Empathy

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

You can never understand the anger without understanding the pain.

How can you understand what happened or what’s happening if you don’t know what happened or what’s happening? 

The Blackman in America of the one that was sold 

The firstborn killed because of a fearful fold 

The bottom-rail, the nigger, the less than gold 

The human being victimized, their story untold 

The his-tory, changing the shapes that mold 

The death from truth the descendent’s withhold 

The emptiness of the body from head to toe 

The Indian, Palestinian, Syrian and all those 

The victims of a world and its careless soul 

The insanity of your wanting the others role 

The signs that lead to the one and only road 

The violence, sex, drugs, to all they promote 

The acceptance in you because you uphold 

The media propagating lies in order to control 

The ignorant believing it and really don’t know 

The price to pay on judgement day, is like, whoa 

The Truth is in the Art, the two-faced, twofold 

The Hebrew slave in Egypt of the days of old 

The Secrets “Oh Say Can You See!?” Behold 

The Jena Six, Black Wall Street, Rosewood-

Willie Lynch… 

Empathy, no.