"There's a bumper sticker out there still on sale at just about every truck stop in the South. 'AMERICAN BY BIRTH,' it reads, 'SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD,' usually with a rebel flag alongside," Busbee wrote. "One day Earnhardt slapped one of these stickers onto the bumper of one of his trucks. He didn't think any more of it until his housekeeper, an African-American woman beloved by Earnhardt's children Dale and Kelley, mentioned that the flag's implications made her uncomfortable.

"Earnhardt immediately went out to his truck and sliced off the rebel flag. The motto remained; the flag itself was trashed. He didn't want to offend anybody or make anybody mad in that manner," Kelley Earnhardt said on her podcast. "He had a good heart."

I don't follow NASCAR but I'm a fan of this guy.

he's a racist because he races cars. what else do you call someone who does races for a living.

Raise hell, praise Dale!