Know Your Place

Never let people put you down or oppress you because of who they think you aren’t or will never be, just know your place, in your place you’re better off, be a champion in the spirit, be a champion in your track, be a champion in your field, in all just know your place.

Your place is better than where they have forced you to be, don’t let yourself, feelings and esteem be oppressed, you have the energy to rise above your oppressors, you have the energy to break away from every oppression of any kind.

Nike shoes company cut the terms of Allyson Felix’s endorsement by as much as 70% due to sudden pregnancy, they said to her “Know your place and just run.”

She was forced to wake very early to do hard training in order to win the championship for Nike, no one considered her condition that she was pregnant of a child, all they cared for was their own gain.

She was oppressed and abused, amid all of it, she had complications that resulted in an emergency c-section seven months into pregnancy because of life threatening condition trying to combine her training and motherhood, her baby had to live for more than a month in the NICU.

Two years later after weaning her daughter she’s qualified for her fifth championship with her daughter watching, Allyson dropped Nike and created her own brand of running shoes, she called it the Saysh One, she participated in several successful Olympics wearing her shoes under the banner “I Know My Place.”

With 11 gold medals she has beaten Nike at their own game, she passed Carl Lewis for the most track and field medals by an American in history.

She has won medals more than any single athlete branding the Nike shoes, she created her own brand, her own name and slogan, she ended the era of being oppressed and used by Nike against her own will, her shoes currently has won more medals in recent times than the Nike’s.

In one of her matches after winning the 11th gold medal with her self made shoes, she said to her daughter: “I used my voice, and built this company for you, so that you never have to train at 4:30 AM while you’re 5 months pregnant or to hide your pregnancy from your sponsors.”

She won medals and motherhood all at once through endurance, courage, and self belief, they told her to know her place, she proved to them that there is a place in her greater than where they have made her to be, her company, slogan and name have become a global running shoes brand.

The Nike shoes company are devils from origin, they use slave and child labour till date in their companies for cheap labour, their very beginning was a dirty theft from ASICS, they lack every moral compass for anyone to patronize them, they threat humans like animals.

There are many companies and managers like the Nike, the policies are made to oppress, everything oppresses, if you find yourself trapped within any wall of maltreatment, gather your strength and take your place, for you’ve a place.

If anyone oppresses you like someone who has no place, gather your inner energy and take your place, a better place.

– Kanayo Ebuka