The Nike-owned brand Converse put up an ad that some social media Threads users claimed recalled Klan imagery. Threads is a competitor to X that caters to the loony left.
People on Threads were actually angry about the Chuck 70X sneaker ad. Does anyone really believe Converse would post a KKK ad? To some on the left, it’s 1964 or maybe even 1864. There is so much hate aimed at the wrong people.
The advert featured Converse’s new global ambassador, Karina from the K-pop group aespa-currently on a world tour. Karina’s long white skirt coupled with the shoes she’s holding allegedly evokes for some the image of a Klansman standing next to the victim of a lynching.
The ad is 100% innocuous.
The skirt that they think looks like a KKK head covering has a light on it to provide background for the sneakers she’s holding.
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown wrote on Threads: “That’s a lynching, yes?”
Civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt was also enraged. He wants to keep the past alive.
The brand had to apologize for doing nothing wrong, of course. “We’re sorry,” they lamented. “We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong. We removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared. This should not have happened, and we will do better.”
The online rage machine took over and went bonkers on a Danish brand called Palmes, which showed clean-cut young boys hanging sneakers in a tree. I guess you can’t hang anything in a tree because from 150 to 80 years ago evil Southern Democrats lynched nearly 4,000 black people. The latest trend in the United States is to smear all white people today as white supremacists.
One social media user posted both ads side by side and wrote, “There is NO REASON why WE should see an advertisement & immediately think of Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday.”
Others on social media feel the outrage is overblown, with one Threads user comparing it to the backlash that led to Pepsi’s July apology for its Wild Cherry post: “everyone is insane.”
I have race rage fatigue, and crazy Democrat fatigue. I haven’t recovered from the nonsense that ensued over the Pepsi and Sydney Sweeney ads. People have gone mad.