Keep the supplies limited, the demand high, the prices higher, and let the blood money run deep. Thirty years later, those assaults and murders for unreasonably priced and illogically prized Nikes continues as Nike sticks to its plan to create feeding frenzies among the young.
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In other words, in Barkley Nike chose a TV salesman/basketball star to declare himself unfit for kids’ admiration.Īs the phony racial hustler Spike Lee years ago said in an Air Jordans Nike TV ad, “And all you homeboys should be bum-rushin’ to get some.” To whom do you suppose Lee was speaking?
If you knew that kids were killing each other for a product you made, what would you do? Clam up while stepping on the gas? The closest Nike came to acknowledging the issue was its pathetic and defensive ads in which Charles Barkley said, “I am not a role model.” But Nike, likely licking its chops, stayed silent.
Starting in the late 1980s, reports began to pile up about kids, overwhelmingly African-American, being mugged and murdered by other black kids for their Nike Air Jordans. It knows who buys, how often and for how much - including paying with their lives for a $250 pair of Air Jordans. Nike doesn’t operate on the blind or a wish. The subcontractors were contracted by Nike to make Nikes. Nike once explained that it wasn’t Nike that was responsible for the abuse of workers, blaming it on foreign subcontractors. Labor rights investigators have regularly listed Nike among the worst of the worst in operating Asian factories under draconian authorities and inhumane conditions. It believes in Third World labor being paid pennies per hour to make sneakers sold here as status symbols to the most vulnerable among us - children and teens - at obscene prices. Rays' Randy Arozarena joins growing list of stage-hogging athletes disrespecting gameīrothers and sisters, go tell it on the mountain! It’s all a con.Ĭolin Kaepernick, now soulfully introduced as an across-the-board Nike prophet for profit, via a Nike ad campaign, suggests we “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”Ī noble sentiment, for sure, but let’s take a look at Nike’s beliefs. Sports media keep letting boorish behavior and bad actions rule the day Hiring obscenity-laden Pat McAfee shows just how low ESPN is willing to go SNY crew excusing Pete Alonso's boorish actions, poor play Wonder if Charles Barkley would back his parlay pushing - even at a discount
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