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Author of @WinnersTakeAll (out now from @AAKnopf), THE TRUE AMERICAN, & INDIA CALLING. Ex-@NYTimes. NBC political analyst. TED talker. @PriyaParker's man. Dad.

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    1. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

      Anand Giridharadas Retweeted Colin Kaepernick

      Having interviewed Nike workers, I would hope the company applies this beautiful slogan and Kaepernick’s example to its labor practices.https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1036695513251434498 …

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      Colin KaepernickVerified account @Kaepernick7
      Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO
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    2. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

      Does Nike simply want to apply its brand to Kaepernick’s campaign for social justice, or is it interested in learning to be more like Kaepernick?

      9 replies 83 retweets 503 likes
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    3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

      I wondered the same thing about Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Women program. Why merely mentor the women and use them for branding? Why not get some of those honest business owners, who have never helped cause a financial crisis, to mentor Goldman in *their* values?

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    4. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

      If Nike wants to be more like Kaepernick, it should follow his example and publicly name some foundational beliefs for which it is truly willing to sacrifice everything. That would be a significant statement, because it would throw shareholder primacy out the window.

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      Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

      Some may say Kaepernick is being co-opted. But I would be open to hearing if Nike has any intentions of having him co-opt the company instead. Having him change it. Why hire a guy merely to endorse you when you can get him to teach you?

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        2. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          “We all complain. We’re disposable. They don’t care” — a @Nike employee I spoke to about how the company kept her pay low and hours low, and changed her hours with less notice than was legal, and made her keep free even when not paying her, preventing her taking a second job.

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        3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          Such practices are utterly common in American life, often illegal, and never humane. I don’t know why companies that engage in such practices feel a need to sustain them while setting up foundations and branding social justice movements.

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        4. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          But if you’re going to do it, get the full value of what you’re paying for. Don’t just use Kaepernick’s face. Sit at that brave knee of his, and learn.

          3 replies 35 retweets 269 likes
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        5. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          We also know Nike has been a hard place for women to work. This despite the well-branded work on the Girl Effect. https://nyti.ms/2HYqrVH?smid=nytcore-ios-share … Maybe if Nike had just listened to women who worked for it and not made them miserable? Read @gendereffect on that: https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Effect-Capitalism-Corporate-Development/dp/0520286391 …

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        6. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          Courage can’t be a side hustle. Nor virtue. Nor decency. We must end this culture of screwing people profitably by day and saving them charitably by moonlight.

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        7. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          Otherwise, Nike is standing up for the idea that the police should treat with dignity some of the very people it refuses to treat with dignity itself.

          4 replies 19 retweets 168 likes
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        8. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

          Further reading:https://qz.com/1042298/nike-is-facing-a-new-wave-of-anti-sweatshop-protests/ …

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        9. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 4

          And more about my book on the subject, WINNERS TAKE ALL, here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/9780451493248/ …

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        2. Not This Ish Again‏ @ish_not Sep 3
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          Well this Black woman says to have a seat a let it breathe for one fucking minute. I would think our boys' little black bodies laying in the streets cold for hours just for being BLACK and BOYS ...STILL after decades deserves it...YOU don't get to hijack this. Not even you.

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        3. DragonTat2 ૐ 용 문신  🌻 🌹‏ @DragonTat2 Sep 3
          Replying to @ish_not @AnandWrites

          Thank you. I was speechless.

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        4. Not This Ish Again‏ @ish_not Sep 3
          Replying to @DragonTat2 @AnandWrites

          I can't fucking even. Not one damn thing...not one...that's a bad a tweeting during McCain's funeral...seriously...just cuz you got something to say don't always mean you say it!

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        5. DragonTat2 ૐ 용 문신  🌻 🌹‏ @DragonTat2 Sep 3
          Replying to @ish_not @AnandWrites

          What are you typing about? The topic is Kaepernick and Nike, has nothing to do with McCain. Also, I didn't follow his funeral, had no interest in it. He died. Bummer. Life goes on, as Seal might say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8QUwUDbJE8 …

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        6. Not This Ish Again‏ @ish_not Sep 3
          Replying to @DragonTat2 @AnandWrites

          If you were speaking to my comment about being "speechless" I was remarking that not giving this moment to breathe on its own before attaching all what he said to it was as tasteless as Tweeting during McCains funeral...

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        1. Luther Laycoax‏ @LutherLaycoax Sep 3
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          He wasn't just hired onto Nike. As a matter of fact, he's been on their payroll since 2011 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        1. sexysportsfan‏ @sexysportsfan Sep 3
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          What was Michael Jordan teaching employees?

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        1. Holden‏ @Axlmayhem88 Sep 3
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          They hired him to sell shoes dude. They don't care about politics, it's all profits and they have you all drooling. Dummies.

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        1. Amy Levengood‏ @Widowbird17 Sep 3
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          I'd like to know if he feels co-opted.

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        1. Esperanza Gene‏ @bravelywith Sep 3
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          This is a beautiful vision. Very valid points.

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        1. Karuna Timkova‏ @karunatimkova Sep 3
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          You are wildly optimistic. But I still admire that.

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