Mychal Denzel Smith likes sneakers a lot, and he also likes to let people know:
I kind of throw it in people’s faces a little bit,” he said. “Because I know there’s an association people make with sneakers with a lack of intelligence, a lack of engagement with the world, with black youth, with wayward black youth.”
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