healing racial trauma by sheila wise rowe

So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.” Some people respond like the priest and the Levite, they don’t or won’t see. In Luke 10:31-32 Jesus tells us that “a priest came down the same road, and when he saw the battered man he passed by on the other side. I’ve spent years helping people of color, including myself to uncover and tell our whole stories. Some people believe the myth of meritocracy which denies the impact of systemic oppression on black and brown people. They grasp for survival, clutching nostalgia and the false narratives that deny the facts about past and present-day racism. We are in a time when ordinary citizens have become revisionist historians. We feel as if we are left on the side of the road as if half dead. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.” As I read the story it seemed to be a metaphor of how people of color are beaten down by racism and robbed.

With Rowe as a reliable guide who has both been on the journey and shown others the way forward, you will find a safe pathway to resilience.In Luke 10:27-29 we read “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, love your neighbor as yourself.” A man then asks Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus responds with a story “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. In each chapter, she includes an interview with a person of color to explore how we experience and resolve racial trauma.

Professional counselor Rowe exposes the symptoms of racial trauma to lead listeners to a place of freedom from the past and new life for the future. In contrast, Scripture declares that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. We experience ongoing racial trauma as this lie is perpetuated by the action or inaction of the government, media, viral videos, churches, and within families of origin. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, but we have not known how to individually or collectively pursue healing from the racial trauma.'Īs a child, Sheila Wise Rowe was bused across town to a majority white school, and she experienced the racist lie that one group is superior to all others. 'People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity.

Healing racial trauma by sheila wise rowe