BOBBEE BEE: JUST DONT DO IT-

JUST DONT DO IT-

by eric d.graham

We are in a Sneaker War. Remember that....So, for all you so-called Sneakerheads, who will stand in line for 24 hours in order to purchase a pair of limited edition sneakers for $500 or more...…Understand, buying a pair of Nike sneakers or selling them, for that matter, is not a revolutionary act.

Just ask- the 13 UNC football players, who had to learn this the hard way- when they were suspended for four games for selling school-issued Jordan brand sneakers to local boutiques "for as much as $2,500 in cash."

Seriously, purchasing a pair of Nike sneakers does not defeat White Supremacy. Why? Because, we, again, are in a sneaker war which is build on the struggles of Black poverty and the increase of white wealth, who utilizes our swag, style, good-looks, bodies, and style- for capital gain.

See, in the spirit of OJ Simpson, the ultimate pitchman, endorsement deals and shoe contracts- are designed to infiltrate and commercialize the consciousness of all Black athletes, while stripping them of their Blackness in order to make THEM money and sell THEIR products.

Hence, the recent Just Do It Nike commercial starring Colin Kaepernick, which increased the shoe company's digital sales 36% , while raising its stock 6.25 percent, and adding $6.38 billion to the company's value left us with nothing but another slogan and another feel good moment to be reposted on Facebook.

For, Business is warfare, if you didn't know. Because, Nike could easily have built a shoe factory in any impoverished neighborhood in the states, while paying them livable wages instead of producing these cheap jays overseas and exploiting the people with another overpriced product.

But, they are driven by profit not the people. See, Nike wanted to neutralize Kaepernick by changing his narrative and diversifying his original protest against police brutality.

Honestly, have we already forgotten about the community members, who confronted a circle of police in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood over a "bait truck" filled with Nike shoes, which were allegedly left open by police aiming to lure potential (thieves) in a sting operation designed to arrest Black youth?

Have we forgotten the Adidas JS Roundhouse Mids, which caused an uproar on-line in 2012, because of their plastic “shackles” that many felt resembled those worn by slaves and inmates along with Adidas pitchman Kanye West's recent foolish- Slavery is a choice comment on TMZ.

Yes, we are in a Sneaker War, where LaVar Ball, the Crown Prince of Chino Hills, upset the sneaker world last year when he decided to design his own signature shoe for his son Lonzo under their Big Baller Brand logo. Or, Stephon Marbury, who attempted to build his own Sneaker Empire $30 at a Time to rival the Nike and Reebok shoe monopoly.

The former NBA point guard, in fact, has said and tweeted several times over the past year that Nike and "Michael Jordan have been robbing the hood,” for years while claiming that their pricey $120 basketball shoes are no different than his ($15-$45 )Starbury sneakers that he sells out of China.

Well, recently, we learnt that Marbury was telling the truth like Kat Williams.

Why? Because, according to recent police records, a counterfeit operation, containing a half million pair of generic Nike Air Jordan's, worth $70 million, ran by five individuals:, Miyuki Suen, Jian Min Huang, Songhua Qu, Kin Lui Chen and Fangrang Qu, who were later charged with counterfeit trafficking conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit goods- took the counterfeit Jordan's from China, and added the Jump Man logo on the merchandise in Brooklyn and Queens, before distributing and selling them.

Each defendant faces a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison

As reported by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) last year, international trade of counterfeit goods represented upwards of 2.5 percent of overall world trade, or $461 billion, in 2013, in which Rolex, Ray Ban, Louis Vuitton, and of course, Nike, are brands that "seem to be more intensely targeted by counterfeiters..."

by eric d.graham (fouls & fumbles) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: PRAYER & MEDITATION

"He departed to the mountain to pray." Mk 6:46 NKJV

NOONTIME SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR TODAY

Before the (one they called Jesus) walked on the Sea of Galilee. He climbed a mountain to be alone with His Father in prayer or meditation. He left the demands of the crowd at sunset, prayed until dawn, then came down the mountain in the power of the Most High and stilled a raging storm.

Wouldn't you love to know how He prayed that night? (Matthew 6:9–13)

Prayer/meditation is a mountain; you have to climb it. "Peter and John went up together ….at the hour of prayer"( Ac 3:1). If you wait until you feel like it, you won't pray/meditate consistently. It's a discipline.

And the more you pray/meditate, the more you want to meditate, and the more rewarding it becomes. But, first you must turn your back on the "crowd."

Because, the Christ-figure knew how to walk away from life's demands and distractions, He was able to still the storm that threatened His disciples. So before you get caught up in the daily rat race, go to the mountain (Higher Consciousness) of prayer& meditation-that quiet place in your mind.

Why? Because, it's a place of stability in an uncertain world; a place were the view is unobstructed and the frantic pace of life is left behind.

There you gain perspective. There the Christ-Consciousness within you- reminds you that there is nothing you 'll face today, tomorrow or in the future that you can't handle-with the Grace of The Most High. (See) its easy to recognize people who've been to the mountain of prayer or the mountain top as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. beautifully said.

Because, you can see their inner peace, even in the eye of the storm. Their struggles, however, are no different from yours-some are even more challenging.

But, they had an inner peace that transcended family problems, health concerns, budgetary shortfalls, and hurricanes.

You can endure hard times with Grace when you know that the summit is just a prayer away! (Source: Word of Today) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: CHOICES?

"Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.”

by Jeffrey X Barnes

Deliberate decision making is a life skill that must be taught. Our lives are the sum total of all the choices we have made and will make. But what does decision really mean? Have you ever considered the root word in decide? It’s “cide”. Cide originates from the Latin word caedere meaning “to kill”. Here are some other words that have the same root:
Homocide
Suicide
Genocide
Pesticide
Fungicide
There are hundreds more, but the point is they all mean to cut off or kill something. So when we decide, what are we killing? We are killing off all of the other options. Our decisions can either kill progress or stagnation.

From the movie soundtrack (GUCCI BAG) and album Evolution of an MC: Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems Vol.2

BOBBEE BEE: THE ARREST OF A TRAP GOD-EL CHAPO GUZMAN pt.2

THE ARREST OF A TRAP GOD-EL CHAPO GUZMAN pt.2

The arrest of Chris Baines, a local drug dealer, known by the DEA as a Traveling Vice Lord, a gang — on the West Side of Chicago, sprung a 13-month investigation, which led to the imprisonment of Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo , who was indicted in Chicago in 2009 for exported tons of drugs to the United States via ships and submarines.

It, all began on July 3, 2007, when Baines and his cousin Charles Parker sold 50 grams of heroin — less than a cup — to a government informant, who was paid $3,500 by the DEA to infiltrate his criminal organization.

Ill-advised Baines, known as “West Side,” offered to put the informant on his “team” of heroin dealers, which led to his arrest by a DEA task force of federal agents, Chicago Police Department investigators and members of other law-enforcement agencies.

While being incarcerated, Baines refused to snitch, however, one of his associates, a higher-level dealer named Michael “Fat Mike” King, agreed to cooperate with the FEDS.

So, King, who suppliers were Pedro “Peter” Flores and Margarito “Junior” Flores, identical twin brothers, alleged members of the Latin Kings, that grew up in Chicago’s Little Village, whom were El Chapo’s main connection in Chicago, which is the supply point for international distribution to Detroit; Milwaukee; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Cincinnati and Columbus, OH; New York; Los Angeles and Vancouver, became the fall guys to this dangerous underworld of guns, gangs and drugs, by secretly recording damaging phone conversation with their supplier — the infamous Trap God, El Chapo Guzman, which became the key evidence in the 2009 federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago..

In early 2016, El Chapo was extradited to New York, the city of Mob-Buster, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, where he’s being held awaiting a trial set for November. by eric d.graham (Source:SunTimes/Don Diva)(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE TRAIL OF A TRAP GOD: EL CHAPO pt.1

THE TRAIL OF A TRAP GOD: EL CHAPO pt.1

A federal judge ruled Monday to delay the trial of accused drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman by two months.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan for the Eastern District of New York delayed the start of the trial from Sept. 5 to Nov. 5 at the request of Guzman's lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, after he received new evidence from prosecutors.

Many conspiracy theorist feel Guzman, who faces indictment for felony charges, including cocaine trafficking, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, torture, and murder, was extricated to the US as a political "goodwill gift" to Donald Trump, who threatened to build a Wall, before his inauguration ceremony on ‎January 20, 2017.

The trial for Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who smuggled unimaginable quantities of drugs from Mexico into the US, is expected to last 12 weeks.

But, shockingly, according to the HighTimes, its the testimony from two government informants, Margarito and Pedro Flores, twin brothers from Chicago, who are expected to provide the most damaging evidence against their former boss, who escaped from prison twice in Mexico.

The Flores twins, known as the turncoat twins, were trusted aides to the Sinaloa’s kingpin from 1998 to 2008, where they ran a nearly $2 billion drug ring in the Windy City, which supplied 80 percent of the cocaine sold on Chicago’s street in 2013, until a routine police stop and a half a joint in 2003 later encouraged them to turn on their Mexican supplier—El Chapo Guzman. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE NATURE OF THE THREAT (WHY, WE STILL KNEEL?)

THE NATURE OF THE THREAT (WHY, WE STILL KNEEL?)

by eric d.graham 

Jill Nelson, author of Police Brutality: An Anthology stated “The notion of the 'Black male predator' is so historically rooted in the American consciousness that we have come to accept the brutalization and murder of citizens by the police as an acceptable method of law enforcement.

The assumption is that Black men are the bad guys, the police are the good guys, and if the police killed someone it must have been for a good reason. They must have done something.”

We see evidence of this in the recent murder of Botham Shem Jean by a white Dallas off-duty police officer, Amber R. Guyger, who, according to the NY Times, claimed that she mistakenly entered the wrong apartment after returning home from her 14-hour shift and believed Mr. Jean, who was Black, was an intruder.

As a result, she fired her weapon twice, striking him once in the torso. See, this is the real reason why Colin Kaepernick took a knee in the first place. And, that Nike (Just Do It) commercial didn't change anything at all. 

This is the real Nature of the Threat. 

(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

FEAR: THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie

FEAR: THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. 

The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.

“People better wake up to what’s going on,” Woodward told “CBS Sunday Morning.” 

“You look at the operation of this White House and you have to say, ‘Let’s hope to God we don’t have a crisis.'” (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE POLITICS OF FEAR

THE POLITICS OF FEAR

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, when planes hijacked by jihadists hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, PA, hurling America into a new consciousness of the threat of global terrorism.

With that knowledge, Bob Woodward is scheduled to release his new book FEAR: Trumps In The White House on the Anniversary of 9/11.

Woodward’s forthcoming book, published by Simon & Schuster, draws on “hundreds of hours” of interviews, along with notes, files and diaries to evoke the “harrowing life” within the Trump administration.

“Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during a president’s first years in office,” one source told CNN. “It will give readers a front row seat to Trump and his time in the White House,” the source added. “You are in the Oval office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. You are face to face with Trump and the book documents detailed conversations, meetings, policy debates and critical decisions.”

Woodward’s title appears to reference a remark from a Trump interview that he conducted with colleague Robert Costa.

When asked if he concurs with then-President Barack Obama’s definition of power — “[getting] what you want without having to exert violence” — Trump expanded on the definition. “Well, I think there’s a certain truth to that… Real power is through respect,” he said, adding, “Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word: ‘Fear.’” (Source:Breitbart) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THEM DUDES FROM DUPLIN

THEM DUDES FROM DUPLIN

Congratulations!!! to Keyshawn Canady (ECU), Johnnie Glaspie (Fayetteville State), Javonte Williams (UNC) & Marcelias Sutton (Oklahoma) who are all playing college football today on national television.

Former James Kenan (RB) Marcelias Sutton will appear on Fox Network as the #6 Sooners of Oklahoma will take on the Bruins of UCLA at 1pm, while former Wallace Rose Hill Running Backs #31. Keyshawn Canady and #25 Javonte Williams face each other on ESPNU on channel 82 on Spectrum, and channel 208 on Direct TV at 3:30 pm and Johnnie Glaspie will step on the field for Fayetteville State) against Wingate at 6pm on ESPN3. (fouls & fumbles with Patrick Williams & Eric Graham (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

ECU PIRATE TIGHT END WITH DUPLIN TIES

ECU PIRATE TIGHT END WITH DUPLIN TIES

CONGRATULATIONS to #96 Tight End 6'4, 234 Pound freshman Angelo Lavonte McKinnie of Kenansville, N.C., who is the son of Carlos and Monique Roberts for joining the PIRATE NATION.

McKinnie, who attended EE Smith Middle School,was a team captain and key figure on Southwest Onslow HS’s defensive unit which rolled to a 2017 Coastal 1A/2A Conference championship with a perfect 7-0 league record, helped the Stallions to the Eastern 2A finals before finishing with an overall mark of 11-4 as a senior.

During his senior season, he was credited with 52 tackles (18 solo), 14 TFLs, 5.5 sacks, four quarterback hurries and one fumble recovery during his senior campaign to earn all-conference (first-team) honors.

Angelo, who is a strong student in the classroom, earned a membership into the National Honor Society and Beta Club, was also selected to the all-conference unit (honorable mention) as a junior and reportedly was timed at 4.9 in the 40-yard dash, while participating in the 2017 Shrine Bowl Combine in Kinston, N.C. (fouls & fumbles with Patrick Williams & Eric Graham)

BOBBEE BEE:KAEPERNICK-DEAL OR NO DEAL

Is the new Nike commercial featuring Colin Kaepernick a Big Deal or a Big Deal?
by eric d.graham

Dr. Umar Johnson says "What they can NOT stop; they co-op." What does this mean? By definition co-opting means to divert or use in a role different from the original idea.

Therefore, did Nike pay for Colin's political silence? Did they hi-jack the original reason for us protesting in the first place?

Therefore, has our Black outrage against police brutality been transformed into a white capitalist wet dream in order to sell us an emotional commercial about diversity and buying shoes?

Seriously, you can't have a revolution sponsored by Nike. The marketing team at Nike, truthfully, turned Black Lives Matters to All Lives Matter. And, now, Only Money Matters.

Consider the fact that, on Tuesday, before the release of this commercial, Nike and the NFL extended their partnership for 8 years-from 2020 to 2028, where all (32) teams will wear the swoosh on game day.

Remember, money is used to neutralize revolutions as well as individuals in order for the status quo to maintain its power. Never forget this

...Because, the new Nike commercial seeks praise and profit-not justice. And, while the financial details of the NFL deal haven't been released yet, the Nike deal with the NBA was reportedly worth $1 billion for eight years.

So, while Kaepernick might have a good heart, this commercial is simply a stimulus package. Because, money with no politics equals another powerless Negro with an afro.

Lets not forget..there are no mention of Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling or police brutality during this commercial.

This is fantasy football.
Because, the game is fixed.
Plus, all of these Nike sweatshops are working with and for the NFL. And, white capitalism doesn't do anything without it benefitting their self-interest. Fuck, anything and everyone else.

This is a PR stunt. Nikes well-crafted campaign pitch to sell a dream is no different than President Obamas Hope and Change Slogans.

So, Just Do It. Game recognizes game. And, you have been played-all in your feelings. Why? Because, this once grassroot protest has turned into an artificial turf made for TV movie.

Yes, it has been co-opted into another manufactured uprising, where the people care more about the burning of sneakers, the waving of a flag, the singing of an anthem than the lives of innocent Black people murdered at the hands of the police.

White Capitalism wins again-highlights on ESPN at 10. (Fouls and Fumbles) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: John McCain, Trump Derangement, and False Black Consciousness

John McCain personified the worst of United States, and his death ceremony brought out the most worthless elements of Black America.

The death of Senator John McCain was an opportune moment for the corporate media and bipartisan establishment elite to tighten their grip on public opinion and simultaneously attack Donald Trump, the man they can’t trust to do their bidding. It wasn’t difficult to do. White supremacy and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny never lurk far from the surface. It is easy to turn a white man into a saint when he is famous for dropping bombs on Asians who turned the tables when they captured and tortured him.

But there was clearly more than the usual white nationalism going on. Donald Trump is also at the heart of this story. As president of the United States, he ought to be the de facto leader of the Republican Party. But he eschewed their tradition of winks and nudges directed at their base of white voters and instead went straight for the racist jugular in his 2016 presidential campaign. He speaks to the nativist “America first” instincts with an occasional nod to their loss of status in a hyper capitalist economy. The very things which make him popular with white people make him unpopular with an establishment fearful that he won’t make good on the neoliberal and imperialist consensus of the duopoly. They are stuck with a president who may not do what they want.

Trump’s presidency makes one thing very clear about this country. Any crime, including war crimes, can be disappeared if the perpetrator follows the rules of decorum. Donald Trump is the graceless, boorish man who sees no need for a filter. He has no charm, no personal traits that give him an out. His persona clearly shows why he would separate families seeking asylum or let the wealthy pay fewer taxes. Other presidents put on a show of respectability. They couched their evil doing in terms of humanitarian need, even when they were killing people. They understood the importance of being liked on a personal basis in order to have their crimes diminished or forgotten in the court of public opinion.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is easily conjured up by a gullible population with no class identity or true political ideology. Politics is treated like a kind of religion where key players are considered good or bad. If they know how to behave in public they can be considered good. The rehabilitation of George W. Bush and John McCain proves that the bad guys can be transformed into good if someone comes along who is thought to be worse.

Even George W. Bush, who didn’t “care about black people” is rehabilitated in the Trump era. Suddenly he was “not so bad” or it was said that he really cared about the country because he wasn’t a traitor who came to office with the help of the Russians. The transformation is easy if the invasion of Iraq is opposed because it is carried out by a disliked person and not because interventions are violations of international law and are therefore criminal by definition. In the McCain deification phenomena Trump was always depicted as negatively as possible while McCain could do no wrong. Trump was disinvited from the memorial but was still criticized because he played golf when it was held. But truth wasn’t the point. Squashing the man who may put the elite system at risk was very much the issue.

Nor are black people immune from this madness. When a black man became the head of the governmental crime syndicate the black radical tradition was tossed aside as an inconvenience to the Barack Obama love fest. John McCain was deemed one of the bad guys in 2008 when he ran against Obama, but only because he was running against Obama. Congressman John Lewis compared him to George Wallace in those days. Now in the era of the bad guy president Lewis lauded McCain as “a great warrior who defended this nation’s honor in times of war and peace.” No one questioned the congressman on this bizarre inconsistency. 

The gathering at the memorial service was a who’s who of mass murder. As Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Obama, and Bush all joined in lifting up one of their confederates the coverage became more and more maudlin. The more sickening the better and the more the public ate it up.The site of Barack and Michelle Obama among the evil doers was too much for a politically immature black community to handle. When Bush handed Mrs. Obama a cough drop the corporate media pounced. Black people got the vapors along with others who once said they hated McCain and Bush.

The sight of black people eulogizing a man whose politics were so antithetical to their interests was difficult to watch. We have been transformed in the rightward shift too and erase our history and our consciousness in a sad effort to identify with a system which should always be understood as an adversary.In one of the ironies of this story Donald Trump is vilified for avoiding the draft while McCain was bombing the Vietnamese people. Of course this means that Trump didn’t kill anyone. McCain did and is now the hero to those who want to love the good guy. A cough drop from Bush can melt hearts, but Trump’s lack of a Vietnam body count is condemned.

Trump has said that the media are “the enemies of the people.” Of course he means that they are his personal enemies. But they are ours too and their coverage of McCain’s death proves it. It is a sad day when black people blather on endlessly about patriotism and killers being honorable. We can’t allow Trump or the press to make us deranged. The McCain propaganda extravaganza should be the last time that we as a people behave so dishonorably to ourselves.

BOBBEE BEE: ADIDAS SLAVE SNEAKERS

by Eric D. Graham



According to English writer, Quentin Crips, "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."If this statement is true, these brand new sneakers called the JS Roundhouse Mids are blasphemous to God's chosen people.

Because the merchants of death blatantly attempted to dress our beloved children in the most "unrighteous" garb imaginable, while preparing them, for a life of slavery and crime.

As ESPN's sports columnist Stephen A. Smith would say, "YOU ARE SO DISRESPECTFUL!!!"

Why? Because, these sick, slick, sneaky, shoe salesmen seemingly without shame or reason, tried to sell our people a product that would place them back into bondage with their new "shackle" sneaker or ankle "cuffed" tennis shoe, which were designed by Beverly Hills' fashion designer Jeremy Scott and willingly promoted by Adidas, with the tagline "Got a sneaker game so hot; you lock your kicks to your ankles."
Seriously? In 2012, with an African-American President in the Oval Office, Adidas felt it was a good idea, to debut, a pair of "chain-gang" inspired sneakers on its official Face book page, days before Juneteenth, which is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.

This s*&% is unbelievable!!!
But sadly, this new generation, who have developed a "sick" shoe fetish for sneakers in the last couple of years, probably would have stood in long lines for hours, while rioting outside of shoe stores all around the country, in order to have a chance to purchase a pair of these $300 monstrosities, if people didn't openingly express their outrage online.

Why? Because, according to the Book of Hosea 4:6, it clearly states that: My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge."

The Paraphernalia of Suffering

Therefore, if we aren't going to teach our children about their glorious past and continue to deny them an opportunity to learn about the atrocities that occurred during the Middle Passage, in fear that they will grow up hating "the oppressor, “we will be cursed forever.

And eventually, with no knowledge of self, they will become the walking billboards for bondage, while proudly advertising their own enslavement.

It is what Nathanael West described as "the Paraphernalia of Suffering."Because, these "chain-gang" laced sneakers were clearly designed to criminalize our children while promoting the Prison Industrial Complex, especially when you add these "handcuffed" sneakers, with a pair of saggin jeans, gang-related colors and a body full of tattoos.

Yes, this is a starter kit for a life time of imprisonment in America, where approximately 13 million people are introduced to the penal system annually.

But from the outside looking in, with one out of every 100 Americans serving time behind bars and a private prison industry owned by mega-corporations, these scandalous shoes probably were viewed as profitable and the perfect accessory for a generation, who are viewed as criminals. (RIP Trayvon)

Runaway Slaves

Seriously, could you imagine, if Lebron James, actually, wore a pair of these horrible "Holocaust"-inspired shoes during the NBA Finals?

With that image dribbling in your head, we have to take a second look at these "slave sneakers" and re-examine the prophetic words of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who last year stated that Cavs' owner Dan Gilbert was treating LBJ like a runaway slave. Because, it's obvious, these new shoes were subconsciously designed to put the shackles back on his feet.

I understand these shoes were not purposely designed for Lebron James alone, and he wears Nike, not Adidas. But could you imagine, an NBA basketball game, with a court full of Black players, proudly shooting jump-shots with chains around their ankles. As you ponder that thought, revisit the November 9, 1992 edition of Sports Illustrated with Charles Barkley on the cover dressed as a slave.

I mean, every time I look at this shoe, my mind is mentally molested.
Because these sneakers, metaphorically spit directly in the face of our ancestors, who were shackled and chained in the bowels of slave ships during the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.

And despite Scott's claim that he got the idea from a "stuffed animal," he knew damn-well that these shoes were offensive.

Plus, somebody on the Adidas's marketing team, advertisement department, or board of directors, had to know that these sneakers would be viewed as insulting to the descendents of African slaves.

Yet, they decided to manufacture these God-awful shoes anyway.
Therefore, we shouldn't accept any of their weak "a**" apologies.
Matter of fact, we should simply boycott all products by Adidas following this ultimate sign of disrespect.In other words, shut these devils down.

Why? Because, Adidas evidently, viewed our children as slaves and our precious Black bodies, as soulless mannequin, which they thought, they could "devilishly" dress up and parade in the streets like "walking zombies" for the world to mock and laugh at, without us complaining.
FUGITIVE OF FASHION

With no evidence, nobody can convince me otherwise, that these capitalistic con-men and marketing manipulators, weren't trying to camouflage slavery with corporate coolness by making us look like a bunch of fugitives.

That's why I believe, these sneakers are an extension of Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which was a law passed by Congress that allowed slave hunters to capture an (escapee) and arrest him/her without a warrant in any territory or state and turn him or her over to a claimant on nothing more than a sworn testimony of ownership. The Black suspects, being unjustly obtained, however, could not ask for a jury trial nor testify on his or her behalf.

With that said, mentally fast forward yourself in 2012, while imagining our children, who have become fugitives to fashion, with shackles on their feet" in New York City, where the NYPD's STOP AND FRISK policy has stopped and temporarily detained over 650,000 Black and Latino men without probable cause and searched them.


Therefore, I am extremely proud of all the people who STOOD THEIR GROUND and prevented these sneakers from ever becoming a part of our children's everyday wardrobe.

However, this fight is not over.

Because, somewhere, in another sweatshop overseas, they are probably making another shoe even more heinous than these.