I didn’t get the shoe because I don’t like the Nike Terminator. I didn’t get the shoe (though it is still available from several outlets everybody thought if it sold out on Nike, it was gone but shoe stores like DTLR still have full-size runs of them). I have texts and emails and group chats full of folks like, “Yooooo P, a Morehouse shoe is coming out!! I know you’re going to get it!” But I didn’t. Recommended StoriesĮvery person who knows me and knows how into shoes I am, hit me up. For the younger folks, getting things immediately that have Morehouse on them isn’t what it was for those of us back in the day. There are jackets and ties and shirts and hoodies and, even Nike has a line of items you can cop from Morehouse. Nowadays, you can go online and get all of the apparel you want from a variety of sites, official and unofficial. I imagine it was the same for all of us who came up in the AUC back in the late ’90s and early 2000s. The point of sharing this information is that I come from a time when getting the latest and greatest Morehouse apparel was a bloodsport. I remember this vividly because the only item I truly remember coveting from our bookstore was this leather messenger bag that had a red “M” stitched on it and Morehouse written in white letters underneath. Our bookstore, back then, barely had any apparel worthy of copping. Word to the Morehouse “The Apology” T-shirt. But once you missed that drop, you knew it was a wrap. And I mean that in the truest sense of the word there would be some new shirt that came out and word would spread through the AUC, and folks would dash to Collegiate as fast as they could, hope they hadn’t sold out AND that they had your size, and once the goods were gone, they were gone. During that time in the Atlanta University Center (AUC), the consortium of schools that, at the time, included Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, Morris Brown College and the Interdenominational Theological Center, there was a school paraphernalia store at the corner of Lee Street and West End Avenue called Collegiate.Ĭollegiate was, for the AUC, what the SNKRS app is for Nike nowadays: It was the place to get all of the latest school apparel drops. And if you did have a cell phone, you had to buy a plan that had a certain number of minutes that you had to use judiciously until T-Mobile (or was it Sprint?) dropped that “free after 9 p.m.” plan that had the streets going crazy. It was a different time then there was no social media and everybody didn’t have a cell phone. I graduated from Morehouse College in May 2001.
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