When you’re a little kid growing up in urban America, especially a little kid growing up in public housing in urban America, hardly anything gains you more clout on school grounds than the right pair of kicks. Wait, don’t picture generic commercial images of “the cool kids” wearing cool clothes and cool shoes. I mean that, in under-resourced urban communities, footwear can be a very accurate tell for one’s social pecking order. Living in the projects is one thing, looking like a broke ass motherfucker is an entirely different thing. …