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Empathy and Public Opinion
Rather than emerging from a scientific perspective, the notion ‘race,’ is informed by historical, social, cultural, and political values. Thus, we find that the concept ‘race’ is based on socially constructed, but social, and certainly scientifically, outmoded beliefs about the inherent superiority and inferiority of groups based on racial distinctions. (Guess, 2006, p. 654)
Like most of my values, I learned about empathy from my mother. She disdained cruelty or thoughtlessness or abuse of power, whether it expressed itself in the form of racial prejudice or bullying in the schoolyard or workers being underpaid. Whenever she saw even a hint of such behavior in me she would look me square in the eyes and ask, ‘How do you think that would make you feel' ?
(Obama, 2006, p. 66)
This racial solidarity, or sense of ‘whiteness ,’ in turn adds to whites’ perceptions that their lifestyle is the correct and ‘normal’ way of doing things. As a result of this conditioning, whites’ racialized attitudes and prejudice toward blacks are continuously recycled and legitimated.
(Bonilla-Silva, Goar and Embrick, 2006, p. 247)
But all our phrasing—-race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—-serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body. (Coates, 2015, p. 10)
FUCK THAT! We’re tired of always being the better person. Throughout history, the White race plundered, enslaved, raped and polluted the world to build their global empire of White supremacy, displaced, dehumanized and destroyed people and their lands to this day in order to keep it going and punished them for having the balls to fight back. Wolf, Brotha. (2016, November 16). White People Screwed the World...Again, and We Must Empathize with Them???... [Blog Post]. Retrieved from [https://brothawolf.wordpress.com/.../white-people-screwed-the-world-again-and-we-m...
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