they want to show they are not racist
https://thehollywoodunlocked.com/nike-closes-south-africa-stores-boycott-viral-racist-video/
https://thehollywoodunlocked.com/nike-closes-south-africa-stores-boycott-viral-racist-video/
Boycott NIKE!
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Colin Kaepernick named face of Nike's new 30th anniversary 'Just Do It' campaign
Controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, currently embroiled in legal proceedings against the league over alleged collusion by owners, has been chosen as the new face of Nike.
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Conservative hilariously mocked after he ruins his own Nike socks to protest Kaepernick
On Monday, country musician John Rich tweeted a picture that showed the cut up Nike socks of his sound guy.
“Our Soundman just cut the Nike swoosh off his socks. Former marine. Get ready @nike multiply that by the millions,” Rich tweeted.
The social media post was seen as a rebuke to the activism of sports athletes like Colin Kaepernick, who’ve used their platforms to speak out against police brutality and other issues that disproportionality impact people of color.
The footwear protest appears to be in response to Nike choosing Kaepernick to take part in a campaign commemorating their “Just Do It” slogan.
The Internet promptly responded with glee at the prospect of shredding your own socks to protest someone else’s public protest.
Kaepernick tweeted Monday afternoon he was picked to helm the esteemed shoe brand's 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign -- a return to the slogan that made the company famous.
The quarterback, who knows a thing or two about the sentiment, tweeted a photo of himself with the quote, "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything," with the hashtag "JustDoIt.
Controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, currently embroiled in legal proceedings against the league over alleged collusion by owners, has been chosen as the new face of Nike.
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and then you have :
Conservative hilariously mocked after he ruins his own Nike socks to protest Kaepernick
On Monday, country musician John Rich tweeted a picture that showed the cut up Nike socks of his sound guy.
“Our Soundman just cut the Nike swoosh off his socks. Former marine. Get ready @nike multiply that by the millions,” Rich tweeted.
The social media post was seen as a rebuke to the activism of sports athletes like Colin Kaepernick, who’ve used their platforms to speak out against police brutality and other issues that disproportionality impact people of color.
The footwear protest appears to be in response to Nike choosing Kaepernick to take part in a campaign commemorating their “Just Do It” slogan.
The Internet promptly responded with glee at the prospect of shredding your own socks to protest someone else’s public protest.
Kaepernick tweeted Monday afternoon he was picked to helm the esteemed shoe brand's 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign -- a return to the slogan that made the company famous.
The quarterback, who knows a thing or two about the sentiment, tweeted a photo of himself with the quote, "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything," with the hashtag "JustDoIt.
Why would Nike sign a guy who isnt good enough to make an NFL team?
It is certainly going to be interesting to see what happens to Nilke with this. I've taken great interest in noting that, whenever these companies get involved in political statements, it always blows up in their faces. Yet, they never seem to learn.
Fat slobs (read: Trumpers) don't buy/can't afford Nike, so it's a good move. Also, stay classy GOP
So, just so I understand what you are saying here.
If someone voted for Trump, they are a fat slob and don't buy/can't afford Nike?
I thought this whole protest was about black lives matter. How many young black men will continue to kill each other for a pair of Nike gym shoes? Not so safe to where them in the hood.
Virtue signaling more important than profits in corporate America these days.Tough to find a backbone in the boardroom.
"It doesn't make you innocent, it makes you stupid." Gotta like that!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Great google you are like Sherlock Holmes there. The report from the same people who lied out their arse about it not being fratricide in the first place?
It probably was incompetence or it was that mystery special forces guy. What was sure is Tillman was ready to tear the administration a new asshole on discharge.
You think an atheist liberal minded guy would have had a problem with some guy kneeling?
Bold line added:
Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat (left) in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, later wrote a powerful, must-read document. The following essay was first published Oct. 19, 2006.
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started. Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.
Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
Kevin Tillman
Do what?! Prove he was murdered? You're an idiot.
That letter is one man's political narrative about a war in which his country was (is) engaged. He makes some valid points but regardless... the issue we are discussing here is the nature of his brother's death. Nowhere in that letter does he state his brother was "murdered".
No one is debating there was an initial coverup. There was, and it was a grave mistake on the Army's part, but a Congressional investigation and the Army's own CID both determined beyond a doubt his death was an accident.
You clowns suddenly want to embrace conspiracy theories when it works for you.