Racial Justice Ministries at Scarritt Bennett Center seeks to create a world free of white supremacy and its acts of racism. We aim to be and cultivate radical change agents dedicated to being co-creators of justice and welcoming the beautiful struggle of this way of life.
Racism is not solely a BIPOC issue. Racism is a human issue and ailment that will destroy us all if we do not do the work of healing our individual and collective minds, bodies, and spirits. SBC believes healing work looks different for white people than for people of color.
The healing work for white people is acknowledging and processing the trauma racism inflicts on people of color AND white people and transforming this trauma into tools to stop the fortification and continuation of systemic white supremacy, especially in white spaces.
The healing work for BIPOC people addresses how the trauma of racism and internalized racism manifest in their beliefs, relationships, institutions, and selves. It creates ways of being that stop the perpetuation of white supremacy.
Through this parallel and interconnected work, the community creates a new normal, a new society, and a new way of being in a community that reflects life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. The road to this necessary healing requires reflection, confession, repentance, reparation, and finally, reconciliation.
This is the work of radical change agents.
