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?
The moment clans with mankind started, they created wars and either killed the enemies or made them slaves. Color of skin had nothing to with this!
They're a goofy pair of shoes, nothing more
The biggest problem with racism today isn't that there are white people who don't like black people, it's that black people act like criminals, and when they get caught, they don't blame themselves, but their color. When a white person acts like a criminal and gets caught, they know it's their own fault.
It's called placating. Your blaming someone or something else for the consequences of your own behavior.
I'm not saying that there aren't racist people out there profiling you, I'm saying that there's way more people who are looking past your color and don't care. You care about that fact that your black than most white people do.
many centurys. They need only minimal improvement at worst. The only purpose that
these leg irons can possibly serve is to cause unnecessary offence, and nothing else.
Shame on Jeremy Scott. He should be let go from Adidas and forced to flip burgers for
minimum wage, no benefits, and lots of client abuse. And futher more, he should have to
stay in that job indefinately until he successfully and properly completes a lot of tough
sensativity training under a team of ex marine DI's, And make sure that he learns his
lesson before he is ever allowed to leave that grunt job and return once again to designing
any shoes or any other type of fashion design.
Do better things with that $350, like pay the rent and feed the kids.
So we have a company which just happens to cater a lot to major pockets of our youth, among other things, and which employs lots and lots of people, etc. And they get an idea, which evidently didn't seem to be offensive to their staff anyway, and they spend megabucks promoting this new product, and we get a handful of lunatics who have made their entire living based solely on the promotion of this racism theme in America and they pop up and end up causing this company to put a halt to the current product -- noting that we are in terrible financial straits in this country right now -- and all of the bucks sunk into advertising and heaven only knows what else, all based on some lunatic theory.
Yes, lunatic theory. Of course there are some bigots in this country. Just as there are left-wing nut cases, right-wing nut cases, gun freaks, big-game hunters making their brave kills as the animal leaves its cage, polygamists hiding behind religion. Hell, you...
So we have a company which just happens to cater a lot to major pockets of our youth, among other things, and which employs lots and lots of people, etc. And they get an idea, which evidently didn't seem to be offensive to their staff anyway, and they spend megabucks promoting this new product, and we get a handful of lunatics who have made their entire living based solely on the promotion of this racism theme in America and they pop up and end up causing this company to put a halt to the current product -- noting that we are in terrible financial straits in this country right now -- and all of the bucks sunk into advertising and heaven only knows what else, all based on some lunatic theory.
Yes, lunatic theory. Of course there are some bigots in this country. Just as there are left-wing nut cases, right-wing nut cases, gun freaks, big-game hunters making their brave kills as the animal leaves its cage, polygamists hiding behind religion. Hell, you name it, we've got it This is America, Land of the Free, all kinds of people make this their home. So you get some high-profile nut cases who harp, harp, harp, harp on this ridiculous theory of racism and the pain and agony of slavery -- something which they never had to go through, thank God and the beauty of this wonderful country that learns through mistakes and corrects them eventually -- and they succeed in getting Adidas to stop their marketing plan.
Now, gee, I wonder how many people aren't going to get hired this year or next to make up for the money that company has got to have lost over this fiasco. Hmmm? A huge, multimillion-dollar company like Adidas, you think they don't have the staff capable of recognizing what will or will not offend the general population of America? You honestly believe that that product was that bad to have caused this reaction? Then you need glasses too. Because only the liberal media, with their totally anti-American viewpoint of everything in this country, can band together with the professional rabble rousers and titillate the weakened masses with their fairy tales and succeed in costing the American economy still another bucket of money for nothing.
No wonder Barack Obama stands a snowball's chance in hell of getting reelected.