HERE'S YET ANOTHER UNASKED-FOR OPINION ON COLIN KAEPERNICK AND NIKE. THE NFL IS AN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY THAT MAKES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY BRUTALIZING MALE BODIES, A MAJORITY OF WHICH ARE BLACK. KAEPERNICK IS A BLACK MALE ATHLETE WHO DISRUPTED THE SYSTEM OF THE NFL BY USING HIS PLATFORM TO GENTLY SPEAK SOME UGLY TRUTH ABOUT ANOTHER INDUSTRY THAT BRUTALIZES BLACK MALE BODIES, THE POLICE. THE NFL, UNDERSTANDABLY FROM THEIR POSITION, HAS BLACKLISTED KAEP, AND HE UNDERSTANDABLY IS SUING THEM FOR THIS.
NIKE IS A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION THAT HAS HAD KAEP AS A CLIENT SINCE 2011, WELL BEFORE HE WAS A SUPER BOWL QUARTERBACK, AND IS NOW USING THE FREE SPEECH THAT COST KAEP HIS TRADE AS THE BASIS OF AN ADVERTISING PLATFORM, AND PEOPLE ON ALL SIDES ARE EATING THIS SHIT UP. WHITE NATIONALISTS ARE BURNING SHOES, PROGRESSIVES ARE PLEDGING TO BUY NIKES FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE EARLY NINETIES, AND EVERYONE GETS TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN BUYING AND/OR BURNING POORLY-MADE FOOTWEAR THAT WAS MANUFACTURED IN A SWEATSHOP IN MALAYSIA.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, YOUR GREATEST FAILING IS IN CONFLATING BUYING AND SELLING WITH SPEECH. IT WAS THE ARGUMENT THAT CONFEDERATE STATES USED TO JUSTIFY THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION THAT WAS OUR CARDINAL SIN, IT'S LED TO MANY OF OUR MOST MISGUIDED, BONEHEADED JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS AND DECISIONS, AND IT'S THE FOUNDATION OF OUR COMMUNAL DELUSION THAT BUYING OR NOT BUYING POORLY MADE SHOES IS SOMEHOW A FORM OF PROTEST OR MORAL SUPPORT. TO PARAPHRASE MENCKEN, AS I OFTEN DO IN CAPS LOCK MODE, NO ONE EVER WENT BROKE UNDERESTIMATING THE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN POPULACE.