Amala Ekpunobi

And I think we're getting inundated with death at a rate, the likes of which I don't think any generation has seen before.

So I think it creates really flippant conversations about the way that these things pan out, how we view them, how we talk about trials and murder.

I think a large part of the reason that so many people show up to a case like this, screaming something like justice for Carmelo or that he didn't do any wrong or free Carmelo or whatever, is just...

a lapse in judgment as to what death and murder actually means and looks like and then just overall on the internet we're just like

piling on without sitting and thinking about what it would maybe feel like.

Because we have, for many of us, we have to imagine what these things would feel like to lose a son like this, or to like have somebody just permanently be cast out of your life in such a violent manner.

So I don't know, whenever we try to cover these things, I think we sit with that for a second.

and then go off from there.

And it almost feels ridiculous to be even having a conversation as to whether or not this guy is racist after what happened to his son when you truly put it into context.

Because I mean, what?

Like I said, I don't know what words I would have to even say after something like that happened to me and then not being able to speak for a year.

And the way that people have spoken about this trial and about his son's death

I think is also informed by desensitization to death.

It's really easy to make a meme about something like that.

It's when you're not fully taking in what's happened.

It's really easy to like show up to a protest and talk about the black man's plight or whatever when you're not fully taking in that he had.

a son ripped from him, a twin son at that.

That's like a whole other level for the twin brother, and the brother was there, and he had to watch the footage of what took place.

There were autopsy photos.

You'd be going through it at this point.