In 1990 an explosive cover story fed the era’s fearmongering—and demanded that the megastar account for it.
For a moment, Rick Telander thought, Michael Jordan looked like he might cry. In 1990 the senior writer from Sports Illustrated
reported, “much of it drug-related, is on the rise in virtually every city in America. Inner city neighborhoods are disintegrating in an escalating cycle of mayhem.”Increasingly in the 1980s, in Chicago and other cities, white reporters treated violent transgressions like spectacles, embellishing an image of a Black underclass that produced roving hordes of violent juvenile delinquents.
How many teenagers were killed for wearing expensive sneakers? And how many of them wore Air Jordans? Did anybody know?
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