Addidas promotes enslavement trainers

Run_to_da_hills

A few months ago it was the Nike Black & Tan runners that was causing a stir among the Irish community. Addidas has now seemingly pis**ed off black community with the launch of their new range of shackle sneakers.

There is also the more sinister side of all this, a multinational corporate that has an interest in the London 2012 Olympic Games is coming out with a pair of runners that is quite symbolic of the elite agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf51X7-v_PE

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/adidas-sparks-outrage-shackle-sneakers-article-1.1097658

moneymad

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A few months ago it was the Nike Black & Tan runners that was causing a stir among the Irish community. Addidas has now seemingly pis**ed off black community with the launch of their new range of shackle sneakers.

There is also the more sinister side of all this, a multinational corporate that has an interest in the London 2012 Olympic Games is coming out with a pair of runners that is quite symbolic of the elite agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf51X7-v_PE

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/adidas-sparks-outrage-shackle-sneakers-article-1.1097658

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.

By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat (70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves at this time).

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and over 300,000 were sold as slaves.

Ireland's population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were forcibly taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. Another 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia while 30,000 Irish men were sold to the highest bidder.

In 1656, Oliver Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.

African slaves were very expensive (50 Sterling), had to be transported long distances and paid for not only in Africa but in the New World. Irish slaves were cheap (no more than 5 Sterling) and most often were either kidnapped from Ireland, prisoners or forcibly removed. They could be worked to death, whipped or branded without it being a crime. Many, many times they were beat to death and while the death of an Irish slave was a monetary setback, it was far cheaper than the death of an expensive African. Therefore, African slaves were treated much better in Colonial America.

The importation of Irish slaves continued well into the eighteenth century, long after the importation of African slaves became the norm. Records state that after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia.

Irish slavery didn't end until Britain decided to end slavery in 1839 and stopped transporting slaves.

Jonny7

moneymad wrote: »

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.

By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat (70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves at this time).

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and over 300,000 were sold as slaves.

Ireland's population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were forcibly taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. Another 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia while 30,000 Irish men were sold to the highest bidder.

In 1656, Oliver Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.

African slaves were very expensive (50 Sterling), had to be transported long distances and paid for not only in Africa but in the New World. Irish slaves were cheap (no more than 5 Sterling) and most often were either kidnapped from Ireland, prisoners or forcibly removed. They could be worked to death, whipped or branded without it being a crime. Many, many times they were beat to death and while the death of an Irish slave was a monetary setback, it was far cheaper than the death of an expensive African. Therefore, African slaves were treated much better in Colonial America.

The importation of Irish slaves continued well into the eighteenth century, long after the importation of African slaves became the norm. Records state that after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia.

Irish slavery didn't end until Britain decided to end slavery in 1839 and stopped transporting slaves.

The Brits weren't the only one to take Irish slaves, some Arab and other slavers plundered from our shores, often small towns, even as late as the 17th C.

studiorat

The Barbary pirates captured Irish people in Baltimore Cork. See the Sack of Baltimore...

The Irish slave trade ran both ways, the Irish were involved in the black slave trade all along. It was accepted at the time that Africans sold into slavery by their rulers were prisoners of war, who would otherwise have been slaughtered. Thus export to the Americas offered them prolonged life in a Christian society.

Daniel O'Connell was educated by slavery. His uncle paid for his attendance to Lincons Inn and Kings Inn to become a barrister. The same uncle traded black slaves in Jamaica. At the very time young Dan was joining the abolitionists in London, his brother back in Kerry was saying he would have been ruined by falling butter prices if the West Indies market had not held up.

The slave trade was ingrained in the Irish economy of the time. Even Edmund Burke at one stage defended the British crown’s African Company which ran the British slaving forts in West Africa.

http://irishecho.com/?p=62255

Up until 1780's 'plantation goods' coming into Ireland had to come through Britain. Ireland didn't have free trade with Africa and the plantations. The "Navigation Acts" had opened up free trade to the Irish without paying English tariffs and the Irish merchants needed little encouragement.

By 1784 Limerick and Belfast had drawn up and published detailed plans for the launching of slave-trade companies. Both ports contained leading merchant families who had made fortunes in the Caribbean. Creaghs from Limerick can be found slave-trading down the century from Rhode Island, Nantes and St Eustatius, and plantation-owning on Barbados and Jamaica. In Limerick by mid-century John Roche (1688–1760) had emerged as the city’s foremost Catholic merchant, richer even than the Creaghs, supplying the West Indies with provisions, buying their sugar and rum, smuggling and privateering during wartime. A similar pattern was established by Thomas Greg and Waddell Cunningham in Belfast. Their activities in the Caribbean during the Seven Years’ War enabled them to improve port facilities at home and to establish sugar plantations in the Ceded Islands.

http://www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume15/issue3/features/?id=164

Run_to_da_hills

Adidas cancelled plans for trainers with a shackle-like ankle cuff after some critics said it too closely resembled a symbol of slavery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9340704/Adidas-cancels-shackle-trainers.html#

Monty Burnz

moneymad wrote: »

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.

The Irish slave trade started a lot earlier than that - wasn't St. Patrick captured by Irish slavers and put to work here?

studiorat

Monty Burnz wrote: »

The Irish slave trade started a lot earlier than that - wasn't St. Patrick captured by Irish slavers and put to work here?

It's more likely that he was a slave trader himself. An escaped slave like he was supposed to be wouldn't have stood a chance. His family would have owned slaves which he could have sold to fund his trip to Ireland. Which it is believed was to avoid becoming a tax collector for the Romans. This is because his father was a Roman tax collector and it was a hereditary post. During the fall of the Roman empire it would have been a risky job.

I thought the trainers had more of a punky bondage thing going on, if they actually existed and aren't a wind up.


'nanyways

moneymad wrote: »

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.

The problem with this statement is James II wasn't even born in 1625, James (a Catholic) was the guy who was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne. Where did this 1625 thing come from?

Secondly if there were 30,000 prisoners, the English wouldn't have won anything in the first place!!!

James II sent many English rebels into slavery, I don't think it it had anything to do with being specifically Irish or English. All you needed to be was on the loosing side.
Not to say that there weren't Irish slaves deported after the Flight of the Earls. But I don't think those people would have been anymore free under the O'Neill clan and the rest of the Gaelic aristocracy than they would have been under the English.

moneymad wrote: »

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and over 300,000 were sold as slaves.

I presume this is also from the same dubious source?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Confederate_Wars

William Petty, a Cromwellian who conducted the first scientific land and demographic survey of Ireland in the 1650s (the Down Survey), concluded that at least 400,000 people and maybe as many as 620,000 had died in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. The true figure may be lower, but the lowest suggested is about 200,000.

Moneyman : Do you have any reliable sources for all of these claims? Each one seems more dubious than the other.

hooradiation

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Adidas cancelled plans for trainers with a shackle-like ankle cuff after some critics said it too closely resembled a symbol of slavery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9340704/Adidas-cancels-shackle-trainers.html#

Thank fuck, they looked hideous.

kippy

I think a lot of organisations are following Ryanairs lead when it comes to marketing and advertising.
Any publicity is good publicity and there's nothing better to ensure your name stays in the media than a bit of product trolling.
Nothing else to see here.

Cookie_Monster

conspiracy or no, what did they actually expect with these? I mean really, who went out and did the marketing to say those would be a good idea at all

studiorat

Seems they were a fashion nod at the pet monster. Remember him?
Oddly enough it was the first think I thought of when I saw them.

I bet there's some ****wit out there who would find the cuddley toy offensive too.

Good pet monster...


Bad pet monster...


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