The wheels leave the road. The track is lost. People no long know where they are, no longer have any honest reference points. Everything points back to them, their own words, their narcissistic delusions.
Empathy requires that there be a continuous energetic connection from your feet to your head, and back again. Not just a connection, but moving energy.
We are literally hearing people say, more or less verbatim “I can’t be racist: I only hate white people. Besides, I’m white.” No grounded human being would be capable of such atrocities to basic reason.
Reason, in turn, must be grounded in sincerity. It too requires an emotional background to operate properly. There is no rational reason to think any of the protests going on right now will fix the truly salient and most urgent problems facing the black community. With respect to police violence, white people have roughly the same reasons, to the same extent, to complain. We might not as much to fear Driving While Black, but we also commit crimes at perhaps a third of the rate of the black community. If two out of three crimes you see are committed by people wearing blue hats, you too would start to look at them differently, if you were a cop.
All of this stuff going on is planned distraction. Some small good might come out of it–like banning no-knock raids (which might also reduce the volume of policing done, since they do make sense in a very small number of cases)–but overall, very little.