Dr. Martens Portland billboard evokes white supremacist symbol, activists say

Oregon Live ^ | 11/17/2017

[heterosupremacist]

Really? Boots? Hmmm... I hereby contend the 'White Pages' should forever be abolished, due to their racial insensitivity for using that "W"-word. Will the offenses never end??

[Chickensoup]

In this case the red is a Christmas color and this is a Christmas ad.

The kid who made this ad was probably not born in the eighties.

[Lurkinanloomin]

They come with black laces. The red laces are supposed to be festive. The company is from UK.

These people are idiots who see racism in everything.

[Lurkinanloomin]

White pages are already gone. When was the last time you saw a new phone book?

[chaosagent]

Maybe pink shoelaces are the order of the day.

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But then the boots have to be tan, not black.

[heterosupremacist]

Lurkinanloomin wrote ~

>>>White pages are already gone. When was the last time you saw a new phone book?<<<

U R pulling my leg, right?

[Lurkinanloomin]

We used to get a white pages and a yellow pages.
Now we get a Yellow Pages and a Yellow Book, but no residential directory, haven’t for a few years.

[Charles Martel]

Red and white laced Doc are a real thing, meaning “skinhead”. FYI

Yep, just as surely as SPLC is an unbiased, objective organization.

[heterosupremacist]

#27 >>>Now we get a Yellow Pages and a Yellow Book, but no residential directory, haven’t for a few years.<<<

YELLOW Pages? Asianphobic!

[spintreebob]

And everyone with a mustache symbolizes Hitler?
And everyone with big ears symoblizes Obama?

[Unassuaged]

Hey, I am not attacking anyone here. I am merely letting people know that wearing red-laced Docs was something that might get you beat up or at least IDed as a Neo-Nazi/skinhead back in the 80/90s. I am not saying that the ad man knew that, but it is not a fabrication.

[HotHunt]

Hey, but it's got black trim too.

That's what they call a "mulatto" Smart Car.

:-)

[bgill]

Ok, I’ll play the racist game. Black boots. Red laces. Sounds more like Blood’s boots.

[apocalypto]

Another absurdity by the left.

[Impala64ssa]

When the first Model T's were built Henry Ford said you can have them in any color you'd like as long as it's BLACK. The first Corvettes that came out in 1953, as well as the original Pontiac Trans Ams in late 1969 were WHITE.

[apocalypto]

Apparently not only are work boots racist but being against work boots is also racist.

I came across an article about an upscale bar in Des Moines that instituted a dress code: no baggy jeans, no T-shirts, no construction boots. Yes, this was called racist even though it was applied to everybody. From what I could understand from the muddled comments is that the reason it is racist is that minorities like to wear those clothes, no matter that many non-minorities do likewise.

I myself never equated work boots with minorites. I always thought they were more the Nike types.

[Impala64ssa]

Boots are racist? Has anyone told Nancy Sinatra about this??

[Charles Martel]

I myself never equated work boots with minorites. I always thought they were more the Nike types.

Dazzling urbanites with work boots? Must be a very small regional thing, as I suspect the "red shoelaces" thing started out. SPLC has a talent for sniffing out "hate groups" that have around five members.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

SPLC has a talent for sniffing out "hate groups" that have around five members.

And three of them are federal agents.

The fourth is a reporter doing a expose.

The fifth shows up for the free beer.

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