Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) is on a Journey to an Inclusive Community (JIC), forming and strengthening alliances among people of many cultures and communities, and intentionally dismantling racism within LVC, the church, and society. LVC realizes that institutional racism profoundly impacts the social landscapes in which we live and work. LVC is dedicated to working toward becoming an inclusive community as an organization.
Recognizing...
... that institutional racism and other oppressions including heterosexism, classism, ableism and sexism profoundly impact the social landscape in which we live and work;
... that we have the tendency to discuss other forms of oppression including heterosexism, classism, ableism and sexism before racism and evade difficult conversations about race;
... that our explanations and analyses of other forms of oppression including heterosexism, classism, ableism and sexism are impoverished when we do not fully understand intersections with racism;
... that white dominance within LVC undermines our efforts among multiple constituencies to be an organization committed to social justice;
... that we cannot do a sufficient job of anti-racism work on our own;
... and that the education and support we offer volunteers are egregiously lacking when we fail to account for racial dynamics within LVC, at our placement organizations and within volunteer communities as well as the process of racial identity formation for individuals;
