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Adidas and Beverly Hills designer Jeremy Scott thought they were pushing shoe design forward with their new ”JS Roundhouse Mid” sneaker that comes with a set of plastic shackles attached.The shoe was to come out in August with the tag line: “Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?”

Needless to say, Adidas announced Monday night that it has pulled the shoe amid immediate fury from critics who say the shackle sneaker calls up painful images of slavery. On Twitter, the shoes were labeled “Adidas slave shackle kicks” and talk of a boycott arose. “Our ancestors fought blood, sweat and tears just so fools can turn pain into an accessory?” said one post on the shoe’s Facebook page. Another urged: “these should be taken off the market.”

Via Twitter, another wrote: “any designer that’s nostalgic for slavery will Never have my support.”

Early Monday, an Adidas representative defended the design in a statement to the Los Angeles Times: “The design … is nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott’s outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery.”