Amala Ekpunobi

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.

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.