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2019-07-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Rush: Kaepernick-Nike Shoe Saga Proof NFL Kneeling Not About Police Brutality ‐ ‘He Opposes Honoring the Flag'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-03 06:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 He was taking a knee because he opposes the country!

More precisely, those who established it and maintain it today. Make no mistake, the exclusion of tribalism is his enemy.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-03 07:03|| 2019-07-03 07:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Who is this Colon person and why is anybody listening to him?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2019-07-03 07:11|| 2019-07-03 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 It's never been about justice, its always about power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-03 07:47|| 2019-07-03 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 It has always been about his hate and contempt for America. The media just cant hide it now.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-07-03 10:07|| 2019-07-03 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Just a reminder - Megan Rapinoe (USWNT) is following a similar pattern - at first it was kneeling for the National Anthem 'in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick', then it became a protest against Trump.

Posted by Raj 2019-07-03 10:17|| 2019-07-03 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Make no mistake, the exclusion of tribalism is his enemy.

America is *the* most interesting political experiment in the last 300 years. We built a country based not on tribes, blood, or soil but on a shared idea, a belief in the Constitution. E Pluribus Unum - Out of many, one.

Appealing to tribal loyalties is good way to grab political power, but ultimately, it is bad for America. If you need an example why, just check out any long-running ethnic conflict in Africa, Europe or Asia.

Posted by SteveS 2019-07-03 10:41|| 2019-07-03 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course. Kaepernick is a Wakandan.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-03 10:44|| 2019-07-03 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Nike 'Betsy Ross flag' sneakers sold for $2K each on resale market

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-03 10:53|| 2019-07-03 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 NFL and US women's soccer are money grabs. Lots of idiots hand over theirs, I can't stop that. But they ain't getting mine...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-03 11:05|| 2019-07-03 11:05|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't know for sure but I'm guessing these shoes are made in China. So the Kaepernick thing is plenty bad enough but I wouldn't buy the shoe anyway even if it does feature a Betsy Ross flag. Nike can suck on it...the shoe I mean.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-07-03 11:39|| 2019-07-03 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 What it's really about is:
"look at me, look at me, look at me."

Posted by ruprecht 2019-07-03 11:42|| 2019-07-03 11:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Bangladesh, I think. It's cheaper.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-03 11:43|| 2019-07-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Given the state of tribalism in Bangla, Dron, that just makes it more ironic.

Posted by AlanC 2019-07-03 13:04|| 2019-07-03 13:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Kaepernick is supposed to help Nike hide the fact that they use child slave labor to make their clown shoes

Posted by Regular joe 2019-07-03 13:34|| 2019-07-03 13:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Stock price doing reasonably well over the past year and a half or so; about even with the indexes.

Also, their revenue and earnings are doing OK.

Probably most people who would potentially boycott Nike were smart enough to avoid buying over priced footware in the first place.

Posted by lord garth 2019-07-03 13:46|| 2019-07-03 13:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Regular Joe is so right.

NIKE USES LIBERAL PLAYBOOK TO HIDE ABUSE

NIKE EXPOSED IN 2008 BY JOURNOS

The Rana bazaar factory collapse (2013), in Dhaka killed more than 1100 indentured workers slaving away for Nike, GAP, H&M and others.

The companies' local agents had paid off municipal officers and the labor was working in appalling, unsafe conditions. Women with their children, often the wages being only two meals a day.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-03 14:20|| 2019-07-03 14:20|| Front Page Top

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