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Nike Remains Quiet After Kaepernick Calls Independence Day a ‘Celebration of White Supremacy’
Breitbart ^ | 7-5-2020 | Dylan Gwinn

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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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blacks; boycottnike; boycottracistnike; chatforum; kaepernick; nevernevernike; nevernike; neverracistnike; nike; racistnike; satanism; tds; unamerican
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To: dp0622

Don’t count on it!


21 posted on 07/05/2020 6:02:04 PM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: blam

Of course Nike is silent, who else but African-Americans spend two and $300 or more on a pair of shoes?


22 posted on 07/05/2020 6:02:17 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: blam

Go to their site and tell them what you think of them.


23 posted on 07/05/2020 6:03:49 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Reno89519

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.


24 posted on 07/05/2020 6:05:03 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: dp0622

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.


25 posted on 07/05/2020 6:06:14 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: blam

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.


26 posted on 07/05/2020 6:07:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: blam

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.


27 posted on 07/05/2020 6:09:20 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: blam

I hope they go bankrupt.


28 posted on 07/05/2020 6:09:27 PM PDT by funfan
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To: blam

KrapperNike remains silent on Kaepernick.

Americans stop buying KrapperNike apparrel.


29 posted on 07/05/2020 6:14:57 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: blam

KrapperNike remains silent on Kaepernick.

Americans stop buying KrapperNike apparrel.


30 posted on 07/05/2020 6:14:57 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: blam
Silence is violence, Nike.
31 posted on 07/05/2020 6:16:09 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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James Higgins @JamesEHiggins

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...

32 posted on 07/05/2020 6:21:06 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: blam
Funny how he endorses a product that is made basically by slaves.

Ah, well. Like Groucho Marx said, "I've got principles. And if you don't like those, I've got another set."

33 posted on 07/05/2020 6:24:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: blam

“you enslaved our ancestors”

Liberalism is a mental disorder.


34 posted on 07/05/2020 6:25:56 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: blam

Contact Nike @ Investor.Relations@nike.com. Or 1-800-640-8007


35 posted on 07/05/2020 6:26:03 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Piss on China. They nuked US and Europe with a bio weapon. Payback time)
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To: blam

Here’s wishing Crappernick an early stroke and bankruptcy for Nike.


36 posted on 07/05/2020 6:29:47 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: Vigilanteman

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?


37 posted on 07/05/2020 6:31:37 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: blam

Not enough! Wipe them out! Don’t let anyone buy Nike.


38 posted on 07/05/2020 6:45:05 PM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: dp0622
There’s almost no white kids or parents who stopped buying Nike items because of their stand on anything.

Agreed. Besides, what Kaepernick is saying amounts to the creed and catechism of the left's US history. Nothing wrong with that for them.

39 posted on 07/05/2020 6:49:24 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: blam

Nike remains niggardly in volume of comments on this matter.


40 posted on 07/05/2020 6:54:52 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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