I found this article by Dace and McPhail to be the most interesting article I have read so far this semester. They opened up a topic that seldom is discussed or heard; one about which I definitely knew little. I agree completely with how the push from empathy to implicature is an important one. As a white person, the idea or practice of empathy towards a black person seems to have been ingrained in me since being a youth. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But, as the authors recalled from McCall's "Makes Me Wanna Holler", this has "crippled and limited their humanity". I had never thought of this idea, and how it seemed so true. I believe that, as a white person, the move toward empathy with actions along with feelings, or implicature, can definitely change the problem of racism in the 21st century.
1.) What do you think of the move toward implicature?
2.) Do you believe that it is altogether possible to reframe society from merely empathy to implicature?
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