Posted on 07/02/2019 7:06:35 AM PDT by Segovia
Nike Nixes Betsy Ross Flag Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes. Kaepernick quit professional football with over $20 million in the bank (after winning only 3 games in 2 years). He turned down $14 million from the 49ers and instead has a $40 million contract with Nike. For someone who wears Fidel Castro tee shirts he is quite the capitalist!
Nike is nixing plans to release a sneaker in celebration of July 4 after NFL star Colin Kaepernick spoke out against using the Revolutionary War era flag design. The company had planned to release the Air Max 1 USA for sale this week, featuring the early flag designed by Betsy Ross with a circle of 13 stars for the 13 colonies. Nike then asked retailers to return the product after shipping them out, without explanation. "Nike has chosen not to release the Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July as it featured the old version of the American flag, a Nike spokeswoman said. Kaepernick, a Nike endorser and activist, reportedly reached out to Nike after images of the design surfaced online and said the flag used was an offensive symbol connected to an era of slavery. Kaepernick made headlines after he began kneeling on the field during the national anthem in 2016 to draw attention to racial inequality. Nike made Kaepernick the face of an ad campaign in September. https://www.wsj.com/
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Nike just lost BIG in Arizona for doing this:
PHOOEY to Kaepernick!!!!
And I hope that the UK women’s soccer (Association Football) team beats Team USA today, just to sink Megan Rapinoe Queer!!!! PHOOEY to her, too!!!!
Arizona nixes Nike.
Betsy Ross was a Quaker and thus almost certainly an abolitionist.
Wonder if these idiots know that.
Conservatives MUST respond economically to this nonsense.
Wait a minutes
. Colin objects to the Betsy Ross flag and they nik an entire line already in production! Must be some board of directors.
Nike has canceled the sale of a new line of shoes in China after its designer posted an image online supporting mass protests in Hong Kong against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to the mainland for trial, according to a report.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/26/nike-pulls-line-of-shoes-from-china-after-designer-supports-hong-kong-protesters/
So free speech for some and not for others Nike?
Apparently Kapernick understands that those 13 colonies were slave colonies, even though you folk just want to ignore that unpleasant bit of knowledge that undermines your "The South had Slavery!" justification for invading them.
Yes Kapernick, they did, and this had no bearing on their right to have independence from England.
buy New Balance , labeled made in the USA
those LABELED made in USA
Time to Nuke Nike.
It’s not, it’s in Oregon
I’m divided on the soccer game. Ertz who has been a stuward and the girl from South Jersey who hasn’t got much playtime are good decent and hard working players. If they lose I”’ll deal sorry for them. The Us team is really getting bad publicity leading up to the match.
Good point.
Glad to learn that.
Nix Nike
Just bought new sneakers the other day. Walked past the Nikes and bought a different brand. No Nike anything in my house.
Been buying NB for years. Good shoes for a good price.
What you say about sales going up is true...BUT...I know part of that — probably a very large part — was a libtard/millennial backlash to people like us saying Screw Nike. It was their show of support. What I’ve always wondered since then is, was that just a temporary blip created by the libtards and are sales since that time lower overall?
I think Nike was relying on their foreign market in the last kerfuffle.
I’ll bet their sales in US have cratered, but they would NEVER admit it.
Now, I think they’ve gone too far.
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