From the Executive Director
Building Relationships Across Divides & Breaking Systems of Injustice
As a white middle class person, I recognize that my heritage has played a powerful historical role in the oppression of the African American community.
What we're seeing today in Minneapolis is certainly a trajectory of slavery and racism. This reality has a different impact on the people involved in the PEACE Foundation movement, based on whether they are from the perspective of white privilege or from the margins of power.
Our hope is that our relationships across divides today will help redefine our mutual history of privilege and power. Once you put a face and a name to an injustice, it's much harder to stand by and let it continue. And, conversely, having a member of the group you typically view as more powerful stand with you in your place of greatest pain can begin to make the barriers to power fade. By doing this work together, the lines begin to blur about what role we all play, systems begin to break, and change can occur.
-Michelle Martin, PEACE Foundation Co-Founder and Executive Director
