a man just stop looking both ways before he backs out of his driveway? I’m at that point in my life.”
“I worry about the drivers, my peers and NASCAR. {I worry about] upsetting them. Because, I’ve done that in the past with some of the comments I made at Watkins Glen and I hated that.”
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“I’ve done it again,” Dale Earnhardt Jr told his publicist on a Monday morning phone call.
“I hate talking politics. I don’t like it.”
“I kept seeing a lot of negatively about NASCAR on social media. It’s just the same tired stigma that we’ve dealt with for many many years.”
“I didn’t feel like Richard [Childress] and Richard Petty’s comments were the way the entire sport felt. I think that Richard was talking for himself. And through North Carolina law they had the right to do the things that they said they would do.”
I just didn’t want anyone speaking for me.
-Dale Earnhardt Jr
“I just didn’t want anyone speaking for me. I think that you could assume that those might be my own personal feelings as well.”
“I stand for the flag during our National Anthem. Always have, always will. We have an incredibly large military presence at our races. We go above and beyond to show our patriotism. And what it means to be American’s and how proud we are of that.”
“No surprise to me, everyone at the track, stood and addressed the flag during the National Anthem.”
“But I also understand, that the man next to me, if he wants to do something different, that’s his right. I might not agree with everything somebody does, but it’s their right. I can’t take that away from them and I don’t want them taking it away from me.”
“I hope that they wouldn’t rush to judgement on my choice. My choice to stand and salute the flag is from my personal experience and what I know.”
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