Amala Ekpunobi

a racist and much of what's happening in the world could easily turn people into racist because the way we have conversations about race, the way we treat people as a monolith, the way groups wants to be portrayed as a monolith in some moments and not in others and some bad behavior that gets used by groups as a label for like who they are in their culture.

So, I mean, I think

a lot of what's happening in the racial divide and the conversations that we're having in this country right now is leading to more people who are becoming racist.

Yeah.

We've talked about Rick Chow several times on this channel, by the way, and I'm totally open to making a full conversation about that.

I am not extreme right by any means.

If you think I'm extreme right, you better wait.

You better wait to see what extreme right actually is.

looks like but i know it can feel like uh the things that i'm saying might be characterized by others as extreme right as the extreme left moves and moves and moves and moves because right now what is the extreme left doing like pissing on the grave of austin metcalf i guess i do look extreme right in comparison to behaviors like that um yeah we can talk about rick chow i don't know how much there is to really say about him though

Oh gosh, I don't know if that's going to solve it, Alex.

I think that might make it just a tad bit worse.

Yeah, I think it's interesting.

You listen to some of these things and you can feel like, oh, okay, well, that was a stabbing comment or something.

And I think you can lean into that energy.

And I think what's happened here is people heard some of the more angry statements that he had to say.

They got that feeling of like, oh, okay, that was a lot.

and then you allow that to sort of color and characterize everything you hear from from that point on and i think it's important to like take all these statements in context or at least try to apply a little bit to them think about how the person might be feeling when they're saying the things that they're saying and doing the things that they're doing and uh that might help with just about everything even he in the interview sort of contradicts himself

And says that like, we can't be making decisions fully based on emotion.

It has to be on logic.

And I'm full of forgiveness because if you don't forgive, it leads to hate and anger and then he'll make an angry statement.