Posted on 09/06/2018 1:46:44 AM PDT by JonnyFive
It’s pretty unusual when a Nike campaign involves a sports figure who hasn’t played for years.
Usually, that player was a legend — but in this case, he was an above-average player who turned into a bust and then got mired in personal controversy.
That’s what made Nike’s decision to put Colin Kaepernick on its latest advertisements such a bizarre decision. After all, there were plenty of reasons he could have been chased from the league that weren’t just related to his decision to protest the national anthem.
There was his play. There was that tweet his girlfriend sent which compared the greatest player from the team that was about to sign him to a house slave and the owner to a slave master. There was the fact that he’s given support to dictators and cop killers. And now, he’s the new face of Nike.
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Nike allegedly employs real slave wage labor.>>>>>>>>>>>>
That’s right, and Collin, who still thinks like he is on a plantation, is Nike’s slave. Nike is good at slave labor, from 20 cents an hour sweat shop shoe makers to million dollar quarterbacks, they can find a slave in any woodpile.
I’ve never worn Nikes because of that. Only wear Strictly North American made footwear:
https://www.usalovelist.com/made-in-usa-sneakers-athletic-footwear/
Easy to order over the web.
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