Amala Ekpunobi

It makes me feel absolutely nothing to hear that as an individual.

And if anything, makes me feel less than nothing given the context of the situation.

And I don't know if that's just me.

It certainly doesn't make you a racist considering you're giving an insult to a particular person.

whilst also saying you're not racist, but that you just dislike this particular person.

And even so, he goes on to say he wanted to pray for him.

He didn't wish this reality upon Carmelo, that Carmelo is going to have a really hard life now after all of this.

And that, you know, he goes in and out of contradicting himself.

He wants him to experience that after what he's done, but at the same time, wouldn't wish it upon him.

There's just a lot going on here that I think is far more interesting than this phrase watermelon felon.

i don't know and do black people like watermelon i mean the stereotype is also true like i don't i don't know i don't know well and for you to be offended by the felon portion of that would suggest that you in some way identify with the felon portion of that which you obviously don't so right like he's not calling black people felons he's not he's talking about a particular black person who happens to be a felon and then really the racist part of it is the watermelon part

And that's kind of like, okay.

I don't know.

And it's also like

People can say offensive things and not be racist.

That's like an element of this.

I think like the phrase racist carries so much weight and so much power that now it's like an indelible thing that you carry with you upon like one statement or one clip or whatever.

I can't tell you how many times I've been called a racist over things that I've said that involve like black stereotypes or black people or the black community or black culture.

And it's just like, okay.

I don't know.