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NASCAR: Clearing up our recent article about Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Tweet

By Asher Fair

LOUDON, NH - SEPTEMBER 24: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 Nationwide Chevrolet, is introduced prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series ISM Connect 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 24, 2017 in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Photo by Tim Bradbury/Getty Images)
LOUDON, NH - SEPTEMBER 24: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 Nationwide Chevrolet, is introduced prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series ISM Connect 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 24, 2017 in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Photo by Tim Bradbury/Getty Images) /
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. recently Tweeted in support of American citizens’ right to protest. An article recently posted at Beyond the Flag was misinterpreted as him saying specifically that he supported the NFL national anthem protesters’ protest.

A recent Beyond the Flag NASCAR article, which you can read here, was misinterpreted as saying something that it didn’t. The purpose of this article is to clear that up so that everyone is on the same page moving forward.

Overall, that article did not receive positive feedback on multiple fronts. Those who took the idea of Dale Earnhardt Jr. completely siding with the NFL protesters ran with it and spewed all kinds of hate toward him, while those who read into every little detail of the article called it “fake news” simply because Earnhardt Jr. did not specifically say he was in favor the NFL protesters in particular.

That article itself stated the following:

"“Dale Earnhardt Jr., the 14-time defending winner of the NASCAR Most Popular Driver Award, voiced his support for the protesters’ right to protest by quoting former U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a Tweet.”"

Regardless of whether or not it says “protesters’ right to protest” or just simply “protesters” makes no difference because of the fact that the premise of the article was what it was. That was, in fact, changed for clarity after the article was initially published, but that didn’t seem to help get the real point across.

Here is Earnhardt Jr.’s Tweet.

It’s pretty clear what Dale Earnhardt Jr. said, and it’s pretty clear what he meant. He clearly supports the right for a peaceful protest, which is a right listed in the U.S. Constitution, and he is using President John F. Kennedy’s words to back it up.

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So what if those aren’t his words? He is using them to support his argument, so he obviously agrees with them!

Earnhardt Jr. also made the Tweet a day after Sunday, September 24th, 2017, which was a day that include more national anthem protests by NFL players than ever before.

Either this Tweet being published not even 24 hours after NFL games began on Sunday is a one-in-a-million coincidence that featured Earnhardt Jr. just so happen to be thinking about peaceful protesting out of the blue, or it was an undoubtedly clear response to the NFL players’ national anthem protests and some of NASCAR’s team owners’ responses to the protests the day before.

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About 999,999,999 times out of 1,000,000,000, I’m taking the latter, and for the obvious reasons that I just explained above. This article isn’t meant to make people feel bad for misinterpreting the last one; it’s simply mean to clear up what that last article was saying so that no one else gets the wrong idea and either (a) starts degrading Dale Earnhardt Jr. for no reason or (b) calling the article “fake news” when clearly everything in it is based solely on factual information.

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