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Additionally, in 2017, players from every team in the NFL except for the [[Minnesota Vikings]], [[Chicago Bears]], [[New York Jets]], [[Arizona Cardinals]], [[Cincinnati Bengals]], and [[Dallas Cowboys]] (who knelt before the anthem but all stood up once it came on) have protested against the national anthem after Donald Trump said that if he were the team's owner, he would fire anyone who knelt. The league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, initially did not take action against the protests, but was eventually forced to do so<ref name="Colin Kaepernick"/><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/05/24/nfl-anthem-protest-ban-vindicates-breitbart-president-trump/ NFL's About Face on Anthem Protests Vindicates Breitbart, President Trump] at Breitbart.com</ref> after he saw league revenues, live game attendance and TV ratings all plummet as a result of the inevitable fan backlash against Kaepernick, other kneelers and the NFL itself.
Additionally, in 2017, players from every team in the NFL except for the [[Minnesota Vikings]], [[Chicago Bears]], [[New York Jets]], [[Arizona Cardinals]], [[Cincinnati Bengals]], and [[Dallas Cowboys]] (who knelt before the anthem but all stood up once it came on) have protested against the national anthem after Donald Trump said that if he were the team's owner, he would fire anyone who knelt. The league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, initially did not take action against the protests, but was eventually forced to do so<ref name="Colin Kaepernick"/><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/05/24/nfl-anthem-protest-ban-vindicates-breitbart-president-trump/ NFL's About Face on Anthem Protests Vindicates Breitbart, President Trump] at Breitbart.com</ref> after he saw league revenues, live game attendance and TV ratings all plummet as a result of the inevitable fan backlash against Kaepernick, other kneelers and the NFL itself.
In 2018 Kaepernick became a spokesperson for [[Nike, Inc.]]. Nike is reported to use [[slave]] labor in [[Xinjiang]] for the production of its shoes.<ref>https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale</ref> Xinjiang is an occupied territory where the [[Chinese Communist Party]] has been charged with [[genocide]] and [[forced labor]] of the [[Uyghur]] people.<ref name=":36">{{Cite news|date=2021-02-08|title=Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide|work=[[BBC News]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55973215|access-date=}}</ref> Since 2014,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Davidson|first=Helen|date=18 September 2020|title=Clues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends camps|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/clues-to-scale-of-xinjiang-labour-operation-emerge-as-china-defends-camps}}</ref> In 2021, Nike [[CEO]] John Donahoe stated, "“Nike is a brand that is of China and for China.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/25/of-china-and-for-china-nike-ceo-admits-company-exists-to-serve-communist-china/</ref>
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