Cubs associate apologizes for mocking Kaepernick

A Chicago Cubs minor league associate has apologized and deleted a tweet mocking former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

An afternoon after Nike recalled a sneaker that featured an early American flag at Kaepernick’s urging, the Double-A Tennessee Smokies drew the 13-star image on their infield Wednesday and tweeted photographs of it.

“Whats up @Kaepernick7 after numerous idea, we’ve got made up our minds it is best to only do it. #The us,” the tweet stated.

The Related Press reported Tuesday that Kaepernick aired considerations to Nike over the discharge of the Air Max 1 USAs and its use of the Betsy Ross flag, which he stated remembers an generation when African-American citizens have been enslaved and has been appropriated by means of white nationalist teams. Nike recalled the shoe earlier than it was once because of move on sale for the July Fourth vacation.

Connor Pearce, advertising and neighborhood family members supervisor for the Smokies, instructed the AP on Wednesday night time that “it was once only a light-hearted tackle a present scenario.”

The group then deleted the tweet, pronouncing “we didn’t imply to offend any individual by means of it. If it did, we indisputably ask for forgiveness.”