Amala Ekpunobi

I'm thinking of the UK right now with Henry Novak.

I'm thinking of what just happened in Belfast with the attempted beheading in the streets of Northern Ireland, where you have these jump off points.

where something super heinous happens, it gets made about race or immigration, and then a certain camp of people starts screaming white supremacy and racism and this and that and the third.

And in doing so, you actually create racism.

more extremism.

Now, am I saying he's extreme?

Am I saying he's a racist?

No, this is pretty tame.

I mean, compared to some of the things you could expect from somebody who's been through a situation like this.

But this sort of animosity towards people who are having normal reactions to the things that happen in their life is going to create racism.

And especially in response to this whole Carmelo Anthony thing, where Black people have come forward,

acted as if Black people are a monolith, acted as if this is a part of Black culture, acted as if what they're doing in the streets and what they're doing online, which is absolutely disgusting, is somehow a defense of Black culture, you're going to have a ton of people who aren't Black look at you and go, I guess that's what Black people are about.

Fuck that.

I don't want to be associated with black people if this is what black people are.

The issue is it's not what black people are.

These black people in particular are going out and speaking on behalf of an entire community and defending heinous, delusional, awful behavior.

But when that behavior gets characterized as black behavior, what do you expect?

Because that's what black people are saying.

If you see a little boy or a teenager or whatever, Carmelo Anthony, go and stab another kid in the chest.

And then a ton of black people take to the streets and say, well, black people can't defend themselves anymore.