Betsy Jenkins

A journal entry:

It is fundamentally important to understand people if one hopes to elicit change. Unless a person is willing and able to stand in the shoes of another and try to see things through the lens of another person's eye, there is no way that the two can communicate with any hope of growth coming from that discourse. My greatest hope is that our project might awaken a dialogue in the community which will mend the long suppressed wounds of racial and social inequality with words and actions. I think that it is imperative to our project that we give the community a variety of perspectives portrayed in their most realistic, humanizing light. This is the only way many members of society will ever begin talking to people from "the other side." We cannot change the world but with a little luck we can open people's minds to changing it themselves.