What are your thoughts on “nike brand boycott.”?

idk my boyfriend told me that a bunch of people are burning their nike clothes

Weird. White people embraced every black athlete Nike endorsed before Kaepernick. White people championed Serena Williams at the U.S. open as she berated the tennis officials.

One service person told Kaep it is better to kneel than sit during the national anthem. You agree with that. Awesome. Most don't.

Stand up, put your hand over you heart, take your hat off, and look at the flag- as the national anthem is playing- is the patriotic, respectful thing to do.

Funny how you mention games won as if that has anything to do with individual performance. How'd the 49ers do after he left? Oh, they started 0-9 the next year? It's almost like the team around him wasn't good, so let's look at his individual stats.

Passer rating, completion percentage, touchdown percentage, interception percentage, yards per attempt...all in the top 20. Interception percentage was 5th, which makes sense, since he has the best interception percentage in NFL history. A top 20 QB is a garbage quarterback in your book? You do realize there are 32 NFL teams, right? That means there's at least 13 QBs starting today who are worse than Kaepernick.

Michael Vick beats up dogs and Ray Rice beats up women. Which one of those is supposed to bother old white guys? Because neither one is going to offend them nearly as much as a black man standing up for himself.

I'm glad your standard for police expectations is better behavior than wasps, bees, and hornets. Personally, I think they can be even better than that.

I hate to break it to you, but cops weren't policing the communities that need law enforcement before this...and black men sure as hell didn't trust cops before this. Kaepernick is just bringing the problem to your attention, which is the entire point.

What's wrong with socks that depict cops as pigs? And the Cuban and Venezuelan dictatorships are a hell of a lot better than the Russian one, which is openly supported by the president...do you think he's shitting all over this country and the flag?

You do realize more than one problem can be addressed at the same time by different people, right? And you do realize the problems you listed in the black community are connected to the discrimination they faced with law enforcement?

He gave up a career making millions of dollars to try to teach idiots like you what's really happening in this country. You should be thanking him.

He is brave because he’s fighting peacefully for what he believes is a problem. And he’s right. You talk of the soldiers but what he did had nothing to do with them so that is irrelevant. What myth are you talking about exactly? It’s true that the law statistically is harder on blacks and no one is saying all cops are bad. But police brutality is a problem we can fix. Yeah cops have a hard job who cares they chose it.

I never said soldiers that fight and died for this country are not brave. They fight for our right to peacefully protest when we feel that there’s an issue. Which is all kaepernick did. He knew people would hate him for it but he stood up for what he believes in. That’s what I think is brave about it. What he did has nothing to do with the soldiers.

Aside from the fact that he was easily a top 20 QB the last time he played, he literally lost his career over it so that's quite the opposite of saving it.

And to address another one of your comments, yes, obviously, they know why they're protesting. It's the people like you complaining about it that don't understand what they're protesting.

So you only support it if it can’t have any impact on society. How is it really on your dime anyway does money come out of your taxes to support football games? No it doesn’t. If it’s on your dime that’s cause you choose it to be.

Yep, I can't remember what shoe because it was several years ago, but our marketing class was talking about how promotions can considerably change the value (or price) of a product and we found that a Nike shoe that only cost 11.00 to manufacture in the Philippines or some other country was sold at over $125 in the US. This $11.00 included all costs including, but not limited to; shipping, advertisement, manufacturing, and distribution. They paid Michael Jordan less than $.03 on the dollar for his services and made, literally, a billion dollars.

One thing that would likely have stopped their protest is when they were about to play the anthem, turn to the players and say, "Now you all take a knee, this great nation, flag, and anthem isn't for you anyways".

They think they are shaming white America with that crap but they are just making themselves look bad.