Nike unveils new ad featuring Colin Kaepernick

^^^pretend patriotism and boring as sh*t

 

He should be spreading the message that black teens should not be committing crime, single black mothers should not be having 5 kids, black males should be supporting their children and getting jobs, cleaning up their neighborhoods, etc, etc, etc.

These would be better messages than kneeling. He is a fake advocate. He is also an assh*le.

 

Bad decisions are part of our corporate and constitutional rights. Wait until those voting with dollars exercise their constitutional rights to boycott all things Nike.

 

The NFL has looked into this allegation by Elway:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08...cing-2016-contract-offer-to-colin-kaepernick/


Evidently, he made his offer BEFORE Kaep began his protests. Further, Elway has violated a NFL gag order:

"Elway’s remarks will do nothing to make the NFL’s case stronger. They easily could make the league’s position weaker.”

 

Or he could just tweet all day like the Bone Spur in Chief.

 

Ah yes, MLK jr and CK are on par with each other.

 

The contrast is not subtle.

 

Perhaps you missed the part where I said "bigger names such as MLK himself."

 

They can boycott all they want, as long as they don't pretend they're doing it out of a sense of morality or sticking it to "the man." It also doesn't count if these boycotters already own some Nike gear.

 

We will see.

 

Well the protesters from Baltimore and Ferguson burned down some of their own shizzle so don't be surprised if that doesn't happen as well. Those who already have some gear that boycott aren't funding future sales either. Those profits are water under the bridge and future sales and profits are what prop up the company's value.

 

And the people who take issue with Kaepernick kneeling during the Anthem and Nike's attempt to portray him as someone who is willing sacrifice everything when he's not have a constitutional right to express their criticism.

Freedom of speech works both ways...

 

Nope, and funny enough, all you mentioned earlier were fighting democrats and their policies just like Kaep is today.

 

Usually, when you cost your company $3B, you get fired. But hey, the day is still young.

 

Some particularly wise people took to social media and already posted pics or vids of themselves burning their own gear, and its extremely amusing to watch dumbasses like that burn their own property as if Nike doesn't already have their money.

Plus, if they don't wanna fund more sales for Nike, fine be that way.

 

All of whom were unpopular, even hated at some point, though strangely no one seems to have an issue quoting MLK for any particular reason.

 

I listened to NRP this morning. They were having a super hard time trying to justify their own version of censorship. While they were very supportive of the right to voice dissenting views, their hard edge was dissenting views that trigger. In other words, the left continue this BS about being "protected" from points of views that you disagree with. Clearly, this is the conflict that is the design. If the left actually believe in "safe zones" why doesn't the NFL just make all of their games "safe zones" from which dissenting views are unwelcome? And while I certainly don't condone this, it does seem to use the liberal model to it's very effective end.

 

Better to burn their own stuff than their neighbors stuff like BLM did huh?

 

If I cost my company $3 billion in one day my shoes would be dropping into an unemployment line (and rightly so).


Epic Shallow Celebrity Culture Fail - Just Do It

 

Ill quote honest parts of CK protest. Like how he said if anyone of us did what Hillary did, we would be in jail.

 

A thought occurred to me - you might recall years ago around 1988 when baseball owners were convicted of collusion in limiting free agent player salaries. It cost MLB $280 million. Today that amount would be double. Now imagine if it is found that the NFL engaged in collusion against Kaep ~ how much money will he and the player's association get?

Meanwhile, all this is generating much publicity for Nikes. Heck, if I was younger and athletic as I was in the old days, I'd be inspired to get myself a pair of those shoes right now!

 

To quote Eazy-E from Straight Outta Compton: "The truth is, they can do whatever they want with them.....they bought them *********kers."

 

I completely agree.

 

Uncomfortable parts of a protest are still part of it, through and through. It goes for CK, it goes for MLK, it goes for any protest or movement.

 

Nike makes billions of dollars by convincing idiot teenagers that they will be better athletes if they wear Nike products. They know being "edgy" plays well to this demographic. They also know that right-leaning people who can't stand Kaepernick are probably smart enough not to fall for the ridiculous notion that we will be better basketball players if we buy sneakers with a silhouette of Michael Jordan on them.

They know that by doing this ad campaign, they get talked about all over the sports media. There's no such thing as bad press, all they need is brand and name recognition. Ultimately, they get incredible bang for the buck by all the free exposure they get when they make decisions like this.

TLDR version: They are pandering to the lowest common denominator, which also happens to be their consumer base.