Reggie White and Nike Corp.

Does Nike Believe that Gay People Are Liars & Backstabbers?  Does Nike Believe that Troubles Start When Women Ask for Equality?  By John Aravosis Wired Strategies Report

•  Does Nike believe that being gay is "a sin"?
  
  
•  Does Nike believe that discrimination against gay Americans is not as wrong as discrimination against other Americans?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that gay Americans "kill people"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that being gay is a "decision"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that gay people are in the same category as "liars andcheaters and malicious and back-stabbing"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that "each race has certain gifts"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that blacks are more gifted than whites at "worship andcelebration"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that black people "jump up and down" in church?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that whites are "good at organization"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that whites are good at "tapping into money"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that whites are good at "building businesses"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Hispanics are gifted at "family structure"?
  
  
• Just how many people does Nike believe a Hispanic can put in one home?
  
  
• "30" as Reggie White claims?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that the Japnese and the Asians are "inventive"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that the Japanese and Asians can really "turn a TV into a watch"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that the "Indians" are "gifted in spirituality"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe, as the American Family Association claims, that Reggie White's racial stereotypes are "benign"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe, as the American Family Association claims, that Reggie White's racial stereotypes are actually "Christian" views?
  
  
• Does Nike believe it’s appropriate to refer to gay Americans as the "sodomite community"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that its spokespeople should be running around the country trying to repeal civil rights laws?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Reggie White is correct in opposing Coretta Scott King on gay civil rights issues?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that gay Americans "hurt children"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Americans who find Reggie White’s statements offensive simply "can’t stand the truth"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Reggie White is correct in saying that "I realized something about us as Americans. We're lazy. We're extremely lazy"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that blacks more than whites "like to dance"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Reggie White is correct when he says: "I blame the church more than any institution in America for the problems that we're dealing with today, because there's too much money running through the church."
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Jesus "spent time with homosexuals"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that "lying is just as bad as homosexuality"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that "our nation is in the condition it is today" because of "homosexuality"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that Americans should be "offended that homosexuals will say that homosexuals deserve rights"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that America was better off when "Each father was respected as the head of the family"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that public education is bad? "We're giving our kids over to other people to teach when they need to be taught at home."
  
  
• Does Nike believe that the Ancient Greek’s philosophies were "garish"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that one of the major problems of America today is that "women demanded more rights" and that "the father had lost his legal authority"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that in the past, when women demanded more rights "new marriage contracts were designed including open marriages or marriages to more than one woman"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe that abortion is wrong? "We talk about the rights of women. And if a man and a woman are going to lay down and get pregnant, then they need to be faced with responsibility. We can't just keep killing off children because it's just a fashionable thing to get rid of them when we don't want them. If a woman or a man don't lay down and do it, there will be no pregnancy. It's sin."
  
  
• Does Nike believe that "Most people don't trust ministers" and "the church"? 
  
  
  
• Does Nike believe that "Indians" know "how to sneak up on people"?
  
  
• Does Nike believe it can continue to fund Reggie White's hate campaign with impunity?

©, John Aravosis, 1998. 
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