Anna Deavere Smith may be the most empathetic person in America. The renowned playwright and actor is a master at what many of our fellow African-Americans, particularly African-American women, have had to do from an early age: perform empathy, often well beyond the call of duty.
From day one, they operate in a world built to render them and their pain invisible, a world that demands they empathize with the very people who inflict that pain on them. Empathize with the Trump voter, they are told, the voter who elected a leader bent on strengthening institutional bigotries of every stripe. See life through their eyes, the world instructs, as if it were somehow uncommon for us to be forced to see life through the white gaze.
Source: Yahoo News
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