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'How would a Jewish person feel if you put a swastika on a shoe?' Adidas under fire....
dailymail.co.uk ^ | June 18, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 06/18/2012 7:39:51 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Adidas has sparked outrage and been accused of 'promoting slavery' by creating a new pair of trainers which have bright orange 'shackles' that fit around the wearer's ankles.

The clothing giant is under fire for its August scheduled release of the JS Roundhouse Mids, which many have compared to the devices worn by black slaves in 19th Century America.

The seemingly innocent promotional material, uploaded to Facebook earlier this month, asks: 'Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160977/Adidas-unveiling-new-trainer-orange-shackles-like-worn-black-slaves.html#ixzz1y9j3KBZ5

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1 posted on 06/18/2012 7:40:01 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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2 posted on 06/18/2012 7:45:50 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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Posted here with the original title.

The Mod Squad prefers the original tiltle (even if truncated) to help prevent duplicate threads.

Not that it does, but that's the theory...

3 posted on 06/18/2012 7:46:11 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1245 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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If it could keep my three year old from losing his sneakers I might be interested in getting them for him!


4 posted on 06/18/2012 7:46:43 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
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If Adidas would just wrap the shackles and chains in dollar bills like the welfare state does then it would be OK.


5 posted on 06/18/2012 7:48:05 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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Does he have a tendency to lose mittens?


6 posted on 06/18/2012 7:51:19 AM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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Not sure if this is a spoof, but if not there must be some seriously dumb people at Adidas.


7 posted on 06/18/2012 7:51:37 AM PDT by Scutter
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Apart from the stupidity of this kind of thing, no one ought to be allowed to drive a car with these things on. It would be a hazard.


8 posted on 06/18/2012 7:52:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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They look like the shackles that came on My Pet Monster, a stuffed toy one of my kids had back in the early 80s.

They also might remind one of the chain gang shackles that were common during the last century in democrat party controlled areas of the old South.

Slave shackles indeed.


9 posted on 06/18/2012 7:53:13 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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This seems to be great addition to the urban chic droopy prison pants with striped under wear. I’m thinking they’ve hit a money maker.


10 posted on 06/18/2012 7:53:36 AM PDT by Baynative (REMEMBER: Without America there is no free world!)
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Thanks.

MODS PLEASE DELETE.

Sad thing is if black kids start wearing them today, white kids will be wearing them tomorrow. Sideway hats, hats with price tags left on, jeans hanging halfway down. Doesn’t matter how idiotic the trend, it becomes ‘cool.’

My favorite trend that didn’t catch on was from the act Criss Cross. THey wore their clothes inside out! lol


11 posted on 06/18/2012 7:53:48 AM PDT by TigerClaws (He)
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We’ve had a number of “shoe riots” here in Indianapolis where inner city youts queue up to pay hundreds of dollars (converted from their EBT money?) for various new Nike footwear.

I wonder if these will have a similar appeal?


12 posted on 06/18/2012 7:53:56 AM PDT by nascarnation
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Where’s the padlock to keep the hoodielums from snatching your new tires after being jumped.


13 posted on 06/18/2012 7:54:38 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Does he have a tendency to lose mittens?

He has a tendency to lose EVERYTHING, but sneakers are the worst. The second to last time was in Dixon, IL (40 miles away) between our friends' house, and our car parked across the street, at night. The sneaker was finally recovered from the neighbors lawn five months later. It had been new.
14 posted on 06/18/2012 7:55:14 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
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This is simple extortion, nothing less. A corporation is accused of racism. Black “representatives” demand a payout to their group. Corporation pays money and apologizes.

Read “Shakedown” by Kenneth Timmerman. He documents case after case of this. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others have made money using this technique.

15 posted on 06/18/2012 7:55:50 AM PDT by detective
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The mod run on these will be as wverything else gun fire parents fighting and so forth.


16 posted on 06/18/2012 7:58:47 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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FYI -- The mods do not necessarily scan everything all the time. The quickest way to get action is to hit the "Report Abuse" link and explain that the thread is a dupe and should be locked.

17 posted on 06/18/2012 7:59:23 AM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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Just attatch an EBT Card to the chains, and the Democrat Plantation Slaves might begin to finally ‘Get It”


18 posted on 06/18/2012 8:01:06 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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—Adidas under fire / new trainer with orange ‘shackles’ like those worn by black slaves—

I think “like” is a subjective term.

Three things:
1. Why were slaves shackled to their shoes?
2. Why were they orange?
3. I didn’t know they had velcro back then, and how secure could it have been?


19 posted on 06/18/2012 8:03:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Hey! Those look “like” the shackles and cuffs my wife and I use when...uh...never mind.


20 posted on 06/18/2012 8:04:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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