Congrats to Colin Kaepernick, who was just named the new face of Nike‘s Just Do It campaign!
The former NFL quarterback — who, despite being objectively better than literally several dozen first-, second-, and third-string QBs that have seen time in the league over the last few years, has not-so-mysteriously remained unsigned — was of course one of the first high-profile people to take a knee during the National Anthem to shed light on racial injustice in America.
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Now, Nike is honoring the sacrifice he ended up making — i.e., the effective end of his football career — for what he believes in by releasing their new, powerful campaign.
Ch-ch-check it out (below):
Amazing!!!
Powerful, simple, and perfectly suited for Kaepernick and the National Anthem controversies in general. Tasteful and very well done!!
Only… some crazy right-wingers don’t think so!
People who have been against Kaepernick from the start — mostly because they have never understood why he chose to kneel, erroneously assuming he was disrespecting the flag or the anthem by doing so — were out in full force Monday when the campaign was announced.
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Using the #NikeBoycott hashtag on Twitter, conservatives tried to make their case that they were going to stop buying Nike stuff to protest this decision, with some going as far as saying they would cut or burn their current merchandise.
Except… the hashtag quickly got overrun by actual, sensible people making good points about Kaepernick’s thought-out political stances and more.
Here’s what we mean (below):
Yep!!!
Thoughts, Perezcious readers?!
Let us know in the comments (below)!!
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