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being black and all i would never purchase anything that says slave on it.
Not all slaves are or were black obviously. But how fucking dumb do you have to be to realize they mean slave to society and shit? Its not that hard. Open your minds and stop nit picking. You guys are giving yourselves ulcers over the dumbest stuff. If puelo or ricky started a company called slave you guys would be like "man thats so sick, it has such a sick east coast vibe, by slave they mean slave to wallstreet". If someone came into our local shop with some of the kookiest and unreasonable shit you guys say, you'd be laughed out of the shop.
ok my mom is all super rasta and stuff and suppose i show up with a slave shirt that says slave all of over it my mom would look at me like completely regular and bitch a me about white people and so on and tell me how its glorifying slavery ..im pretty sure any other black mom would say the same shit. and where did this east coast shit come in it wouldnt matter who came up with a name i personally would still think the same about
I hear what you're saying, and in my opinion, that's what makes Slave cool, it's controversial and not for everybody. That will make the few people that do like it, like it that much more. But, you could go the 'black power' route and tell your mom you're wearing it because you're pissed that the black man is a slave to the white devil...and this how you deal with it. By provoking thought.
I actually really like the design/artistic direction of $lave, but i would honestly feel weird rockin' a shirt that said "$lave" on it, despite it being clear, at least to me, that it's not referencing black slavery, but because some more ignorant people wouldn't understand the message, and when seeing it would assume i think i feel like i'm a "slave" when they'd most probably say that i have "no idea what it's like being a slave." oh well, i don't have money for skate clothes anyway. rent rules... speaking of which, jamie, want to hook up a SLAP brother with a job?