A Statement of Solidarity with the Black Community

A Statement of Solidarity with the Black Community and a Call to Start a Dialogue as Community Educators

The current national discourse, activism, and mobilization fueled by the violence against members of the Black community compels all of us to examine our country’s deeply rooted racism that results in systemic brutality and trauma against people of color. It requires that each of us look within ourselves to explore our implicit and explicit biases and how we can be advocates for anti-racism. LCMC condemns racism, white supremacy, and all race-based violence against our Black brothers and sisters.

LCMC believes in the power of education, broadly defined, as a first step toward empowerment and equity for the marginalized communities it serves. As a community of educators, it is our responsibility to actively teach ourselves and our stakeholders on how privileges and biases are manifested. We must also commit to learning how to be anti-racist allies.

All of us here at LCMC work in the community, from the community, and, most importantly, for the community. We need to teach when we can, even when the topics are difficult, but we must not forget that teaching is a dialogue, and so, we must also always be open to learning from each other.

With this in mind, we want to develop a “living document” of resources that we will share with all of our stakeholders in order to better educate ourselves and provide support to those of you who want to get involved but do not know how to do so. This is a living list that will continue to be updated regularly, and here’s where you come in: we encourage you to share with us by email to equity@lcmcmd.org other resources you are finding, and reading, and thinking about. We will compile them and share them on our site moving forward.

This is a first step for LCMC’s efforts to be better advocates for the students it serves. We look forward to having you join us in this extremely important work.

With Thanks,

Gabriel