Adidas has decided not to sell this particular shoe design after a photo of it on their Facebook page generated quite a negative response.
“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,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a statement Monday…The man behind the design responded days after the controversy broke. Jeremy Scott said it was never his intention to provoke that kind of response. His design, he said on Twitter, was inspired by a childhood toy.
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