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Pitts: Nike backs a man and justice in a rare act of corporate valor

Nike’s new ad, released for 30th anniversary of its iconic “Just Do It” campaign, endorses Colin Kaepernick.

By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald

Colin Kaepernick is staring at you.

It’s a black-and-white image, a portrait taken from a distance that feels painfully close, even intimate. Kaepernick, the reviled and revered NFL quarterback who has been unemployed and unemployable since he sparked a movement of athletes and others kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality against African-Americans, watches you with clear eyes and a serious mien.

The text running across his face reads as follows: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Given that Kaepernick has sacrificed a chunk of his physical prime, if not his entire career, on an altar of principle, the ad is undeniably powerful.

Given that 53 percent of Americans say, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, that it’s never OK to kneel during the anthem, given that Donald Trump has found in black NFL players a useful foil for fanning racial resentments among his perpetually aggrieved white base, it is also undeniably brave.

Not that kneeling is really the issue. Granted, many people think it is, but it isn’t. After all, the same anger directed now at Kaepernick was once directed at Martin Luther King. The problem is not how black people complain, but that they complain at all. That’s why black protest has historically always been condemned as “untimely,” “disrespectful,” “ill-advised” or some other code for, “I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to know.”

As a popular T-shirt puts it: “We march, y’all mad. We sit down, y’all mad. We speak up, y’all mad. We die, y’all silent.”

That’s what makes this new Nike ad, released this week as part of the 30th anniversary commemoration of the company’s iconic “Just Do It” campaign, such a rare act of corporate courage. In endorsing Kaepernick, Nike chooses to see — and asks a resistant nation to see — what many have chosen not to. In placing its credibility behind Kaepernick, it places it behind Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Philando Castile and every black parent who lives in terror that their child might be the next unarmed black person to be killed by police while America gives a collective shrug.

One should always be wary when a corporation sides with a controversial social movement. In the first place, every business has a prime directive, and it is not justice but profit. In the second place, there is always a danger the movement will be co-opted.

But one can’t help being impressed by this, especially since Nike is the official apparel provider for the NFL. The league is being sued by Kaepernick and boycotted by both his supporters and opposition; one would not expect the pigskin poo-bahs to look kindly on a corporate partner sleeping with the enemy.

Predictably, Nike stock fell after the ad came out. Also predictably, the Internet has filled with images of people destroying their pricey (and already purchased!) Nike gear in protest. But many of us, let it be said, are heartened — and feeling an unexpected need to buy new Nikes.

Where police brutality is concerned, too many Americans are too skilled in avoidance, in facile, foolish arguments like the one that insists black people keep getting killed only because of some mysterious inability to follow police instructions.

Apparently, some people find it easier to believe that hogwash than to admit this is just a modern iteration of an age-old sin. Colin Kaepernick risked his career to make us see. Now Nike risks its bottom line to support him. But many of us risk nothing but the pain that comes from finally facing the truth with eyes wide open. For them, a simple word of advice:

Just do it.
Where police brutality is concerned, too many Americans are too skilled in avoidance, in facile, foolish arguments like the one that insists black people keep getting killed only because of some mysterious inability to follow police instructions.

Apparently, some people find it easier to believe that hogwash than to admit this is just a modern iteration of an age-old sin. Colin Kaepernick risked his career to make us see. Now Nike risks its bottom line to support him. But many of us risk nothing but the pain that comes from finally facing the truth with eyes wide open. For them, a simple word of advice:

Just do it.
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my girl told me some white dude whispered behind her back that he should spit on her sneakers she turned around and told him she would kick him the throat bitch ass nigga ain't say shit else mind you i live in Harlem you kno how many brothers you gotta walk by wearing nikes you gotta ignore so you decide to come at a black female by herself in 7/11??? i hope she points this fuck nigga out when im with her
 
ghostdenithegawd said:
my girl told me some white dude whispered behind her back that he should spit on her sneakers she turned around and told him she would kick him the throat bitch ass nigga ain't say shit else mind you i live in Harlem you kno how many brothers you gotta walk by wearing nikes you gotta ignore so you decide to come at a black female by herself in 7/11??? i hope she points this fuck nigga out when im with her
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Don't do it, Bloodbath!

But in all seriousness, if by chance y'all see that dude, let that man be. Your girl already punked him in public. All you'll do is get locked up or be the next victim of the NYPD.
 
ghostdenithegawd said:
my girl told me some white dude whispered behind her back that he should spit on her sneakers she turned around and told him she would kick him the throat bitch ass nigga ain't say shit else mind you i live in Harlem you kno how many brothers you gotta walk by wearing nikes you gotta ignore so you decide to come at a black female by herself in 7/11??? i hope she points this fuck nigga out when im with her
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He a whole bitch
 
ghostdenithegawd said:
my girl told me some white dude whispered behind her back that he should spit on her sneakers she turned around and told him she would kick him the throat bitch ass nigga ain't say shit else mind you i live in Harlem you kno how many brothers you gotta walk by wearing nikes you gotta ignore so you decide to come at a black female by herself in 7/11??? i hope she points this fuck nigga out when im with her
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This THIS SHIT....is male toxicity

Toxic masculinity
 
https://www.theepochtimes.com/ameri...cts-to-kaepernicks-nike-campaign_2641571.html

‘American Sniper’ Widow Taya Kyle Reacts to Kaepernick’s Nike Campaign

“American Sniper” widow Taya Kyle issued a reaction after Nike revealed a new campaign featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Kaepernick started the controversial form of protest in the league that has players kneel while the National Anthem is played before games. The protests are one reason NFL viewership continues to decline.

Nike announced this week that Kaepernick was one of the faces of its new campaign, a re-brand of the famous “Just Do It.”

The slogan for the campaign is “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Kaepernick’s post on Twitter showing an image from the campaign went viral, prompting a range of reactions.

‘American Sniper’ Widow Reacts

Taya Kyle, the widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, a veteran who was murdered by a mentally ill man he was mentoring in 2013, was one of the many who reacted to the campaign.

“Sacrificing what exactly? A career?” Kyle wrote in a Facebook post. “At best, that is all Colin sacrificed … some money, and it’s debatable if he really lost his career over it.”

“How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything,” Kyle added.

“They did it because they believed in something. Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in.”

She later added, “Taking a stand, or rather a knee, against the flag which has covered the caskets of so many who actually did sacrifice everything for something they believe in, that we all believe in? Well, the irony of your ad..it almost leaves me speechless. Were you trying to be insulting?”

Kyle then announced she would join the others who have switched from Nike to another company for their sports apparel and other needs following the campaign announcement.
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