SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Colin Kaepernick, Serena Williams, Making Money
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Nike did commercial with kaepernick and conservatives don"t approve because they feel he was disrespecting the american flag and veterans for kneeling during the national anthem. People mad saying kaepernick did not sacrifice anything because he made money as a football player and now is making money at nike but veterans are losing limbs and lives fighting for american freedoms. Nike sales rose 30% after campaign and that is a lot considering nike is already a multinational company. World open- was doing a match and umpire said she was cheating and coach was telling her what to do. Serena got upset and spoke back to him and people called her hysterical and unprofessional but a man did the same thing and he was called assertive and other positive adjectives. Cartoon represented her as an angry, black woman and portrayed who she was playing as a blond white woman when she is japanese and haitian- racist.