Object to Slavery while
Protecting Slave Labor
Janet Kuypers
7/5/19
A U.S. pro football player protested standing during the National
Anthem, because of centuries of racial harassment, discrimination
and police brutality. His protests cost him his NFL job, but secured
him a position as a poster boy for the biggest global shoe company.
Since he took this lucrative job, the shoe company designed a shoe
with a tiny Betsy Ross flag on the back of the sneaker, for Flag Day,
for the 4th of July, because it was the first official United States flag.
But the ex-football plater had a problem with this flag, that existed
back when slavery was still accepted in the United States (as it was
for approaching a century). And because this ex-football player
complained, the shoe company stopped shoe production and sales.
And it makes me wonder if the shoe company is doing this to save
face... to maybe make more waves... or do they do it while their
shoes are still made with slave labor. And why would Americans
worry about slave labor when they don’t have to see it, when they
don’t have to worry about it, and it doesn’t happen to them.
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