Legacy Motor Club and NASCAR have suspended driver Noah Gragson. This comes after the driver allegedly “liked” a meme about George Floyd, the man who died in police custody in May 2020.
The death of Floyd resulted in mass riots around the country then went on for several months despite Covid and well into election season. Gragson apologized but it didn’t keep him his place to drive.
“I am disappointed in myself for my lack of attention and actions on social media. I understand the severity of this situation. I love and appreciate everyone. I try to treat everyone equally no matter who they are. I messed up plain and simple.”
It’s unclear to Media Right News which meme it was or what the meme said, but reports say screenshots exist.
Josh Berry will drive the #42 car on Sunday’s race in Michigan instead. No one knows if the suspension will be permanent or not.
While everyone is aware of the delicate nature of the George Floyd subject, it seems like “liking” a meme is something that many would not expect to have such a ripple effect, especially since it’s easy to accidentally like the wrong thing sometimes or perhaps like something you haven’t fully looked at.
We’re not saying this happened in this situation, but just that in a broader sense, ruining careers for liking memes seems to be a slippery slope. Many on X/Twitter has opinions:
Floyd brought this demise on himself. He was a very large man with a reputation for violence, a rap-sheet as long as your arm and a frequent flyer in prison and jail. He was resisting arrest, fighting with the officers for twenty minutes as these same officers tried talking to him into cooperating. He was a thug with a penchant for violent behavior. One of his many atrocities was holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, threatening to kill her unborn child while his accomplices ransacked her home for items to steal. He was captured later driving away in the getaway car.
His airway was never compromised because the officer’s knee was on Floyd’s upper back between the scapulae, not his neck. If one watches the video it’s totally apparent. He did not die from asphyxiation as three independent autopsies have shown. Those same autopsy reports proved he had methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol in his blood-stream. The conclusion was the substances in his system coupled with the adrenalin because of his combativeness gave him system failure.
Finally, he was breaking many federal and state laws at the time. One of those was passing counterfeit bills. The guy was a thug and killed himself in a manner of speaking. He was certainly not the big teddy-bear as the lying media’s narrative is spewing out.
Any time I hear an employer say anything similar to “So and so is being suspended immediately because his actions do not represent our values,” but that high and mighty entity never takes the time to suggest what those values may be. However, in this case it would seem that the values might be “We support all hardworking drug addicted thieves and thugs who litter our communities more so than our employees.” Anyway, to me those words always mean just one thing: “It does not matter who we really are but who you will THINK we are.” I’m just glad I was never into NASCAR. Those folk don’t seem to know who or what they should support.
The thought police in action. Nascar can go to heII. Wanna bet they liked the Trump persecution in their social media?
Nash Rambler Car…… you’re total losers.