Pastors in several churches across the country wore hoodies to church last Sunday as a prophetic act of lamentation over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
The Washington post covered the event.:
Also, here’s a video of one pastor preaching in a hoodie. Worth watching:
Greetings Superfriends and Blogofans!
Here is an important followup to this post. There has been a sustained effort to tarnish Trayvon’s reputation and pre-justify Zimmerman’s actions (outside a court of law) by painting Trayvon according to negative stereotypes of young, black men. Here is a link to an article that goes into detail. This is worth a read:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/26/452310/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-the-smear-campaign-against-trayvon-martin-1995-2012/?mobile=nc