Fred Steven Bortner sent a message to Herbert Hainer that said:
Mr Rorsted, while you have $20 million to donate to black causes, Adidas continues to be a well documented sweatshop company with a history of poor treatment to Asian workers and even child labor. If you want to help black people, replace the Asian sweatshops overseas with factories in the inner cities like NYC, LA, ATL,, Chicago. I know I will not hear from Adidas because you are hypocrites and I will never purchase one of your sweatshop made products.