A teal colorway of the Jordan 11 GS Legend Blue , dubbed the '30th Anniversary,' will be joining the 'Oreo' and 'Columbia' in 2015, in what is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated sneaker years in the history of sneakers.The kicks feature a smooth leather upper, as opposed to the tumbled build of the aforementioned models. The '30th Anny' 4s, which pay tribute to 30 years of Js, feature green glow accents to go along with a contrasting white midsole and black mudguard.The release date is still a long time away, but we've learned that the teal '30th Anniversary' 4s will officially be launching just before St. Patrick's Day on March 14th. While scrolling through Instagram many weeks ago, a photo of the popular fragment design Jordan 11 Mens Legend Blue caught my attention. As I routinely do, I jumped straight to the comments to see what people were saying about Hiroshi Fujiwara’s rendition of the retro basketball sneaker. After sifting through all the emojis, I came across one that nearly sucked the life out of me: “Only Nike Lab release. Extra hard to get. Good luck kids. Someone will lose their life for this unfortunately.” It's ludicrous that there is this stigma of expected violence around Air Jordan sneakers. It's time for Michael Jordan to say something.Over the course of Jordan’s professional career, there was no doubt that he was the greatest basketball player ever. But over the duration of his time as a professional athlete, one of the biggest knocks Jordan faced was his unwillingness to take a stand on important political and social issues such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the growing impoverishment of Chicago’s inner cities. Though it wasn’t necessarily in Jordan’s job description for him to be a social warrior, many could not comprehend why he continued to avoid controversy when it came to issues that were directly affecting his community and the ones his brand appealed to.In today’s NBA, we see megastars like Derrick Rose and LeBron James use their stage to support the “Black Lives Matter” movement by wearing “I CAN’T BREATHE” T-shirts in solidarity of the protests against the non-indictment of officers involved in the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. We also saw Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony publicly express their sympathy and support for Trayvon Martin’s family after his death. These athletes expressing their opinion about the current state of affairs influenced people across the country, and also encouraged other entertainers and celebrities to speak up. Those numbers are staggering. But the acts of violence that come with obtaining a pair of Air Jordans are not new. The sneaker-related murder of teenager Michael Eugene Thomas on May 15, 1989 garnered national media coverage in an issue of Sports Illustrated. The May 14, 1990 issue featured the Jordan 6 Black Infrared and a gunman on the cover, with the stark line "YOUR SNEAKERS OR YOUR LIFE." That same year, 16-year-old Johnny Bates was killed in Houston after deciding not to give up his Air Jordans at a local bus stop. Most recently, with the release of the “Legend Blue” Air Jordan XI, multiple news stories broke that included everything from a Toledo, Ohio crowd getting pepper sprayed to an altercation in Cincinnati that ended with a young man losing his life in a failed robbery attempt. That Sports Illustrated cover was 24 years ago, but the same things are still happening.

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