Opinions on the Nike ad with Colin Kaepernick?

[furrowtickler]

That’s sums it up very very well .

[blackpowder]

This is taking a knee.

[sawfly1]

I think it is a sick corporate move. inciting division.

the same tactics Trump uses .

and just as bad in this case.

if the company really wanted to stand for something,
give their workers another 10 cents an hour .


Kaepernick and others have a right to protest the way they see fit.
it seems like a mild protest at that.

I am sure the majority of police are as fair as possible in most cases.

but not all.

[GDR]

I think the guy is a disrespectful loser, would turn me off Nike except I'm one of the angry old men who doesn't buy it anyhow!

[furrowtickler]

I think it is a sick corporate move. inciting division.

the same tactics Trump uses .

and just as bad in this case.

if the company really wanted to stand for something,
give their workers another 10 cents an hour .


Kaepernick and others have a right to protest the way they see fit.
it seems like a mild protest at that.

I am sure the majority of police are as fair as possible in most cases.

but not all.

I agree sawfly , it’s the same with the police force here. They face tremendous difficulties on they job dealing with these very same issues .
They have brought in two more speacial tactical units into this area that are currently cleaning house . And it’s good because the normal police officers don’t have to deal with the mud slinging media and speacial interest groups.
These speacial forces are doing raids and hammering local criminal kingpins and associates. None of it’s on the news but that’s ok , the job is getting done.
At the end of the day , crime should not be glorified, and yes police forces need to be accountable, but without their presence and hard work it would be a third world shit show .

[sawfly1]

black powder , you and Trump are deliberately changing the subject.
the guys protest was nothing to do with being patriotic or the sacrifices of soldiers .

and everyone knows that .

it was about police brutality right from the start.

it is the same nonsense that if you are anti war , any war
Iraq / Vietnam
that some how you are not patriotic or do not love your country . which is BS

how is wanting change in what you think is wrong is somehow unpatriotic.

[Braveheart]

So when Kapernick et al protest, do they include the black people gunned down by other black people. I mean black gang/gun thugs are gunning down blacks every day but does anyone marxh in the streets over that? Take a knee because the Bloods shot up a black household?

[blackpowder]

Perhaps MLK knew how to protest without touching patriotism.
Something neither Kaepernicks followers nor Trumps know how to do.

[hobbyfrmr]

Angry old white guys may not buy a shit tonne of Nike products but they do buy season tickets. The league is gonna take it on the chin. It blows my mind that there's nothing that can't be politicized. Idk about most people but i don't turn on TSN to watch CNN. I turn on sports to get away from the bull shit in the world. I get politics in my kids sports.... oh the drama. I'm just getting to the point i don't give a **** about politics, human rights and all this bullshit I'm told I'm supposed to care about. If athletes want to do this on their own, the sky's the limit. Otherwise YouTube is gonna be my channel of choice. At least i can pick content.

Good point. North Amercan society is so comfortable now our values have been eroded down to politicizing consumer goods and habits. A true deflection from the fundamentals of life.
I never really cared for politics and never allowed it to interfere with living in my life until last year when a farm helper tried to paint me with a political identity/attitude because he was of slightly contrasting values.

[Oliver88]

I find it odd that the same person has seem to have brought up this same topic about 3 times now on a commodity marketing discussion board?

What is gained by this discussion regarding a desperate washed up unpatriotic player seeking $$$?