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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What the hell?!?
I think I saw a white supremecist (you know, Candice Owens) drink coffee once. COFFEE IS RACIST!!!
Personal note to Colin Kaepernick:
Benjamin Franklin owned slaves! He had two of them.
Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 bill.
Send all of your $100 bills to me and I will make sure they are “disposed of” properly. It may take some time.
How much slave labor does Nike depend upon with its Chinese labor force?
And the Left told us repeatedly that he didn't hate the flag, his protest was solely about police shootings... but there are no police shootings depicted on those shoes... hmmmmmm.
Slavery isn’t abolished at Nikes. Kaepernick and Nike have slaves in 2019.
Nike makes its shoes in Third World countries where it can pay people dirt. It would have been a fraud to put any kind of American flag on shoes made by distant, dollar a day peasants. Nike’s shoes should be branded with the flag of China or Vietnam
Kaperneak supports slave wages
So, as a reminder. According to ALL the defenders, Kapernick’s protests had NOTHING to do with the flag.
All of it.
Search much?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=nike+kaepernick&ok=Search&q=quick&m=all&o=time
Seven posts in the last two days.
Nike got P-whipped by a black nobody.
Hey white folks we need to stop buying Nike products until they show the ‘never was nobody has-been” the door.
Nike you better get a grip on your junk while you can still afford to keep it.
There are not enough black folks in this country to keep your profit margins in the black.
They’ve decided who their client base is, and it isn’t us.
I don’t want any of Nike’s stupid stuff anyway.
Just the fact that American pop culture has elevated a sneaker company worthy of anyone giving a rats ass what it does or doesn’t do because some meathead, never was, NFL loser pisses and moans about it is really pathetic.
Who In the hell would wear the flag on the heel of their shoe, anyway? What genius thought that up?
Faggots. All of them.
Kaepernick has the reverse miss touch with any business he interacts with. Destroyed the NFL, and now is making a mockery of Nike.
Get woke, go broke cause woke is NPC.
Yep, let’s just erase history...........
Libtard progessives so love historical revisionism, unreal.
See what AZ thinks of this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3761097/posts
Thank You Gov. Ducey.
“Nike got P-whipped by a black nobody.”
A “black nobody” who was raised with “white privilege”. I guess Kraperneck is color blind when it comes to who raised him and the color of money.
To begin with, anyone who pays $140.00 for a pair of $2.00 sneakers made by Chinese slaves is a fool. The only cool thing about Nike is their logo.
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