Racist Shoes Pulled After Severely Injuring Minorities

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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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I was really hoping this one was satire, but alas... :?
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Plantar racitis?

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I would have thought perhaps "planters"? :P
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Lord Jim wrote:I was really hoping this one was satire, but alas... :?
Which part?
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All of it...

The shoes themselves look so ridiculous I thought they might also be put-on...
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Is the one on the right a men's shoe?

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Big RR wrote:Is the one on the right a men's shoe?
For a "sole man," maybe?
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Big RR wrote:Is the one on the right a men's shoe?
Only if you're a little light in the loafers.

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a racist misogynistic old white guy
You forgot homophobic... :mrgreen:
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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.

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I have no position the sexual orientation of the shoe, but I also have no desire to wear a shoe that stares at me.

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In another week they would be charged with looking up women's skirts.

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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. :roll:
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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

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Nothing offensive here! Just celebrating black culture!
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Is this racist?

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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.
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