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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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?
Learn a TINY piece of history, it is interesting if you get it right ONCE in a while.
.. ah come on, who gives a damn! They would look just about right with the ripped clothing, multiple tattoos, body piercings and neon tinted hair of the slaves of fashion.
I will have to wait until a 'lightly worn' pair of this babies in my size appeared at Goodwill at half off with my 10% senior cirizen discount and then I will move on to something else less trendy.
It's idiots from both sides that condone this sort of stupidity. They're shoes...deal with it.
But antiquating everything with slavery is just ridiculous. For heaven's sake Jackson sit down and SHUT UP! It's people like you that keep racism going strong.
Of course, a symbol of "ugly" is right in there.
"If you make it, they will buy it!"
I have seen some really ugly shoes & wondered, someone thought of this, someone said let's make it, then someone who owns a store put it on their shelves, and then someone bought it to wear ... amazing!
pARTy On! Fashionistas ...
Do you realize how much money they are making on one pair??? When it probably cost them a few dollars to mass produce in a foreign country. Wake up children........
Btw, the constitution did not regard black people as 3/5 human. The 3/5 compromise, degrading as it was, was more about sectional influence in the new congress. The document as a whole was carefully and forward-thinkingly written to avoid any mention of slavery, to the irritation of the hard-core slave-master contingent. Even the 3/5 compromise itself refers to "all other persons" as opposed to much worse alternative language.
I refer interested or skeptical readers to Frederick Douglass' comments on the constitution. In my view, Douglass was a truly great man to whom Jesse Jackson couldn't compare given 10 lifetimes to try.