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Not only was the timing of Slade's commentary bad, in support of what Nike as doing for the police, but also because the Eric Garner situation had just occurred. His tone was insulting. Black people did not need encouragement from sneaker blogs in regard to being pissed about Police brutality. Nike had been silent about such issues for years, up until the most recent backing of Kaepernick. It took LeBron and Colin, Serena Williams as well, to get in Nike's ear about their seeming indifference on the issues. So when Alchemist IQ spoke of Slade's pandering, this article immediately flashed into memory.I’m black.
Trying to understand what Slade did wrong, Maybe I’m missing it.
But from my understanding it was he shared a story (right or wrong. He did sound like he was being an *** for no reason though) to use it as a way to jump into the topic he really wanted to talk about.
And as a Criminal justice major (want to be a detective) yeah it was probably really bad timing but Nike has been doing the law enforcement discount for a while. The ones doing the correct thing should be allowed to take advantage
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