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NFL Issues Statement Saying Social Justice Issues ‘Deserves Out Attention and Action’ Amid Nike’s Colin Kaepernick Ad

NFL Issues Statement Saying Social Justice Issues ‘Deserves Out Attention and Action’ Amid Nike’s Colin Kaepernick Ad

Colin Kaepernick has generally stayed quiet in the midst of his collusion complaint against the NFL, however, the league issued a statement after Nike revealed their latest ad starring the former quarterback.

“The National Football League believes in dialogue, understanding and unity,” NFL executive vice president of communications and public affairs Jocelyn Moore said Tuesday in a statement. “We embrace the role and responsibility of everyone involved with this game to promote meaningful, positive change in our communities. The social justice issues that Colin and other professional athletes have raised deserve our attention and action.”

The announcement comes one day after Nike, the NFL’s official apparel sponsor, revealed an intense commercial highlighting Kaepernick as a major aspect of the 30th commemoration of its “Let’s Do It” campaign.

“Believe in something,” the advertisement reads in white letters in front of a black-and-white portrait of Kaepernick. “Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Kaepernick stays unsigned and has documented a collusion complaint against the NFL. His attorneys fight that his contribution in different social causes, including on-field challenges of police severity and social imbalance amid the pre-amusement playing of the national song of devotion, provoked NFL proprietors to conspire to deny his work in the class.

Late in August 2016, Kaepernick began his dissents – first sitting, at that point kneeling – amid the playing of the song of praise. Numerous players have taken after his lead.

ColinKaepernick’s legal team took a big win in their case when authority Stephen Burbank denied the NFL’s motion to dismiss the case and ruled that there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial.nfl

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