The NBA star and self-proclaimed “freedom” fighter signed up to be the Chief Creative Officer of ANTA, a sneaker brand linked to “the systematic use of forced labor”
Trump Rants About the Dangers of Electric Boats in Bizarre Michigan Speechthat also makes him the brand’s Chief Creative Officer. In late September, Irving and ANTA unveiled Kyrie’s new logo called “
The Uyghurs are a Turkic minority population of 12 million living in the western Xinjiang province of China. Labeled a security threat by the Chinese government, upwards of 1 million Uyghurs have been forced into prison camps. Horrific allegations have surfaced that Uyghurs interned in the camps have been subjected toThe Uyghur population outside the camps is hardly more free.
The company’s intersection with forced Uyghur labor should be no mystery to the NBA — nor to Kyrie Irving, himself. Back in 2021, the co-chairs of theabout ANTA and other Chinese apparel firms to the National Basketball Players Association — where Irving was then serving as Vice President. The political chorus denouncing ANTA is bipartisan. In 2022, in advance of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican, called out the International Olympic Committee for using ANTA as an official apparel provider, insisting that if the IOC couldn’t declare ANTA’s products are forced-labor free, “the IOC is 100 percent complicit in General Secretary Xi’s genocide.
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