The Chinese laborors will will be so happy to know their hard work is appreciated. 

A hugh disproportion between desire and value in America.  We should try to fix that.

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Cue racist trolling in 5, 4, 3, 2…

seriously, this board will have 300 comments by the end of the day.  Are you not entertained??

Maybe we can get DC to write some laws…  that should fix it.  

Why the limit? You must imagine it matches my own. I reside at a considerable distance beyond.

What does race have to do with this? Why would there be any racism related to this story?

Kind of boring for a “riot”.

 agreed, so this will be your only comment on this board then?

No, I’m going to ask why you expected racist comments again.

Mad rush for $220 shoes? Those damned 1%ers!

Is it racist to state the facts? I knew exactly who was involved in this story the moment I read “riot” and “Nikes” in the headline. It happens so often it’s almost cliched at this point to even point it out.

What is “1%ers” substituting for?

 Nothing.

Do you really think that this is representative of desire vs value? Well maybe, but for me it is more representative of misplaced values caused by societal conditions that leave people lost and searching…  what do they find to be the next big thing in their lives, Athletic Shoes? Really?  We have so disrupted the fundamentals of our society from education to career opportunity, from spirituality, to a vision of the future, that this is what we are left with…  This is not a reflection of the folks who showed up at the mall so much as it is of the society in which they live.  We have been so industrious in our efforts to fix everything, that we are now so constrained that we fail in most of those institutions that been the target of our greatest efforts, one need not look further than education in this country. 

Idiots!

Of course…

You must be from the farm if you think a $200 shoe is expensivee to upper middle class, working class (who saves), or average middle class, let alone a 1%. If you want something, and the price isn’t unreasonable beyond your means, you’d save for it. But to think $220 shoe is for rich peole is just dumb. You need to go out more.

What do you pay for socks ? ( in American money)

People who pay over $200 for sneakers have either money to burn or rocks in their heads.

How does it feel to have lower comprehension than skyfet? What gave you the idea that “1%ers” was a substitute for something?

Wow, I agree completely with Pablo on something, there is first time for everything. If you feel a shoe is worth $200 and worth rioting for, there is something very wrong with you and your life.

If you are spending $200 on a pair of shoes then you have no right to ask the government for a welfare check that the taxpayers pay for!

You deserve more credit than I was willing to advance. My error in this case.

You deserve more credit than I was willing to advance. My error in this case.

Skyfet doesn’t wear socks.

Were the Occupy Orlando’ers taking a break from protesting ?

 Actually, it seems you were reading something into my comment that wasn’t there. What was it?

 What does that have to do with this story?

@DoNotMindMe:disqus  is assuming that since most of the people in this video are African American, this means they must be on welfare.

Nope, I believe that anyone who riots over shoes is on the lower end of the socio-economic and education level. Has nothing to do with race.

We are the bandaid culture. We fix nothing beyond giving it a nice gloss before we turn away from the issue forever. We are a consumer culture that is high on vanity, high on material objects and low on morality, decency, and civility. We are a failing culture. Both the right (worship of wealth, homo/xenophobia) and the left (cynicism, relativism) have hurt us in ways only scholars digging thru the debris will understand hundreds of years from now. 

Rocks in their heads…..

TNB

This is what is wrong in America today.  It’s called materialism.  We think we are defined by the things we own.  That’s why Mom and Dad are both working outside the home and our children  are in daycare being raised by people who don’t love them.  We all want to be rich.  Our heroes are those athletes who make a lot of money and spend it in wasteful ways.  That’s why we have cadillacs sitting in front of hovels.  200.00 shoes on poor peoples feet.  We don’t understand the best things in life are free.  Fresh air, sunshine, and even rain.  How about love, especially if it comes from our children.

I wouldn’t pay $200 for a pair of shoes between $60 & $130 for a pair of shoes is reasonable.

Why did my comment get deleted, Mediaite? 

I’ve purchased hiking boots specifically to climb volcanoes and never spent more than $60 dollars. This is about being cool and nothing else. They will not actually do anything while wearing these shoes.

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I agree, in part, with those giving sociological reasons for this crap.  But the fact remains that these people still bear the responsibility for their actions.  Denying that its got an obvious racial valence is BS.  Where are the Revs Jackson and Sharpton when the black community needs some real leadership?

Meanwhile the bookstore next door had crickets chirping and haunted house spider webs from lack of interest. If there actually were any bookstores in crappy neighborhoods they could leave the front doors wide open over night without fear of robbery. That would change were someone to publish “Lord of the Knuckle-Rings” or “The Ebonics Patient.”

The Obama voters doing what they do best! always calling conservatives names and trying to say they are dumb because we want less spending and government…yet liberals they riot over stupid shoes! This shows what liberals really find important.

I’ve had two exchanges deleted from this thread. In both cases, they were progressives who were expecting to find racism here, both of them having immediately noticed that the mob is predominately black. Neither Just Some Blow Hard or Greg wanted to come out and say it, though. So I kept asking them what they were getting at, and those conversations went bye-bye. And they didn’t go away in the normal “comment deleted” fashion, they were disappeared altogether.

They were inconvenient, apparently.

They’re busy calling people racist.

I brought it up because of the last thread that dealt with this…

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-gotta-be-the-shoes-astounding-footage-of-indianapolis-air-jordan-stampede/

There were a lot of racist trolling on that story.  Also look at the comments just blow these (if you do oldest first) and you will find what I was talking about.

As for the comments disappearing,  apparently my retort to a conservative calling for a certain news person to be shunned was mistaken as the point said conservative was trying to make.  I also called out a moderator on an edit and pointed them to this board.  My old account was banned.  But I stand by my statement that racist trolling takes place here.  Whether for lulz or a deep seated hatred is anyone’s guess.

I would say I’m surprised Mediaite did this … but I’m not. 

Make Nikes FRRRREEEEEEEEEE!

Interesting link.  But I think a more apt title would be “It’s Gotta Be the Culture.”  Or rather, sub-culture.  There is plainly a sector of the black population that believes it is OK to do this kind of thing, that obeying laws and going to work is for somebody else, that The Man owes them a living.  And who can blame them?  It’s all they hear from the media, from demogogues like Jackson/Sharpton, and from apologists like Just Another Blowhard.  They may get their god damn shoes, but they lose out in the long run.  The whole country does.  This isn’t race trolling, it’s common sense.  Sadly, anyone with enough genuine respect/concern for the black community to actually acknowledge this problem is shouted down as a racist or an Uncle Tom.

I wouldn’t be so quick to judge these people: I have it on good authority that not only wasn’t this their fault but was almost certainly the fault of people somewhere else entirely who were swimming in a sea of “privilege.”

What exactly comprises “Good Authority?”  Your left-leaning sociology professor?  Van Jones?  A discussion panel from the PBS News Hour?  Your comment illustrates my point exactly…”The poor and disenfranchised are finally rising up as one and slipping the chains of their oppressors (who are inevitably white, well-educated, and rich).”  What a load of delusional BS.   It’s a bunch of kids, raised on entitlements, threatening violence for SHOES.  Not because they need them for their cold, bare feet, but because the current Thug of the Month wears them.  How can anybody seriously defend this behavior? Funny how we never see them gathered together and demanding jobs.

It’s the same stuff when whitefolks shop for IPADs, iphones, etc…..

Bullshit.  There is a difference between color-blind and just blind.  Look around…

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1597887/pg1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBExloL9y8

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-boyce…/flash-mobs_b_928930.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/…/mayor-talks-tough-to-black-teens-after.