fueled market for luxury items and the economically plasted inner cities tapping into the glow of drug and gang money, this has led to a frightening outbreak of boar plaque kids making their marks by busting fresh or dressing at the height of tag. on the one hand, that is reflecting what you said about the ways in which speakers are aspirational. on the other hand, it feels like are you kidding me? we are blaming shoes now for the violence problem? absolutely not. we all wish michael jordan would be a bit more political. or not. given his resources. or say nothing at all. he s not going to say the right. . this is nothing. i do think that this is like severe misdirection. so we know the reason we are violence in our inner cities, it isn t because kids aspire to have particular kind of shoes, it s because folks need jobs and access to good schools and housing. so what we should be thinking about is what the brands do for folks. it s sort of michael s point
invisible. trying to covet something that dprants them visibility, grants them the respect of their peers, that that s what the secor of this stefan mar berry doesn t have so much moral high ground to stand on, if he s saying they re being made in the same foktory, you are exploiting the same labor, too. for less profit, michael. part of this is to the fact that i remember as a kid watching jordan in the late 1980s, the air, it s the super hero element of it. the things the ways that he defied gravity, so those shoes gave young black men and urban kids and ton to feel they have super hero status. they can defy dpravty. they can couch u jump up in the air as you might say. i think they have been so he s having a good time. i think the bad part of it. the other. is this is also the unique influence of hip hob coupleture coming towing. right. so that this is about the way that leisure and play have
michael denzel smith. i also want to show you guy, this is what i gave my team for the holidays last year, a nice chuck taylor with nerdland imprinted on the inside, don t fight over these you can t buy these in the store. up next, martin fletcher. zplmplts.
harris-perry. yesterday, president obama traveled to roseburg, oregon, to meet privately with families of the victims of the umpqua community shooting, where nine people, plus the shooter were killed and nine more were injured last thursday when a heavily armed gunman opened fire on students in classes. ooem even as the president was preparing to depart for the pacific northwest. media outlets were reporting one student was dead and three more injured in an overnight shooting at northern arizona university in flag staff. now this arizona shooting seems to be unlike the one in on the groundful early reports suggest the shooting began as a confrontation between student groups that turn deadly, when an 18-year-old freshman produced a gun and began shooting. unlike oregon, except, one person again was dead and the weapon used to kill was a gun and then even more incredibly, before noon yesterday, came report of yet another campus shooting. one person was killed, another wounded n
righteous rage of african-american people is having a moment. it s a moment that has a long historical precedent, and it reminded the nation contributing writer, michael denzel smith, of another conspicuous display of black rage in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. george bush doesn t care about black people. in an article entitled the rebirth of black rage, smith writes, black rage announces itself in the women s convention in akron, aye and says, ain t i a woman? black rage stands before hundreds of thousands at the lincoln memorial and says, america has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. black rage says to the democratic national convention, i m sick and tired of being sick and tired. black rage says [ bleep ] the police and fight the power.