Nike Reacts to Racism Claims

Vogue ^ | 8/19/2013 | Ella Alexander

[Bon of Babble]

NIKE has pulled a pair of leggings after the design was criticized for being racist. The monochrome print, which features on the label's Pro Tattoo Tech Tights, has caused controversy in Australia and New Zealand for its similarity to the traditional Samoan Pe'a male tattoo.

[Bon of Babble]

Nike has been baaaddddd this year!! Weren't they the ones who put out the blood spattered T-shirts with "Boston Massacre" across the front??

[Bon of Babble]

Wow!! Supersize me. They’ve already been deemed “racist” so might as well give them to Oprah Winfrey or Rachael Jeantel.

Had a lot of trouble posting this — don’t know why the image is so LARGE...maybe one of these days I’ll be able to figure out how these little beasties work.

[2banana]

And the world yawns when Catholic Nuns are paraded in the streets of Cairo as POWs by mulsims...

The garment sparked an online petition which described the leggings as a "direct violation of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, and is furthermore in violation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples".

[FlingWingFlyer]

Send the whiners a couple sets of basketball shoes. That’s all they’re after anyway.

[freedumb2003]

You can use width and height parameters inside the img tag.

To post the above, I used:

<img src="http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/1280x1920/k_n/Nike-Running-Tights--Pro-Tattoo-Vogue-16Aug13-PR_b.jpg" height=400>

I generally use 400 as a reasonable width parameter and 500 as a height parameter.

[Carriage Hill]

Try this:

< img src="???" height="000"width="000" Border="1" >

Close-up the brackets after putting-in height/width at 1/2 what it actually is.

[Carriage Hill]

Try this:

< img src="???" height="000"width="000" Border="1" >

Close-up the brackets after putting-in height/width at 1/2 what it actually is.

[Carriage Hill]

Try this:

< img src="???" height="000"width="000" Border="1" >

Close-up the brackets after putting-in height/width at 1/2 what it actually is.

[lightman]

I must be culturally insensitive because I simply don’t get it.

ANY of it.

[Revolting cat!]

I thought that pants with the crotch down around one’s knees wuz rassiss? What do I know?

[svcw]

This is so stupid I can not find the insulting words to respond.

[elpadre]

seems like we are giving the minorities far too much control.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“NIKE has pulled a pair of leggings after the design was criticized for being racist.”

Ok, as long as pacific islanders dont get to use any designs or things developed by whites. That’s just about everything.

[Bon of Babble]

Thanks for the tips — hate to ask my 19-year old know-it-all (studying computer programming at overpriced university) — smart alec always says “Everyone knows how to do that mom!!”

I told him he’d better watch himself because “everyone” doesn’t pay his tuition!!

[MeshugeMikey]

nonsense can never be truly understood.

examining the mind of a feel good diversity FANATIC very leads NOWHERE

[MeshugeMikey]

Id like to offer:

“oh REALLY” ... Mark O’Meara A.A.L. George Zimmermans Lawyer July 2013

[SaxxonWoods]

The good news is I won’t have to see them, they are ugly.

[svcw]

I stand corrected.

[MeshugeMikey]

there are times when words fail me...and when that occurs....I look for the nearest simple quote.....

[a fool in paradise]

So NOW the damned liberals are concerned about offensive use of sacred images?

Commie rat bastards need to p!ss-off.