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Nike Icon Fights Oppression in the US, but Applauds it in Cuba
« on: September 12, 2018, 03:43:06 pm »
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Nike Icon Fights Oppression in the US, but Applauds it in Cuba
By Mamela Fiallo
Last updated Sep 10, 2018

Colin Kaepernick claims to defend people of color from oppression and discrimination, unless it happens in Cuba. (PanAm Post).

Colin Kaepernick is the new face of Nike’s anniversary campaign, but his political activism could cost him his freedom, life, and property in Cuba.

His criticism of US policies led him to literally wear dictator Fidel Castro‘s face over his heart, in the city of Miami; home to the largest concentration of Cuban exiles.

He donned on a T-shirt that said “alike minds, think alike” in which Malcolm X, key figure of the struggle for civil rights, appeared next to Fidel Castro.

Read more at: https://panampost.com/mamela-fiallo/2018/09/10/nike-icon-fights-oppression-in-the-us-but-applauds-it-in-cuba/

Video at link, defends Castro:
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One can see his t-shirt enough above to see the pictures of Malcolm X and Castro. He just preaches '60s styled revolutionary ideas really.  I hope he finds out about what this article is saying because it's true.

I'd say he's just a mixed up kid or if a better description, young man. And he is coached by radical companions as much as anything.

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