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.

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.

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

race relations at an all timelow thanks to obama and holder

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.

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

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?

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

Jerry Springer show, dang… popcorn anyone?

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

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!

[...] last-minute shopping or other Christmas chores to follow the news, a spate of fistfights, gunfire, rioting and near-rioting occurred at shopping malls across the country on Friday when the Nike shoe company [...]

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

[...] Rampage: Shoppers waiting for shoe release riot, break into mall [...]

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Gimme some of dem Obamabucks man!

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.)

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

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,

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.

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….

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

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.

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

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.

Gift tree? What the hell is a gift tree?

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.

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.

Well… Bunch of Silverback apes without the hair….

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!!!!!!

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

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

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.

GIT DAT OBAMA MONEY!

KILL WHITEY!

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

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.

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

liberal Pu$$Y probly voted for HObama

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Maybe Jane Goodall can figure this out.

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

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?

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.

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

The camera doesn’t lie!!!

LOL….

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.

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

Sounds like the facts as they are…..

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

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

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.

@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!

Grade: D.

ALL liberalism is a mental disorder.

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