Adidas Releases New Slave Shoes with Shackles and All

Your Black World ^ | June 18, 2012 | Dr. Boyce Watkins

[kearnyirish2]

The US had legalized slavery for about 80 years (end of the American Revolution until Emancipation Proclamation). The “400 year” stuff can be laid at the feet of the English and Spanish governments.

[MasterGunner01]

How else are you going to keep these shoes from being stolen by other jealous Obama’s sons in “da ‘hood”?

[a fool in paradise]

No one is responsible except those who would dare wear something so ridiculous looking.

Besides, they clash with leg monitoring bracelets.

[Slings and Arrows]

Anybody who's stupid enough to buy them, deserves them.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

First, we get to watch black kids shoot one another over $200 Air Jordans...”

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Most kids that would do this lack sound guidance and decent role models. Here’s the $10,000,000 question.

“What is the most logical solution to this phenomenon?”

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

#3 Slavery is still practiced in Africa

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You can view open air slave markets in the Middle East. For some odd reason, Israel does not have these.

[CodeToad]

Maybe they are just trying to help them to not get their sneakers stolen.

[rlmorel]

It is pretty obvious to me, roll back the damage done to the family unit. That appears to me to be the root of the problem.

How that happens...our COUNTRY and GOVERNMENT go out of their way to foster FAMILY UNITS with a mother and father, not single mothers, not two mothers, not two fathers, but a mother AND a father.

And hand in hand with that, we would have to DE-EMPHASIZE the encouragement both societally and governmentally we give to out-of-wedlock mothers.

But I see that as a first step. I don’t see any changes occurring otherwise if this is not addressed in any way, no matter how much time and money we throw at it, it won’t change.

[rlmorel]

Is that the guy?

[VeniVidiVici]

Yeah, he wrote the article.

[Slings and Arrows]

That comes with my tax bill.