Noted Hypebeast Mitch McConnell has waded into the latest controversy in sneakerdom. MatthewSchneier writes
Would you let this woman make you a sneaker? Photo: Wikimedia Commons Noted Hypebeast Senator Mitch McConnell has waded into the latest controversy in sneakerdom, opining on the decision by Nike to recall a new model of Air Max this week.
Speaking for an uglier, less egalitarian time in America’s past this week, the Senate Majority Leader voiced his support for the flag and the shoe. Photo: Nike Earlier, Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, vowed in a Twitter thread to rescind state funding incentives for a Nike plant in his state following the controversy. The company “bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism,” and would suffer the loss of what the Washington Post called a “modest incentive package.”
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