Boston Celtics’ player Enes Kanter told Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Nike co-founder Phil Knight to put their money where their mouths are. Enes Kanter encouraged them to visit China’s slave labor camps. These are places where slave labor is performed to make the high-end products that multimillionaires have made huge money from.
A few days earlier, Kanter had posted a tweet criticizing China and its leader, Xi Jinping, for denying the human rights of the oppressed Muslim people in the slave labor camps and demanding China free Tibet. China responded by banning the broadcast of all Celtics games within that communist country.
Kanter is now a better player. He has since tweeted to Knight: “How bout I book plane tickets for us and let’s fly to China together. We can try to visit these SLAVE labor camps, and you can see it with your own eyes.”
Also invited by the bold and courageous Kanter – standing alone among athletes against the spineless corporate powers, as he is – were James and Jordan. They’ve been making a king’s ransom in profiting off the backs of China’s slave laborers for a long time. They also turn their backs on the poor and oppressed who help them to become rich.
Kanter also stated on social media that Nike supports Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian hatred. LGBTQ+ and Latino communities are represented, but China’s slaves (who do not have political power), Nike remains silent. It does not address the brutality.
Additionally, Kanter says: “You do not say a word about brutality in China.” Uyghers are forced to work long hours and are kept under surveillance. This is one of the worst human rights violations in the world, he says, while demanding China stop the “modern day SLAVERY now!” He calls Nike hypocritical, says someone must teach China a lesson and the commies there cannot buy him off. “Bring it on!”
Kanter also wears “freedom shoes” directing strong language at China and vowing it will never be able to buy off his protests.
Fox Business has reported that Jordan and Nike did not respond to Kanter. James couldn’t be reached for comment.
The United States State Department classified China’s oppression of Uyghurs as “genocide.” More than a million Uyghurs have reportedly been detained in re-education camps. Kanter is from Turkey and they are considered nomadic Turkic.
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