Adidas cancels 'shackle' shoes after outcry - CNN.com
(CNN) -- German sports apparel maker Adidas has withdrawn its plans to sell a controversial sneaker featuring affixed rubber shackles after the company generated significant criticism when advertising the shoe on its Facebook page.
The high-top sneakers, dubbed the JS Roundhouse Mids, were expected to be released in August, according to the Adidas Originals Facebook page. "Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?" a caption below a photo of the sneakers read.
The June 14 post prompted plenty of criticism from around the Web, with many [...]
Ya know, it's probably a condition of my ethnicity that I thought these were part of the 'prison chic' fad, never even considered a tie to slavery until I read about the hullabaloo around 'em. Not that it'd be any less of a concern if kids are idolizing ex-cons, but that's also not surprising, considering that we glorify a lifestyle of 'going bad', then 'turning good' (rather than, ya know, the less bumpy and more productive, but harder to exalt in our current social climate, choice of just doin' the right thing and tryin' to stay outta trouble :D ).
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