Just Do It.

By: Jeremiah Jones

My opinion on the Nike commercial starring Colin Kaepernick was dope, especially with everything that happened with Kaepernick when he protested. Him doing the Nike commercial was a good look on Nike as well as Kaepernick. If you haven’t seen the commercial it is about never giving up & just doin’ it.  It started off with a skateboarder falling off a rail, then a child with no legs on a wrestling mat, to a black boy who couldn’t be older than 10 years old running down a dirt road with a young shadowboxing woman wearing hijab, and lastly a Pop Warner football game and a blond girl playing high school football against boys.

Everything they showed in the commercial symbolizes “don’t give up” , don’t worry about what people think. This commercial in my opinion, represents a lot of people that have opinions like Kaepernick and give praise to Nike for giving him this spotlight to speak his mind. However, some people didn’t like what Nike did.  They started to burn their merchandise and stop supporting them just because of this commercial. Long story short, he wanted to make a powerful point and message, and he did. The video ended with him saying, “It’s only crazy until you do it. Just do it.” So the message of today is “JUST DO IT”.

By: John Dy

The Nike product-burning is moronic for a number of reasons.

People can feel how they want to feel about the ad and Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem. Some feel it’s disrespectful to the country or to the troops, sure. Whatever. People care about their country and don’t want it to be disrespected; alright, that’s fair. Be upset about it and voice your opinion; that’s what the first amendment is for. But burning Nike’s products and putting the videos up on the internet is just idiotic. The controversy they’re stirring up is just giving Nike more publicity, free advertising. Their sales have gone up 31% since the Kaepernick ad aired, despite all the outrage and protesters. The shoe-burning ain’t doing squat to stop Nike. And why now do they wanna protest Nike? They could tolerate the 5 year old Chinese kids working the sweatshops, but now that Nike puts some football player in an ad, this is the time to protest? Inconceivable. And burning the shoes can’t be good for their air. Burning all that rubber and other toxic materials is spitting in the face of Mother Earth, slowly killing our home, their home.