Michael Jordan: The Nike Prison Industrial Complex Connection

by | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion | 3 comments

Yes, America continues to have a love affair with slavery.

The corporate plantation owners simply do not want to reconcile themselves to the fact that they are not entitled to free labor under ANY circumstances.

If they want entitlement to free labor, then their tax rate needs to be no less than 55-percent in order to help subsidize the people that they do not want to pay so their government can have their backs.

The movement of the money keeps corporations rolling in dough that never truly gets reinvested back into the American economy.

Yet, if they (‘they’ know who they are) had not been busy crashing out Blacks, Hispanics, and poor whites before they ran out of political toys to play with and made a wrong move on middle America, Barack Obama would likely never have become President.

If they were not addicted to slavery, the unemployment rates would be far lower than five-percent across the board. As a matter of fact, given those stats, the American economy should never have crashed in the first place.

But maybe they weren’t expecting the public backlash that led to Obama’s election.

Or some of them may have figured that the few who would squawk about it were easily quashed with media-driven ploys like “they are crazy,” “she is disgruntled,” “they’ll get over it,” and “he is just a conspiracy theorist.”

Complicit in this nouveau slavery are the following named companies:

  • IBM
  • Boeing
  • Motorola
  • Microsoft
  • AT&T Wireless
  • Texas Instrument
  • Dell
  • Compaq
  • Honeywell
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Nortel
  • Lucent Technologies
  • 3Com
  • Intel
  • Northern Telecom
  • TWA
  • Nordstrom’s
  • Revlon
  • Macy’s
  • Pierre Cardin
  • Target Stores, and the list goes on.

It comes as no surprise then that Mr. Mannix would make that statement to Nike, the major producers of shoes, clothing, sports gear, fan gear, and Kids’ Jordan.

Even though Michael Jordan is nothing more than a highly-paid meer-slave who only lends his name to a line of sports gear that he really does not ‘own’ own, there are more than a good shipload of Black people – particularly the young – who are influenced by the label that bears his name.

The prison industrial complex is bad enough, but when those who are in for non-violent offenses are forced to work for $20-$30 a month, yes, a MONTH, then something is gravely and insidiously evil about it. Add to that the fact that $300 million in annual profit margins surged to more than $2 Billion in short order and this country still bled jobs while the national deficit went up to trillions, something is amiss and the “conspiracy theorists” aren’t as far-fetched as some would have us to believe.

Now comes the piece de la resistance – Jordan, a man with a known reputation for having a ‘blinging nasty attitude’ overall, meets up with a (former?) fan who has his own fan base, Chamillionaire.

This prison-backing Black man who profits off the shoe market built mostly by Black men puts the icing on the ignoramus cake by telling that certain celebrity that he does not take pictures with “no niggers.”

Well, Mr. Ilikemike … The niggers giveth, and the niggers can certainly taketh away.

Burn baby Burn

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Burn baby burn.

References

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3 Comments

  1. Reneegede

    Funny to see how easy it is for white people to gaslight the shit out of Black folks and get money out of them.

    They want to wear those damned Jo-Jo’s so bad, especially the ghetto welfare mama’s who can’t afford school supplies, but can buy a $250 pair of 25-cent shoes…

    These white folks can take a picture of “any white man USA,” call him “Mike Jordan” and say “THIS IS THE MIKE JORDAN who invested in the school to prison pipelines!!!” and Black folks are lapping up that GASLIGHT TRICK like dogs lick up vomit.

    It’s not hard to see what white folks are looking at when they say Negroes are “liquid money” and easily enslaved.

    Keep doing what you’re doing, you will keep getting what you got. Don’t bitch about it, you asked for it.

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  2. Tiny Molinari

    except that there are more white people in prison…oops, ruined your whole race card play..
    not sorry.

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    • Reneegede

      The problem with your comment is that more white people in prison probably actually committed a real crime. About 60 to 70-percent of the Black people in prison are there on a white person’s lie. That’s a majority, that Black people are there for being Black while doing what white people get away with. White people in prison had to do something really awful, all Black people have to do to get there is be Black trying to act white.

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