Many sports fans have been scratching their heads over Nike’s perplexing choice of Colin Kaepernick as the new face of their signature “Just Do It” campaign.
In the case of an NFL benchwarmer and indiscriminate, cop antagonist we have to wonder, just do what exactly?
• Act like a self-serving prima donna?
• Demand affirmative action for professional sports (regardless of talent)?
• Disrespect law enforcement, the military and American patriots?
Frankly, whatever he’s been “doing,” he’s done enough already. But to Nike apparently, it’s all good. Which I guess shouldn’t surprise us considering the company’s leftist tendencies.
Progressives are well known for their hypocrisy, and Nike is no exception. As the New York Post reminds us, the sportswear giant is regularly listed among the worst of the worst in operating Asian factories under draconian authorities and inhumane conditions.
And Iranian-born Anni Cyrus pointed out several months ago that, knowingly or not, Nike is supporting Muslim suppression of women by manufacturing their new line of hijabs for athletes. (If you don’t think the hijab is a tool used by Muslim men to keep women subservient, recall the women jailed in Iran for removing theirs in protest.)
It’s no real surprise that Nike is a big donor to the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. For Nike, believing in something means the promotion of underage sexual activity, the sale of fetal body parts and the cover-up of sexual abuse.
And now we actually have Nike’s complicity in Kaeprnick’s hatred of law enforcement. Lest anyone doubt that Kaepernick really does loathe cops, a year ago the Daily Mail reported ~ Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group named after convicted cop killer and former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur who broke out of jail and fled to Cuba ~
Shakur was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1973 shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster and sentenced to life in prison, but staged a daring jailbreak and now lives as a fugitive in Cuba.
Kaepernick, who is well known for his protests against police during the national anthem as a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, made the donation as part of his pledge to donate $100,000 a month for 10 months to ‘organizations working in oppressed communities’.
Finally, if you need any more evidence whose side he’s on, this Iranian despot is one of Kaeperick’s biggest fans ~
The #NFL season will start this week, unfortunately once again @Kaepernick7 is not on a NFL roster. Even though he is one of the best Quarterbacks in the league.#ColinKaepernick #NFL
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) September 3, 2018
Nike knew exactly what they were getting in this bitter ex-NFLer. Somehow – for the sportswear manufacturer – “Just Do It” never seems to include doing the right thing.
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Related:
Colin Kaepernick ad campaign only highlights Nike’s hypocrisy
Backlash after Colin Kaepernick named face of Nike ad
Open letter from the National Association of Police Organizations, Inc. to Nike ~
[Hat-tip: chadams]
Nike pushes harmful narrative of police brutality ~ Larry Elder with a few inconvenient facts ~
Remember, the protest began as a criticism of the alleged widespread institutional racism by cops. Kaepernick said, “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” Actually, the data say otherwise. The Washington Post Fatal Force database reports that 19 unarmed blacks were killed by the police in 2016. Almost 8,000 blacks were homicide victims in 2016, and most died at the hands of another black. Unarmed does not mean not dangerous. Ferguson’s Michael Brown was unarmed, but his DNA was found on the police officer’s gun, indicating that Brown was trying to grab the gun.
