let me tell you a story i used to work at a nike store in the early 2000's
some of you young brehs might not remember but fashion had some
hard racial boundaries for a lot of the population not everyone. I remember back to school shopping, helping white parents pick out shoes and a white kid says verbatim to his mother on the phone that those are "black people shoes." just to illustrate. When I would help parents shop for kids the type of shyt they bought was carved down racial lines... Furthermore anything Black people like to wear was blacklisted at most racist establishments because more than likely white dudes were not wearing the same shyt as much if at all. So you go to a bar or lounge and they have a whole list of gear they don't allow in at the door and it goes like "timbs, af1's, baggy jeans... blah blah"
you catch the drift?
fast forward to todays amalgamated culture via internet and the loss of not only regional fashion but racial boundaries very loose in fashion and music being the primary facilitating vehicle for all this mash up culture. everyone is wearing timbs (they mocked brehs for wearing construction boots as they called them) and af1 are having yet another huge resurgence but this time it's being driven by non Black girls/women?
clean/dirty af1's being some huge status symbol is a trip.
you can't look at the present without looking at the past. some might care because of where we came from. it was a whole era of white people mocking the casual wear of sports shoes outside of sporting (a lot not all) and avoiding specifically models or even brands Black people frequented. Like if Nikkaz was mostly on Nike they might rock some puma driving shoes and things of that nature so then those get a "pass" at certain establishments.
I wrote a lot to just illustrate why some might care. I'm not saying it's the reason but I def think about this shyt and it's a fukking trip. Just some
old head thoughts.
