From WSJopinion: Kaepernick bans Betsy Ross, the Indians ban Chief Wahoo and the Yankees ban Kate Smith’s “God Bless America.” Be ready when the pushback comes, writes DanHenninger.
The remarkable thing about Colin Kaepernick’s banning of Nike’s Betsy Ross flag sneaker to commemorate the Fourth of July isn’t that it happened, but how easily it happened. Nike’s management simply folded over “concerns that it could unintentionally offend.”
Translating this waffly phrase into odds, I’d put “concerns that it could” at about a million to one. But because the thought found its way into Mr. Kaepernick’s head that the shoe was about slavery, Nike’s senior decision-makers nodded without dissent: We’ve gotta pull...
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