From Yahoo News:
“Homage to the Harlem Renaissance”
The company pulled the launch of the sneaker, but many were left wondering what on earth Adidas was thinking in the first place. In a statement provided to Yahoo Finance, the company said that it intended the collection, which is made up of several different sneakers and sports attire, to reflect the creativity and grandeur of the Harlem Renaissance of the early 1900s, including “footwear silhouettes which echo the colors of the jazz ballrooms so important to the era. Each detail is meant to be an homage to the art, poetry, sounds and sport of the Renaissance.”
All the shit that could be better in this world, and people get offended by the color of a fucking sneaker and rise en masse about that.