With so many good T-shirts to help the victims of the Boston bombings, we have Nike pulling the biggest bonehead move is quite some time. Their 'Boston Massacre' design features blood splatter across the name 'Boston'. The insensitivity is beyond recognition.
The garments were identified when Eric Stangel, an executive producer and write for the David Letterman show, tweeted an image of the shirt. In response to Eric tweet, representative from Nike, Heidi Burgett, responded they taking the T-shirts down, again. They were removed earlier, but somehow kept getting put back on the racks. (Daily Mail)
As disgusted as many people over the T-shirt, the phrase 'Boston Massacre' has a history. Originally used to describe an attack by the british army in 1770 which left five civilians and six injured. The phrase was later adopted by baseball fans in a series between the Red Sox and the Yankees in 1978 when the Yankees overcame 14 game deficit to equal Boston's record. This required a one-game playoff which the Yankees won, who then moved on to play the Los Angeles Dodgers and win the World Series.
History aside, I think its too early, or many not at all, to offer such a T-shirt, even if it was not meant in support of the bombing victims.
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