Puma will launch a couple Suede models contributed to Tommie Smith, who won the 200 Meter at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Tommie Smith teammate John Carlos, took bronze.
The Puma Suede Tommie Smith Pack contains a Red color scheme, while the other is a dominate Black. All over print of the fist raised in the sky, which represented the Black Power Movement, and finished with Gold accents for the place Smith took. Releasing August 2008, via st.
those are some nice pumas
I like em, not much of a puma fan though
cool
ohh man i like these oh baby deeper yeah i love these their red like my corvette
Power 2 Da People!
i like i just wish maybe the toebox was left without the print.
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All suedes are pretty decent.
Are these racist kicks? I like em but not feeling the pumped fist in the air since Im no Black Panther.
racism and sneakers….a match made in heaven.
Or…a chinese sweat shop.
god damn y'all are Americans and you know so little? Why the Black Panther reference? A Black Fist IS NOT the exclusive trademark of the Black Panther movement, It simply meant Black solidarity in the face of the OVERWHELMING, Prevalent White Racism of the time (1968 remember not long ago when Black Americans were still fighting to be recognized as human beings). Anyway read up on Tommie Smith and John Carlos and maybe y'all learn the significnce of the fist.
Very difficult not to make the Black Panther connection when Tommie Smith was interviewed at Beijing with a Puma hat on, which has a giant black Panther on it…not sure there are too many black Pumas. Seems like a convenient brand name and logo for his cause, especially when its black in color. Probably related to 40th anniversary of the infamous gesture. Puma needs to rethink their associations. Wow…I thought we Americans had gotten past all that.