I have pulled things too, after having second thoughts about them, but your reader Zagreus lacks a sense of irony, I think. In this absurd world, lacking irony is a handicap.

Whilst the sanctimonious and patronising nature of Nike’s campaign is annoying and symptomatic of a societal inability to deal with true ‘root causes’ (e.g. food stamps redeemable only for kimchi (but think of the global warming effect!!!) and tofu + hiring 1,000 drill sergeants with electric cattle prods would be the way to go if one were truly honestly serious about improving the health of any ethnic group with a tendency to sloth and junk food consumption) and call a digging implement a spade, what I find really amusing is the notion that some people are allowed to talk about racial differences, but other are not.

Is Nike now going to invent a shoe which helps white men jump? Can a shoe help reduce the black crime rate? Perhaps they could invent a shoe which kicks me in the head until I forget I ever had these non-approved thoughts.

Zagreus, perhaps you could spend the rest of your day feeling pity for me. Be sure to lose sleep over my inability to ‘feel’.

If (God forbid) it ever becomes necessary to poke around with sharp things in my nether regions in later years, I hope that I’ll be lucky enough to have a surgeon like Doctor Bob with enough wit to call a spade a spade and call bull#$%%^ when he sees it.

Here endeth the lesson.

I wonder if Nike is going to introduce lines of prosthetics to make blacks swim faster and whites jump higher. I’ve also noticed that Thais, despite their other fine physical features have very wide feet.