Thoughts on racist Converse commercial?

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lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

Haven't seen it. No idea what they were trying to sell to people with that image and it's a terrible image and terrible product. To me, it looks more like something out of the 1960's movie the omega man. Scary. Maybe Halloween is their angle? Maybe their marketers were smoking too much weed. You know how many board meetings and execs review that to run it? A lot!

Real life though... goes to show how selfish people are and how their emotions are controlled by sub conscious... this image makes people upset for obvious historical reasons... but in Texas this month, a white man in real life was murdered for no reason, his head head nearly cut off... by a dark man. No uproar is heard to examine the communty, culture. Al Sharpton is crickets [silent]. Don't care!

What grabs attention is what bothers the "heart" of emotions in the person. And murdering a white guy doesn't do it. Murdering a white woman on a train won't do it. Putting up an image that may remind them of being murdered for no reason, will do it. That's why we have some of the issues we have... black people have been trained over years to fear police, so now they flee police, police are reserved to engage for risks of issues.

Almost seems planned like someone is playing our diversity against us.

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At what point do non dark people start to be traumatized by the images of non dark people being murdered by dark crazed people, or dark latin people.

There's great marketing for you... a shoe store showing a non dark person running for their life in garbage running shoes being stabbed to death by a tall dark man in flashing spiffy $300 shoes.

Note, it's often a man that is the problem, not always...[a white woman murdered another white woman last week with a knife]. But in general, it's men. Interesting their image shows a woman next to a man.

All drama, good by converse stock price...

OneViewpoint · Accepted Answer

You really have to wonder about the intelligence of the marketing team at Converse and the creative team they signed up to build this message and imagery. Did they screen this with a test audience (s)? Did anyone in leadership at Converse, CEO, CFO, COO, VP Sales, VP Marketing get eyes on this before someone bought ad time and threw it over the wall to media outlets? I've always wanted to know how some companies spend millions on an ad campaign and end up with stupid, or in this case racist, ads that hurt their brand.

Talk about tone deaf. Does Converse have some Private Equity Harvard prodigy running the company or marketing? They sell sports shoes for craps sake. Converse is owned by Nike!

Aaron Cain is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Converse.

Key Details
Appointment: Cain took over as CEO in July 2025, succeeding Jared Carver.

Background: He is a veteran of Nike Inc. (Converse's parent company) with over 20 years of experience, previously serving as the Global Vice President and General Manager of Nike Men's.

Recent Events: Following public backlash and criticism over a global marketing campaign that critics argued evoked Ku Klux Klan and lynching imagery, Converse Drama Explained as Company Removes Ad After... Cain issued an internal memo to employees stating the images should not have been used and pledged a thorough review of the brand's internal review processes.

It would appear Aaron Cain needs to start his "thorough review" by pointing the gun at himself! This was a leadership and culture failure. Converse has refused to name the 3rd party outfit or internal team who created this ad or the internal approval process that obviously failed big time. I guess transparency and accountability stops at Converse when the leadership feels their bonuses are threatened. Sounds like American Capitalism at its best.

Julie_TS · Accepted Answer

This is just another example of people looking for / wanting to be offended by something. Clearly this is a girl/woman in a white dress/skirt (not a robe, ala KKK). Also, you can see that she's actually holding the shoes in her hand, there are are no legs/feet in these shoes she's holding that would indicate that someone was being hung (let alone any indication that a Black person is even involved). It is really just crazy anymore as to what people are offended by.

Screenwriter · Accepted Answer

I think people went over the top on the converse ad. It has to do with the lighting of the white outfit. The woman was holding the shoes in her hand. No one's feet were in the shoes. There was no KKK "hood." This is PC all gone ridiculously wrong. sigh.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

It’s not racist.
The supply of actual racism is wildly outstripped by the left’s demands for it. This is why we keep seeing cases like Jussie Smollett, Taral Patel, the SPLC literally funding hate groups, and multiple “lynching” hoaxes that have all been repeatedly debunked.
They’re not oppressed. So they have to fabricate cases of “racism” in order to keep the grift going. Despite multiple high profile cases showing that Black Lives Matter leadership was primarily concerned with enriching themselves to the tune of millions, the useful idiots on the left keep mindlessly hammering away with their nonsense.

ohsheeT · Answer

There will always be because people that are in control of this world will have their moment of Destruction and if they can put one color against another color they succeed

But if people become smarter And understand you are not your human body you are the person on the inside you are spirit you are energy And understand That your color has nothing to do with anything That's when they lose that's The elite the powerful The ones that are trying to cause chaos and take from us to make us weak Do not know who we are They will lose

So if you allow TV number one to guide you in any direction it's called brainwashing

It's called whoever made that commercial has an agenda become smarter than them stop watching TV

Billlewis · Answer

The establishment has to keep trying to find racism against minorities, to try to get them to vote against the rest of us, so they can get socialists/communists and globalists elected. But since there is very little racism today, they keep bringing up old racist acts, like lynching, to try and get Blacks up in arms, because Blacks have been leaving the Dems.

jshm2 · Answer

It was a shit ad. But he got the viral exposure... Sidney Sweeny style.

Jersey2 · Answer

Fat white Millennial feminists getting offended for the world. A black guy made the commercial and a Korean girl starred in it. Then she hold the sneakers like everyone who ever owned sneakers does but the shadow and light make it racist if you look real, real, real hard… but still no.

Lliam · Answer

I don't try to see racism in everything. That image didn't conjure images of black men hanging from trees. What makes idiots think the owner of those shoes is black or is hanging from his neck?

katiesmuff · Answer

I've never seen this commercial, but racist or not it is a horrible commercial and makes you wonder what those who develop commercials are smoking while they work. Don't really see what it is they are selling here other then extreme stupidity.

Chayce · Answer

If people are offended by that they're just overly sensitive.

AviatorTom · Answer

People can find something to complain about in everything they see, if that's what they really want to do. Personally, I prefer enjoying life, not looking for things to complain about.

Phoenix98 · Answer

I honestly don't care if I'm being honest. It's genuinely tiring hearing about people trying to find racism in literally everything and be victims in anyway possible.

fishbone77 · Answer

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of people so intent on being victims.

duntoldya · Answer

If the majority of black people thought that ad was racist, it's convinced me that they should never hold any seats in government.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Modern advertising teams seem to be kind of stupid.

Pterodon · Answer

I don’t think it’s racist at all. Stop being so fucking sensitive

Drumlin2001 · Answer

It's not racist

Anonymous · Answer

No thoughts. I don't care?

strateguy632 · Answer

such overreacting.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Where was the racist part?

Shiprex · Answer

What was racist about the ad?

DonaldDarko · Answer

KEK!

exitseven · Answer

it is really silly

832loverboy73 · Answer

A REPIGLIKKK**N? Figures !!!

In_Trance · Answer

Rage bait

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