Newsweek needs to take a quick trip to any ghetto in America and see how many poor people skip their bill payments to buy Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and DKNY.  This habit crosses all skin colors, enthicities, religions, and locations.

If the athletes had insisted on buying their clothes at the Dollar Store Newsweek would have pushed it as a sign of the bad economy.

So he would rather see, say, FUBU-designed hip-hop uniforms with pants falling down?

It's like these idiots are just lurching around trying to identify fresh new angles to bash America on.

"Why do we have to have DOUBLE yellow lines on some highways? Isn't that a waste of paint and representative of an oppressive decadent society?"

ps: Sameer, there's this new stuff called shampoo...

Oh for the love of God... How the hell does this individual come to an inane conclusion such as this one? If one wants to find racism in clothing. One need only look at 'FUBU' "For Us By Us". Gimmie a BREAK. Just when you think PC couldn't get any worse. This sh*t needs to be outlawed. Fast

"To beat Violence, You must ignore the focus groups. You must send in the Mossad, turn off the BBC, CNN, and don't look back."

After reading this post and the comments, I decided to google Sameer Reddy.  This is what I found (from the NYT Style page):

Sameer Reddy

Not many people leave college with a terribly clear idea of what they'd like to do, aside from trading in their futons for real mattresses. But in the year since Sameer Reddy graduated from Bard, he has started a media and design consultancy, designed a sushi restaurant-nightclub that will open in Detroit this fall, and amassed a collection of vintage couture that has caught the attention of the city's savviest fashion-philes. "I'm obsessive," he says with a shrug, sorting through a rack in his Chelsea apartment. "I shop every day." The result is a meticulously organized tour of fashion from the thirties through the eighties, with perfectly maintained pieces by each era's most important designers (Chanel, Kenzo, YSL, Alaïa). Reddy plans on dealing to private clients and will debut his findings at a trunk show at the Time Hotel on August 8. "Recycling fashion concepts is both practical and beautiful," Reddy says. "That's why I think all this interest in vintage is entirely modern."

So the guy is a year out of college and he claims to be an editor for ALEF magazine, which is an Arabic fashion magazine.  I don't know about you, but when I think of fashion, I don't think of Arabs.  (How many colors do these burkas come in????)

Who cares what he thinks of our fashions????? I think it's sour grapes (if you read the entire article in Newsweek) because he knows that Ralph Lauren will be raking in millions from that sale of the Olympic-brand merchandise.

So if rising up economically is now considered racist, what exactly does Newsweek want us to do? Stay poor so we can be multi-cultural and poor together? I don't get the logic.

What's wrong with the White and Nerdy look?

Who does this person think he is? I can't believe how jealous people are of productive, civilized, and patriotic whites. The only threat I hear is from this buffoon. These people are becoming unglued.

Whatever happened to cowboy hats? Wow! Now that would be a stick in the eye to IOC.

Next time, skip Ralph Lauren (isn't he European anyways?) and go with Wrangler, Dickies, Carhart or Roper.

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These comments from Newsweak (no I am not misspelling it), sounds like a Neo-Marxist rag.