Amala Ekpunobi

One of those, I believe, involves...

shaking up a child, a baby.

So there's that.

And he says that individual gave you bad advice.

So what else does that insinuate?

I would have preferred you gotten better legal representation.

You gotten better advice as the parents who are going through something like this.

Does that sound like a horrible racist to you?

I don't know.

I feel like people will just take things at face value and jump from there.

I wonder how many people who are even remarking on this guy even went to watch the interview itself.

Okay, so what is he saying there?

I begged you guys not to make this a case about race.

I begged for this to go to trial, not be made about race, not to be displayed on the news, on social media as something that is black versus white.

That's exactly what it became.

And why did it become that?

Because blacktivists hopped on this case and said that Carmelo Anthony was wrongfully, you know, going through this entire process and that he acted in self-defense and that this is only happening because he's black.

Others went even further than that, saying that Carmelo Anthony was,

should have killed the other twin or they'd have killed the other twin and that these white boys think that they can run around and do whatever they want and push Black people around and Black people don't have the right to respond.

After the trial, you have Black people coming forward and saying, I got to have a conversation with my sons about what they can and cannot do in these situations because Black people can't defend themselves with knives and an altercation out of track meet.