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Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

Still, I will Never Wear Skechers

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Dick Burroughs
Aug 14, 2025
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If you’re a black person, that headline could be a little cringe, since it’s a saying popularized by African-American actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, better known as Stepin Fetchit, who played a slow, dim-witted character, modeled after minstrel show actors.

But it’s actually how I feel because once you get to the 55-year-old mark, your feet …

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