but I took one look at this and fell out laughing.
Those are without a doubt the stupidest damn things I have ever seen, and I have seen more than a few stupid things in my life. Whoever designed those should be ashamed, not because the shoes are particularly racist, but because the damn things are just dumb.
The company seems to be saying that the chains are sort of like retention straps, so you don't lose your shoes when jumping or getting creamed by a linebacker during a game of touch football gone badly wrong. Anyone who's against that probably doesn't use the retention strap on their game remote, either, and is bound to end up doing something dipshit like this. Because the only real way you could even begin to equate these shoes with racism and or black slavery would be if the chains were used as hobbles. That doesn't appear to be the intent...and even if it was, the BDSM community would be all over these shoes... :)
But of course the Perennially-Indignant Community is up in arms and threatening an Adidas boycott, instead of just laughing themselves silly over this design miscue.
What a world.
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