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Solve. conversations about race tend to drift toward the challenge of recognizing our shared humanity and trying to close the racial empathy gap. these conversations about race tend to suggest that racial problems are everyone's fault and if we were more cognizant and empathetic problems would go away. implicit biases exist within everyone, but the overwhelming majority of us are good hearted and are accepting of other races. conversations about race that make everyone feel guilty and complicit are counterproductive. quote, effective conversations on race are grounded in the understanding that...

There really was sort of an outcry when sonia sotomayor was first put up for the court. when she talked about the wise latina position. so talk to me about the role that empathy plays in actual policy making. how does it lead us to good and/or potentially bad policy. >> first of all, it is like we just talked about. walking in somebody else's shoes. it allows you to think beyond your box of, what are the policy options in front of me. i think, though, most interesting, the policy gap itself allows for a wedge to come in. because what we're seeing is a republican party falling short on that emp...

Reid, and i'd like to talk to you a little bit about the so-called empathy gap that some say republicans struggle with. you know, the argument from democrats we're willing to support this extension because we care so much about families that are unemployed right now that we're willing to do anything to help them, and republicans are trying to make it difficult. republicans would argue we're trying to pay for it. but the perception issue of the republican party, how do you confront that? >> listen, i voted to proceed to this bill because, in good faith, and i had an idea s and many other of my ...

That's a real anti-dote to this empathy gap. then there's systems awareness. understanding the economic systems, the political systems, whatever it may be, that are really effecting our lives in massive ways. i think the biggest one is the blindness that we all tend to share between the impacts of our daily activities, the things we buy and do, and the global systems that are supporting life on the planet. our systems of construction, of energy, transportation, industry, commerce are degrading the national systems that support life on the planet. carbon is just the poster boy. i think we all n...

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of lyndon johnson's war on poverty. he declared that on january 8th, 1964. marking that anniversary republican senator marco rubio will be delivering a speech on income inequality and the american dream. our nbc news first read team says it's an attempt by the gop to close its empathy gap. first read notes in its post-election autopsy, the rnc says "the republican party must be the champion of those who seek to climb the economic ladder of life." how is that message doing? joining us now, mark murray. when you look at this and it's hard to believe the year has ...