"You Make Everything About Race" - An Appeal for Empathy...
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Argues that the concrete tool to change conversations about race is practiced empathy — listening, pausing and reframing — demonstrated with a workplace Cards Against Humanity anecdote that derails game night, cites studies (doctors under-treat pain for Black patients) and survey numbers about racial preference (roughly 50% of Black and 76% of White respondents), calls out confirmation bias in hiring, and recommends specific tactics: short pauses, rephrasing, and disengaging when the other side refuses to listen.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10Game Night
- 4:58Empathy Definition
- 5:40Why Care
- 7:09Where Do We Start
- 9:23Recognizing Our Discomfort
- 10:46Unconscious Bias
- 12:26Expressing Your Point of View
- 15:22When to Disengage
- 19:05Outro
