A Little Fire in Your Heart Instead of Your Shoes

Camile Flosi Araujo
Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read

Amidst the countless controversies that have sprouted in the past twenty plus months, it is impossible for yours truly to not applaud Nike on its new commercial. Advertisements are created with the intention to sell more of a product. Nike‘s’ vexed stance portraying Colin Kaepernick’s face of its new ad campaign was not only a bold move from a business stance in the face of the political / social / cultural climate we, Americans and humans throughout the world, are facing, it was also brave and magnificent.

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Camile Flosi Araujo

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