After Adidas unveiled their latest shoe design, which features plastic orange ‘shackles’ attached to the ankles by chains in the same color, it started a huge debate online. More than 2,000 Facebook users commented on the shoes… some of them found the design offensive, racist and ignorant and others think that Adidas “sunk to new lows” […]
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Adidas ‘Shackle Sneakers’ Have Caused Controversy Over Slavery Symbolism
Adidas has now canceled all plans to sell the Jeremy Scott shoes and released the following statement to the press: “The design of the JS Roundhouse Mid is nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott’s outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery. We apologize if people are offended by […]
Rx For Death
Death abides with all fanatics, not least because they are so often willing to risk it for their cause. It presses close around Jack Kevorkian, the doctor who has made death his specialty, closer still last week as he returned to the practice that so often had seemed destined to land him in jail