Amala Ekpunobi

Based on the sum of its parts, he does not come off as a racist individual to me.

Now, I can take everything in the sum of its parts, take watermelon felon and go, OK, well, this makes him a racist.

And now there's no way out of that situation.

out of that group that I've created and out of that box that I've created, or I can listen to him in context and then make a judgment as to whether or not I think he's racist.

And I don't think he's racist.

I don't think this is a guy that hates black people.

I don't think this is a guy that if he saw a black person out in public would not be totally kind and conscientious towards that individual.

I don't think this is a person who wouldn't have a black person in his home or in his family or in his life.

So all of that being said,

Can watermelon fail and cancel out all of those like things that I've inferred?

No, it doesn't.

It's just a comment.

If we did that with everything that people said all the time, everybody would be labeled something.

Right.

And I hope your support continues as we apply context to the comment because, you know, it's a fair, it is totally a fair question.

Yeah, that was a big part of this.

Many people gave pushback to the judge in this case for saying it was not going to be televised.

I don't know.

Like there's a, what do you think?

It's tough because in some cases you're like, oh, well, yeah, it would cancel out maybe some of the bullshit, crazy facts that people are putting out there.