Nike cancels American flag shoe after Kaepernick complains it’s racist

[Meglamaniac 792]

3 minutes ago, The Observer said:

It's not an easy thing to capitalize on. A huge percentage of athleticwear/sneakers are bought by African americans. I don't think any of these companies want to make a stand as the official sneaker of cranky middle-aged white guys.

yea, cause major college athletics ADs and pro sports owners are historically minorities, so bleepin stupid.  More money is made in this market than can ever be made in the gen pub.

Oh and no way cranky middle aged white guys but team apparel

 

[The Observer 641]

4 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

yea, cause major college athletics ADs and pro sports owners are historically minorities, so bleepin stupid.  More money is made in this market than can ever be made in the gen pub.

Oh and no way cranky middle aged white guys but team apparel

 

Then perhaps he's right and Adidas will come out as the official sneaker of white supremacists. I guess we'll see.

[Meglamaniac 792]

2 minutes ago, The Observer said:

Then perhaps he's right and Adidas will come out as the official sneaker of white supremacists. I guess we'll see.

at the very least not the shoe of whiney snowflakes

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

Adidas isn't an American company. 

[Kanil 521]

20 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Adidas isn't an American company. 

You don't have to be an American company to capitalize on a situation.

[Kanil 521]

44 minutes ago, The Observer said:

It's not an easy thing to capitalize on. A huge percentage of athleticwear/sneakers are bought by African americans. I don't think any of these companies want to make a stand as the official sneaker of cranky middle-aged white guys.

This seems incorrect to me.  My wife works at a K-12 school and almost every kid there wears sneakers.  Less than 1% of the kids at her school are African American.

[The Observer 641]

2 minutes ago, Kanil said:

This seems incorrect to me.  My wife works at a K-12 school and almost every kid there wears sneakers.  Less than 1% of the kids at her school are African American.

Kids wear the sneakers that their sports idols wear.  See where the problem lies as far as trying to capitalize on the angry white guy rage?

[Meglamaniac 792]

2 minutes ago, The Observer said:

Kids wear the sneakers that their sports idols wear.  See where the problem lies as far as trying to capitalize on the angry white guy rage?

majority of athletics where what the team mandates, see where the problem is there

 

[Kanil 521]

1 minute ago, The Observer said:

Kids wear the sneakers that their sports idols wear.  See where the problem lies as far as trying to capitalize on the angry white guy rage?

Are you saying that kids these days aren't going to wear red, white, and blue Under Armors? 

[DonS 3,319]

1 hour ago, Kanil said:

This seems incorrect to me.  My wife works at a K-12 school and almost every kid there wears sneakers.  Less than 1% of the kids at her school are African American.

Oh no!!!!! Sounds like your wife works at a white supremacist school!!!  RACIST!!!! 

 

[Strike 6,023]

An AR-15 manufacturer is selling gun parts with the flag engraved on them in response to Nike.  Focking awesome!  Lol

[DonS 3,319]

Just now, Strike said:

An AR-15 manufacturer is selling gun parts with the flag engraved on them in response to Nike.  Focking awesome!  Lol

Racist Betsy Ross style or current? 

[Strike 6,023]

20 minutes ago, DonS said:

Racist Betsy Ross style or current? 

https://mobile.twitter.com/PalmettoArmory/status/1146519234085830656

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,543]

in the can't make this up category

https://www.dailywire.com/news/49146/nike-may-think-betsy-ross-flag-racist-look-who-hank-berrien

 

[DonS 3,319]

11 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

in the can't make this up category

https://www.dailywire.com/news/49146/nike-may-think-betsy-ross-flag-racist-look-who-hank-berrien

 

I'm sure the silence will be deafening from all those claiming it is racist.

[BiPolarBear 495]

I am one of the few liberals on this bored and I think the hoop-la over the early version of the American flag is just plain ass ridiculous. Sure slaves existed then, but that wasn't what the flag was about. Should we tear down the pyramids because they were slave built? 

The colosseum in Rome was slave built, and they fed Christian families to the lions there. Lets implode that thing and march around it singing "Onward Christian Soldiers". 

I am glad Kaepernick got his NFL settlement, and applaud him for giving more than a million dollars to charitable causes, but the flag beef is stupid. Not everything is about slavery and not everything needs to go away because of slavery. 

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

16 minutes ago, BiPolarBear said:

I am one of the few liberals on this bored and I think the hoop-la over the early version of the American flag is just plain ass ridiculous. Sure slaves existed then, but that wasn't what the flag was about. Should we tear down the pyramids because they were slave built? 

The colosseum in Rome was slave built, and they fed Christian families to the lions there. Lets implode that thing and march around it singing "Onward Christian Soldiers". 

I am glad Kaepernick got his NFL settlement, and applaud him for giving more than a million dollars to charitable causes, but the flag beef is stupid. Not everything is about slavery and not everything needs to go away because of slavery. 

Well said.

By this logic the original constitution should be gotten rid of. It blatantly was racist.

The white house, the capitol, the Washington monument, and other landmarks were built with slave labor, at least in part.

Is it right? Of course not. Does that mean we need to raze them all to the ground? Of course not.

Its a stain on out history. We have to acknowledge it, and correct it. And that has happened.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

How come no one gets on England about their flag? We inherited slavery here from them. The original sinners. As long as we're holding people from hundreds of years ago accountable.  Clowns. 

[drobeski 3,061]

39 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

How come no one gets on England about their flag? We inherited slavery here from them. The original sinners. As long as we're holding people from hundreds of years ago accountable.  Clowns. 

Feelings/fake outrage > logic/fact. 

Get with the programmed bro.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

So, while China has actual concentration camps for Muslims, in 2019, the harping is about the Betsy Ross flag.  Why? Because China will tell them to go Fock themselves.  And multinationals like Nike and Hollywood are only woke when they won't lose money. That's why in 100 years china will still be china. And we'll be something unrecognizable.  

[Cloaca du jour 2,157]

Erase all history...so we are doomed to repeat it!!

[Fireballer 2,677]

14 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

in the can't make this up category

https://www.dailywire.com/news/49146/nike-may-think-betsy-ross-flag-racist-look-who-hank-berrien

 

In the time between Obamas inauguration and now, the flag has been weaponized by alt right and white supremacists. So now its racist. So Ive heard.

[BiPolarBear 495]

16 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

So, while China has actual concentration camps for Muslims, in 2019, the harping is about the Betsy Ross flag.  Why? Because China will tell them to go Fock themselves.  And multinationals like Nike and Hollywood are only woke when they won't lose money. That's why in 100 years china will still be china. And we'll be something unrecognizable.  

I can not disagree. 

[vuduchile 1,947]

I’m seeing tons of Stars and Stripes gear and shoes in the Cubs/Pirates game today.  

 

[DonS 3,319]

11 minutes ago, vuduchile said:

I’m seeing tons of Stars and Stripes gear and shoes in the Cubs/Pirates game today.  

 

Racist Betsy Ross version? 

[vuduchile 1,947]

4 minutes ago, DonS said:

Racist Betsy Ross version? 

I thought it was all racist. 

[DonS 3,319]

1 hour ago, vuduchile said:

I thought it was all racist. 

That's probably coming soon. 

[wiffleball 4,797]

With all the freaking weed smokers around Colo, not so much worried about guys wearing Betsy Ross sneakers as I am about the freaks wearing Bob Ross Crocs.

[Voltaire 5,491]

5 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

With all the freaking weed smokers around Colo, not so much worried about guys wearing Betsy Ross sneakers as I am about the freaks wearing Bob Ross Crocs.

Freaks + Bob Ross in the same sentence is sacrilege.   

Bob Ross is a great, outstanding, beloved human being. He has nothing to do with these assholes. 

Take it back.

[wiffleball 4,797]

Go draw some happy trees, 🐿

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

2 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

Go smoke some happy trees, 🐿

Fixed. 

[Voltaire 5,491]

13 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

Go draw some happy trees, 🐿

You may recall that I already have. Go down half the page to to the bonus pic:

 

[BiPolarBear 495]

6 hours ago, Voltaire said:

You may recall that I already have. Go down half the page to to the bonus pic:

 

You have Bob Ross on the tele and everything. Completely sincere man-crush confirmed. 

[lod001 1,345]

The only thing good about this latest k-stink bs is that he cost the sh1t company Nike  $millions.

[Voltaire 5,491]

41 minutes ago, lod001 said:

The only thing good about this latest k-stink bs is that he cost the sh1t company Nike  $millions.

He also puts to rest the fake narrative about the original kneeling scandal being about "police brutality" as a total lie, something most of us already knew.

[The Observer 641]

1 hour ago, lod001 said:

The only thing good about this latest k-stink bs is that he cost the sh1t company Nike  $millions.

Just the opposite actually. All you guys already boycotted Nike when they announced Kaepernick as the spokesman last year.  Once you've already decided to stop buying their products, them making you angry has zero effect. What they did was they got you to be their marketing firm this past week. Totally free of cost.  

[Voltaire 5,491]

1 minute ago, The Observer said:

Just the opposite actually. All you guys already boycotted Nike when they announced Kaepernick as the spokesman last year.  Once you've already decided to stop buying their products, them making you angry has zero effect. What they did was they got you to be their marketing firm this past week. Totally free of cost.  

I can get more pissed off and rekindled anger, but I can't double boycott, no.

Still, weren't these shoes already made and ready for sale when they were pulled? If so, they'd lose quite a bit of money but I wouldn't put it past them to sit on the shoes for a year and then use the notoriety and free publicity you mention to sell them for more money next year.

 

[RLLD 4,275]

5 minutes ago, The Observer said:

Just the opposite actually. All you guys already boycotted Nike when they announced Kaepernick as the spokesman last year.  Once you've already decided to stop buying their products, them making you angry has zero effect. What they did was they got you to be their marketing firm this past week. Totally free of cost.  

I think you missed the point, there were sunk costs associated with the development, manufacture, and distribution of these shoes that the company will have to eat.

[tubby_mcgee 701]

https://www.ninelineapparel.com/collections/betsy-ross-stand

[The Observer 641]

43 minutes ago, RLLD said:

I think you missed the point, there were sunk costs associated with the development, manufacture, and distribution of these shoes that the company will have to eat.

Assuming this wasn't a marketing ploy from the very start.