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Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« on: July 02, 2019, 12:33:24 am »
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nike-nixes-betsy-ross-flag-sneaker-after-colin-kaepernick-intervenes-11562024126

Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after NFL star-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn’t sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive (...)

(excerpt. The article is paywalled, but the excerpt pretty much says everything you need to know.)
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2019, 12:49:53 am »
I'm rather shocked Nike even considered this in the first place.  :shrug:
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2019, 01:11:27 am »
Talk about another one that got on my last nerve from the onset.....
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2019, 09:38:54 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on July 02, 2019, 12:49:53 am
I'm rather shocked Nike even considered this in the first place.  :shrug:

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I am surprised their Chinese workers knew what an original American flag looked like.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2019, 01:34:59 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on July 02, 2019, 09:38:54 am
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I am surprised their Chinese workers knew what an original American flag looked like.

@sneakypete

Me too.  We once got a beach towel on a cruise that was made in China.  It had an American flag with 15 stripes....
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2019, 02:07:45 pm »
Arizona governor says they're pulling tax incentives for Nike after canceling American flag shoes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-governor-says-theyre-pulling-tax-incentives-for-nike-after-canceling-american-flag-shoes
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2019, 02:33:30 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on July 02, 2019, 02:07:45 pm
Arizona governor says they're pulling tax incentives for Nike after canceling American flag shoes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-governor-says-theyre-pulling-tax-incentives-for-nike-after-canceling-american-flag-shoes

Interesting.  I wonder what financial incentives we were offering Nike in the first place?
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2019, 02:45:13 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on July 02, 2019, 02:07:45 pm
Arizona governor says they're pulling tax incentives for Nike after canceling American flag shoes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-governor-says-theyre-pulling-tax-incentives-for-nike-after-canceling-american-flag-shoes

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NO company that does business with China should get any tax breaks.

Or grant money,either.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2019, 03:09:02 pm »
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2019, 03:10:08 pm »
Hard to comprehend why Nike lets this has-been have so much influence. He was a mediocre QB and hasn't been employed as a football player for what, three years? Yet they listen to him.  :shrug:
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2019, 03:23:07 pm »
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Hard to comprehend why Nike lets this has-been have so much influence.

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Not really. The vast majority of their customers are black. I think anyone can figure it out from there.

There used to be an old saying that goes "monkey see,monkey do" that would apply in this situation,but heads would explode if you said it in public,even though there was and is nothing racial about it.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2019, 05:30:05 pm »
Cruz vows never to buy Nike products again after 'Betsy Ross flag' sneaker canceled
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/451369-ted-cruz-vows-never-to-buy-nike-products-again-after-company-cancels-betsy
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2019, 05:40:16 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on July 02, 2019, 05:30:05 pm
Cruz vows never to buy Nike products again after 'Betsy Ross flag' sneaker canceled
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/451369-ted-cruz-vows-never-to-buy-nike-products-again-after-company-cancels-betsy

Come on Ted.  Nike has been on a left wing binge for 30 years, and you're just now boycotting?   What's next?  No more Ben and Jerry's either?
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2019, 07:15:34 pm »
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Interesting.  I wonder what financial incentives we were offering Nike in the first place?

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I am wondering why they allowed ANY financial incentives to Nike to start with. After all,they moved production to China.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2019, 07:40:34 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on July 02, 2019, 07:15:34 pm
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I am wondering why they allowed ANY financial incentives to Nike to start with. After all,they moved production to China.

I wonder too. First I'd heard of it.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2019, 08:08:18 pm »
Only had one pair of Nikes ages ago.  They seemed to fit in the store, but as I walked around in them, they hurt like hell.  Haven't bought Nikes since. 

Boycotting should be easy for me.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2019, 08:15:31 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on July 02, 2019, 03:23:07 pm
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Not really. The vast majority of their customers are black. I think anyone can figure it out from there.

There used to be an old saying that goes "monkey see,monkey do" that would apply in this situation,but heads would explode if you said it in public,even though there was and is nothing racial about it.




I think you are right @sneakypete .  I don't understand it...especially from a business stand point. But there are a lot of things I don't understand.

I don't buy name brand, expensive tennis shoes, so I don't know who is buying what. But even if they are in the bargain bin where I shop I'll pass them by.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2019, 09:11:43 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on July 02, 2019, 08:08:18 pm
Only had one pair of Nikes ages ago.  They seemed to fit in the store, but as I walked around in them, they hurt like hell.  Haven't bought Nikes since. 

Boycotting should be easy for me.

Well, as far as I know, Nike doesn't make sh*tkickers so...  :shrug:
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2019, 09:22:06 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on July 02, 2019, 09:11:43 pm
Well, as far as I know, Nike doesn't make sh*tkickers so...  :shrug:




Nope...I don't think so either. But they are real purty.  happy77
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2019, 09:48:46 pm »
Nike is dead to me.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2019, 10:07:47 pm »
Pathetic.  Nike, that is.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2019, 10:14:39 pm »
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Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after NFL star-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn’t sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive (...)

Good.  I would hate the thought of an anti-American, Portland, OR-based company trying to sell shoes manufactured in Vietnamese sweat shops by pimping the American flag which their chief spokesman refuses to stand for.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2019, 10:35:22 pm »
I buy all my sneakers at discount places (DFW, Shoe Dept., etc.), and usually get New Balance, but my marathoner husband has particular requirements in a running shoe. For decades, the Nike Pegasus was his shoe. He used to work for Nike, he road-tested the model, and it always was the perfect shoe for him. He ran dozens of marathons in it. In recent years, he's found that it doesn't perform like it used to. It quickly breaks down (which, of course, causes injuries). In other words, even one of the company's premier shoe lines now is junk.

He's switched to adidas.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2019, 10:48:09 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on July 02, 2019, 10:35:22 pm
I buy all my sneakers at discount places (DFW, Shoe Dept., etc.)

Yep KMarche for me. Spalding hightops most of my life.
Same with lightweight hikers, though I don't have a brand... It sure ain't Nike.
And same for actual hikers... Always liked Dexter best, But now running Hermann Survivors.
And same for construction boots.

All of that came from KMart.

The serious stuff, cowboy boots, mocs, muks... That's different.
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Re: Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes
« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2019, 10:54:28 pm »
It has been reported that one in five Caucasians own Nikes, while three in five Black Americans do likewise.

...works out to be about the same number.

Nike is no different than the owner of the Red Hen Restaurant in the Virginia/DC area...who has made a conscious decision to thumb their nose at increasing sales and instead cater to a specific demographic.
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