The Washington Post, October 6th, 1992
If life went according to plan, this would be the beginning of a column about "gun shirts," T-shirts featuring large, detailed illustrations of the firearms that young men of color are being blown away by daily in cities across the nation. "Everybody's wearing them," said one kid in a Sunday Washington Post article on the subject. If things were predictable, I'd be doing my damnedest to point out that black kids buying piles of shirts emblazoned with guns makes about as much sense as, say, fashion-conscious Europeans in medieval times sporting apparel celebrating the glories of the bubonic pla...
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