The Racial Justice Issue Team's mission is to promote racial justice within the Marianist Family, the Church and the world, with a keen awareness of our own individual need for “conversion of hearts, minds and institutions to address the evil of racism that still exists in our communities" (Open Wide Our Hearts, USCCB). Providing spaces and pathways to be challenged and engage conversation towards a goal of transformation, we hold one another accountable and seek accountability beyond ourselves. We encounter this work in community and through collaboration.
Our Mission
Racial Justice Issue Team
Systemic Racism Training and Follow Up
Initiate Engagement with SM Office of Education & Office of Sponsorship and FMI Office of Education
JUNETEENTH RACIAL JUSTICE DIALOGUE EVENTS
The Racial Justice Team, in coordination with MSJC’s Steering Committee, organized an anti-racist training facilitated by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training in February of 2022. As a group, participants:
PODCAST DIALOGUE ON RACIAL JUSTICE FOR MARIANIST FAMILY
Systemic Racism Training & Follow Up
- Discussed systemic racism and its relationship to white dominant culture in the US
- Used a framework and common language to assess our current status
- Started discussing strategic work that our organizations and Family will need to do to dismantle systemic racism
As a Marianist Family, we want to be more inclusive, equitable, and accountable and this training was one step in that direction. This training created space for members of the Marianist Family to journey with a facilitator around the history of systemic racism and provide critical reflection on the impact of racism on and in the Marianist Family. MSJC and the Racial Justice Issue Team have since hosted follow-up conversations to focus on next steps for our organization as we pursue this anti-racist work. The Racial Justice Team and MSJC’s ongoing hope is to identify barriers, provide tools to overcome these barriers, and develop leadership for the effort. We will continue to update our community as we move forward on this.
Podcast Dialogue on Racial Justice for the Marianist Family
The Racial Justice Team has offered the Seeing White podcast series and dialogue for the Marianist Family to engage in more intentional, internal conversations and provide more space for conversion of hearts in regard to racial equity. It is helpful for us as as family to hold the mirror up to our own shortcomings and opportunities for growth and intentional invitation to address the evil of racism that still exists in our communities.
This program has now been run with five different cohorts and the Racial Justice Team is working to create follow up programming for past participants.
Initiate Engagement with SM Office of Education & Office of Sponsorship and FMI Office of Education
JUNETEENTH RACIAL JUSTICE DIALOGUE EVENTS
PODCAST DIALOGUE ON RACIAL JUSTICE FOR MARIANIST FAMILY
Systemic Racism Training & Follow Up
Juneteenth Racial Justice Dialogue Event
Please see resources below from our past Juneteenth programs on how you can start doing the work of overcoming racism:
- Celebrating Juneteenth PowerPoint
- A Guide to Continuing the Journey
- Media Resources of Systemic Racism
Initiate Engagement with SM Office of Education & Office of Sponsorship and FMI Office of Education
JUNETEENTH RACIAL JUSTICE DIALOGUE EVENTS
PODCAST DIALOGUE ON RACIAL JUSTICE FOR MARIANIST FAMILY
Systemic Racism Training & Follow Up
Initiate Engagement with SM Office of Education & Office of Sponsorship and FMI Office of Education
The Racial Justice Issue Team is exploring ways our Marianist institutions are and/or could be living out the Church's mission of racial justice. Similar to how some Marianist schools have successfully addressed environmental sustainability efforts, we feel racial justice could become an integral part of how we talk about and do things at an institutional level.
Initiate Engagement with SM Office of Education & Office of Sponsorship and FMI Office of Education
JUNETEENTH RACIAL JUSTICE DIALOGUE EVENTS
PODCAST DIALOGUE ON RACIAL JUSTICE FOR MARIANIST FAMILY
Systemic Racism Training & Follow Up
• Racial Justice Team Resources PDF
• Calling the Marianist Family to Renounce the Sin of Racism Booklet
• Marianist Sisters Anti-Racism Statement
• Network Contemplative Dialogue Resource
Resources
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