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Katy Perry’s shoes pulled after ‘blackface’ backlash
NY Post ^ | 2/11/19 | Raquel Laneri

Posted on 02/11/2019 3:37:32 PM PST by OddLane

Dear fashion people: Please stop trying to make “blackface” happen.

First it was Prada. Then Gucci. Now, pop star Katy Perry (who, yes, is apparently a fashion designer) is in hot water for selling shoes that evoke — intentionally or not — the racist imagery.

The styles in question — a pair of mules and some high-heeled sandals — feature eyes and big red lips, resembling minstrel makeup.

TMZ reports that retailers Dillards and Walmart will pull the offending styles, though not the whole line, from their stores after facing social media backlash...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: blackface; dillards; gucci; katyperry; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkcompost; newyorkpost; prada; raquellaneri; searchperry; stupidity; walmart
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1 posted on 02/11/2019 3:37:32 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Do they come in blue?


2 posted on 02/11/2019 3:39:17 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood

My granddaughter has a pair of lady bug house slippers. Is that bug identity theft, since she only has two legs and feet?


3 posted on 02/11/2019 3:45:18 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: OddLane

LMAO! Sorry.

Liberals, mired in their own PC Quagmire, find themselves in a feedback loop of their own ostentatious causes to promote their sectarian victimhood classes.

If they avoid any resemblance of black culture, they are racists for not respecting and adopting the alternative culture. If they emulate it, they are racists for white privilege (The original sin of being born white).

I hope liberal voters are watching.


4 posted on 02/11/2019 3:45:37 PM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: OddLane

LOL....eyep racist,black and too expensive....$129....with big red lips across the toes. So all you fans that wasted your money, can’t wear them.
Ask Katy for your money back.


5 posted on 02/11/2019 3:49:29 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: OddLane

Maybe it is really just a mirror.


6 posted on 02/11/2019 3:53:32 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: Tenacious 1

The deity made liberals so conservatives could laugh. These people are caricatures of themselves.


7 posted on 02/11/2019 3:54:13 PM PST by Spok
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To: OddLane

This is what they're talking about.

8 posted on 02/11/2019 4:00:50 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Never mind the colors, wouldn’t women be embarrassed to wear those things?


9 posted on 02/11/2019 4:01:52 PM PST by SamAdams76
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10 posted on 02/11/2019 4:04:57 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: SamAdams76
Never mind the colors, wouldn’t women be embarrassed to wear those things?

From my limited contact with the subject, I don't think Katie Perry fans embarrass easily.

11 posted on 02/11/2019 4:08:28 PM PST by Bernard (We will stop calling you fake news when you stop being fake news.)
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To: OddLane

Katy Perry is such a raciss!


12 posted on 02/11/2019 4:13:26 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: OddLane

The libs are going to slit their own throats.


13 posted on 02/11/2019 4:15:21 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: OddLane

The left eating their own. LOL.


14 posted on 02/11/2019 4:15:51 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: a fool in paradise

+1


15 posted on 02/11/2019 4:18:10 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: ifinnegan

There are vagrants on Skid Row that have better fashion sense.


16 posted on 02/11/2019 4:19:42 PM PST by OddLane
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To: a fool in paradise

LMAO.


17 posted on 02/11/2019 4:20:04 PM PST by OddLane
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To: ifinnegan

So the “whiteface” isn’t offensive, right?


18 posted on 02/11/2019 4:26:18 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SamAdams76

I would. They’re stupid. But so much of fashion has been stupid for a good solid 25 years straight.


19 posted on 02/11/2019 4:27:27 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: OddLane

“Nike is to recall a range of sports shoes carrying a logo that offended Muslims in America. It has agreed not to sell the new line in Britain.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nike-to-trash-trainers-that-offended-islam-1257776.html


20 posted on 02/11/2019 4:35:40 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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