Writing for The Daily Beast, the online arm of Newsweek, Sally Kohn whines at great length about whites' inability or refusal to empathize with African-Americans. She is undoubtedly correct, but so what?
A question she never raises, much less answers, is whether blacks empathize with whites to any greater extent. I doubt they do.
My hunch is that no group particularly empathizes with any other, or wants to. That famously includes men and women not understanding each other's motivations or concerns.
We humans are ethnocentric rascals, and likely to stay that way. It is part of the human condition. Get over it -- figure out how to work around it.
