Empathy, not pity

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teach

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black and brown students

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i wish you knew that

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there is a stark difference

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between empathy and sympathy

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no one needs your pity no one needs your

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your sorrow we have enough of that

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something about

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melanin something about blackness evokes

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this like visceral fear

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that's one side that's leading to the

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senseless killings

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and murder of those people this fear

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something that does not exist in reality

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it is a figment of our imagination

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that leads to people actually dying

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just crazy i hope that people can muster

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up

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enough courage to never give up on

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leading people out of ignorance

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my name is bria randall and i work in

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human resources

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i was 13 years old at my first

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big slumber party the girls and i were

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sitting around popcorn watching a movie

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and as i reached to get some more

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popcorn a girl

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across from me said your hands make you

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look like a gorilla

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and i'd never heard anything like that

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before