Perspective: Calls for racial justice gained steam with empathy
, 69 percent reported that Floyd’s death represented broader problems in police treatment of black Americans.
Countless people who sat on the sidelines of this struggle have now joined in. We can ask, as many have, But we might also ask, why not earlier? What kept people — especially those with relative privilege — from supporting previous movements, such as the protests in Ferguson, Mo., following the death of Michael Brown?One key to this comes from research on the perverse relationship between power and empathy. We often think of empathy — people’s ability to share and understand each other’s experiences — as a hard-wired trait, but it’s actually more like a skill.
Power and privilege, in particular, sap our ability to understand others. In one series of studies, the psychologist Michael Kraus and his colleagues measured people’s socio-economic status, as well as their ability to decipher emotions in pictures and in-person interactions. People higher in status were less accurate about other people’s feelings. More recent work has
and also found that high-status individuals make more errors when trying to take other people’s perspective.
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