Amala Ekpunobi

And I think you can sort of like act out of pocket when you're getting like...

I don't think in this video, if there's one thing that I couldn't truly fully encapsulate is just how much abuse this family has endured.

Like it's unimaginable.

Think of the worst possible things that somebody could say about you or your family member or a family member that you've just had murdered.

Think about the very worst.

racial animosities being thrown towards that individual who is no longer in your life for an entire year where you cannot speak or respond to anybody whatsoever.

You cannot speak to your son's character or talk about what took place, talk about how you're handling it.

It's just like nothing, for the most part, can you speak about.

And with all that happening in the background, I can imagine you would have some really, really awful thoughts.

And sometimes you would share those thoughts.

Yeah, and it's just like he goes throughout this interview talking about not seeing color, talking about not being racist, talking about having a diverse group of people in his life and in his community, then saying that he would be racist towards people who are assholes, which I think tells me that he's willing to sort of go low with the ad hominem attacks against these people because of what they've done.

to him and he's not afraid to like go there and say something that is crass or brash but overall do i think this person is like a card-carrying racist no i don't think that uh alex says hey there gang liberals say all the time how racist america is i'm telling you go to a vegas pool party while they play usher song yeah well white girls are going crazy and everything's just fine

That is such an Alex comment.

There's also room for that argument.

I mean, there's there's sometimes that you you have experience that experiences that set you on a totally different path in life.

I think we spoke about that or I granted that how an outsider's view of this could easily turn somebody into.

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.