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Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:47 pm
by Joe Guy
(They come in beige too)
Shoes pulled from Katy Perry line after blackface criticism
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katy Perry's fashion line has pulled two types of shoes after some people compared them to blackface.
The Ora Face Block Heel and Rue Face Slip-On Loafers were released last summer in nine different colors. They included protruding eyes, nose and red lips.
In a statement released Tuesday by the singer and company, they said the shoes were "envisioned as a nod to modern art and surrealism." The singer says she was saddened when she learned they were being compared to blackface and were "immediately removed" from the company's website.
Perry's is the latest company to withdraw products after they were compared to blackface. Gucci took a sweater off the market last week and Prada removed a series of accessories that resembled black monkeys with red lips in December.
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Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:19 pm
by Lord Jim
I was
really hoping this one was satire, but alas...
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:28 pm
by Long Run
Plantar racitis?
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:53 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
I would have thought perhaps "planters"?
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:29 pm
by BoSoxGal
Lord Jim wrote:I was
really hoping this one was satire, but alas...
Which part?
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:24 pm
by Lord Jim
All of it...
The shoes themselves look so ridiculous I thought they might also be put-on...
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:31 pm
by Big RR
Is the one on the right a men's shoe?
Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:11 pm
by RayThom
Big RR wrote:Is the one on the right a men's shoe?
For a "sole man," maybe?
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:16 pm
by Joe Guy
Big RR wrote:Is the one on the right a men's shoe?
Only if you're a little light in the loafers.
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:21 pm
by Lord Jim
a racist misogynistic old white guy
You forgot homophobic...
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:26 pm
by Joe Guy
Dammit! I forgot that one!
Thanks Jim, I always seem to leave out at least one of my many hateful attributes. It's a good thing you're around.
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:18 pm
by Big RR
I have no position the sexual orientation of the shoe, but I also have no desire to wear a shoe that stares at me.
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:00 am
by rubato
In another week they would be charged with looking up women's skirts.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:14 am
by BoSoxGal
Prada recently pulled a $500 keychain from the market for the same reasons - that apparently some folks out walking around in this world both wearing and observing fashion were able to make the VERY OBVIOUS connection between the design of the keychain (or shoes, or sweater) and the long-standing Little Black Sambo caricature used to humiliate black people for many decades.
But yeah, we’re jusy whiny libruhl snowflakes.
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:21 am
by BoSoxGal
By the way, it’s not like the high fashion industry doesn’t show other signs of having a potential racism problem.
https://gawker.com/fashions-elite-got-g ... 1453039552
Nothing offensive here! Just celebrating black culture!
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:45 am
by Joe Guy
Is this racist?
Re: Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:50 am
by Bicycle Bill
BoSoxGal wrote:Prada recently pulled a $500 keychain from the market for the same reasons - that apparently some folks out walking around in this world both wearing and observing fashion were able to make the VERY OBVIOUS connection between the design of the keychain (or shoes, or sweater) and the long-standing Little Black Sambo caricature used to humiliate black people for many decades.
In my not-so-humble opinion, anybody who is idiot enough to pay $500 for a keychain, no matter who makes it, what it's made of, or whatinthehell it shows, has already demonstrated that they lack the mental acuity to make a connection to ANYTHING.
-"BB"-