Amala Ekpunobi

Black people can't do shit in this country.

I think a lot of people are going to go, well, I don't think I like black people that much.

If this is what black people stand for.

Is that like, are we, come on, like let's be realistic here.

That would be a logical response to that statement if that's what people are gonna go ahead and do and that's exactly what he's saying.

And he goes on a three hour rant interview explaining how he got to this place, explaining how his son landed here

explaining how the culture is contributing to the issues that arose and created this entire conflict explaining how we can get out of it how we can find unity how we can start taking accountability how we can start showing up as parents and then people go and clip watermelon fell in and call him a racist which is exactly the issue that he's speaking to although not the most articulately and that's okay because he's a random american dad whose son got murdered at a track meet

He's not made for making racial arguments about how white people and black people move in the United States of America together.

He's a random dad.

So it's just so crazy that this is going viral in the way it is.

After all that he's been through, to finally get the muzzle off, as he says, be able to rant, be able to speak, and yes, fumble over some things and get angry because your son was murdered.

And then the one thing that people take from your moment of trying to express everything is watermelon felon.

I'd be pissed.

I'd be pissed.

Sorry, guys, that was a rant.

Right.

Yeah.

It's like even have it be an argument after something like this happens to somebody, I think points out the desensitization of it all.

The lack of just like putting two and two together as to how our nations are like crumbling under the pressure of all of these different things and our lack of ability to like have just a direct conversation about what's actually happening without it becoming a conversation about like who's racist after pointing out the thing that's literally happening.

And then it just becomes like something else that it's not supposed to be.