Brandon Brown is the story behind the "Let's go, Brandon" message after inadvertently growing a chant used to insult the president in his first career at NASCAR. I wanted a way to changeJoe Biden.
Brown found a new message thanks to the family of an 8-year-old boy with autism.
Cottage Grove Brandon Brandon,Minnesota, went on a spring holiday trip toHoustonin March, showing signs of the phrase "Let's go, Brandon". saw. He believed that the signs were intended to encourage him. As a result, he began trying activities he had never tried before, such as learning to swim and removing training wheels from his bicycle.
His mother, Sherettablandage, used the story to write a children's book entitled "Brandon found his signature." Brown featured the cover of Brundidge's book on the Camaro's hood at the Xfinity series race on Saturday in Road America.
"Achieving this was like a milestone for us," Brown said. "This is positive. This is good. It doesn't have to be hatred or division."
This division earned Brown his first career at NASCAR last October. It started later.
Alabama'sTalladega Superspeedwayspectators chanted "F --- Joe Biden" in a post-race interview with the winner. NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast mistakenly told Brown that fans were chanting "Let's go, Brandon."
From that point on, "Let's go, Brandon" became a cry for a rally of Biden critics, and signs with the message appeared everywhere. Brown unintentionally found himself in the midst of a fire storm surrounding these chants.
"I wanted to be able to make it positive. I could get my name back and it would be so fragmented and scary that it wouldn't be a political statement for my friends. There wasn't. A family who supported me during the race, "Brown said.
The Brandiges intervened there.
Sherettablandage is the mother of four children, three of whom have autism. She writes a children's book focusing on each. She said Brandon often dealt with social unrest.
Things changed after seeing all the "Let's go, Brandon" signs and thinking that people were rooting for him. He suddenly took a whole new attitude and wasn't too shy to try new things.
"He literally wanted me to raise a flag in front of my house." Let's Go Brandon, "recalls Sherettablandage. "I am as follows:" It won't happen. We haven't put these flags in front of the house. "
Brown from his mother about this book Learned and invited the Brundigge family to Road America. They met for the first time this weekend and the two Brandons became best friends.
"I feel like I have twin brothers, but I'm older than me," said Brandon Brandigi.
Brundidges was handing out a copy of "Brandon Spots His Sign" in Road America. The cover design of this book adorned Brown's car, but he was knocked out of the race on Saturday after being involved in multiple car accidents, being inspected and released from the Infield Care Center.
Finally, someone found a way to unite the "Let's go, Brandon" chanting rather than split it.
"I apologize for what you have experienced over the past year," Xereta Brandige told Brown on Saturday. "I know it's terrible, but I'm very happy that it happened because this kid didn't have this breakthrough (otherwise). He still You would be afraid to ride a bike without training wheels. He literally walked to the kids and handed out this book. He wouldn't have done it (before). "
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