As a moderate conservative, it doesn’t bother me that Kaepernick now has his own shoes and is a representative. This should tick off the snowflakes on the right, who gets so offended somebody in a prayer stance rather than a standing position.
Actually, there is another valid reason. I don’t want any of their stuff. Never have, never will. To the best of my knowledge I have never bought anything they’ve sold.
The only reason I’m wearing a non-New Balance shoe right now is because this pair of nikes were given to me. I have no sense of style so I wear my shoes and boots until they literally fall apart. When it’s my own money I buy nothing but New Balance.
Don’t care about the Kap thing other than disgust at conservative statism. Doesn’t it strike anyone as odd that a company that has historically engaged in oppression is making someone protesting oppression a part of their public image campaign? Ya’ll are going to be buying shoes from a company guilty of the behavior Kap protests.
Trump then softened his stance in deference to the First Amendment, taking a turn from his normal hard-line approach against Kaepernick and the social-justice kneeling campaign he inspired.
“As much as I disagree with the Colin Kaepernick endorsement, in another way — I mean, I wouldn’t have done it,” Trump said. “In another way, it is what this country is all about, that you have certain freedoms to do things that other people think you shouldn’t do, but I personally am on a different side of it.”