That these young people in their mid-teens can call a national press conference speaks to the cowardice of the adults in the Anoka-Hennepin School District who thought the "neutrality policy"/"no homo promo" (as it was colloquially known) policy was either beneficial or who were indifferent to the deleterious effects that backward policies have on real people.

Being a kid is hard. Kids grasp desperately for ways to project outward their own insecurities and perceived inadequacies, and they get their cues from adults. In the Anoka-Hennepin School District and schools across the country, making a form of prejudice "neutral" (i.e. tacitly accepted) has predictably terrible results.

See the end of the game? Kobe was guarding LeBron at the end, and LeBron threw the ball away, in a two-point game.

With my lip-reading skills from Grandma Schenck, it looks like Kobe is telling him, "Shoot the ball, man. Damn. Come on, shoot the ball."

Kobe. Add to that the fact that Kobe got a broken nose and a "mild concussion" in the game earlier.