[Jack Hydrazine]

[null and void]

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...

[Dr. Sivana]

If it could keep my three year old from losing his sneakers I might be interested in getting them for him!

[fella]

If Adidas would just wrap the shackles and chains in dollar bills like the welfare state does then it would be OK.

[Scutter]

Not sure if this is a spoof, but if not there must be some seriously dumb people at Adidas.

[RJS1950]

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.

[Baynative]

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.

[nascarnation]

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?

[detective]

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.

[boomop1]

The mod run on these will be as wverything else gun fire parents fighting and so forth.

[cuban leaf]

—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?

[VanDeKoik]

Made with slave labor in a slave country, to be worn by people who are a slaves to stupidity!

[rlmorel]

Well, if this product has any durability, it should at least make it easier to find the sneakers thrown over powerlines by simply looking for the owner still attached...

[VeniVidiVici]

Adidas under fire / new trainer with orange 'shackles' like those worn by black slaves

White slaves wore red shackles and oriental slaves wore pink shackles.

[PT57A]

Despite all the hilarity around the controversy, this is one ugly-ass shoe.

[al_c]

[BerryDingle]

Doesn’t anyone remember the “brother walk” back in the late 60’s and early 70’s? Every “cool brother” walked with a hobbled leg and a hobbled wrist.

[mrmeyer]

Does this mean my pet monster dolls are racist too? /s