Remember all the usual suspects getting their shorts in a twist because Nike chose to use That Awful Black Person, Colin Kaepernick, to front its latest Just Do It campaign? Remember how everyone said using this guy -- blackballed by the NFL and supposedly radioactive -- was going to bring down the wrath of the Faketriot in Chief and the rest of the super-patriots?
Because, oh my God, he'd spit on the flag and cursed loudly during the national anthem, thereby disrespecting our troops.
OK. So he only knelt quietly during the national anthem.
And, OK, so a whole lot of the troops said they didn't feel disrespected at all by that.
And, OK, so that was because the reason he was doing it -- because he didn't think it was right African-Americans were getting killed by law enforcement in situations where they shouldn't have been getting killed -- didn't seem all that controversial to them.
And yet, the Faketriot in Chief kept trying to make it about disrespect. Kept calling the African-Americans who followed Kaepernick's lead -- sometimes actually kneeling with their hands over their hearts -- SOBs. And now Nike was going to use this guy to deliver its latest inspirational message?
A spate of burning Nike gear spread across the land. A boycott was declared. Nike was going to pay for this affront, and pay dearly.
You remember all that. Right?
Well ...
Yesterday, Nike stock closed at $83.47.
It was, um, a record high.
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