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So what can Nike do about people killing people over shoes? I legit want to hear you answer.Let’s see, Colin Kaepernick ‘sacrifices’ a LOT! He will make millions from Nike. Over 1,700 young black men were killed in 2015 by other young black men for a pair of Air Jordans…. I do not see ANYTHING being done by Nike to prevent this in any of their campaigns. No advertising…nothing. JUST MAKE MONEY should be their slogan! Nike pays Colin lots of money for the Just Do It Campaign, because of his ‘activism’. He is their new marketing tool. According to him, there is violence against black men. This is sadly true. And we should do something to stop it. But has he done anything to help prevent young black males from killing each other for a pair of Nikes? Nike, like a big drug pusher markets their shoes to young kids that some are willing to kill for and has done nothing. Yet, some are applauding Nike for taking a MORAL stance- really?
From this past April:
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a scathing indictment of corporate culture at Nike, based on interviews with women who work or have worked for the company. The NYT tells a story of a place where sexual harassment was rampant, women were undervalued and demeaned, and even women’s sneakers were considered second-class.
From a few years back-
“These shoes are important,” D.C. prosecutor Ella Gladman told Okun during her opening statements as she recounted details of the shooting from her witnesses. “These shoes are the reason James was killed.”
Prosecutors said the teen witnesses saw James fight with the person who demanded his shoes then lost sight as James fled. They did not see the shooting, but arrived soon after, prosecutors said.
“The witnesses saw the defendant after the shooting running away, holding the red sneakers in his hands,” Gladman said.
There are deeper societal issues of violence and status involved. Looking back at Sports Illustrated’s famous 1990 cover story, “Your Sneakers or Your Life,” which focused on the murder of a 15-year-old boy over his Jordans and brought sneaker violence to national attention, it’s evident that the 17-year-old killer in that case didn’t do it just for the shoes. The victims of these crimes are disproportionately young, black men.
Undoubtedly, however, sneakers continue to create opportunities for some problems to play out. Early on, the Sneakerheadz clip shows news footage from a mob scene of customers stampeding to get newly released Jordans, and stories of actual deaths are far from rare.
What can be done about it? Twenty-five years after Sports Illustrated’s big story, there’s still no good answer.
Its not their job to help anyone. Theyre just there to report incidents to the court so that the state or country or city makes revenue, I cant think of a single instance where a cop helped me out of a situation.will be sweet when the people wearing his apparel and shoes need police help
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This.Your experience isn’t THE experience.
Let’s see, Colin Kaepernick ‘sacrifices’ a LOT! He will make millions from Nike. Over 1,700 young black men were killed in 2015 by other young black men for a pair of Air Jordans…. I do not see ANYTHING being done by Nike to prevent this in any of their campaigns. No advertising…nothing. JUST MAKE MONEY should be their slogan! Nike pays Colin lots of money for the Just Do It Campaign, because of his ‘activism’. He is their new marketing tool. According to him, there is violence against black men. This is sadly true. And we should do something to stop it. But has he done anything to help prevent young black males from killing each other for a pair of Nikes? Nike, like a big drug pusher markets their shoes to young kids that some are willing to kill for and has done nothing. Yet, some are applauding Nike for taking a MORAL stance- really?
From this past April:
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a scathing indictment of corporate culture at Nike, based on interviews with women who work or have worked for the company. The NYT tells a story of a place where sexual harassment was rampant, women were undervalued and demeaned, and even women’s sneakers were considered second-class.
From a few years back-
“These shoes are important,” D.C. prosecutor Ella Gladman told Okun during her opening statements as she recounted details of the shooting from her witnesses. “These shoes are the reason James was killed.”
Prosecutors said the teen witnesses saw James fight with the person who demanded his shoes then lost sight as James fled. They did not see the shooting, but arrived soon after, prosecutors said.
“The witnesses saw the defendant after the shooting running away, holding the red sneakers in his hands,” Gladman said.
There are deeper societal issues of violence and status involved. Looking back at Sports Illustrated’s famous 1990 cover story, “Your Sneakers or Your Life,” which focused on the murder of a 15-year-old boy over his Jordans and brought sneaker violence to national attention, it’s evident that the 17-year-old killer in that case didn’t do it just for the shoes. The victims of these crimes are disproportionately young, black men.
Undoubtedly, however, sneakers continue to create opportunities for some problems to play out. Early on, the Sneakerheadz clip shows news footage from a mob scene of customers stampeding to get newly released Jordans, and stories of actual deaths are far from rare.
What can be done about it? Twenty-five years after Sports Illustrated’s big story, there’s still no good answer.
If he's truly hated by half the country and its not just the tv telling us that then the reason he's hated by half the country is because the tv told you to and half of the country is stupid enough to be brainwashed and told what to think. Because if you hate Kaepernick for what he did then youre an idiot. Plain and simple. All of these little stupid *** reasons and justifications for why you hate him for it are weak af. I cannot wait for this goofy bs mainstream media to stop slinging propaganda to the ******s to further whatever insane liberal agenda to make our lower class society a circus and their higher class friends richer. Stop breathing through your gd mouths so much.Dude is literally hated by half the country. There are large populations of people in this country that hate kap more than liberals hate trump. Don’t care how much he’s being paid, that’s a sacrifice. That’s the thing about activism, it’s a collective. It’s not a single act or sacrife by one person.
This.Its not their job to help anyone. Theyre just there to report incidents to the court so that the state or country or city makes revenue, I cant think of a single instance where a cop helped me out of a situation.
Anyone he disagrees with?! Nancy Palosi is going to be executed soon for treason. That whole cabal has been indicted and faces imprisonment and death penalties. Remember John McCain? Theres going to be a lot more where that came from. This is happening right now and I highly suggest you catch up with it before you try to act like you know what youre talking about. Future you might regret it.
This.
How many times have we seen black folks call the police, only to be ignored by them or treated like the black folks on the scene are suspects by default?
How many times have seen the police in this country be called to the scene and murder the people who called?
**** that nonsense. I have zero trust in cops, and I don't think many of them are well-meaning folks. They earned that reputation.
Are you black?cops are terrorists
AMEN!!!The fact that people care about the “flag” being disrespected more than they care about the unarmed killings of civilians and other injustices tells me everything I need to. We as black people should just be greatful we aren’t enslaved.What do I look like being concerned about a flag that was never intended to protect me in the first place.
All cops aren’t bad, but majority of them never speak out when unarmed people are killed.
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Anyone he disagrees with?! Nancy Palosi is going to be executed soon for treason. That whole cabal has been indicted and faces imprisonment and death penalties. Remember John McCain? Theres going to be a lot more where that came from. This is happening right now and I highly suggest you catch up with it before you try to act like you know what youre talking about. Future you might regret it.
The military has been setting this up for years and needed someone to become president that had no ties to this decades long standing cabal in order to destroy it.
These arent people he disagrees with, these are people he knows are guilty of treason and are soon to be dealt with.