Welcome to the Party, the Coronation of "The King"; and what Kingdom would be complete without making you pay some dues you peasants. You see, the time has come for King James to truly pillage and leave the Urban landscape covered in shell casings and broken IPhones because there WILL be blood. Major Cities are arming to the teeth with Homeland Security and FEMA Cops in anticipation of something financially going down next Spring that will force Marshall Law-but hey I'm just hating right?. I mean we do owe it to Lebron to look the other way while NIKE charges 315$ for the new "Lebron X" this fall, we must sacrifice our young underprivileged black males on his alter because well because he won 16 basketball games. Stephon Marbury tried to make sense of all of this years back because he remembered the economic destruction Michael Jordan caused in his hood growing up, but Steph forgot to WIN so now his crazy idea of affordable kicks is jumping off in China-where they own our debt. You see this financial collapse we are experiencing is hitting young black males 16-24 harder than anyone and these young men are the ones more likely to identify with name brands, these are the people who defend Lebron because they love him. Alot of these young men are broken and without appropriate male role models and priorities, Rappers/Ballers and the Theology of Big Money is raising them. The NBA routinely markets gear to those who cant afford to be there, if you live in the hood you cant sit at Airlines Arena next to the uber tanned/white linen wrapped douche bags...but you can get some Lebron kicks. Nike says they "have" to bump everything up 5-10% but i would imagine what they actually pay labor would put a pair of "X's" on layaway for 10 years. When the shoes hit the market they will continue the grotesque history of high ticket items becoming status symbols and worthy of any type of behaviour to acquire that symbol in the poorest neighborhoods. If the shoes "blow up" compare the immediate haul to the contribution made to that random Connecticut Boys and Girls Club when Lebron decided to take his talents to South Beach and tell me if it makes sense. He will be ferociously defended because a lot of his constituency live in an alternative world where all they need is for someone to discover them and they will get paid, many of them don't know that there are College Grads who are stuck at home with mom in this climate. He just gettin his hustle on right? while the first black boy shot because he wont "come up off of them X's" fades into obscurity...another "lil homie" who ain't here. Lebron cant be that naive', i refuse to believe someone so macro visioned on the court, so cognizant of marketing and doing things differently than his predecessors is so tone def. I prefer to believe this is a part of an overall game plan to become a Billionaire and what better way than to blow out profit margins in conjunction with some shit that he (excuse my wording) should have been done did. He will retreat further into isolation and those who "have" will weave rationalizations into sacred Rights to make a living and the denunciation of envy, none of it will quell the desire of the young man who just has to have the shoes by any means necessary.Not only is Lebron 1/6th of MJ at this time, he's surely not in the same class as a bloodless money making cyborg . MJ took your money and didn't whine about not being loved, Lebron WILL TWEET YOU once little black boys start beating the hell out of one another in front of Footlicker..i mean Footlocker. MJ never uttered the word Villain, Lebron seems obsessed with the word and rode the propagandized wave created by "Whinamian"s for a whole year. Lebron knows Motion Sensors and gizmo's that measure your vertical are useless in Basketball shoes, that the Market is hostage to the trendsetters, he knows what goes on with young Black Males in regards to the shoes because not too long ago he was ONE OF THEM. He could call the Oregon AD, He even knows what is about to go down in the streets because he speaks with Billionaires regularly, the problem is the same problem folks had with him a year ago. He knew better, he knows full well the impact the shoes can have with young black men-the problem is he DON'T CARE. And that's what you should consider Hating him for, not because he left one Billionaire to Play a Game for another.
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