I just got their e-mail with that racist picture... Wonder if they knew that they were being racist using that picture.
It was a picture of 3 passed out bums rockin Nikes and the email said something to the effect of that there were people camping out already for the store opening. I can't imagine it being considered "racist" except to those drinking the PC kool-aid who have no sense of humor. GET SOME FRESH AIR!
I dont know meyn... I dont mean to sound like a lil B but I was a bit offended and im not even black (or a bum) For some reason I see the pic and I can imagine them saying before they sent the email "Should I do it, Should I do it... this is going to be great... thats how these lil uckers be outside of our store" Like maybe thats their preception of some of yall while yall giving them yall hard earn money. Maybe I thought into it too hard - but I dont think I did since I thought all this as soon as I seen the pics. I have a sense of humor... but its something about it...
I thought the pic was a tad offensive too. Not racist...but offensive. It's not really cool to poke fun or expose the "bums" that MAY in fact be homeless...on drugs...or out of work. TEAMI DON'T NEED ONENiketalk's One Man Graphics Shop.www.omaaro.com
Interesting. Getting your money is what counts, not being socially responsible. I doubt this will hurt any sales. Beast will be beast. The customer service treatment at FlightClub and Supreme--and kids just sit there and take it--is one of many examples... The DREAM TEAM -- "We RESPECT reality... We don't live internet lives..." 'TeePeso,' 'Ryan8478,' 'DCShoeDon,' 'JaywhYeNeX,' 'Importking,' 'DCshoechick,' 'ScottScotch,' 'rudolph1996'
^I don't recall Flight Club or Supreme doin anything that would be considered "culturally insensitive." Even though I'm originally from NY, I know that DC has suffered the image from being "Murder Capitol" and a place where you see mad bums. Conservatives and closet racist folks have always used that image as an example of inner city gone wrong. In the last 12 years that I lived in the city, I've seen so many neighborhoods get gentrified, and "well meaning" transplants that come in with their closet racist mindset and try to transform my adopted hometown. These folks make fun of the homeless, and displaced Black folks, and complain about Black church parishoners double-parking in "their" neighborhoods on Sundays. Where was Elite or anyone else when 14th & U or Logan Circle was considered dangerous to melanin deficient folks? Make fun of the hood you come into, and see what the hood can do to you. No amount of alarms or bars on the window can protect you when you are still right around the cut.
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"Chad Woods," You have spoken nothing but the truth. Excellent read. You going into some serious issues that all from/in D.C. can relate to, from the gentrification to other aspects. But, just like the Cwealth t-shirt of MLK (just another example), these stores rarely even think as deep as you posted. It's just "cool" to do. Which again, is irresponsible IMO, but who cares about responsibility? Its all about $, power, respect. By any means necessary Reason I'm chilling........................ The DREAM TEAM -- "We RESPECT reality... We don't live internet lives..." 'TeePeso,' 'Ryan8478,' 'DCShoeDon,' 'JaywhYeNeX,' 'Importking,' 'DCshoechick,' 'ScottScotch,' 'rudolph1996'
You gotta look at the bigger overall picture. Murder rate or crime didn't decrease. It shifted over to P.G.
"JordanFiend85," I don't think he can make his point any clearer, from recent history alone. A Ruby Tuesdays just a few blocks from 14th and Columbia? 14th and Clifton ain't even a "hood" for real anymore? There is a spot I CAN'T even afford near 14th and Florida now? If THAT ain't mind openers, historicially alone in Uptown, smfh! Either way, if you were in a seminar, with just that picture posted, and ask a diverse round table what it meant... I think the answers would justify that picture being in bad taste for Palace5ive. But again, like a "store" is suppose to care....... A hypebeast would think its cool and funny, thus, mission accomplished.The DREAM TEAM -- "We RESPECT reality... We don't live internet lives..." 'TeePeso,' 'Ryan8478,' 'DCShoeDon,' 'JaywhYeNeX,' 'Importking,' 'DCshoechick,' 'ScottScotch,' 'rudolph1996'
Damn Chad you woke up speaking the TRUTH this morning! I thought I was the only one that sees this @#%$. Keep it coming
i think lavan summed it up. coming from an owner outside of the culture depicted, that was jie low. if it was staged? even lower. hell. we know bums will do anything for a buck, but to expose them via email to your customers in "light" of an opening was beyond disbelief. no need to expand. good luck to them. union square is a good piece of property... busboys & poets was the first to make its way uptown (north of U street) and they are beyond successful.
...I was leavin' my boys house yesterday (who lives on the southside) and they are building LUXURY TOWNHOUSE that start at the HIGH 300s at an intersect near Stanton Road. Like Kev said...murder rate hasn't decreased...it just shifted. But what happens is this... If you force people out of their hoods and cram them into low-rent areas where most of them have little or nothing to claim as "theirs"...what do you expect. There are some LUXURY CONDOS across the street from McKinley tech on R Street that cost $575k... I won't even go back to the MLK C'MON shirt...Kev describe it pretty well. JordanFiend85, this is America...everywhere you go has some danger. Last year...one of my friends was shot in the head...in his room...in his basement. So, technically...you don't even have to LEAVE the house these days. TEAM I DON'T NEED ONENiketalk's One Man Graphics Shop. www.omaaro.com
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Just a question: How many people on here really... genuinely... are concerned with homelesness? Seems to me the problem with the pic centers around its use for commercial gain.