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    Nike Recalls “Betsy Ross flag” Shoes To Please Kaepernick

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    NIKE had made a stock of shoes with a motif including a stylized “Betsy Ross” flag with 13 stars symbolizing the 13 original colonies. This offering was to be made in concert with our Forth of July celebration. Large numbers had been distributed to Nike outlets in preparation until Colin Kaepernick, a Nike shill, got wind of the move, called up headquarters saying he and his ilk found things to do with the country’s founding to “offensive” with the result that Nike caved and recalled the shoes. Apparently Kaepernick has trump-power (little “t,” very little t) over anything his crew of malcontents find “offensive.” Personally, I find anything to do with Kaepernick, and now Nike, offensive.
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    I'm with you, Joe!

    I'll be sending Nike my thoughts although I'm sure a patriotic person's don't count as is proven by Nike's actions.
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    I just sent this to the president of Nike:

    Mr. Parker :

    I am deeply disappointed with the way Nike has handled the complaint made by Colin Kaepernick regarding the patriotic "Betsy Ross" shoes. How is it that an unemployed ex-football player can dictate what shoes Nike can produce and sell? It is no secret that Kaepernick is a malcontent America hater, but I was unaware that Nike fits the same shoe as Kaepernick.


    I will no longer purchase any Nike product as Nike is now on record as being anti-American.
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    ^^^^

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    Thank you Mike, its sad the NFL would even let him in there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    I'm with you, Joe!

    I'll be sending Nike my thoughts although I'm sure a patriotic person's don't count as is proven by Nike's actions.
    Give me the address or e-mail if you still have it I'd like to send a letter also.
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    I threatened to wear their products......

    When I come to a water hole I always play a Nike ball. Unless I'm trying to win.
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    I never did like their running shoes. I wear Asics or New Balance, this just reaffirms my choices.
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    Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) on Tuesday announced that he will ask the state's commerce authority to pull financial incentives for Nike after the company decided not to release a Betsy Ross flag sneaker.


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    “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”
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    Yeah, 500 people just lost jobs in Arizona.

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    If Kaepernick really is all bent because of a flag representation from the slave era in the original United States Revolution era, then he must be triggered into apoplexy when he sees Kamala Harris, the scion of real Jamaican slavers, blathering and acting indignant about bussing.
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    I think this is an open link to a very well written OPED in the WSJ. Please give it a try.

    “Make Chief Wahoo Great Again.”
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    Pay walled.
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    That is too bad.

    I will add an extract from it:

    The remarkable thing about Colin Kaepernick’s banning of Nike ’s Betsy Ross flag sneaker to commemorate the Fourth of July isn’t that it happened, but how easily it happened. Nike’s management simply folded over “concerns that it could unintentionally offend.”

    Translating this waffly phrase into odds, I’d put “concerns that it could” at about a million to one. But because the thought found its way into Mr. Kaepernick’s head that the shoe was about slavery, Nike’s senior decision-makers nodded without dissent: We’ve gotta pull it.


    No one has ever thought to go looking inside corporate headquarters for profiles in courage, but the lurch toward timidity in our time by individuals at the top of America’s private and public institutions is something to behold. Pusillanimity has become a plague.

    The ownership of the Cleveland Indians engaged in several years of passive resistance before finally caving in this season to pressure from New-York-based Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to ban the team’s mascot and logo, the joyfully smiling Chief Wahoo. The Indians’ cap now bear a nondescript C, which hereafter should stand for “craven” instead of Cleveland.

    Banning Chief Wahoo—a constant presence in the city’s life since the 1950s—meant baseball’s factotums could get through Tuesday night’s All-Star game in Cleveland without the possibility that the logo might be seen on an Indian player’s uniform, forcing baseball’s leadership to endure apparently unbearable Twitter torture.

    In April, the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers caved in to pressure to stop playing a recording of Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” because it emerged that Smith recorded a song called “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” in 1931, when she was 24. The Flyers even removed a statue of Smith, erected in 1987, from outside their arena. If the Flyers players crumbled as quickly as their management, they’d be laughed out of hockey.

    In a saner world, the Yankees and Flyers might have worked out a modus vivendi. Yes, it’s worth knowing now that racist songs were recorded in the U.S. in the 1930s. And it is good and useful if major institutions such as the Yankees and Flyers condemn them.

    But it is also a fact that listening to Smith’s rendition of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” has been an experience of pure patriotic exhilaration for millions of people, most of whom by now have never heard of Kate Smith, whose life and career were stellar in every respect beyond two songs. Criticize the condescending songs she recorded in the 1930s—and move on.
    BTW---Colin Kaepernick’s steadfast identity claim is at best curious. His father was black, his mother white and she gave him up for adoption by a white family immediately after birth. I suggest without regular visits to his hair dresser his afro styled hair would fall down in no time!
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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