CHAPTER THREE
Aware
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our individual prisms.
—STERLING K. BROWN
Daniel was part of a vibrant African-American community in Atlanta, which meant that moving to a less-diverse and less multicultural state was a big culture shock for him. As Daniel tells it, on his first day at his new job, his new supervisor noticed him looking around for other people who looked like him and not seeing anyone who did. At the end of that first day the supervisor assured Daniel that, even though he wasn’t African-American and didn’t ...
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