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Is Supreme Racist? Creative Director Tremaine Emory Quits Over ‘Whipped Peter’ Slave Image - Page 2
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September 2, 2023
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), Emory had previously served as Ye’s brand consultant before leaving in 2018 to start his own now-popular label, Denim Tears, which eventually led to a feud with the Yeezus rapper.
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Scroll down to see what fashionable folks are saying about the situation on social media and let us know if you’re siding with Tremaine Emory or Supreme in this latest race debate.
1. Tremaine Emory: “I wanna put images of Black slaves being hung on a t-shirt.” Supreme:
via @nuffsaidny
2. slave imagery is lame anyway, anyone whose big idea is "black people in chains" should be fired
via @tylergabriel_
3. I don’t know why Tremaine Emory thinks printing images of lynched slaves on Supreme tees is radical statement against systematic racism, but we are NOT on his side with this one.
via @isthatscully
4. Tremaine Emory thought he can print black ppl getting lynched and tag a supreme logo on it
via @big_business_
5. the idea of a bunch of white kids lining up to buy a t-shirt with the image of a black man being hung is kind of crazy tbh
via @dieworkwear
6. so…tremaine emory is mad that supreme stopped him from putting images of slaves being hung and whipped on some t-shirts, so he resigned and called racism ?
via @hydingadork
7. Tremaine Emory endorsing this dogshit ‘white fragility’ book that aims to forever victimise black people and reduces complex corporate interactions to binary race issues just because Supreme cancelled a collab he was working on is very disappointing, smh.
via @agostinhozinga
8. tremaine emory just gives me fake deep.
via @sshandinx
9. “Who cooked on the lynching BOGO?” “I had it in my cart but couldnt check out in time, i copped the Emmitt Till hoodie instead”
via @Sammyveli
10. Tremaine Emory seems like a thoughtful guy on some level but he also made a hat that says late capitalism on it. His postmodern street wear has always read a little bit surface level and tbh this jafa collab sounded like more of the same but with new levels of ethical concern
via @brehevanbreh
11. Re: Tremaine Emory x Supreme — I love Arthur Jafa, but why would you select artwork depicting hung slaves and that infamous pic of Gordon & his lashings for a white brand that mostly is marketed to white kids?
via @flyrebel
12. Tremaine Emory wanted to flood Supreme with cotton picking imagery and got told no
via @nottodayyoubum
13. Tremaine Emory wanting to do that bs in Supreme is crazy knowing he was put in a position of fashion just like his mentor and squandered it just like that
via @cfisonline
14. seriously, has anyone asked Mr. Tremaine Emory what he thought was gonna happen when the collab released and a bunch of yt boys had shirts on with slaves on them?? is he well?
via @ShelbeyMonae
15. Tremaine Emory needs to let go of his ego and admit that he was doing too much. You can't expect a $1B corporation to sell clothing that has such offensive and graphic material. The brand would've been in a massive PR crisis. And their customers would've been bullied.
via @ppppp1245688
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