"Someone in the department nobody quite knows who ordered 78 T-shirts referring to the Bryant case, ostensibly as "souvenirs." Let's set aside the fact that this is questionable even after a conviction, totally unacceptable before a trial has taken place; no, what really got us worried was the shirts' iconography, which uses the old child's game "hangman" to make its case against Kobe. No matter how innocently the shirt's design may have been intended, the obvious nods toward a history of racist lynching is unavoidable, and horrifying."

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