Had he lived, Trayvon Martin would have turned 19 today. I think of him often. Then I think about UU responses to his death. And I still don’t know what to think.
The longer I think about the discussions that are coming out of the recent UUA Board meeting; about whether UUism is/or should be a movement or an association, the larger shadow Trayvon casts over my thinking.
So here’s the question; if UUism is/or should be a movement, what does that movement say to the Trayvon Martins of the country/world? Because if that movement is going to survive for longer than a minute, it is going to need to speak to the issues that for the longest time it has ignored. It is going to have to speak to the issues of people that, in all honesty, it actively ignored for years.
Can UUism do that?
