Posted on 07/02/2019 10:00:10 PM PDT by mkleesma
Nike is pulling a tennis shoe adorned with a Betsy Ross flag image after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick complained to the shoemaker about the racist undertones of the design, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The heel-area back of the shoe features has the early design of the U.S. flag, which has 13 white stars in a circle on it and is named after Ross, a Philadelphia upholsterer and flag-maker who died in 1836.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, told the company he and others found the flag symbol offensive because of its connection to slavery.
According to the Smithsonian museum, the flag was used from 1777 to 1795, well before slavery was abolished in 1865. Though less well known than the Confederate flag, the Betsy Ross flag has been also been used by white supremacist groups.
The Air Max 1 USA shoe had already been sent to retailers to go on sale this week for the July 4 Independence Day holiday, the Journal said.
But after the former quarterback and current Nike pitchman spoke with the company, Nike changed its mind.
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The flag was made in the "slave era", so I guess everything from that era is offensive, including this country, to Kapernik. What a joke this guy is.
Also, I read something yesterday that said Betsy Ross was a Quaker, which, the author thought, probably meant she was an abolitionist. I have always liked the American Flag from that era. I think the circle of stars was quite nice.
Thank you for pointing that out. Today, someone, I think on Varney, stated that they had spent a lot of time trying to find one rascist group that uses that flag; and, they could not find any. It is a lie that the media is pushing.
Its a flat out lie, used to excuse their own bigotry against patriotic citizens.
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
Isn’t Nike a German company?
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
I haven’t bought anything from Nike in more than 25 years.
It ain’t hard to avoid them.
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
IF
KAEPERNICK IS THEIR SPOKES PERSON
AND
THEIR STOCK WENT UP BECAUSE OF IT
THEN;
The new "N" word ....
NIKAHS
They're also muslim, eh ?
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