Member of the Month

hi_vis360
November, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Peep these kix

profile picture
GayWolf420
Posts: 37517 - Karma: 121,409
How many of you sneaker heads are finna tryna cop a pair of these fresh kix? No, I'm not going to embed the story. Kiss my pale ass.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/us/adidas-shackle-shoes/index.html

Jun 19 2012 3:41PM
0 0
profile picture
theBearJew
Posts: 10951 - Karma: 15,633
Click for larger image
Jun 19 2012 3:44PM
0 0
profile picture
Bateman
Posts: 8593 - Karma: 8,600
i copped a pair last summer
Jun 19 2012 3:45PM
0 0
profile picture
theline
Posts: 1507 - Karma: 92
keepin it classy
Click for larger image
Jun 19 2012 3:48PM
0 0
profile picture
KEVTRON
Posts: 3545 - Karma: 1,222
lmfao, was not expecting that to be the shoe.
Jun 19 2012 3:49PM
0 0
profile picture
KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
its absurd people honestly still care about this racist bull shit. Im going to say it. Blacks are the most racist people out there. Everything has to do with slavery , etc. Get over it. While this shoe is kinda fucked up a little bit, there are obviously people out there who wanted them. And the fact that blacks thought this shoe was to racist to be released is rediculous. Slavery is long over, and blacks have equal rights. There is no reason this shoe shouldnt be released
Jun 19 2012 3:50PM
0 0
profile picture
GayWolf420
Posts: 37517 - Karma: 121,409
I wouldn't care about the fact they are deemed "racist" by some people, I just couldn't stand having those on my ankles all day. Shit would get irritating.
Jun 19 2012 3:52PM
0 0
profile picture
theline
Posts: 1507 - Karma: 92
Click for larger image
Jun 19 2012 3:53PM
0 0
profile picture
KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
thats an entire different issue in itself and when you think about it is strictly a personal issue. All i was saying is how these were cancelled because the black community thought they were "racist"
Jun 19 2012 3:54PM
0 0
profile picture
.Hugo.
Posts: 17360 - Karma: 28,488
I agree with you 100%.

But Adidas didn't really help it's cause by calling it the "Amistad"
Jun 19 2012 3:56PM
0 0
profile picture
SpaghettiWizard
Posts: 2825 - Karma: 166
Meh this kindof. You are sort of contradicting yourself when you say "the blacks" though.
Jun 19 2012 3:58PM
0 0
profile picture
Trench_Rats
Posts: 26 - Karma: 9
Click for larger image
Jun 19 2012 3:59PM
0 0
profile picture
Big_Spence
Posts: 16177 - Karma: 4,352
Click for larger image
Jun 19 2012 4:00PM
0 0
profile picture
Nathn
Posts: 2408 - Karma: 63
Lol, you're a huge idiot.




"Everything has to do with slavery, get over it"


Jun 19 2012 4:01PM
0 0
profile picture
Puzzled
Posts: 4267 - Karma: 4,448
Word.
I have trouble understanding why someone would wear such shoes, but the whole comparison with 200 years of slavery is plain stupid. Oh look some cuffs, must be racist, only black people wore cuffs. Ironic?
Jun 19 2012 4:03PM
0 0
profile picture
Ski_the_east01
Posts: 5203 - Karma: 2,306
I agree with most of what you said, but disagree with the way you said it.

I hate hearing the excuse "oh my great great great great great grandfather was a slave worked his whole life without getting paid"

well now millions of african americans get paid without working. You're life isn't bad because of something that happened a few hundred years ago, stop making fucking excuses
Jun 19 2012 4:03PM
0 0
profile picture
Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
I see these more as a metaphor for being a slave to consumerism. As in, people are going to pay tons of money for these ugly shoes just because they are tons of money. But they're called the Amistads, so I don't know what Adidas is trying to accomplish here.
Jun 19 2012 4:04PM
0 0
profile picture
bdarb207
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 438
The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by our Constitution is offensive, appalling and insensitive... Yeah because that's what hey meant to do. Give me a fuckjng break. Go looking for racism and you'll find it easy as that.
Jun 19 2012 4:04PM
0 0
profile picture
SpaghettiWizard
Posts: 2825 - Karma: 166
Thats definitely not what it was but ok.
Jun 19 2012 4:05PM
0 0
profile picture
Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
That's just what I see at first glance, not some african american slavery bs.
Jun 19 2012 4:07PM
0 0
profile picture
scratchproteen
Posts: 5173 - Karma: 286
Fuck people these days....why does everyone get so butthurt over the smallest things, man the fuck up...when did everyone in the world chop their nuts off and grow pussies, fucking pathetic.
Jun 19 2012 4:07PM
0 0
profile picture
.Hugo.
Posts: 17360 - Karma: 28,488
See this is something that I hate. It's fine to call white people whites or white people, but as soon as you say blacks or black people everyone jumps all over you saying it's racist or disrespectful.
Jun 19 2012 4:07PM
0 0
profile picture
Ski_the_east01
Posts: 5203 - Karma: 2,306
Pussification of America, this country is full of people softer than baby shit

sad, sad state of affairs...
Jun 19 2012 4:09PM
0 0
profile picture
SpaghettiWizard
Posts: 2825 - Karma: 166
Call them black I don't care. But "the blacks" "the whites" etc just sounds stupid. And fuck the stupids.
Jun 19 2012 4:10PM
0 0
profile picture
Lolocaust.
Posts: 1716 - Karma: 512
Click for larger image

Jun 19 2012 4:14PM
0 0
profile picture
iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
"Wow obviously there was no one of color in the room when the marketing/product team ok'd this," said a commenter, identifying herself as MsRodwell on nicekicks.com."

a. not all of adidas market is the US
b. not all slaves are black, or even of color.
c. whores wear shackles now-a-days, not slaves
d. WHO THE FUCK WAS A SLAVE AND IS STILL ALIVE.

MAKE THE FUCKING SHOE AND STOP BEING SO DAMN SENSITIVE BECAUSE YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WORKED A COTTON FIELD.
Jun 19 2012 5:22PM
0 0
profile picture
Flying~Squirrel
Posts: 6494 - Karma: 192
came here to post this exactly. pasting it for emphasis because i can.

"Wow obviously there was no one of color in the room when the marketing/product team ok'd this," said a commenter, identifying herself as MsRodwell on nicekicks.com.

what. a. bunch. of. idiots. are there not more important things these people could be talking about?
Jun 19 2012 5:25PM
0 0
profile picture
Dr.Gonzo
Posts: 2552 - Karma: 87
The handjob of cereals.
Jun 19 2012 5:27PM
0 0
profile picture
bdarb207
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 438
Not while Jesse Jackson is still alive. That guy by trade is a professional hater. He's more racist then any white person I know.
Jun 19 2012 5:37PM
0 0
profile picture
AWALLRUS.
Posts: 5762 - Karma: 223
HAHAHAHA those are hillarious. I saw the picture and was going to post a black joke in this thread, then I read on and realized that was the whole controversy.

people are so fucking sensitive.

even though they are
-purple/orange
-look like basketball shoes
-velcrow
Jun 19 2012 5:42PM
0 0
profile picture
Hatsnballs
Posts: 836 - Karma: 2,159
Seriously just by stating something like this is racist. It's these kinda people who keep stereotypes alive because they try to tiptoe around it.

oh and rhianna fuckin loves these sneakers... she's black
raceptsism?

Jun 19 2012 5:49PM
0 0
profile picture
bdarb207
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 438
So much this^. Somewhat related, my ammamateur this year just changed from the redskins to the Spartans because native Americans were upset. When I was there years back we were the resskins but couldn't put the logo on anything at all. Gyms, t shirts athletic stuff nothing. In the newspaper they just referred to us as Sanford. We joked we were the fighting "S" because that's all that went on anything. Thoughts?
Jun 19 2012 5:55PM
0 0
profile picture
Hatsnballs
Posts: 836 - Karma: 2,159
well my highschool, we're the braves, and i guess that's not racist
Jun 19 2012 6:01PM
0 0
profile picture
AWALLRUS.
Posts: 5762 - Karma: 223
if your logo was the same as the actual redskins then it's kind of racist.
but I don't see why redskins is an offensive name for a team, shouldn't the natives be proud that someone is using that name? (they are not actually redskins, they're native americans, according to them)

usually school team names are supposed to be somewhat intimidating and whatnot (ie. lions, bears, spartans, warriors) so why would they be offended?

I'd be proud if some school's team name was the _____ whiteboys and the mascot was like, jerry springer or something. but who cares what white people think, it's all about the minorities. attention whores.
Jun 19 2012 6:01PM
0 0
profile picture
KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
racism while still a little prevalent in the white race.....is so prevalent in minorities. I feel that racism exists 95% because minorities make a huge deal out of it
Jun 19 2012 6:20PM
0 0
profile picture
Phil-X-
Posts: 7205 - Karma: 14,399
THIS JUST IN!

Blacks are the only people who have ever been enslaved or schackled!
Jun 19 2012 6:37PM
0 0
profile picture
Davy.Crockett
Posts: 5373 - Karma: 324
well now a pair will be worth 1000s, because they were never released. nice move adidas
Jun 19 2012 6:48PM
0 0
profile picture
Phil-X-
Posts: 7205 - Karma: 14,399
shackled
Jun 19 2012 6:50PM
0 0
profile picture
Amadeus.
Posts: 3050 - Karma: 382
Slavery is long over, but the subjugation and oppression of blacks is still really prominent in America. I definitely think its a stretch to deem these shoes racists, but its not ridiculous that people would be pissed about it.

It is hard for us white people to imagine the emotional and psychological impact of being black in America. Not to mention that even though slavery happened over 150-200 years ago, blacks didn't fully become equal citizens until the civil rights act of 1964. The impact on blacks financially was immense and slavery as well as jim crowe discrimination really stunted the growth of African American s, and has had serious long term effects on the black community.

Also its not just african americans, it effects anyone who has been enslaved or groups of people who have been enslave before.

It seems like you think the shoes are okay because slavery and black oppression happened so long ago and now blacks are equal. So would you be okay and support a shoe that had a swastika on it (red black and white)? A swastika doesnt necessarily connote the Nazis because it is a popular hindu symbol. Or how about apparel with the thunderbird logo on it? Seems like it has just as equal footing in your view as shackles.
Jun 19 2012 7:08PM
0 0
profile picture
ORDEAL
Posts: 6386 - Karma: 75
leave and never ever come back
Jun 19 2012 7:12PM
0 0
profile picture
AWALLRUS.
Posts: 5762 - Karma: 223
adidas is german. this has nothing to do with your american history lesson.
Jun 19 2012 7:12PM
0 0
profile picture
Amadeus.
Posts: 3050 - Karma: 382
Oh i forgot they don't sell shoes in America my bad, and its not like african americans in America were getting pissed off about it either. sorry dude.
Jun 19 2012 7:17PM
0 0
profile picture
AWALLRUS.
Posts: 5762 - Karma: 223
maybe they should fuck off and just not buy adidas.
Jun 19 2012 7:40PM
0 0
profile picture
SpaghettiWizard
Posts: 2825 - Karma: 166
Shmaybe shnu shud shnuck shnoff shand shnust shnot shny shaninas.
Jun 19 2012 7:55PM
0 0
profile picture
Dragonite.
Posts: 1657 - Karma: 431
Who the Flying~Squirrel fuck would ever buy those..
Jun 19 2012 7:57PM
0 0
profile picture
Nathn
Posts: 2408 - Karma: 63
I usually expect more intelligent responses on NS



This thread makes me feel terrible as a person and I'm white.




Get over slavery because it was your great great grandfather and not you? Just deal with slavery? Are you fucking joking me?




Let's forget about 9/11 too while we're at it, get over it.




Fuck you^^^^




You should know if I'm talking about you or not.
Jun 22 2012 4:07AM
0 0
profile picture
Nathn
Posts: 2408 - Karma: 63
You are an ignorant spoiled piece of shit
Jun 22 2012 4:13AM
0 0
profile picture
ChocolateMilk.
Posts: 1129 - Karma: 220
Should i hate every Japanese too because they attacked pearl harbor?
Shut the fuck up clearly a large company didn't make these shoes to be racist while I'm sure a large portion of their costumer base is African American.
Your unintelligent scum.
/rant.
Jun 22 2012 8:08AM
0 0
profile picture
Relish_man
Posts: 5386 - Karma: 551
Fuck, people are such little bitches nowadays.
Jun 22 2012 8:44AM
0 0
profile picture
Ski_Alot
Posts: 5900 - Karma: 3,658
wait so is more of the outcry about them being racist or how incredibly hideous they are
Jun 22 2012 10:20AM
0 0
profile picture
deleted2
Posts: 958 - Karma: 107
So you're saying that since i'm Jewish, I should protest any Adidas Shoe that is black, white, and red? Just because it's a German brand and those were the Nazi colors? Or I should be offended by these shoes because we were enslaved by the Egyptians long before the African Americans were enslaved by the Europeans and Americans?
Jun 22 2012 10:25AM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)