Quirky and stupid, but not offensive.
This attributing everything to slavery, is even more ignorant than those shoes.
We have become a nation of self-victimization, where everyone wants to be a victim.
Adidas' Shackle Sneakers: Offensive Reference to Slavery, or Just 'Quirky'?
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2012/06/19 17:00:00
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Adidas has dropped plans to release a pair of "shackle" sneakers after critics bashed the brand for being insensitive to a painful reminder of slavery, CNN reports. The outrage began on June 14, when Adidas began advertising the $350 high-top sneakers, called JS Roundhouse Mids, on its Facebook page.
"Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?" said a caption below a photo of the sneakers. Adidas defended the sneaker's designer, Jeremy Scott, as having a "quirky" and "lighthearted" style, but plans for an August release have been scuttled.
"The design of the JS Roundhouse Mid is nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott's outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery," the company said in a statement. "We apologize if people are offended by the design and we are withdrawing our plans to make them available in the marketplace."
"The design of the JS Roundhouse Mid is nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott's outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery," the company said in a statement. "We apologize if people are offended by the design and we are withdrawing our plans to make them available in the marketplace."
Rev. Jesse Jackson, for one, was offended by the rubber shackles. "The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by our Constitution is offensive, appalling and insensitive," he said in a statement. Do you agree?
People are just trying to be offended, when they're like that they'll always find someone to say is oppressing them.
Sorry, I didn't realize that so many living Americans still had STRONG EMOTIONAL memories of their years as slaves. /rolls eyes
It's a reach for anyone to see brightly colored, obnoxious ankle cuffs and think about plantation-era slavery. I see these and think about prison/ prisoners. I don't think the look is attractive, but neither do I think it's meant to be a racist dig. People here are just trying too hard to make a race issue out of bad fashion.
If you don't like them, don't buy them. Simple.
I simply find the idea of $350 shoes with shackles as some fashion statement offensive.
It was a JOKE about them! Get it?
I don't like the sneaks but the younger generation probably would. Its a gimmick marketing ploy, that's turned into racial bantering
How bout these idiots that walk around with their pants below their buttocks guess that's Ok hey Jesse
It quirky but i think it shows that we can't do anything in this country and we might as well be locked up!?!!