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Here is the Nike Air Jordan Retro XI that drove sneakerheads crazy when they were released Friday morning. (WWJ Photo/Pat Sweeting)

Here is the Nike Air Jordan Retro XI that drove sneakerheads crazy when they were released Friday morning. (WWJ Photo/Pat Sweeting)

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Reporting Pat Sweeting

TAYLOR (WWJ) - Hundreds of shoppers who lined up before dawn to buy one of the season’s most wanted new shoes became unruly and began forcing their way inside Taylor’s Southland Mall on Friday.

A crowd of about 100 people planning to put a pair of limited edition Nike basketball shoes under a gift tree, or on their own feet, forced open a pair of doors almost three hours before the 8 a.m. opening and stormed inside. Another 200 people were gathered outside.

Southland Security called for Taylor police, who then summoned assistance from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Southgate and Brownstown Township to restore order. Once inside, police say there was some minor interior damage to decorations and benches that were toppled over during the scuffle.

A 21-year-old Detroit man was arrested for inciting a riot. Nobody was hurt.

This isn’t the first time that Nike has done a special limited release of a popular style of sneakers. But at the Finish Line store at Southland Mall, manager Deron Mason told WWJ’s Pat Sweeting he had hundreds of customers rushing in to buy the store’s 40 pairs of Nike Air Jordan Retro XI — which cost upwards of $180.

“That shoe, you know what, it was popular then back when Jordan dropped it in ’95. It was a shoe that was popular then after he came back from retirement and it came back out five years later and it sold out again. So, it’s been 10 years since it dropped and everybody wants that shoe like it’s a culture that everybody has got to have it,” said Mason.

The shoe sold out within 20 minutes at the store and Mason said he was offered everything from several hundred dollars to the title of someone’s car just to reserve a pair for them.

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  • hooky

    Well, throw a pair of Air Jordans in front of a group of blacks is like throwing raw meat in the lion’s den. What would one expect? Get real!

  • Rick O’Shea

    I thought I saw Moochelle back in the crowd.

  • Midge Martin

    “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
    - Plato

    http://911essentials.com

  • I P Standing

    rituals of primitive cultures

  • Bahb

    Tell me, please, what in the hell is a “gift tree”? Christmas is 2 days away. Call it what it is – a CHRISTMAS TREE! And for those who think that we should be saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”, ‘holiday’ is just a shortened version of “holy day”. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

  • YepYep

    This is really sad. We should pass a law that black people are not allowed in stores during normal business hours for the sake of safety. What a bunch of animals..

  • http://www.ksbulldogs.com Patriot42

    I was taught as a youth to respect all people regardless of their color. I try to understand why these b-la-c-k-s act so hostile and seem to be easily provoked. Am I missing something?

  • Eric

    http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/not-exactly-christmas-shoes-black.html

    This doesn’t happen with white people at Apple stores trying to buy the latest iPod.

  • Major Bananorama

    To reduce widespread chimpage, store management should have had a large stock of shiney washers, baubles and mango’s to throw out into the pack to keep them amused.

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  • Derrick

    I’m black.
    I am absolutely disgraced by this.
    No wonder white people think we are animals.

  • Jack

    Were these the “greedy” 1%? No? I guess “greed” isn’t just a rich thing.

  • nwpurpletoo

    Tell me again why there are more blacks in prison than whites. I’m just sayin’.

  • Jim H

    That’s easy. Blacks are hostile and easily provoked because they feel entitled. Generation after generation teach their kids how to manipulate the system and they are experts at it. Most of them think that society owes them something and that it should provide for them.

    Come to think of it if I was black with an IQ like some of those in these videos – I’d be hostile too.

  • BigBoa

    Just another chimp-out.

    Check out chimpoutdotcom and see if this clip made the cut!

    Savage animals……

  • B Guyton

    I thought they were running to vote for Obama.

  • enguard

    the cream of the black culture on glaring display….we’re already paying reparations considering this level of depravity embedded in our society.
    The parents (and there are some among the mob) must be proud.

    chimping out as an Olympic sport?…oh wait…basketball

  • Jamex Anderson

    I just saw Rise of From The planet of the Apes.

  • Collector

    At what point in society do we finally stop and admit that a certain race of people are different from all other races. A certain race of people are more violent and mean than others. When do we start seperating this group from others for protection of society in general. When a certain race costs everybody more because of their out of control lawlessness, should we make them pay instead of penalizing everybody for the actions of a few. Frankly, I’m tired of my taxes being higher to pay for more police, more prisons, more courts and additional defense attorneys because 12% of the population commits 70% of the crime. Food and clothing costs are higher because of theft, insurance is higher because of carelessness, stealing, vandalizism, drug use and virtually every other commodity and activity is more expensive because one race fails to raise their kids and fails to teach their children to follow and respect the law. It’s unfortunate and sad because there are a few members of this race who do what’s right but they are overshadowed by a large majority who act completely uncivilized. We’ve been allowing this to go on long enough. Something must be done and that doesn’t mean more free handouts or reparations. It’s time they started paying for what they take, use, destroy and what they cost the World.

  • lvh

    No not you..Not me. I feel as you do.
    This is BIG GOV at work.

  • Steve

    What a bunch of disgusting savages…enough said.

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  • rachel

    Why am I not surprised? What a disgusting bunch of useless thugs. I’m ashamed to call these people countrymen. I call them boils on the backside of America.

  • rachel

    AMEN!

  • One-Who-Will-Listen

    People of any race are greedy, selfish, and prideful. Why this happens in America, where we have all the resources we need to survive and be well fed, I just don’t understand. What the h-ll is so important about a pair of overpriced shoes? I don’t get it; really, I don’t.

  • Dave

    Yep.

  • rachel

    Black people are their own worst enemy.

  • Dave

    Wait til you see what happens when he loses.

  • kari ju

    testify. no way this is a unique black thing.

  • Big Papi

    Now imagine if there was a huge catastrophe that hit a very widespread area and food and electricity, gas and cash could not be had. You would have this scene times a thousand. Apparently this group of society would cause continued chaos while others tried to manage. Best advice? Have your own food stored, cash on hand, and not only posses firearms but be proficient in their use. It will be a life and death situation that this group of society will only make worse. If you arent scared, you arent living in reality. Get over the “hater” taunts and racist shouts—if they’d do this over fashion sneakers imagine what they’d do to you in a true crisis. The Police cant protect us anymore. Be Prepared but also be armed, irregardless of your political and 2nd amendment views. You will not survive believing that good intentions will save us all.

  • Jon Baker

    Okay, I’m just going to say it, I’ve never been p.c. anyway. What is it about Negroes and sports shoes? I mean really, somebody should study this. Stereotypes come from truth, the problem though is when you say all. Now I know all blacks aren’t like this , obviously any intelligent person knows that but too many are. And I bet the deficit that if you called any of them on it that were involved in this they would call you a racists, and blacks bold enough to speak out self haters. As nasty and far gone as Chicago already is they better be on their knees grateful for Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel on duty now who chose to follow the New York model Because It sure was heading towards being another Detroit. Get out now while you still can.

  • kari ju

    cmon guys – the racist stuff is degrading all of us and it is offensive to Mayor Nutter and the good people in that church, none of whom deserve to see that kind of thing in print. They are on our side and they deserve our respect. The riot over shoes is just what you’d expect anywhere that a leftist government panders to a dependent class, telling them they’re entitled. Remember the London riots a few months ago? This kind of thing happens the world over and it is not a black thing per se

  • kari ju

    Derrick we just need to do a lot of work on people’s hearts. we have let cheap politics fill the void where moral teaching should be. We have left all our poorest to the mercies of government and amoral “leaders.” bad move, that.

  • B. Guyton

    Watch the video above that provides a black man’s prospective. It may help you understand why this is happening.

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  • b. Guyton

    Here is the video. It may help explain the problem from a black man’s prospective. Racist……………maybe?
    http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=57506

  • Mustafa

    If the Jordan’s fit,,,,,
    When these idiots act like a bunch of thugs, it perpetuates the caricature of the black population. Compare New Orleans after Katrina vs Japan after the tsunami’s. Classless vs Class. It be what it be.

  • Clearhead

    You told it like it is Bahbbi boy. We’re proud, proud, proud of you !! Furthermore — PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW !!!

  • Clearhead

    White people don’t think you’re animals, Derrick. All colors of people act like animals sometimes. The ones that ACT like animals are the ones all people should think of as animals. (Apologies to most animals).

  • Marilyn

    It has nothing to do with the color of their skin. This is what liberalism has done to the urban areas. They tell a group of people that they are not capable of providing for their families and that everyone else owes them, and they promise that the government will take care of them. Thus the people barely get by, have too much idle time on their hands, they are unhappy, want the same things as most families but they are dependent on the government, and they have been told their WHOLE LIFE that they are not capable of anything more, and the cycle continues. What liberalism has done to human beings breaks my heart.

  • Jason, NYC

    Animals, all of them, animals…

  • Marilyn

    You are a ‘joke’ and a waste of time.

  • tward

    Derrick: Whites and Blacks have Jesus in common. If both would live up to His standard of loving our neighbors there would be no fights, thefts and no hate. Merry Christmas from a Southern Hillbilly White Boy.

  • Obamanation

    I’m suprised they didn’t just steal the shoes. Redistribute the wealth to the lame and lazy parasites of society. Leaches and slugs in $180 shoes.

  • Marilyn

    Most of these comments are really horrible. This has NOTHING to do with the race of the people involved. This is what happens with 50 years of liberalism. This is exactly what the democrat party wanted. A segment of society that will ALWAYS vote for them. They have taken a group of people and for generations have told them that the rest of society owes them. They have told this group of people that they are NOT capable of taking care of themselves or their families. They have been pushed through school while learning NOTHING except what party to vote for. When a crime is committed they are often not made to pay for the crime but are given exuses for the crime. What did you democrat voters think would happen? That your stupid policies would work, even though you look back and see 50 years of failure.

  • Tyrone

    We be celebrates da Kwanza, not da white man holidays. Kwanza be for da chosen peoples.

  • Mike in Grasonville

    Just another example of blacks being a blight on society. Far too many of them live off the backs of others, see Section 8 housing, welfare, food stamps, etc. No other group, or should I say ethnic group behaves like this. Check any school systems acheivement scores asnd you will see that blascks are dead last. So, does this surprise anyone? Send them back to Africa, if they’ll have them.

  • Bob3

    CCW is a good place to start, they lack empathy and impulse control, pain and misery is all the understand be prepared to deliver it.

  • Darrel

    I think 60-70 percent of blacks ARE violent nasty rabid animals. 30-40 percent are human beings and decent. Facts are facts.

  • jewbag

    blacks.

  • B. Guyton

    From the cotton and rice plantations to the Democrat plantation!!

  • Hollywood Hick

    When members of the black community see these stories, what are they thinking? Is there any wonder the black community is such a mess? They are the most pandered-to ethnic group on the planet and they are a hopeless disaster.

  • Black Thing

    testify. this is a unique black thing.

  • Sisao Tresed

    Don’t forget these same people have special Christmas Shopping coats for that extra discount.

  • B. Guyton

    Hay!! You need nice shoes to walk around the Democrat plantation.

  • ton

    Sorry, it is.

  • Bob13

    Oh and don’t forget the chocolate Jesus wants to make these upstanding citizens your neighbors via sec8 housing and the best part is he’s gonna use your “white” taxpayer dollars to do it.

    Imagine the joy of waking up one sunny morning to find a house full of these hood rats living next door to you in your soon to be formally pristine neighborhood, and of course and again the best part is that you get to pay for it and the schools that their animalistic spawn will soon ruin, ain’t life grand?

    It’s time for weak feeble minded white people to grow a pair and stop this garbage, if someone calls me a racist I laugh, that tired old worn out phrase means nothing, these animals need to clean up their own mess or to their extreme displeasure others will do it for them.

  • RicardoCabeza

    The Negros are their own worst enemy they just can’t help themselves. For the most part they have no decency, no discipline and pure gutter trash instinct. I don’t particularly blame them though they have a weak constitution It’s what the welfare, government cheese and hand outs does to them that is the shame here.

  • Larry Sinclair

    Dang 1%’ers … cause we know those 99% are so broke they can’t even afford food for the kids and surly don’t have $180.00 laying around .. unless you sell your EBT food for cash …..

  • SAJ

    Marilyn,
    You have provided an excellent succinct explaination for this type of behavior. However, you have left out the fact that people’s sinful desires push them toward these actions. Because the people of whom we speak have too frequently not faced the consequences of their actions. they are often all too willing to act in very unlawful ways.

  • Steve

    If anyone is curious what a product of Socialism looks like, this is it. The Democrat Party presents us with the great society!!

  • rusty the right wing nut

    yeah its were our tax money went statisticaly we paid for some of them shoes bunch of apes they ussed their obama welfare foodstamp and unemploymeny money and probly some money they sold crack for and probly pimped a few ni$$a Bi%%%%S as well for cause dem shoes cause dey tight

  • Obamas Stash

    Black on Black crime .. what’s new? Democrats started Jim Crow Laws,,, Democrats started the KKK, Democrats took away blacks civil rights in 1875 but they cannot figure out why after voting Democrrat 50 yrs they are still as bad off as they were ….

  • RC

    Your confused with food stamps…

  • rusty the right wing nut

    cause u are

  • Sisao Tresed

    This whole mentality was spawned by big government, but every intelligent man must think for himself and act as his own man or woman. Long after this event has passed, the bitter taste of welfare, drugs, booze and abortion on demand, and school systems that affirm lawlessness and immorality in the schools will be alive and well in the black community. An illiterate ebonics-speaking woman named “something-esha” is not gonna be at the top of the resume’ pile. Sadly, so many good black folks get painted with this brush, and it’s unfair. “Feral” blacks understand what they are doing wrong, but they don’t care. They have become uncivilized. Politicians like them because they 1) vote as a single block, 2) are easy to fool, 3) they don’t learn fast, 4)they just want “more stuff” which politicians love to throw at them in speeches, and bellicose repartee; but no action. But again…see #2.

  • rusty the right wing nut

    dont worry everyone knows it even blacks know we all know it even diggers know it there is a race war coming i dont think its right but its just the ways it is wP

  • Bill Brennan

    if the shoe fits…

  • rusty the right wing nut

    what-
    im confused f u f a g

  • I guess ignorance is a virtue

    People are getting hurt or injured bad because of a pair of stinkin air jordan shoes, ill be damned if i will buy a pair of these shoes that are prob made in China, Yes i said China!! What a bunch of a ..holes …. Ok they have bought the shoes , 6 or 7 months later they will be in the trash , how ignorant and stupid can ppl be ?

  • Michael

    Christmas is the birthday of the Son of God. Civilizied Christains worship God, love eachother and seek peace on earth. Animals worship material material goods which will fill a landfill someday. I pity the animals.

  • rusty the right wing nut

    no they sell the card or buy food and sell it at a cheaper price cause black chicks tend to have a $hit ton of kids so they have a lot they but theyre broke lazy a$$ boyfriend these so after he impregnates her he can run away faster. Stupid A$$

  • NowSwimBack

    The Civil Rights Act was a great idea, wasn’t it? If they’re not in your neighborhood, they will be soon. Enjoy ‘em. ;)

  • REAL STUPIDITY

    REALLY? 180.00 FOR STINKIN SHOES

  • brutesforce

    Baby needs a new pair of shoes.

  • rusty the right wing nut

    well said arm the Fu”#$ UP dese nig have gone nuts

  • rusty the right wing nut

    PS F&CK U DEtroit and your pos Lions cause they suck too!!!!!

    WE need to bulldoze that big a$$ ghetto down look Like a Fu%% bomb went off in that citty

  • Rita Ippolito

    contrast this honest and strong Black leader with the Race hustlers like Sharpton, Jackson.. WE NEED MORE LIKE HIM

  • Rita Ippolito

    I’m a conservative, not a racist. too many racists here for me but this comment from Guyton … hit the mark…

    Blacks will continue to be Democrats no matter what as long as the Democrats promise entitlements and as long as the nuclear Black family is in shambles.

  • Uncle Remus

    Dang freakin’ kneegroes (sic)…… they wouldn’t fight this hard for the last job on earth …unless it was a bank job/heist…

  • DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!

    Welcome to our http://www.NewNation.org

  • New York Nick

    You got that right brah……. the dem plantation of fools , where be my handouts!!

  • Kim Bailey

    “Wild savages must be caged and returned to Africa” Said a Mall security guard

  • Boston Patriot

    @RC: The proper grammatical construction is “you’re” for you are. Thanks

  • John Frost

    Darwin:” Blacks are not Human but wild african animals……predator animals”
    We are dealing with savage beasts….unleashed. Race war is coming I feel it!

  • Jomama

    Obama supporters…what do you expect? Uncivilized and immature. Good God, a pair of shoes and the chaos it causes? What about what our leaders are doing to this country and not a care…God help the USA!

  • BubbaT

    No, not all. But that’s what the Government would like us to believe.

  • rusty the right wing nut

    i love sickle cell lol

  • Rob Frey

    Wow I am appalled at the state of society and just as appalled at the racial tones thrown around in the comments. When i read this i didn’t even equate this to black or white. Although reading more about this most of this was people of color. Don’t get me wrong i am no liberal i just don’t see skin color as a judgement before character. This season there has been a far greater number of stories of blacks in shopping incidents. I am sure the we will do a 10 million dollar study funded by the government. My thought is the social issues are escalating due to the not phasing out of Affirmative action. It had a purpose initially but now there is a segment of society dependent on it along with providing a nanny state. It’s creating a racial divide and an attitude of oh i deserve this it’s taken generations. We now have a nanny state, which is by design to buy votes not to help long term by making us equal in anyway. We have now a group that is dependent and believes they are less than so they need this. This didn’t create equality, it created a monster and now we have a president who is using the divide it has cause as a weapon against whites. The facts are well know there is no evidence that supports this Affirmative action as a long term thing had help our society. We all have to stand on our own sooner or later. Please don’t read into this that i believe all blacks are in this whirlpool hell no. It’s very much becoming a Hispanic issue also, they can sneak into the US and get a free ride on many services. What the hell, i have been brought up if i can’t afford i don’t get it, including times where my cupboard was bare. I don’t go to the state, don’t have kids if you can’t afford them, don’t have sex if you can’t afford protection. Yet we provide food and shelter for people who do nothing for other peoples money distributed by the Government and stolen from the tax payer. We are at a tipping point the number of people on assistance is close to the amount not when that happens we have no chance of turning it around. This mess filled a need and works fine short term, long term dependence take incentive and personal drive away and creates a restless society that is given just enough to get buy and no satisfaction of achievement. This is a colorless problem of entitlements and Affirmative action. Now we are at a point if we change it there is going to be racial and class warfare. Thanks libs, thanks obama for the mastering us of the race card. Sorry about the rant.

  • Richard Jones

    Those “shoppers” all look like obamas. Down here in Texas we don’t let obamas get away with that kind of behavior.

  • LA Doc

    Man, you ain’t kidding. Freeloading, thieving, ghetto-rats. All of them. Just like the animals in the WH and Congress.

  • rusty the right wing nut

    liberal Pu$$Y probly voted for HObama

  • rusty the right wing nut

    White Power White Power

  • james

    We need to bring back segregation. Blacks are not fit to live in a civilized society. It was obvious then, and it’s obvious now.

  • retired

    they just happen to be 99.9% black…. just a frkkin coincidence…

  • Jim Burke

    Wow………..

    When I first saw the film footage I was away from the monitor and couldn’t hear the audio. I thought it was footage of people scrambling for an airplane food drop in Biafra.

  • Jim Burke

    Next year require a pay stub for purchase rights.

  • ryan

    Aren’t these people the 99%?

  • Joe G

    All blacks in North America need to be either shot or deported. Like Baboons, blacks can’t help acting the way they do. They’re born that way. I just don’t want them roaming the streets in North America. Blacks have made every city in which they are the majority unlivable for white families. White people would be much better off without them.

  • William Baranowski

    ‘gro footsies.

  • Annie

    Dont insult the intelligence of smart blacks or caucasions . Affirmative action is a symptom not a cause. This is the face of ghetto culture and this primative behavior exists in every african nation on earth. Stop with the excuses. Every culture has been enslaved and “oppressed”. The mark of a people is how you pick yourself up, rise above and organize your social behavior.This continued infantalization of African American cultures doesn’t do anyone any favors. What exactly is it doing for you? Cui bono?

  • JimRocky

    Actually he is right Marilyn. You just have eyes that refuse to see.

  • Joe

    These are the same people that will do everything in their power to keep their leader in power. Are these the first of obozos brown shirts?
    TAKE BACK AMERICA 2012

  • Liberal_Stupidity

    When you got a radical leader that is the most negative prez America has experienced it just give permission for eveyone like hime to behave in the exact same way. I hope America is watching and uses thier vote next year to cut the head off the snake in DC

  • Joe G

    Nothing to do with the race of the people involved? EVERY majority black city in the world is a crime and disease ridden slum. The only logical conclusion is that race is a factor.

  • Joe Blow

    Forget about color. These are democrats!

  • bullrider

    I haven’t spent a fraction of what those shoes cost for any I’ve bought EVER. Of course, I’m a systems analyst and have to pay every frigging dime of the cost for food, housing, clothing, medical care etc. for myself and my family, and pay huge taxes on my $60K income so others CAN afford to buy those UGLY f-ing shoes.

  • bullrider

    I’m not a person of color. I must be transparent like window glass.

  • bullrider

    I thought that for Kwanzaa the gifts were more along the lines of candles, baskets, nuts, fruit, and crafts – not overpriced, UGLY shoes.

  • bullrider

    Liberalism and the Democrats have destroyed the black family structure and turned them into a taxpayer-subsidized crop of Dem voters. In 1940 – back before all the civil rights and welfare stuff began – 80% of black children were born into married, two parent families. What is that figure nowadays? 10% maybe? It is sure a small fraction of what it used to be.

  • Chris

    A “gift” tree? Does this mean the Menorah is now a gift candle stick?

  • Cigars Andscotch

    Exactly what I had expected. The crimes were committed by a bunch of white soccer moms…….oh, wait a minute

  • Andrew

    Gee aren’t you so swell…you are just a such a peach to be so above seeing the politically incorrect but oh so obvious truth. The obvious fact being that 99.5% of urban blacks give the remaining half percent a bad rap. Pull your head out…it ain’t racist if (and it is) the truth. These ‘people’ are an embarrassment to any thinking individual, they are uncivil and are effectively acting as the water in the fuel tank of this once great nation, and you are not helping by denying it. I know you would not hold back if it was a bunch of white trash doing the same.

  • Jerry Frey

    PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” — spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city’s tourist and fashionable shopping districts.

    “Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer,” Mr. Nutter, the city’s third black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”

    “If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.”

    http://napoleonlive.info/did-you-know/violence-2/

  • White people are really “Pink”

    Funny how we have all forgotten the fights and brawls that folks with “Pink” skin had over Tickle Me Elmo dolls and few years back at Christmas time. Funny, I don’t recall any Black folks calling them fighting “Pink” skinners names such as “animals”. Is name calling and hate mongering inbred into the “Pink” race???

  • Jessie

    This is a black leader NOT Jackson , Sharpton and othe rcriminals. The black community needs to get a grip on the hip hop culture of thugs and do it fast .
    Democrat entitlement programs have ruined the black community over the last 3 decades . This is what you wind up with

  • Jessie

    This is a black leader NOT Jackson , Sharpton and othe rcriminals. The black community needs to get a grip on the hip hop culture of thugs and do it fast .
    Democrat entitlement programs have ruined the black community over the last 3 decades . This is what you wind up with
    Spot on reply. Liberal policies have ruined the black community over 3 decades.

  • Annie

    “Pink” people, mostly women tend to pull out each others hairs over bridal discounts like at Filenes annual bridal sale. “Pink” men and soccer moms tend to scream, name call and sometimes just lose it- and society comes down on them hard. Black thugs take out switch blades, stab, shoot and kill others over a $100 pair of sneakers. Even African honey bees have a propensity toward deadly swarming. Face it and act (or DONT act) accordingly.

  • Todd P.

    And EVERY SINGLE ONE of these simpletons VOTED FOR OBAMA!! (if they voted at all) Time to set a time limit (# of years) on welfare benefits. If you can’t make it by then, it’s time to beg for charity from a relative, friend, or church………

  • Chaco

    The Japanese go through a Sunami and near nuclear meltdown with less turmoil than these dopes fighting over some stupid ghetto fashion statement.

  • sonic

    Bet most there were on welfare and WE paid for those ugly sneakers. Ignorant slobs

  • Billy Bob

    Those shoes would look good on a 250 pound rapper.

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  • NavyOne
  • Joe

    Now that’s a funny line.

  • David Rutstein

    Terrible, how we have to end Obama’s term and end this free lunch. http://www.beyondquotes.com/marijuana. You can see the result of illegal drugs and welfare.

  • Fatima

    Lord, save us from people who pepetuate negative stereotypes. Tsk, just too bad people cannot get out of their own way and want to blame others for their poor outcomes in life.

  • Panz

    What happened to the Civil Rights leaders and participants? If you look back at photos of those people, their heads were always held high, they knew there was a better America and they were helping to create it.

    Then along came the liberal programs, blacks were given handouts and special treatment and this is the outcome. A bunch of animals fighting over ugly shoes. Shoes! sneakers! They aren’t even decent shoes, just sneakers–you’ll wear them untied so they flop around on your feet.

    You can’t speak English, merely ghetto slur. You can’t pull up or zip up your pants, you can’t tie your shoes–you’re just not smart enough. And yes, your trashy president encourages this behavior. You’re much easier to manage when you’re just a bunch of animals to be poked and prodded as necessary.

    There are African Americans in this country and then there is you. Wake up and look at yourself. All that for a pair of sneakers?? Really stupid.

  • Toxic Avenger

    It looks like a negro sneaker frenzy.

  • Ramon

    Well, Well … Obama supporters at their finest! (lol)

  • ramon

    You are 100% right on target.

    It amazes me how Blacks vote 85 to 95% Dumbocrat every Presidential election. No matter if it’s Obama, Kerry or any other Dumbocrat!

  • Allan Sokyra

    DIVERSITY IS NOT OUR STRENGTH!
    UNITY IS. But that’s not somthing I expect the gimme, gimme, gimme diversity crowd to understand.

  • justified

    A thinking person asks themselves, “What are you going to DO about it?” Are you going to support the Democratic borne Welfare culture, that led directly to this mess, or are you voting against their candidates by electing viable candidates i.e. GOP candidates.

    Not Independents, as on a State or Federal level a vote THIS TIME for an Independent is a vote for the End of America as we know it. The debt piling up will kill us or the Taxes will.

    ATTENTION: Blue Dog Democrats, the DNC/Obama has stated ‘YOU are NOT in our Future plans.’

  • John McCombs

    Michael Jordan and Nike should be held accountible for this atrocity. If gun manufacturers are at fault for gun crimes, then Michael Jordan and Nike should be made to suffer for this chimpout. On a serious note, however, wouldn’t a statement from Michael Jordan go a long, long way toward reducing the violence. If he simply said, “Really folks, are you serious? You’re going to hurt each other over a pair of overpriced basketball shoes?” But no, MJ doesn’t have it in him because as long as there is an extra nickel to be drained from his peeps, he’s perfectly OK with the violence. Well done, Mike. Well done.

  • RicardoCabeza

    The negro continually and always acts in an ignorant manner it is the curse of the colored race the joyful embrace willful ignorance.

  • GW

    Meanwhile across town, the Reverand Al Sharpton held an Occupy Nike event, at which he decried the Nike corp of exploiting the inner city by creating the shoe in the first place “this is obviously a scheme to take from the poor and give to the 1%” “Nike should be ashamed at the way it has made these honor roll students behave”. The crowd supporters behind him chanted “Jordon! Fordon” as the Reverand went on to ask: “why didn’t Nike just give the shoes away to anyone that wanted them? This is an outrage”. Senetor Maxinne Waters promised a full congressional hearing, and the president remarked that the police acted “stupidly.

  • A.K.

    NEGRO’S ARE ENORMOUSLY STUPIDLY VIOLENT…IT’S A BRAIN SIZE THING!

  • jon

    If you went to Drudge you would see the ugly side of blacks is nation wide and not just a local thing. What a shameful culture they have created amongst themselves

  • jon

    The people that perpetuate negative stereotypes are blacks themselves. Go to Drudge Report and see that blacks have rioted over these shoes in every major city where this sale has been offered. How many example of the same behavior does it take for you to wake up and smell the java beans?

  • Lordrobot

    Illegitimate Baby needs a new pair of shoes….

  • jon

    I checked the facts, their were no shootings, breaking into the stores or fighting with police over tickle me Elmo dolls. There also are no people with pink skin.

  • JoeJones

    Gimme some of dem Obamabucks man!

  • Artic Slayer

    lol nuttin like obama people tryin to save the food
    stamps fo sumpin like this mo impotant huh…
    Oh Sorry was I a little racist….

    naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Just the
    facts…

    Doubt me? Just correct me and I will call you RACIST! lol

    You LOOSERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

    I didn’t vote for obama last time but this time I am
    going to vote for him…. I think he is the best thing
    for America in recent history… WONDERFUL! 4 more years
    and this country will be purged of a corrupt congress and
    senate because the people are going to purge every
    politician out by civil war…. There will be unrest like
    never seen in America. Because now Americans believe that
    good is bad and bad is good. Once this country goes even
    further to hell in a hand basket there will be a
    purging… When Americans can’t say “Merry Christmas”
    because good is bad and once they can’t store more than
    seven days worth of food because good is bad and once
    they can’t own a gun because good is bad….. There will
    be a purging of the bad by the good! So lets pull
    together and re-elect this person…. OBAMA2012!

  • John Scott

    lol nuttin like obama people tryin to save the food
    stamps fo sumpin like this mo impotant huh…
    Oh Sorry was I a little racist….

    naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Just the
    facts…

    Doubt me? Just correct me and I will call you RACIST! lol

    You LOOSERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

    I didn’t vote for obama last time but this time I am
    going to vote for him…. I think he is the best thing
    for America in recent history… WONDERFUL! 4 more years
    and this country will be purged of a corrupt congress and
    senate because the people are going to purge every
    politician out by civil war…. There will be unrest like
    never seen in America. Because now Americans believe that
    good is bad and bad is good. Once this country goes even
    further to hell in a hand basket there will be a
    purging… When Americans can’t say “Merry Christmas”
    because good is bad and once they can’t store more than
    seven days worth of food because good is bad and once
    they can’t own a gun because good is bad….. There will
    be a purging of the bad by the good! So lets pull
    together and re-elect this person…. OBAMA2012!

  • Hal McCombs

    Hey “Diversity”? Do you not know the English language?

    How can ‘diversity’, the root of which is “to divide”, bring us together?

    Are all leftists as stupid as you? (Especially the one calling himself “rusty” pretending to be a ‘right-wing’ redneck.)

  • Hal McCombs

    So a Kwanza tree is made of Air Jordans? Figures.

  • Steven Travis

    What’s the one common denominator in all this????

  • Vince

    The big question is why isn’t OBAMA speaking out on this issue??? He manages to find time to speak out if a white police officer is ACCUSED of racism when he restrains a black “professor” from breaking into his house. Remember that? Without knowing the facts he JUMPS and gives a speech. But incidents like these teenage hoodlums who rob, beat up, and steal every day he says NOT A WORD about. This is Obamanation. I hope those of you who voted for him are happy now.

  • Cisco

    Gorillas In The Mist!

  • Annie

    Diversity is our downfall” A house divided among itself cannot stand”. Even Hamilton talked about the Boznification of American in the Federalist Papers.

  • Annie

    jon, please dont confuse an idiotic opinion with a bunch of annoying facts!

  • jerrystr

    You can take the man out of the jungle but you can’t take the jungle out of the man. Responsible black leaders and role models like Bill Cosby are chastised for speaking out about the actions of liberals that want ebonics tuaght in schools or lower educational standards. The term ghetto rat is accurate. Those who finish school and go to college are sucessful and move out of the ghettos.

  • McGruff

    I immediately wondered if my suspicion would be correct … and it was.

  • gwbnyc

    “under a gift tree”

    A GIFT TREE?

    Cowards.

  • Gustafus21

    These are farm animals — who were given human rights — and they behave as farm animals.

    Look what Venus Williams has done to tennis? – She threatens to ‘rearrange the face” of a line judge?

    They should have been exterminated. Or forced breeding with whites could have produced something more benign like O and family…. but ONLY white genes can influence these vermin

  • Paul Revere

    too bad college is being systematically dumbed down year by year

  • Paul Revere

    umm, why do you think most white people move out of urban areas and into suburbs or satellite cities? Coincidentally leaving property values to plummet…

  • Barry bin Inhalin

    I saw the headline and didn’t even wonder.

  • Patrick Nugent

    EVERYBODY SING: “We won’t go until we get some, we won’t go until we get some, we won’t go until we get some, so bring it right here!”

  • ImaHippyBurning

    While I look at this I am outraged at the class and race of people who do this over an overpriced pair of sneakers, and then I realize the idiocy of the Walmart mobs filled with white trash who on Black Friday are out in droves treating each other horribly and spending monies they do not have on materialistic stuff that is meaningless and I then ponder the destiny of humanity. We are doomed as a society if we continue to worship idol gods and relish stuff instead of each other. No sneaker is going to make you a better person, nor would a new cabbage patch kid etc… I believe civilization is at a crossroads and if we cannot educate our young whether white or black or yellow, pink, or green we will ultimately destroy all that our Gracious God has blessed us with! “Merry Christmas” to All,

  • ShoeShine

    What’s with these people and shoes???

  • newjerseybt

    Diversity is NOT our strength. Our strength lies in the GOODNESS of each and every individual in our country. Without morals our constitution will not stand. And our country will not stand.

  • Greg

    I didn.t see any white people ni the crowd? Only Blacks ??? What a violent group of people, they need to get civilized.

  • Mike_in_Kyiv

    Pure silliness! No gift is worth this! I remember the Cabbage Patch moms who were fighting to get one of those ugly little dolls a few years back. Now it’s a pair of shoes that are not – REPEST – NOT worth all that money and you all make fools of yourselves. Shame on you on our Lord’s birthday.

  • Death of America

    Black people are uncivilized savages. They are the only race that needs to be coddled and treated like little babies. It’s not a “white vs. black” thing – NO other race likes blacks. Disgusting beasts who belong in the freaking jungle, period. Thank you LBJ and all you other POS democrats.

  • Grape Ape

    Rev Al Sharpton’s take on this news: “Da reason fo all deez people running amuck and fightin’ and actin’ unruly is because da white man and society, namely Republicans in da Congress, are gettin’ in the way of President Obama’s plan to hand out more free monies into the minority community. It’s also the blame of rich White communities across America who aren’t willing to spread more of their wealth and make sure it goes into da hands of inner cities and African-American communities. Think about it…if these fine, upstanding customers had more monies at their disposal, they could have paid some illegal aliens to stand in line for them to buy these items which they desperately need and wouldn’t have to get into fights in da first place.”

    Rev. Jesse Jackson’s take on this news: “The EVIL corporations run by WHITE men are to blame for this terrible atrocity!! Therefore, with all my graciousness and good-will, I am planning to sue Nike shoes (for not supplying enough sneakers), Michael Jordan’s white lawyer (because I can’t sue a good brother like MJ!), the WHITE mall security who employed brutal tactics against these innocent customers, and last but not least… my Rainbow Coalition will make sure these businesses are not only selling enough items to African-American shoppers but will also ensure that they are hiring enough minorities in their stories. And I will say this, if our investigation turns up that they aren’t, we will take them over and my son Jesse Jr and I will make sure that they are run fairly. Plain and simple. It’s time to put an end to this WHITE tyranny in America once and for all!!!”

  • http://christwire.org/2011/12/new-air-jordans-causing-chaos-in-the-hood/ New Air Jordans Causing Chaos in the Hood | ChristWire

    [...] And I don’ts even have to provide the commentary here! They Can’t Wait, They Break Into The Mall… [...]

  • feduptoo

    I’m ashamed of these people! Several traits we used to have are now gone: morals, common sense, self-respect and shame, to name a few!

    All shoes are now made in China, why would these cost so much more, than the ones I purchase at $30 or $40? People, they are all made in China!

    We need to start shaming these people every chance we get, and don’t get on your high horse, this includes all the self-absorbed mobs of ingrates…..maybe then we can change our society, if not….we are doomed.

    I just hope these people did not buy these expensive shoes with our money via government perks!

    Our jobs should be brought back here, in order to give people like this something to do with all their time!

  • Lou

    They were getting them to put under “the GIFT TREE”..REALLY?….Another Obama journalist trying to take Christmas out of the season..IT`S A CHRISTMAS TREE you boob !!!!!!!!!

  • Sidney

    Another example of the economy cranking up and running in 5th gear now. This shows that people have money to burn and they are doing it in droves.

    Full steam ahead on the economy, things look awesome.

  • feduptoo

    Not so, they take care of their young!

  • Webhad1

    I would like to know what a gift tree is. I feel that my rights have been violated because CBS DETROIT did not use the term Chrismas tree.

  • John

    I was thinking the same thing. PC madness is what it is.

  • sjmilw@gmail.com

    Huh, Nice to see we can all recognize what is really important in our lives. People on the state and federal welfare system, living in poverty, but have to have the Air Jordans…

    Merry Christmas to all from Milwaukee, WI….

  • YepYep

    On this episode of Apes Gone Wild….

  • MilwaukeeMark

    This is the behavior of undeciplined entitled people, whom their entire lives have been told by their community leaders that they are owed something.

    But let’s be honest, blacks are not the only skin color capable of being turned into animals by manipulative politicians. As an American of German ancestory the images of SS soldiers killing innocent men, women and children remind me that even the most enlightened people can be trained to revert to the most vile impulses.

    So while its easy for us to dismiss these actions as uncharacteristic of our own group, I would remind you on Christmas, not to take too much solice in that illusion, as our own groups have not always been much better.

  • sol berman
  • Elvis

    Just for synthetic pair of shoes made in China . I think I lost connection with society, I just don’t get it.

  • ontie1

    If this doesn’t give you a indication of how morally bankrupt we as a educated nation have become, then you must be blind in both eyes. Avaricious, greed impatience, all for the sake of a pair of tennis shoes and a speculative chance.

    Time to stop the nonsense and let morality bck into the school systems by way of leaning on philosophical and religious thinking, if we don’t this nation and it’s future is going to be a miserable mess of corruption.

  • tod schwarze

    they be Basketball americans, what’d you expect?

  • Eric Gunther Oberhauser

    Jesus came only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel… Israel is the white race.

  • GW

    Meanwhile across town, the Reverand Al Sharpton held an Occupy Nike event, at which he decried the Nike corp of exploiting the inner city by creating the shoe in the first place “this is obviously a scheme to take from the poor and give to the 1%” “Nike should be ashamed at the way it has made these “honor roll students” behave”. The crowd supporters behind him chanted “Jordon! Jordon” as the Reverand went on to ask: “why didn’t Nike just give the shoes away to anyone that wanted them? This is an outrage”. Senetor Maxinne Waters promised a full congressional hearing, and the president remarked that the police acted “stupidly.

  • buckbamboo

    I fear for the future of America.

  • Prole

    Anyone see something all these pictures have in common?

  • GW

    Now lets see how many are shot for their sneakers in the next couple of days.
    Anybody spare a newprt?
    These will look fly with my Vellure Hoodie

  • sophia Weisheit

    This just goes to prove one thing. You can have all the affirmative action, self esteem building, reparations, and made-up history months you want, but what do you get? Just take a look at the videos, these people are right out of the trees.

  • Chaz

    This is what happens when you let liberal programs run amok. The sorry-ass “justice brothers” are the fuel behind this animal behavior. I wonder how many pairs of these shoes are bought with taxpayer money? It’s like a mini occupy movement as they trash their “pens” and of course expect someone (with a job) to clean-up after them

  • LooLoo

    Maybe Jane Goodall can figure this out.

  • Tim

    The black urban mentality strikes again. Notice that this is another predominantly black riot.. Why can’t they act like decent human beings?

  • Dchas

    I am amazed that these folks still had money left over at the end of the month to purchase anything

  • Regulas

    The color says it all. To use a slang the leftist elites love to use, “even white trailer trash” has more sense than these people do.

  • Rob

    Gift tree? What the hell is a gift tree?

  • Chaz

    The camera doesn’t lie!!!

  • Regulas

    Love the comments, way better than the leftist hack reporter. “under a gift tree” talk about PC running amok.

  • J

    If you think it is bad now,wait till the economic crash. After the blacks loot and burn down their own ghettos they will form wolf packs and come after whitey. Most whites want to be left alone,but the predators won’t leave you alone.Only firepower will stop them. Bad idea to live near Detroit or any major city with high numbers of blacks. At The end partition of the Union will probably occur after a fierce Civil War.Half this Nation is godly and the other half ungodly. Time to separate the sheep and the goats. We need a new Nation under God.

  • Linda

    Nice to see our tax payer dollars being spent so well!! We should expand welfare/sarc

  • AtlasObjectivist

    All of this is a direct result of liberal policy, that destroyed the American Black family. Your chickens have come home to roost.

    Liberalism, put forth through Democratic policy, is a mental disorder.

  • Jerry Allen

    Jane Goodall is great…lol..Merry Christmas and maybe the baby Jesus was black after all..lol

  • Joe Beck

    What the hell is a “gift tree”?

  • AtlasObjectivist

    A very simple answer. To gain votes the Democratic party opened the coffers and created a dependent class of people.

    They destroyed the American black family and our cites. All of this sacrificed for the mental disorder of liberalism.

  • airdoc

    If they are doing this to get these shoes, what’s going to happen to the people wearing these shoes? Will they be beat up, stabbed or shot by someone stealing the shoes off their feet?

  • Christy

    Yet another example of why we need to keep Christ in Christmas!

  • Kris K. Kraft

    Every one of them were Obama voters. All you could see was eyes and teeth…

  • jessejacksonbabysmoma

    White people who live in the burbs have no idea how mean and racist negroes really are. We hate da white man.

  • avagirl

    This must the Obama redistribution of the wealth program.. Hard to believe that all these kids have an extra two hundred dollars for about the ugliest shoes that I have ever seen.

  • mesndblues

    The only hope for the black race is to turn away from liberal ideology and start acting like civilzed people…It’s just that simple…All your problems will vanish once you take responsibility for yourselves and leave behind this hip-hop mentality…Merry Christmas,…I hope you heed my words,…for your own benefit..

  • psadie

    Where else would this happen but in the black communities where they treat each other like animals. And you wonder why we have the problems that we do!

  • Chukkal

    Some day the dems are going to be paying these folks for destroying their culture…..much like the American Indians………too bad they can’t see it before it destroys all of us!

  • dano

    But work boots are at an all time low in sales. No safer place to hide your money than inside of a pair of work boots hahahahahh.

  • Warner Raymond Hyde

    LOL….

  • John West

    What is wrong with you niggas. This is why Africa and Haiti are such cesspools. You people clearly have some evolving to do before you qualify as members of the human races.

  • edwardo

    And you wonder why Detroit is a dead city? and they vote for Obama! Now you know what the OWSers are all about.

  • Edward Boothe

    The United States committed suicide in 1865, It took for us to die.

  • bullrider

    Those shoes are not only ugly, but they look like shoes w/spats worn by blackface minstrel singers! The ultimate ‘inside joke’?

  • john

    They ain’t nuthin’ but pigs at the trough.

  • bullrider

    You’re right! What do they mean, ‘Gift tree’?
    So that is the NEXT political correctness to be shoved on us by the leftists / liberal / ‘politically correct’ media.

    Makes me want to PUKE. Even those horrifically ugly and overpriced ‘I-am-an-idiot’ shoes didn’t do that to me.

  • drifter77

    It is just an Obamaism, that’s all folks!

  • bullrider

    It’s not the race, it’s the culture. Yes, some races may tend to be more of a certain type of culture, but let’s keep it right where it belongs – on the culture that raises people to act that way.

  • Who Me?

    And now you all seem so shocked. This what we all allowed to happen with being PC and supposedly dumbing down our educational system so those not qualified can get degrees in such useful pursuits as Journalism or English Literature or Cultural Sensitivity. Take that and get a job in the real world. Like NOT.

    Carl Marx clearly stated in the Communist Maestro the way to take over a county is to destroy the education, devalue the currency and destroy the family and religion so the State becomes all powerful we must worship for survival.

    Obama and his ilk and others before him have done their job very well. That is why you have all those idiots fighting over a pair of overpriced Chinese sneakers.

    What do think they will do when the system collapses and there is no more food stamps or food to buy? It only takes 3 days to go from social order to ciaos. Big Sis and Homeland Security have been hard at work getting the internment camps ready for you, Number 55478955146.

  • jasperddbgghost

    GIT DAT OBAMA MONEY!

    KILL WHITEY!

  • Drake

    Observe the product and the market audience. Similar action would ensue following which secrete album release – The Beatles or Tupac.

  • Joe T

    Let’s face the naked truth : Those people didn’t try to buy for their own use . Quite a number of them were resellers. If they could get a pair for $100, out of the store, they could sell them back for $400 and up. That profit would help them live a week or two without relying on welfare .

    All ends up in money, survival, people ! .

  • saul

    Dear Santa,

    We desperately need some ethnic cleansing in the USA!

  • Mark

    When the totality of the meaning of Christmas comes down to “getting” a pair of sneakers, this is how it ends up–robbery, gunfire and fights.

  • chuck

    Any minute Bing Crosby’s ghost is going to break out in song with “I’m Dreaming of a White Giftmas.”

  • Justsayin’

    You can take the shopper out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the shopper.

  • joe

    Amazing throughout the country where these riots over sneakers occurred not a white face in the crowd. What a surprise. Next we will be hearing the deaths over the attempted robbery of them

  • Camille

    All these generalizations are horrible. Commenting on something you only seen through the media on the depiction of a race shows how ignorant many of you are……what happened to LIVE your life and not worrying about what others do? Sad cases.

  • DAN

    All black folks! I m shocked! The WELFARE STATE ON DISPLAY.
    OBAMA VOTERS ALL I M SURE! Life s all about PRIORITIES!

  • blah

    Well white people your ancestors should’ve never brought slaves to America…now you’re stuck with the aftermath

  • dan

    Sounds like the facts as they are…..

  • gd

    Dumb- a –s –s blacks. This is what is important to them? F-ing sneakers? Wow.

  • Sophia Weisheit

    I think the answer is obvious. What was that quote about lipstick on a pig?

  • blah

    Did you think of what may have caused the crime and disease? YOUR people who unwilling brought many minorities here. You fools even injected minorities with disease. Have you ever heard of the Tuskegee experiment? Don’t sulk and complain about blacks when it’s the faults of the whites for putting them in this situation in the first place.

  • tod schwarze

    basketball americans at play
    They will not go away

  • beedogs

    Wow. You’ve even got the awful racist cretins replying to you.

    Whenever Drudge links to a story like this, they just come out in big, stupid droves to show off their hot new bigot jokes.

    Pathetic. Truly pathetic.

  • Fact

    The funny thing about all of these racist comments is that not one single person would EVER say these things to a black persons face. Cowards just hiding behind a computer screen. You must be obsessed with blacks or something…weird

  • beedogs

    And out come the racists. Drudge readers are the worst people on the god damned planet.

  • beedogs

    Racist, barely capable of writing, and corny. Welcome, Drudge reader!

    How the fvck can you even spell “Jordan” wrong?

  • dee

    I agree/disagree with you on a few things…you’re right about the fact that African Americans Of TODAY are not suffering directly from slavery BUT it still has an effect on African Americans today…have you ever heard about something called “White Flight”? Well it’s basically when African Americans began to move into American cities after WWII…African Americans were making their way into the middle class which would offer them good jobs, good education, basically a good lifestyle BUT because white people (during this time) had a problem with the idea of African Americans actually being successful, they decided to leave the city/urban areas and move to suburban areas…so you might be saying “whats ur point” …well when whites moved, they basically took everything with them such as their businesses, and even education. this has carried on to today and that is why a great amount of African Americans as well as other minorities can’t get the same education or do not have as much as others because its kinda hard to make something out of nothing meaning. education, in my opinion, is the key to success but when you’re not given the same opportunity, what can you do??? Some people may think “well if you want a better education, move to the suburbs with the ‘white’ people” well think about back in the day when many black peole actually tried to move to better neighborhoods but were denied those rights (its called blockbusting…look it up)….WHEN YOU’RE NOT GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY, WHAT CAN YOU DO????…you’re right about the fact that we should stop dwelling on the past BUT many if “whites stopped assuming all “blacks” were crooks, criminals and gangstas and ghetto, then maybe JUST MAYBE African Americans wouldn’t be so hooked on the slavery issue. when white people “get over it” black people will “get over it”!! …yea everyone has dealt with discrimination at some point in time but it’s easier to pinpoint whose black and desciminate against them than it is to figure out whose jewish and discriminate against them (i say that because the first thing people say is “jewish people were discriminated against worse than African Americans were”)…and oh yea Im African American and i’m a senior in a predominately white school and i consider myself to be a respectable and educated person. You say if you act decent then people will want to help you but sometimes that just doesn’t cut it…but i agree that there are worse things in the world so EVERYONE SHOULD STOP BEING RACIST and close minded because just like i will never know what it is like to white, hispanic, asian, indian, etc, others (including you) will never know what its like to be black..I WISH THE WORLD WAS COLOR BLIND!!(*wishful thinking*)

  • ….

    White people are evil and won’t own up to all this being their faults, you should have never taken them out of their natural environment

  • Chad

    Small sole proprietor. The first year I didn’t eat well, simple foods and struggled to get by. Now 6 years later I make enough to pay for my own dental, medical, cars, food, everything is covered on my dime. not once have I ever collected unemployment or received “MONEY FOR NOTHING” I had to WORK FOR IT to get where I am at today.. about 4 years of hard work to get decent to good income. The problem is, nobody wants to “work for it” and they all want everything for nothing.. SICK.

  • David Axelrod

    Ni ggers … They’re why Africa is Africa and they’re why America’s inner-cities are violent cesspools. Way too many ni ggers are low IQ, sub-human POSs.

  • David Axelrod

    Wake up America!! Ni ggers are ruining our country.

  • John West

    I live as far from these Hutu and Tutsi as possible. You are right in what you say. These people are still in the monkey stage of evolution. I am atheist but I whole heartedly agree with one nation under god. The Christian god is peace and love and that’s what I want too. And it is time to get harsh and do what it takes.

  • Chukkal

    How many of these folks collect food stamps?

  • DaveAgain

    More than likely most people buying these stupid things see it as a way to instantly triple what they pay for it on Craigslist or eBay. Nike and Jordan must be laughing all the way to the bank at these idjits.

    Go to any city’s Craigslist and search for Jordan Concord…Now they’re even trying to undercut each other there. What would be hilarious is when the going price gets to the retail price – or below.

    $10 worth of vinyl and glue. $5.00 for labor. What an investment. IT’s amazing the things people impart with synthetic value.

  • DaveAgain

    @Who Me?

    “And now you all seem so shocked. This what we all allowed to happen with being PC and supposedly dumbing down our educational system so those not qualified can get degrees in such useful pursuits as Journalism or English Literature or Cultural Sensitivity. Take that and get a job in the real world. Like NOT.

    Carl Marx clearly stated in the Communist Maestro the way to take over a county is to destroy the education, devalue the currency and destroy the family and religion so the State becomes all powerful we must worship for survival. ”

    Did you mean KARL Marx, and Communist MANIFESTO?

    Just checking…

  • abrevaderci

    Out come the racists? Drudge people. Oh, I understand. The drudge people engineered the black riots all over the country over a pair of shoes. There is no racism here. LOOK AT THE PICTURES. What do you think “Those drudge people” photoshoped them. The must have colored all the whites with black face? The black community is a literal titanic. Which is proven by how they devour (that means to eat frantically) each other. The point is white racism is a bugaboo on which blacks blame everything. The comical part is that blacks prey on each other the most. They are destroying themselves from within, all the while whining about whitey and how he is suppressing them. When (not if) the public tit is finally pulled from their bloated and gorged mouths, they will make war. But they will make it on themselves. Like in EVERY black riot from LA 64 to LA 91 to today’s SNEAKER riot. They will burn down their local shops, homes and businesses. They will only band together when they see some poor white truck driver they can assault driving through some intersection. And the other races will sit and watch on TV. Until they run out of fellow blacks to murder and rob. Then they will try (I say try) and pour out of the inner city to make war on the burbs. Problem is. The burbs are well educated, well organized and well armed. The idiots won’t be able to read a friggen street sign to navigate. When the gummint money dries up. Be prepared.

  • Jomama

    beedogs, dude, there were white folks in line too…geez….race card…easy way out when you don’t understand what’s really going on…and by the way you must have hit Drudge to find this

  • Lou Jones

    Jackals on the Corner

    Dancin on their hands
    and takin in the scene.

    Well lookee here– sweet stuff
    let us looka you– my my my
    we be liken your swish
    what a pretty little walk
    that’s mighty fine booty
    and that swoosh– whoa
    we diggin those fine Jordans
    but yo sweet thing
    whatcha doin on our turf?

    Jackals on the corner
    the alpha takes the lead
    circles round and round
    an evil fist of hate
    delivers expert blows
    a body doubles over
    lungs evacuating air
    scream– suck suck suck.

    Jackals on the corner
    ignorant fist of brass
    takes its turn in line
    shatters jaw and cheek
    a body drops in ugly swoon
    down down down.

    Blurry brownstone witness
    leaf-dead ficus on the stoop
    windows squeak– quickly shut
    taxi slows– speeds away
    sidewalk cracks a skull.

    Jackals on the corner
    fever full unleashed
    whomp whomp whomp
    servile boots attack
    ribs splinter– lungs collapse
    one last sigh
    a battered body yields
    nothing left to do.

    Jackals on the corner
    carryin their load
    lookin left and right.
    ——
    Dumpster in the alley
    life rises in release
    innocence reaches out—
    brilliant in the light
    an angel reaches back.

    Dumpster in the alley
    a hallowed sepulcher.

    Jackals on the corner
    dancin on their hands
    and takin in the scene.

    Brownstone witness
    Jordans on the stoop.

    (When, oh when will we stop destroying one another for the most trivial of reasons)?

  • Peter Goezinya

    Well… Bunch of Silverback apes without the hair….

  • Tyraquisha

    Days all be Gyphun and sheeit. Plus day bees invent’n da light bulb.

  • RUFUS LEVIN

    PLANET OF THE APES

  • LaMercedeslexus-isha

    Avoid the knee grows. They are a black plague upon any civilized society. Best to avoid any contact with them. Unfortunately, many of them are the only ones who have any money due to the free rent and EBT they receive. We are all broke. They seem to be riding pretty high right now. It won’t last though. It’s funny how they ALWAYS live up to the stereotypes and they always will. Humans will eventually get wise and take action. Eventually.

  • Fatty Mcbutters

    so much christmas cheer on this blog, it warms my heart,think ill put it all on a xmas card for next year.

  • Mark of the wild West

    Must be a KWANZA thing!!!

  • McGruff

    The concepts of civility and law & order are simply too much for some people.

  • cleo48

    I so bad; I so coo; you smell my feet right thu dat shoe.

  • miquee

    Blacks have not always acted so poorly.The last 30 years have changed the black community for the worse. I no longer feel safe visiting friends I have known for 40 years because of the youth gangs in their nieghborhood. They visit me instead and feel welcome and safe. Liberals have caused more racism than ever and destroyed the black family

  • Tyraquisha

    Days all be Gypshun and sheeit. Plus day bees invent’n da light bulb.

  • Chad E

    In 2005 I lost my Job.. Instead of turning into a leech I decided to do something about it. I started my venture as a sole proprietor about 2 weeks after the job loss. During the first 3 years I made just enough to eat, provide a roof over my head and drive around in vehicles that barely stayed together. The first year or two I sold off the little I had when money was depleted. Now 6 years later the HARD WORK has paid its dividends. During the entire time everything I had and got was paid for 100% on my dime. I never took out a loan, received unemployment, stamps, health care etc.. I am now 100% out of debt thanks to my decision of deciding to “WORK FOR A LIVING” and earn it. Almost everyone else wants everything for nothing it seems. I am able to take care of myself complety 100% on my dime.. including medical and dental.. a couple more years, I will be able to do it for a family.. The price I paid: 6 years of my life of hard work and earning it.
    Monetary Value: Priceless

  • CalFord

    Drudge people are just saying it like it is and not hiding behind PR BS like the local cowards have been programmed to do.

  • good

    Once the war states there won’t be any talk. Only gunfire.

  • Ron

    The Obama voters is running wild!

    Why do Democrats always play the race card when confronted with obvious facts?

  • CalFord

    BeeDogs, so now the excuse of people like you is “Drudge”. All the anti-Drudge people seem to not challenge the facts but instead resort to finger pointing. And picking on spelling is the ultimate got-no-point commenter.

    You do not have to live in PA to know the destructive power of the black community. This problem now curses every major city.

  • right flank

    The answer of course is yes they will! It is the prevalent culture of the Democratic Party’s voter base. Anarchy in shopping equals illegal anarchy in voting. It just comes natural.

  • john Hernik

    They were FUGLY shoes when they dropped in 95 and their still FUGLY now. LOL
    ugly shoes for fat ass ugly people LOL.

  • sailordude

    Reading this made me think of the Cheech and Chong song Basketball Jones.
    I’m NOT on the same wavelength as black Americans, to bust into a store 3 hours before opening time for some shoes, I mean you have GOT to have a Basketball Jones to do that! Heres the cartoon of it on youtube

  • jake

    air jordans are ugly. not sure how they sell.

  • Bombastic

    So, it’s been 10 years since it dropped and everybody wants that shoe like it’s a culture that everybody has got to have it,” said Mason.

    Which totally explains Black, monolithic voting patterns as well. It’s a culture where Group-think rules a great many actions..

  • Polly

    It be da man’s fault. If da be nuff shoes to go aroun, we not hafta riot, ya no wha I’m tryin ta say?

  • RaceWarReady

    Nothing but black trash… disgusting. I am surprised they arent flinging poo.

  • John Yaya

    The same ones who are battling for these shoes will be first in line for a free handout at the local church, first in line for free heating assistance, first in line for a Bridge Card and so forth. Where do they get this kind of money for these shoes anyway?

  • crypticguise

    Blacks have turned into what bigots have been calling them, savages. Why don’t poor whites riot for “sneakers”?

    Detroit and all inner-city communities with an overwhelmng majority of blacks have turned into cesspools of fatherless savages.

    When will this stop?

  • RaceWarReady

    And we considder you trash, garbage to be disposed of without thought.

  • Willy Brown

    Ghetto rats what would you expect? “Hope and Change”…..

  • matt

    I dare say the new Star Wars game that just came out a few days ago had just as many fanatics waiting for the release so they could go out and get it for Christmas and for the life of me I don’t remember reading about any of this idiotic behavior. I don’t even pity the bleeding heart, PC milquetoasts who come on here and cry racism when the true issue is the absolute meltdown of morals and decent human behavior amongst a certain sector of the black population in this country. I wonder how enlightened these people will feel when their home gets invaded, car broken into/jacked or randomly assaulted in the street just for being white? Remember those platitudes when you get your skull clubbed from behind, always from behind. Too bad there isn’t a stupid plague in this country we sure could use a thinning of the herd.

  • Cam

    That is why no one actually laces the shoes all the way or ties them. – It is so you can jettison them and run when someone tries to kill you over them.

  • gladeye

    We need to hate and ridicule or way through these kinds of things.

  • cleo48

    when the world is brown
    and the white man’s gone
    Who’ll feed your kids
    and carry on?
    The Chinese of course
    So go out and play
    they’ll make you shoes
    but you have to pay.

  • Bill

    Why is it always africans? Also they are believed to be o’sama o’bama supporters. Dis be our culture.

  • Seenit

    Anybody ever watch teen mom?

  • Dy Moocherz

    Execute all felons will save trillions, saves society.

    Locking up felons or letting them go is not the answer. Death is the answer.

    When the bad half of the American population is gone, maybe then, we can start living like brothers and sisters.

    Execute all felons.

  • Chip

    This is the result of the basketball culture created and orchestrated by the you know who. It’s the only fake hero’s the blacks have. God knows they’ve contributed NOTHING to humanity whatsoever since they aren’t even humans. Just be glad it’s the malls being attacked. Guess who owns the malls. No loss.

    I hope all you white folks have a wonderful black-free Christmas and a happy black-free year. And don’t spend any money at the mall!! LOL.

  • Mmmoocherz

    Execute all felons and make Soylent Green out of them
    to feed the unwilling to work welfare moochers at the FEMA camps.

  • Chuck Spears

    Why are Obama supporters always acting like wild animals?

  • DS

    The racist overtones (not even undertones) are unconcionable. These are all of society’s problems, and they can be fixed by good leaders, common sense, and outcome-based programs.

    The worse crimes here are the very un-Christian opinions expressed by all these commenters. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

    And before you call me a liberal or any other epithets – I’m likely going to be a Romney voter, I make $200K/year ($350K/household), and I’m damn glad to pay my taxes.

  • R

    Considering the racial remarks of these comments, In every society there seems to be a caste system., In India the Hindus may look similar, but they are divided into untouchables, merchants, soldiers, and priests. In China the Han majority rules over many smaller ethnic groups. In England one can tell another’s social position by the manners and speech of each individual. Black culture in Africa currently has a hero-worship of criminal strongmen and a prejudice against women, with slavery still in existence. Islam has its warring factions of Sunni and Shiites. Russians are still squeezing the slavery of serfdom out of their culture. Federal Diversity has forced the population into individual entitled groups. From equal opportunity, to affirmative action, to currently SDG’s (Socially Disadvantaged Groups), Federal Government has bent over backwards to try to please everyone, and in the process has pleased no one in the long run, and has incurred a $15 trillion debt. All should treat people as individuals, not as equals, but with equal rights in a society, without preferences.

  • mikeymike61

    When the USA finally has its honest discussion about race,
    it will not be a very pleasant discussion.

  • Wonja Blohwme

    race relations at an all timelow thanks to obama and holder

  • Steve Hollar

    I see the morons have replied to you with their typical racist remarks. Yes, there are huge problems in the black community. This man, Mayor Nutter is right on. He is what I call a role model. His voice should be heard every day in every black community across the country. If the problems are not addressed and remedied soon, we are going to have major problems. Let’s just hope that more Mayor Nutter’s step forward. I’m still watching this. I love this guy.

  • cm

    my only pair of tennis shoes is 7 years old.
    yes, i still wear them.
    i bought them with money i EARNED, not money from the gubbamint.
    working teaches you the value of a dollar, & the value of things you purchase.

  • docfjs

    Yes all this for a pair of sneakers.
    You know before LBJ’s “war on poverty” and all the other welfare programs, the Black community had a lower rate of out of wedlock births than the white. Black communities used to have a strong identity and were dominated by the local churches. Now after 50 years of liberal handouts and policies designed to destroy the family, Blacks have finally achieved a dependency level unmatched even by American Indians.
    I am not a racist, but those videos make me uncomfortable.
    No wonder Liberals can buy the Black vote. Just give them sneakers.

  • JOSE

    YOUR RIGHT BUT IT SEEMS MOST ARE JUST SELF CENTERED TALKING MONKEYS WITH ENTITLEMENT ATTITUDES

  • Jerry

    I have a black friend whom I have been trying to convince to rent the vacant house closest to ours. It would be an improvement to our neighborhood to have this honorable, honest, and clean human being move in. He is as disgusted by this behavior as any of the commentators on this blog. That said, there is no denying the violence emanating from black neighborhoods with a deep sense of entitlement. I do not believe it is because of their race, but because of the embrace of the democrat plantation and gangster culture. I would hate for a race war to break out as many innocents from all races will suffer the consequences.

  • Tyrone Anderson

    The video from Mayor Nutter was presented back in August. Nothing has changed……. in fact I believe it is actually worst. We need strong Black leadership NOW!!!!!!

  • jon

    Evidence of a failed culture that values a pair of shoes over human life and dignity

  • El gato

    From the photo I can see that it’s the negro women at it again! I thought the negroes of Detroit were poor. How can they be buying these overpriced tennis shoes? Are they nuts?

  • Tyrone

    How about a side order of small pox with those shoes …. What? Too obvious?

  • no

    All of this idiocy over AIR JORDANS? ***AIR JORDANS***???? What is this, 1989??!?!?

  • sailordude

    I agree with you. It must go back to the slave culture. Why havn’t people researched this theory? It seems very credible to me.

  • sailordude

    They are only $100 to $200 dollars. Thats not very much money.

  • anthony

    Jerry Springer show, dang… popcorn anyone?

  • Buck Ofama

    Grade: D.

    ALL liberalism is a mental disorder.

  • NopeNope

    We should pass a law that racists arent allowed to post online. YepYep.It looks so backwards and ugly on us as a nation.
    And if its good for the economy as blacks purchase a high percentage of merchandise thats never going to happen anyway.
    This is supply, demand, and appeal to a community. I dont like the situation, and you might not understand the importance of shoes on status in the black community (Similar to a fresh car, girls are often taught to look at shoes first, its not good but leads to more shoe obsession and collectors). If it was a bunch of whites beating eachother up over the last furby at a walmart I suppose you’d think it was perfectly normal.

  • Jo

    Also see how these young black people are changing their perspectives…bottom line: the black community IS waking up… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fyRVa4lzRo&feature=player_embedded

  • Jo

  • Raymond

    @beedogs, I wouldn’t be lecturing people on how they spell. You can’t even spell the “3rd word on the second line right.” There are ways of getting around spelling the word, but I guess you being hateful, you couldn’t figure that out!

  • rob

    I wonder how many of these shoes were bought with welfare money–Sad state of the nation

  • teddyballgame

    Freaking hilarious

  • Raymond

    So I guess that you want to start “censoring people,” huh? I hate to “rain on your parade,” but you can’t “pass a Law” if people want to make themselves look foolish. I also want to point out that “Racism” knows no Cultural, Racial, Religious, and/or National Boundries. So you’re grasping for straws. In ither words, If a person(s) want to make themselves look stupid, you can’t “pass a Law” against it! Thought that You might want to know.

  • Fred P.

    Let me ask a question….

    Who do you think the majority of these looters and purveyors are? Liberals or conservatives?

    I rest my case. Lock ‘emup!

  • beedogs

    No, CalFord, Drudge readers are just awful racist pieces of garbage. They can go “tell it like it is” on StormFront.

  • tada

    Just be thankful they aren’t made elsewhere.

  • Presley

    I suppose being hand crafted in China, it has more value to it.

  • Michelle Washington

    your right stereotypes come from truths like Why have the Caucasion ethnicity been hell bent on destroying/breeding each and every culture it comes across
    why is it they are the only ones who separate themselves from he rest of the world and play make believe like they are god like , why do whites go postal when losing a job ? rape molest children females destroy economies and lives (proven fact)
    why is is white are trying to kick immigrants out of this country when they themselves are immigrants lol its amazing the things people say but like you say stereotypes come from truths

  • Annie

    Michelle, you clearly dont know your history or facts. The biggest destroyers of culture have been the Ottomans (Turks/Mulstims) and Africans- look what they do to their own cultures and who do you think sold the negroes into slavery? The black tribal cheiftans, that’s who. And they sold them to anyone- and they do to this day. Caucasions (e.g. Anglos) were the ONLY, and still are the ONLY group that Constitutionally outlawed slavery. Next, you say Caucasions want to keep out anyone whose different then you say we are a nation of immigrants. That’s right! See the problem with your arguement? What we do not like or want and what NO BODY wants is when any culture brings the WORST elements of their culture into a society and refuses to drop it. And that goes for everyone, Irish, italians, jews, EVERYONE. All enslaved, all had to work their way up with NOT ONE LIVE GIVING THEM ANY PROTECTION AND/OR ENTITLEMENT. So, drop the BS. No one can stand it and you are not helping your race, cause or all of our society.

  • http://centralstandardtimes.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/a-new-reason-to-riot/ A New Reason to Riot « The Central Standard Times

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  • WHAT A RIPOFF

    JUNK SHOES FROM CHINA …. WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY …. THIS IS A JOKE AND SO IS JORDAN

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