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Things We Saw Today: Nike Reveals Their Ultra-Inspiring Colin Kaepernick Commercial

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Earlier this week, Nike unveiled an ad featuring Colin Kaepernick that sent conservatives into a sock-destroying frenzy. Now, they’ve revealed a commercial featuring and narrated by Kaepernick, set to air during tonight’s NFL season opener.

The commercial celebrates Kaepernick and other athletes who defy expectations and follow their “crazy dreams.” It’s incredibly moving and I can’t wait to see what sort of merch it drives people–people who refuse to accept that NFL players kneeling has nothing to do with the troops and everything to do with institutional injustice and the systemic murdering of Black people–to destroy.

It’s almost Friday!

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.