Nike and Kaepernick Want You to Believe in Something — Their Bottomline

Jemele Hill in what was probably one of her last acts as an employee at ESPN wrote an op-ed for The Undefeated about Nike’s 30th Anniversary of the “Just Do It” Campaign that features Colin Kaepernick. In the piece, Hill speaks the absolute truth, but in doing so she unwittingly undermines the whole notion of speaking truth to power, the very thing that she supposedly…

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