A small Christian college in Georgia says it is severing ties with Nike because of the new ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick.
Truett McConnell University, a private Southern Baptist school in Cleveland, Georgia, says its decision to dump Nike is due to its partnership with Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has been ‘mocking our troops’.
Kaepernick led the protest movement against police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games.
Many conservatives have accused Kaepernick and other players of denigrating the military and law enforcement, but supporters of the protest deny this.
Before the announcement by Truett McConnell University, the Oregon-based apparel giant supplied the school with official t-shirts and other good that were sold on campus, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Truett McConnell University, a private Southern Baptist school in Cleveland, Georgia, says its decision to dump Nike is due to its partnership with Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has been ‘mocking our troops’
The ban on Nike will only affect the t-shirts, hats, and sweaters that are sold in the campus bookstore. The value of those sales is estimated at between $10,000 and $20,000.
Truett McConnell is a small liberal arts institution whose entire student body numbers 2,141.
Undergraduate students who attend the school and live in on-campus housing pay an annual amount just shy of $28,000.
Emir Caner, the school president, made the announcement that his administration was cutting ties with Nike.
Caner, who was born in Sweden as a Muslim and then converted to Christianity after he and his family moved to Ohio, released a statement on the school’s social media accounts explaining the decision.
He said that his wife was raised ‘under the oppression of socialistic communism.’
According to his web site, Caner met his wife, Hana Titerova, in 2000 while on a mission trip to the Czech Republic. They married later that year.
Emir Caner, the school president, made the announcement that his administration was cutting ties with Nike. Caner, who was born in Sweden as a Muslim and then converted to Christianity, released a statement on the school’s social media accounts explaining the decision
‘America has sacrificially given my family the freedoms we enjoy today,’ Caner said in a statement.
‘For Nike to then hire Colin Kaepernick, a person known for wearing pigs on his socks, mocking law enforcement, kneeling against our flag, and mocking our troops, is reprehensible to my family and to the Truett McConnell family.’
During 49ers practice two years ago, Kaepernick wore socks with a cartoon of a pig in a police officer’s cap.
Kaepernick said the socks were a depiction of ‘rogue cops’ and not all police officers in general.
This is the second time in the last week that a small Christian college has shunned Nike over the Kaepernick ad.
The College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri, announced last week that it would no longer use Nike as the sponsor of its teams' uniforms and would immediately remove any which include its recognizable tick logo.
Protesters burned their Nike shoes, investors sold shares and some consumers demanded a boycott after the ad was released last week. But the company appears to have shook off the effects of a boycott
The school's president Jerry Davis explained the decision by accusing Nike of 'promoting an attitude of division and disrespect towards America.'
'If Nike is ashamed of America, we are ashamed of them. We also believe that those who know what sacrifice is all about are more likely to be wearing a military uniform than an athletic uniform,' he said in a statement.
Though the school does not have a football team it does have teams for golf, basketball, baseball, cross country, track and volleyball.
Protesters burned their Nike shoes, investors sold shares and some consumers demanded a boycott after the ad was released last week.
But the company appears to have shook off the effects of a boycott.
When the ad was released, Nike shares dropped sharply. But the stock price has rebounded in recent days.
Shares of Nike closed at $83 per share on Wednesday.
Last week, the stock price fell below $80.
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Truett McConnell University, a private Southern Baptist school in Cleveland, Georgia, says its decision to dump Nike is due to its partnership with Kaepernick, the...
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