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Adidas under fire for unveiling new trainer with orange 'shackles' like those worn by black
• By Daily Mail ReporterAdidas has come under fire for creating a pair of trainers with ‘shackles’.
Critics have compared the ‘JS Roundhouse Mids’, to be released in August, to the chains worn by black slaves in the 19th century.
The firm unveiled the trainers on its Facebook page. They feature plastic orange ‘shackles’ attached to the ankles by chains in the same colour.
Dr Boyce Watkins, writing for Your Black World, said: 'Shackles. The stuff that our ancestors wore for 400 years while experiencing the most horrific atrocities imaginable.
1 Comments in Response to Adidas under fire for unveiling new trainer with orange 'shackles' like those worn by black
then don't buy it, if your so "offended". It is called a free market. I don't doubt that very little thought went into the product. But I also doubt they meant to "offend" any buyers in their market.