"FOOL, HOW YOU SPORTIN' $300 SNEAKERS WIT' A METROCARD IN YO' POCKET?" -UBIQUITOUS ANONYMOUS Now a 34-year-old, life-long New Yorker, I know, all too well, the value of a hard-earned couple of bucks. That said, I'm baffled many times over, witnessing adolescent youth, likely unemployed, staking out, sometimes overnight in extreme weather, in order to buy sneakers made popular by an athlete whose greatness most of them are not even old enough to appreciate or have any degree reverence for. Furthermore, I cringe thinking of how misinformed and/or blatantly ignorant said spending habits make us, struggling mid/lower class citizens, seem to the people we are making rich. People, such as "His Airness" himself, who in-turn care/do very little, if anything at all, for our communities. It would be extremely difficult for me to make a sound argument against the notion that a man, knee-deep in debt, currently working a job that may be just a step up...