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DM – 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?’

There obviously aren’t any black decision makers working at Adidas. If there were, he or she would have said the nay-no to these Air Slavery jawns the company is intending to sell. Shackled chains, Adidas? You’ve gotta be smarter than that. Oh, but there were a lot of slaves in history — black people don’t solely hold the right to slavery. True, but not in America. In America whenever someone says “slave”, they’re not thinking about some Medieval Arab guy. They’re thinking negro with shakles. AND you had the nerve to make them ugly? AND they’re purple and gold? Adidas if there was an African American state in the Union our colors would be purple and gold. This is a disgrace. Slavery shackle basketball sneakers. I hope everybody gets fired.

By maurice posted June 18th, 2012 at 10:19 AM

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by snailtrail291 on June 18, 2012 at 10:24 am
your not funny. quit.
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by jabo on June 18, 2012 at 10:26 am
those are racist, using yellow shackles discriminates asians.
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by Pez51 on June 18, 2012 at 10:27 am
they are anti-sneakerjacking kicks
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by eatdickmanning on June 18, 2012 at 10:28 am
Shut up maurice... Put away the race card for 5 minutes. You sound like Jesse Jackson. Its a pair of fucking sneakers.
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by TonyTwotoes on June 18, 2012 at 10:36 am
There will be a line a mile long to get these shoes.
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by sam1malone on June 18, 2012 at 10:37 am
You kidding MO? Nigs' will be starting stampedes to get these! Just like sparkly cell phone covers, rims, and gold chains.. anything that sparkles or reminds them of grape drink will be a hit!!!
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by tornopen on June 18, 2012 at 10:39 am
I wish all black people would just the shut the fuck up about slavery already.... oh look my great great great great great grandaddy worked without getting paid.... so now millions of African Americans get paid without working. the white man has made up the difference.... we have reversed the business model and we pay strong able body black men to stay home, hang on the stoop and do nothing all day long..... and spend all day on the housing complex basketball court.....
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by frunkis on June 18, 2012 at 10:43 am
the shackles are optional so you know all the noggins will be letting them drag behind them trying to look like escaped slaves.
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by cofish on June 18, 2012 at 10:46 am
tornopen is the fucking man, black people need to shut the fuck up about slavery and racism already, i mean, we have a black dude in the white house now in case no one noticed. Black people saying everything is racist annoys me more than people try to sue all the time, just a bunch of low lifes that contribute nothing to society and bitch and moan all day. P.S. Maurice you suck and your not funny, everything you write is just about nigs.
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by bdemps15 on June 18, 2012 at 10:46 am
They help prevent your shoes from falling off running from the scene of a crime.
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by jabo on June 18, 2012 at 10:52 am
All-Day-I-Dream-About-Slavery
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by rinehart21 on June 18, 2012 at 10:53 am
tornopen....you missed judged....it should be great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grand daddy....you have to remember that by the time they are 13 they have 3 kids
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by EZBreezey2222 on June 18, 2012 at 10:55 am
im pretty sure white people and hispanics get shackled in prison too, stop acting like the only people who've ever been chained up are blacks. the real crime here is how awful those shoes look and they're still probably like $150
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by penntwin99 on June 18, 2012 at 10:57 am
Jesus Christ, get over it already. People have gone through way worse way more recently, the holocast?, but ur still bitching about ur shit? Newsflash, all black ppl are way better off today because of slavery bc Africas a shithole.
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by tornopen on June 18, 2012 at 11:03 am
@cofish and all --- Plenty of hard working dignified responsible black men and women in this country.... but they are silent..... Why are they silent? because they are too busy working their asses off to support their families. All you just hear the voices of the lazy entitled welfare class.... you don't hear that working dick sore Lil Wayne rapping about working double shifts to pay the bills or buckle down kid, hit the books, and you'll get a Pell Grant for college.... they promote this bullshit... I know the comments on this website shouldn't all be taken too seriously, we all tend to get a little nastier when we are allowed to stay unknown..... but fact remains, stop fucking bitching about slavery.
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by Monkey Knife Fight on June 18, 2012 at 11:24 am
The irony here is that these sneakers are made in Malaysia, by little slave children.
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by sjoyce54 on June 18, 2012 at 11:46 am
Monkey Knife Fight for the win!!!!!
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by Will I am Not on June 18, 2012 at 11:53 am
Tornopen, trying to spit knowledge on the comment section of the smut site, now that is fucking funny as hell...
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by organix85 on June 18, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Wow... the article has this quote:'How would a Jewish person feel if they decided to have a shoe with a swastika on it and tried to claim it was OK in the name of fashion?'What a shit comparison.
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by black gronk on June 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm
until all you guys will admit it doesnt bother you when blacks are fucking white chicks your all racist and have no say in these matters
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by allmurkandnoplay on June 18, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Tornopen YOU are the fucking disgrace to this country. You'd be sitting high on that plantation if you still could and it couldn't be more obvious. FTR Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother was a slave. Thats five generations removed and certainly not long enough to forget. And yes I'm white, and yes you and anyone who applauded your collection of run on sentences is fucking retarded.
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by vaginade on June 18, 2012 at 12:23 pm
@ Black Gronk.. it doesn’t bother us because the only white girl black guys are fucking are fat slobs. @ AllMurk Shut the fuck up with your white guilt.
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by freddie mitchell on June 18, 2012 at 12:42 pm
@allmurk do you know your great great great grandmother? Michelle Obama has a great fucking life that doesn't matter at all. You ever drive through the hood? None of them work! they smoke blunts and play basketball all day and collect welfare checks. Tornopen is the fucking man and everything he said was spot on
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by The Third Reicherter on June 18, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Well, fuck you guys. Straight dipshits commenting on this blog.
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by darklighter on June 18, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Hey were Black people slaves at one point or something? Never hear it thousands of times a day or nuthin. I do know the Jews who were almost anhiliated to extinction last century and the American Indians who went through a little genocide of their own don't bitch as much as Blacks and the slavery thing. You guys oughta speak out about the injustice of it all sometime....oh brother.
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by quisutdios on June 18, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Pretty sure the black state's colors would be red white and green to line up with the colors of a watermellon.
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by stamkos on June 18, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Racism aside, do you think black people would rather be in America today with rights, etc. or in Africa living through never ending war? Yeah it was a travesty, but people still complaining about slavery should look at the silver lining...it could've been worse for you today.
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by longshlong on June 18, 2012 at 2:05 pm
mo you are way off base on race related topics, per usual. these shoes are not about black people and slavery because there have been other people in the history of America that have had to wear shackles- prisoners> so in actuality these shoes are about black people and prison. DEFINITELY A BUY!!
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by tornopen on June 18, 2012 at 2:58 pm
@allmurkandnoplay -- fuck you.... and fuck Michelle Obama's. That bitch is wasting our tax dollars taking the girls on field trips and vacations all over the world. I didn't realize my tax dollars were meant so Sasha and Malika can go stomping around Europe acting like idiot tourists.
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by redhammer on June 18, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Love it
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by tornopen on June 18, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Using Slavery for an excuse for anything is fucking pathetic. Any black man who does is a lazy piece of shit. This country is great, work hard, you will succeed. Take school seriously, hit the books, learn how to fucking think and learn about the world you live in. Learn math, learn science, learn PROPER FUCKING ENGLISH. This is directed to every fucking person reading this, regardless of where you ancestors lived, or the color of your skin. People rise from the ashes of poverty every day in this country. Falling back onto slavery for any excuse is just a pussy move.
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by penntwin99 on June 18, 2012 at 5:07 pm
@ Black Gronk - until blacks consider themselves like everyone else and don't constantly as for handouts or blame some one else, they don't deserve any respect
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by TheUglyShtick on June 18, 2012 at 5:46 pm
To say these shoes are Raycess, is Raycess. To say they're fucking stupid, is correct.
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by loso18 on June 18, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Sad to see all these racist fucks on here. its 2012 get over yourself, white people aren't any better than black people. I know MORE white people who get hand outs and have no jobs and get government money and do drugs than black people. Comments like these is what sets society back, AND I'M NOT EVEN BLACK
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by ecu1205 on June 18, 2012 at 6:48 pm
@quisutdios, I'm pretty sure the correct spelling is "watermelon". And whaddya know, I'm black!
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by stamkos on June 18, 2012 at 7:53 pm
@loso18 - not saying you're incorrect b/c no race is any better, but the reason you know more white people getting handouts is because there are WAY more white people in the US. 72% of the US is white, while African-Americans make up 12%. So simple math, there are a lot more idiot white people out there than idiot black people.
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by digitalmonster on June 18, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Fuck all you racist dicks, they r crazy racist, no wonder the German company came out withy them. And as far as smoking blunts all day it's better than meth motherfucker. I work and smoke blunts wtf is up now son?
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by loso18 on June 18, 2012 at 9:52 pm
@stamkos thanks for the statistics but i was talking from experience not the general public like some people on here. I wasn't classifying whites all together like some of the retards on here I was talking about people that I know
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by acecal on June 19, 2012 at 11:41 am
If Adidas advertised them as being "prison" then black guys would be camping out to buy them.
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by black gronk on June 19, 2012 at 2:24 pm
wow you guys really are racist lol how do you really respect yourself @ vaginade im black and i fucked mad hot white bitches, a couple white girls told me that white men are scared of black men in that sense. im not looking for trouble but i know all of you guys are tough behind your computers but when a black person is around probably shake their hands, which is scary because some of my best friends are white and i hope they arent as ignorant as you guys
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by black gronk on June 19, 2012 at 2:28 pm
oh and more white people get welfare than black people, they say some say they are black in the south so they get more money, and those stories you hear about welfare queens abusing the government is actually because of the jewish people in brooklyn and monopolize the area and because their wives dont and they have a shit ton of kids they get a lot of welfare
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