Posted on 12/30/2011 10:07:06 AM PST by happilymarriedmom
A group of pastors and community activists from the Houston area have taken to the airwaves to complain about the irresponsibility of Nike and Michael Jordan. What have they done that is so terrible? It seems that they created a product that people want to buy. While I am not sure why people would go to such extremes to get overpriced footwear, these shoes are, indeed, valued by many people who will do most anything to get them.
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Interesting how animals will kill themselves over the dumbest things.
It's not the product, it's the culture!
You don't see this crap happening when the new I-Phones or I-Pads come out, but that's a different culture of people.
Really?
When the iPhone 4 came out I was all fists and elbows whirling like a dervish to get mine.
Do you think that's why everyone was staring at me?
Well, it's a good thing they're not trying! Because they are failing miserably.
michael jordan is becoming rich at the
expense of those who idolize him.He is like a crack-dealer having people
kill others to get the product.Nike is like the Columbian Cartel.
The shoes could not cost more than $20 in China.
Well, the Apple nuts do line up for hours and spend lots of money on i-phones and i-pads. The difference is few of them brawl in the Apple stores and few of them kill each other for the products. If one is robbed for an i-phone, the robber is more likely to be a druggie than an Apple fan.
Plenty of dysfunction to spread around. He pegs it about as well as anybody, that the shoe is a crazy status symbol in the ghetto crowd because it is both costly and is reminiscent of the endorsing athletes who actually did do something with their lives, in which the shoe wearers vicariously participate. This is a human failing, not a failing of skin hue. Other people in other cultures might flash Rolexes.
It’s easy to say that Nike should close itself down or make itself into a bargain brand. Maybe there are depths of silly abuse of luxury by those who can ill afford it, to which even conscientious capitalists should not stoop. But that is going to have to come from people’s consciences, not from a jackboot government that engineers “fairness.” Markets may be amoral, but trying to police every possible aspect of morality through government is worse.
Chevy and Jack Daniels are not responsible for drunk drivers
S&W and Revere Cullery are not responsible for Charles Manson
Ask yourself the question; in all the Air Jordan fights, in the flash mobs, in the Mall of America riots, what is the one constant?
Very quietly, with any media attention quashed, the election of Obama enlaged an ready huge sense of entitlement ..... in whom?
Surely Jordan himself can’t completely divorce himself from the issue, though existing endorsement contracts with Nike may make it difficult for him to speak out about the abuses associated with the culture. I don’t know if, for example, Nike routes some of its profits into athletic scholarships, or offers discounts for good report cards — maybe they do for all I know — but moves like this might make it more declasse’ to simply steal the shoes, and more proper to acquire them the normal way. Again it’s going to have to be private action from private conscience. Nobody should be forcing Nike or Jordan to do this.
Didn’t someone try to popularize an Obama shoe? It flopped.
Quanell “X” is a racist pinhead looking for a payout.
Whatever Nike and Jordan do, paying off this poverty pimp should be the last thing on their list.
And your point is?
I expect Maxine Waters to demand the government give her $200 bucks for each one of her constituents to buy a pair of Airhead Mikey’s unless Barack the Kenyan decides to just issue a pair to everybody. As we all know, the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to a free pair of Air Jordans.
Prices are set at what the customer is willing to pay...If no one bought the shoes, the prices would drop like a hot potato....Its the fault of those that pay that much money for the item...not Jordan or Nike. Put the blame where it belongs...the buyer.
Horse pucky to these pastors. They should be preaching to the people in the pews not to buy the stuff...
Made mostly in Indonesia. For $8. Saw a documentary and the Nike CEO is a very wealthy man but would rather pay kids overseas to make his shoes and sell them here for stupidly high prices that sub-humans would kill regular humans for, than to provide jobs to Americans and sell the product at a competitive price.
When questioned about it he said “Americans don’t want to make shoes.”
Huh?
Didn’t someone try to popularize an Obama shoe? It flopped.
But everyone said they felt very light.
Again, its always someone else’s fault as if they are somehow unable to accept personal responsibility.
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