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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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.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
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"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?