Just this week, Nike dropped a message about racism in response to the George Floyd protests after he was murdered by Minneapolis police officers.
“Don’t pretend there’s not a problem in America. Don’t turn your back on racism.”
“Don’t accept innocent lives being taken from us. Don’t make any more excuses. Don’t think this doesn’t affect you. Don’t sit back and be silent. Don’t think you can’t be part of the change. Let’s all be part of the change.”
The protests that have followed have made way for people to take advantage of it for their own personal gain by destroying businesses and non-stop looting. That also included a flagship Nike store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago that was destroyed and looted by rioters in under a minute.
“To be clear, I’ve marched in a few protests in my day, but neither I nor anyone that I was with saw the need to bring weapons in order to lift up our voice and express our First Amendment rights,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
“When you or anyone else behaves in this way, we all lose by giving the very same forces of oppression we are fighting against the false validation that they crave.”
