Posted on 07/05/2020 5:48:52 PM PDT by blam
Nike has not responded to a request for comment after Colin Kaepernick, one of their leading pitchmen, called Independence Day a “celebration of white supremacy.”
On Saturday afternoon, as 4th of July festivities were getting underway across the country. Kaepernick took to Twitter and accused America of having “dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized” black people for centuries.
Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of “independence”, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all. ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/YCD2SYlgv4
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2020
Kaepernick, the NFL’s original anthem protester, has not played in the NFL since the end of the 2016 season. After a long legal battle with the NFL, in which he accused the league of “blackballing” him and fellow protester Eric Reid, the NFL eventually settled the suit with Kaepernick. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently apologized for not listening to Kaepernick and other protesters. He then went so far as to say he would “encourage” a team to sign Kaepernick.
Nike has a history of tolerating Kaepernick’s radical activism and frequent attacks on America, especially on the 4th of July. Just prior to the Independence Day holiday last year, news broke that Kaepernick had convinced Nike to ditch the “Betsy Ross Flag” sneakers that the company had produced to commemorate the nation’s founding. As it turns out, Kaepernick had reached out to Nike company officials saying that “he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery.”
Shortly following Kaepernick’s complaint, Nike asked retailers to return the shoes.
While Kaepernick is far from Nike’s #1 pitchman...
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Don’t count on it!
Of course Nike is silent, who else but African-Americans spend two and $300 or more on a pair of shoes?
Go to their site and tell them what you think of them.
who else but African-Americans spend two and $300 or more on a pair of shoes?
You did.
By giving them welfare and all of the benefits, you paid for those shoes and a whole lot more. Enjoy.
Because I am 6’5”, I buy most of my clothes online (from catalogs before Al Gore invented the internet). I still buy shoes in a store.
Nike management has so destroyed Nike’s brand by hiring Kaepernick that we think nothing can be done to save the company.
We will see.
Just a little off topic. We live in the low country in SC. We were in Lowes yesterday and got to talking to a manager. It seems four black employees came to work wearing face masks with BLACK LIVES MATTER on them. They were instructed to take them off and they refused, they were reminded that they had signed an employment agreement when they were hired, agreeing that no political issues, tshirts etc could be used. They were given the option to take them off or leave, which they finally agreed to remove them but loudly voicing that it was racist.
I hope they go bankrupt.
KrapperNike remains silent on Kaepernick.
Americans stop buying KrapperNike apparrel.
KrapperNike remains silent on Kaepernick.
Americans stop buying KrapperNike apparrel.
If my business were cranking up the peer pressure on poor inner-city kids to buy $200 sneakers made in Cambodian sweatshops, I would want to change the subject, too...
Ah, well. Like Groucho Marx said, "I've got principles. And if you don't like those, I've got another set."
“you enslaved our ancestors”
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Contact Nike @ Investor.Relations@nike.com. Or 1-800-640-8007
Here’s wishing Crappernick an early stroke and bankruptcy for Nike.
Actually he is yet another HAfrican who proves that it’s black privilege that exists.
He is Half black, having a black sire. His white dam gave him up. A white family adopted him and raised him, apparently quite nicely.
This is betrayal, yet again, of the side which raised him.
I always wonder what these white families feel like. Are they proud? Do they feel betrayed and insulted?
Not enough! Wipe them out! Don’t let anyone buy Nike.
Agreed. Besides, what Kaepernick is saying amounts to the creed and catechism of the left's US history. Nothing wrong with that for them.
Nike remains niggardly in volume of comments on this matter.
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