Christian Monterrosa
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"I can't breathe." "I'm scared." For many people, hearing someone say those words would prompt a scramble to help. But not all. It depends who's listening.
In the past year, those tragic last words of Black men who died in police custody have been heard very differently across the U.S. Millions of Americans watched those videos. But we didn't all see the same things, and empathy is part of the reason.
On a basic level, how we hear the words of George Floyd — and more recently, the words of Ronald Greene — depends on our level of empathy, which