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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Nails on June 19, 2012, 02:33:56 PM
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http://sandrarose.com/2012/06/adidas-slammed-for-promoting-slavery-shoes/ (http://sandrarose.com/2012/06/adidas-slammed-for-promoting-slavery-shoes/)
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Sportswear giant Adidas is catching heat for “promoting slavery” by manufacturing ‘shackle shoes’ trainers.
The JS Roundhouse mids feature the LA Lakers’ orange and purple colors with orange cuffs links that are similar to the shackles worn by Africans during the lucrative slave trade in the south.
The promotional copy for the shoe ads posted on Facebook reads: “Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?”
But activists and Facebook users reacted with anger at the premise of Adidas promoting slavery with the shackle shoes.
More than 2000 Facebook users labeled the shoes “offensive” and referred to Adidas as “ignorant” for the insensitive promotional campaign.
Dr Boyce Watkins, writing for Your Black World, accused the U.S. educational system for diminishing the emphasis on slavery in modern history books — “all so you’d be willing to put shackles on your ankles today and not be so sensitive about it.”
The Syracuse University Professor said he accepted that some people would accuse him of overreacting.
But he added: “There is always a group of Negroes who are more than happy to resubmit themselves to slavery.”
So true!
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Leave it to some people to take ownership of "shackles" as if nobody else in the history of this world has been shackled.
Prisoners are shackled in this country everyday. Why is it automatically assumed they are referencing slavery with a pair of shackles?
Stupid is, stupid does. Way to keep yourself ignorant I guess.
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seriously how did this become racist and shackles are now for slaves only?
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Leave it to the kneegrows to take ownership of "shackles" as if nobody else in the history of this world has been shackled.
LMAO!
I mean I never take part in these kind of threads, but this is just stupid!
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:D
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Adidas should be 'taking heat' more for making such shitty looking shoes than because they evoke slavery. :-X
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those are the Kobe Bryant Colorado Edition
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those are the Kobe Bryant Colorado Edition
How dare you reflect on the ADMITTED unfavorable actions of a kneegrow.
They're off limits and never at fault.
:)
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ugly.
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I am in love with the Women`s Runway Prada Line this year based off the 1959 Cadillac Tail end, which was my most favorite car I owned.
These Adidas shoes are tame as can be.
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Love this video.
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Whats also interesting is that I had the same car in the video, except mine was not a convertible 1960 Plymouth Fury, my second most favorite car I have owned, next to the Cadillac.
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Remarkably low self esteem in the black community.
After destroying the family unit they are as mentally fragile as cracked crystal as a result.