"Waaaa! Not my muslim slave labor Nikes! Waaaa! I'll walk off the playoffs! Waaaa!"
Posted on 06/02/2021 8:31:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The chairmen of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on June 1 called on NBA players to end endorsement deals with Chinese sportswear firms that are linked to forced labor.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), in a letter to National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) President Chris Paul and Executive Director Michele Roberts, expressed concern over contracts that more than a dozen NBA players have signed, with firms that include Anta, Li-Ning, and Peak, which have all admitted to using cotton produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
The commission’s letter to the labor union comes amid reports that hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been forced to pick cotton in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. More than 1 million Uyghurs, the majority of whom practice Islam, and other ethnic minorities, have reportedly been held in internment camps in the region and undergo torture and other abuses.
“Players have continued to sign new deals with Anta Sports,” Merkley and McGovern wrote in their letter.
“We believe that commercial relationships with companies that source cotton in Xinjiang create reputational risks for NBA players and the NBA itself,” they said, noting that the U.S. government has determined that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and barred cotton imports from the region.
“The NBA and NBA players should not even implicitly be endorsing such horrific human rights abuses,” the letter states.
The CECC cited its own documentation that since 2018, there has been credible evidence to show that forced labor exists in Xinjiang’s cotton production.
“Ethnic minority workers who pick cotton in Xinjiang are subjected to close monitoring and control, and individuals have been detained for refusing to take part in such work programs,” they said.
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It is more likely for Donald Trump to get his own daytime show on MSNBC then it is for Lebron to keep those kids from making his 300 dollar sneakers for a bowl of rice and a water break a day
The whole country is complicit with slavery and genocide, while the government on a regular basis, threatens the US with nuclear war.
yellow lives don’t matter.
. . . but slaves make great jumps.
"Waaaa! Not my muslim slave labor Nikes! Waaaa! I'll walk off the playoffs! Waaaa!"
Floppin Jimmy make poopy.
“You make sneakers for Comrade Lebron, or we harvest your organs.”
Seems pretty racist to me - considering what 80 or 90% of the NBA/players association is black? In fact I think they and other Precious Minorities ought to be completely exempt from the nonsensical “human rights” agenda due to our systemic racism.
NBA and the players need to pay reparations for their slavery instead of pretending to be offended by slavery 400 years ago.
No Nike for you!
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