Often when we are oppressed or suffering, we want others to feel our pain, to be down in the mud just like us. Why? Wouldn't we be better off being uplifted to where they are? I don't know why the human mind is conditioned this way, but for some reason, it takes a certain amount of discipline and awareness to think in terms of rising up instead of dragging down.
I believe certain elements of the black community, specifically those with loud voices, have keyed in on this feeling. I don't know whether they believe it to be the true path, but either way they've figured out that this visceral human reaction, wanting others to feel your oppression, speaks to the masses. They then use this rhetoric to gain followers who feel like someone understands them.
This is all important, not because the conclusions of the rabble rousers is right, that we need to feel their pain, but because their pain is real. Once you acknowledge that, then you need to give the masses an alternative to the hate and negativity being spewed by people like Mr. Early, Farhakkan, Sharpton, et al. You need to help them want to share your privileged life instead of wanting you to share their misery. Alas, too often we react defensively, denying the existence of our privilege and denying their pain, and every time we do that, we deepen the divide, giving a larger platform to those who want to see us experience the pain of the oppressed.
ETA: I know this reads like some hippy-dippy liberal BS, but that's only because I used some of their lingo. Privilege is not really the right word, but it's what the article the OP quoted used, so I went with that verbiage. Don't get triggered.