‘Nike sales surge 31% in days after Colin Kaepernick ad unveiled, analyst says’…
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/08/colin-kaepernick-nike-ad-sales-up
^ taken from the above article:-
'In July, in an open letter to league owners, the NBA great and Guardian sports columnist Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote: “It’s been two years since Colin Kaepernick first took a knee to protest systemic racial injustice, especially police brutality, against people of color.
“The worst thing about that isn’t that two years later we’re still debating whether players have the right to protest, it’s that not much has changed regarding what Kaepernick was protesting.”’