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I of course I am your host, Kara Davis, and this is the podcast where we take hot topics, hot button issues, and we discussed the talking points on those issues, and we draw those talking points out all the way to their logical conclusion. I am just getting home from the East Coast. I was there attending to my father's affairs. As many of you know, my father unfortunately passed away very unexpectedly, um recently, and I had to come home, and then I had to go back out for the funeral and also travel up to Baltimore to his house. And Baltimore is everything that they say it is. So it's been an emotional roller coaster. I want to thank everybody for being patient, and I want to thank everybody for your thoughts and your prayers. You guys have sent me many messages saying that you're praying for me and my family and your condolences, and I really appreciate that. I'm definitely coming to some conclusions. Stuff like this changes you, and I can feel myself changing because of it. I was having a long I had a long conversation with Darvo today about some of the things I've learned and what we've learned, and I was actually going to talk about that. One of the things that has struck me this week is the importance to live in your purpose. And I know that sounds very churchy or very new agy to some, but I think there's some value in that, and I do believe that this might be a topic people need to hear. And I've learned some things, I've realized some things, and this is the show where I get all that stuff out. So I was going to record that today, but in famous giltwy fashion, I changed my mind at the last minute because I was working on my substack today. And you can follow me over on my substack. Just go to substack dot com and you can look up Curadavis, just Kura Davis, or you can go to just Kiadavis dot substack dot com and sign up for my newsletter. There's a free side and a paid side. I do appreciate your support either way, but sign up and share. And so I was writing about the one news story that poked through my haze of grief and busyness this past week. I the world was changing, stuff was going on, and I was like, I have no idea. I have no idea what's going on? Like that's usually I'm not like that. But I had no idea what was happening in the world. I haven't for almost the entire month of May. But there was one news story that poked itself out and I couldn't ignore it. And that's the story of hospital Karen and bicycle. Brian, you know the story that I'm talking about. This lady who works at a New York City hospital, Bellevue Hospital. She's a nurse, a white lady, and she was getting off of her twelve hour shifts. She's six months pregnant, and she went to get a bike out of the bike share. I don't know a lot of you've got to know what this is by now, but maybe if you're in a smaller town you don't. But now there's bike shares or scooter shares where these scooters and bikes they're outside of busy locations on street corners. You plug in your debit card information, and then you can ride this bike all around and you can leave it wherever you stop, and it charges you for the time that you use it. So she got on a ride share bike. Seems like a reasonable thing to do in the springtime and York City rather than driving or taking public transportation. And when she grabbed the bike, a young black man and the race is important here because this is what this whole thing has turned into. But a young black man standing around with his friends said, no, that bike is mine. I paid for it. I was here. You know my information is still in there, and so an argument ensued. Now the incident has since gone viral, of course, because it was a white woman, a Karen, and a black guy. I've named him bicycle Brian because I think Brian is like, that's the male version of a Karen. And they aren't really giving out these people's names, which is good for obvious reasons. But the hospital has placed the nurse on leaves, saying that they were very disturbed by the confrontation. And so, I, being who I am, thought to myself, I'm only reading what's happening. I'm not going to take anyone's word for it. I'm gonna go watch the video. And I also recognize, and I say this a lot, that there's always a moment before, right there's alwa was a moment before, and you don't know what was happening the moment before. Unfortunately, in this case, we don't either. This cell phone video obviously started after the conversation confrontation started to get heated. My substock article today was about how this really shouldn't have been anything else than a sort of urban confrontation, something that probably happens nearly every day on the streets of any big city people have misunderstandings, they have miscommunications, they treat each other poorly. Unfair things happen, But it's not like an international incident. It's not like a complete adjudication of America's sins of racism. But because this was a white woman and a black man, it automatically became about racism. And I was reading all of these headlines accusing this woman of being a white supremacist or Karen or weaponizing her tears. That there is a whole thing. If you listened to my breakdown of white fragility right by Robin D'Angelo, I think there might have been a chapter in there on white tears. That's a thing now that the CRT community is using. Right, So if you're a white lady and you cry anytime for any reason, you're being manipulative, you're weaponizing your tears. It's kind of sad, But I do want to talk about what I saw. I wrote the sub stack, and I think it's worth you going to and reading it because you might want to share that. You know, that little article might be easier for you to share with friends and family than this whole podcast. But when I was finished, I wasn't satisfied with it because I felt like I didn't have the the word itch to explain myself very well. So I wanted to explain myself. I wanted to tell people exactly what I was thinking about this story because it's one of the few things that I've paid attention to in the news cycle since this whole mess started for me. So the best place to start is just with a little audio. I went and got some audio for you. I'm going to play it for you, and you can hear the bulk of the conversation between this young man, and it's important to know that he's also with a group of friends. So she's surrounded by this group of young people, young black people, and she's trying to she's obviously a nurse's scrubs. She's got earbuds in, so she's talking to someone on the phone and she's trying to get the spike out, and they're holding the handlebars of the bike. They're not holding her, they're not touching her, although there is a moment when that happens, and we'll get to that, but they are sort of aggressively holding onto the bike, telling her this is not yours. This is his and she's telling them no, I just paid for it. So that's the scene I want to set up for you. And warning there is some language in this video. Take a listen me, please have me, Please have me, Please have me. Don't you're not you're not getting I took a story which always I'm not trying. I do stop. Do stop. No, you're not dying. You're not dying. Drunk where you you pulled it out, that's how you pulled it out. This is my bikes on my account. Please reset the bike. I'm not reset on his head, his im pull it out your that's just my bike. Client. Stop big cring. I touching, touch hold on, hold on, I'm touching. I'm touching. I'm touching me. I will exactly. So take it, baby, come out with how do you stop crying? Not a not a tick came down? This not a tick came down. Hey, y'all, this is Ali Michelle. I'm a conservative social media influencer that has been censored by big tech. So I broke away from the restriction and started a podcast called pillow Talk with Ali Michelle. My show is a space to have real conversations about the issues that impact our everyday lives without the fear of being canceled by the big tech tyrants. Subscribe to Pillow Talk with Allie, Michelle and FCB podcast on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you hitch podcasts. That's ali a l II. Come check on my show. I'll see you there. Okay. So there's a number of things going on in this video, and here's why I think I don't think that this needed to be an international incident, and why I think actually all parties are wrong here, but also why I think that this hypersensitive racial atmosphere has caused us all to go take corners right away When an objective viewing of this, to look at this objectively, I think we can come to a reasonable conclusion that both parties were right in some respects. Both parties were wrong, but this didn't really need to be a thing of Oh, here's a white supremacist. And I'm going to start by saying that I think that was a really unfair characterization of this woman. But she wasn't completely innocent here either, So why don't I start at the start, start at the top. I can already hear people getting itchy, getting anxious, because even when I mentioned this on Twitter, people who are like, you have to give respect to get respect. I said something about how CRT and anti racism makes it hard for us to have compassion for each other, and it makes it impossible for us to extend grace to one another, which is what both of the parties in this case needed. And somebody responded, well, I'm of the belief that in order to have grace extended to you, you first have to be willing to extend it to others. That's what exactly what the tweet said. I was like, no, absolutely not. Actually, that's the opposite of grace. Grace is not tr actional. That's why it's called grace. Not you do this, I do that, not one hand watches the other. It's not that at all. Grace is making the decision not to treat someone the way they deserve to be treated. So no, that the whole Actually, it's only grace when you give it to people who don't deserve it and aren't going to give it back to you. It's sort of like free speech, right. Free speech isn't speech that you like. Free speech. There's a case to be made, is hate speech It's got to be speech you don't like, so unlike everybody, get over yourselves. It's really not about giving respect to get respect. That's not what grace is. And I think it's really unfortunate that this has turned into an incident. Now there's been there's been some new developments in the story, and she's gone ahead and retained a lawyer, and the lawyer's going to sue for defamation. I don't know who the lawyer is going to sue. I don't know if the lawyer is going to sue this young man and his friends for airing the video, or if they're going to sue the people who have responded. Because the young man's sister actually did make a response, and she basically said that this woman was a racist. And I do kind of think that you have to be careful with that kind of language. That's a very dangerous label to put on people, especially these days. This woman is put on leave from her job because this video went viral and she was called a white supremacist. Like I was reading tweets and headlines from like The Root and HuffPo Black voices and people can oh, she has racist ties, She's a white supremacist. That's a very lofty charge, and in an atmosphere these days where people can find where you live and threaten your livelihood and your home. Yeah, you know she might have a case there. It just depends on who she's suing. And again, it's just really unfortunate that it got to this point because what I saw when I was looking at that video was actually just two New Yorkers being jerks to each other. That's really what I saw. Now, she, according to her lawyer, has the receipts to prove that she paid for the bike, and so does Brian. Karen paid for the bike. Brian paid for the bike. I think the problem was in the docking of the bike. I think what happened is that he docked the bike and he wasn't finished with it, and she came to get the bike. Why she reached for that one, I don't know, because in the video there were many others around. She came to get the bike and put her put her payment in. Now, if someone else's payment was in there, she wouldn't have been able to put her payment in. She put her payment in there, pulled the bike out of the dock, and that's when the when Brian was like yo, this is my bike. I think, I really think that he was genuine from what I saw. I don't think he was trying to bully or harasser. I think he genuinely believed that she was taking the bike that he paid for. He didn't understand that the bike had docked. That This is my belief watching the video a few times over now and even listening to how he talked her. He never threatened her, you know. So it wasn't a case either of where I was like, oh, this guy, he was just trying to be mean or trying to be a bully. I genuinely think he believed the bike was still in his name, and she obviously believed the same. So to me, this was a thing of This is a thing that happens in the big city. Sometimes people are rude to each other, People don't want to give each other the time of day. I mean, I can't remember parking in La once, and the parking lots there are there is crazy as you can imagine, and the spaces are so tiny, and there was one space left, and this guy parked kind of crooked, so he made me park a little crooked. I tried to do the best I could and then I went in to the place that where I was going. When I came back out, that guy had moved and another guy had parked next to me, and it was a really tight squeeze and he happened to come to his car at the same time I came to my car, and he looked at me. He was like as he was trying to squeeze into his car, he was like, you stupid a hole. Why would you park like this. You're such a d head. And yes, yes, me a single woman just standing there innocently. He was yelling at me, and I was like, dude, I had to park like this because the person next to me park like that. I promise you I did not wake up today thinking of ways to make your day harder. And I think when I said that, it kind of caught him off guard, you know, and he was like, Okay, fine, he's got in his car and left. But that's city living. You get into those confrontations and it's not really personal. It's just city living is stressful, and you're already dealing with traffic and bums and crime and the cost of living, and it's stressful. And then people do have their own beefs with people from different neighborhoods, people who don't look like them, people who run the corner store. You know, everyone's got some beef with somebody somewhere. That's urban life. And that's how what I would have chalked this confrontation up to. Had it been two people of the same race, had it been two people of the same race, we would not be talking about this. We would all be saying the same thing. Well, these people both got what they deserve. Because I'll tell you what. I'm going to break this down for you, but I'll tell you what. This woman did look like the prototype for a parent. To me. I'm not gonna lie now. I don't mean to cast aspersions on her because I don't know her. Maybe she just has resting Karen face, you know what I'm saying. Maybe she just looks like that. I don't know anything about her. I know she's six months pregnant, and she might have been a little unreasonable and a little emotional. She's growing a human being inside of her. She just got off a twelve year a twelve year, a twelve hour shift at the hospital. She's trying to go home in New York City, these young men are annoying her. They're not letting her get her bike and get on her way, or if that says she sees it. So, yeah, she's a little bit emotional, she's a little bit irate. Maybe most of us would be the same were we in the same situation. And that's why I say, I'm willing to give her some grace in the situation, making consideration for all the things that she was going through. But also when I'm listening to her and I'm listening to her scream, how how you know she's not in danger? She's not in danger. I don't know, some of you are going to say. I know you're saying it right now. I can hear you. Here. She was surrounded by these young men. She's a single woman, she's six months pregnant, and there's five young men, young black men. And I don't know if that mattered to her or not, but even still, let's say it did, young black men around her. She's scared, she's screaming for help. Well, you know what you do when you're scared. You run, you leave. If you are scared for your body and particularly your baby's body, which I also have an issue with her describing her baby as a fetus. I bet I can figure out where Karen stands on abortion. She's my fetis. You're touching my fetus. Go watch the video. They weren't. That kid was exactly he was telling the truth. He was like, I am not. Your belly is just pushing up against it because you got a big belly. My hands are on these handlebars. So she's screaming. How if she was in trouble, if she really feared for her safety or life, she would have exited the situation. They weren't blocking her way, they weren't telling her. In fact, they were asking her to leave, right they leave the bike, They'll get another one. So she was not in physical danger. That was not indicated at all. She would have left the scene. I say this all the time. I said this especially after Trump was elected and people were acting like it was the end of the freaking world. Like they were like, we're civil rights back four hundred and fifty years. It's never been more dangerous in this country. Donald Trump is literally hitler. Gay people can't walk the streets without bearing for their lives. Black people will suffer complete genocide, Like obviously those people were exaggerating, because you know what you do when you see genocide coming. You run, Like what did the Jews do when they saw the Nazis invading their communities and their countries. They ran, They hid, They ran for their lives because they were terrified for their lives. Right when you see that kind of danger coming, when you see a guy running at you with a machete in the middle of the street, screaming I'm gonna kill you, you don't stand there and go sir, this is unfair. I haven't done anything to incur your wrath. There's no reason for you to want to kill me. No, even if it's unfair, you know it's not fair for him to be chasing you with a machete. You haven't done anything. Even if it's unfair, you run because you're scared. Right, So Karen wasn't running, she wasn't going anywhere. She was screaming help, but it wasn't like an I'm in danger help, And there was another male nurse standing behind her. Eventually he was the one that convinced her to just move on to another bike. He didn't see her in physical danger either, So no, I do not believe for one second that she was in physical danger. I don't think she believed it either, because she made no moves to exit the situation to keep herself and her fetus. Say so, in that respect, I actually do think she was being a Karen. I really do. Now I'm offering her grace because once again, she's six months pregnant, she just got off a twelve hour shift, she's tired, she's a grown up. And these are young men. I don't want to call them teenage boys, but they're definitely very young. You know, I don't have a lot of patients for the antics of young folks these days. When I'm working hard. What are you doing just loitering outside my workplace? You know? I get that. So I'm willing to extend that grace to her. What I didn't think was that she was a racist. That's not what I thought. I thought she was a Karen. Hey, Hey, y'all, this is Alie Michelle. I'm a conservative social media influencer that has been censored by big tech. So I broke away from the restrictions and started a podcast called pillow Talk with Ali Michelle. My show is a space to have real conversations about the issues that I'm packed our everyday lives without the fear of being canceled by the big tech tyrants. Subscribe to Pillow Talk with Alie Michelle and FCB podcast on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you getch podcasts. That's Ali, Ali. Come check on my show. I'll see you there. Let's shift our focus to the boys, now, to the young men, to Brian. As I said before, I genuinely think this young man really believed that the bike was his, that he had paid for the bike, and he wasn't done paying for the bike. I really do. I don't think he was trying to pull a scam on her. And he has his receipt for the bike, and you can hear him tell her, Oh, no, that's mine, I paid for it. I can show you I paid for it. So he genuinely believed that he paid for it. And this Karen was just trying to take his bike and didn't want to hear what he was saying. Didn't she didn't want to believe him. And this is where I think that both parties were jerks. This is a group of young man. This is a woman who is your elder she's pregnant and she's just getting off a workship at some point. Even if you feel the situation is unfair, the same way that I am saying, I expected her to back off and go like touch grass, take a breath, you know, find a compromise. I would expect him to as well, even if it's unfair. His responsibility as a young man was to offer his elder the modicum of respect that we offer elders and particularly pregnant woman, and he should have moved on to another bike, or he could have said, let me show you the receipts. Let me go into my email. I'll show you the receipts. You're wrong about this, but in the end, I think a responsible young man. I don't want to even assume that he's irresponsible, but I think the responsible thing to do would have been to just say, okay, you crazy bee, take the bike. Then fine, I'll call the bike company and I'll explain to them what happened. I took this video. I'll explain to them that you took the bike right out of my hands. I'm not saying he owed her kindness, but I do think he owed her a bit of deference. Even if it's not fair. We this is how we do it right. I know plenty of old people who are rude, and it's just like, well, you know, they're old, and the boys should have understood as well. The young men should have understood as well. I believe. I think I would expect this from my son if he was in this situation that they were surrounding her, so in a way, she really was vulnerable, and they should have known at least to back up. They should have backed off. They should have shown at least that type of respect. Now they were young. Again, this is where grace comes in, and this is when they here's the grace I have for them. They were young. They believed that he had the bike, that he had the right to the bike, and they believed that she was making a big deal out of something that wasn't even true. And it looks like, after all of a sudden done, it looks like this woman does have the receipts to back up. I mean, she's got a lawyer now. And that's the other thing. Now, this whole thing's got a lawyer involved. It's just ridiculous. It didn't need to be this way. It shouldn't have been this way. I don't blame either party for it being out of control like this. I blame the CRT d EI anti racist crowd that has made every single interaction between American citizens about race in some way. And so instead of this just being two human beings having a bad day and having a bad interaction, and even if it was a bit unfair for one person or the other, instead of it just being about that, now it's become this international incident. And she's a white supremacist and he's the noble victim, and they both made poor decisions. Here is what I'm saying, and I'm saying she may actually be a Karen again. What I saw was like Verycaren behavior. That's what I saw. But to my mind, that's neither here nor there as to whether she's a white supremacist or a racist. And she doesn't deserve to have her name smeared like that, certainly not when she thought she was in the right and may very well have been and he did too. She certainly doesn't deserve to lose her job. She certainly doesn't deserve to be smeared in public as a racist and a white supremacist. That's like one of the worst things you can call a person these days, So to me, that's highly unfair, grossly unfair, uncalled for and equally uncalled for. Was this situation escalating now? The person who had the right idea was the dude behind her. Made me wonder if he knew her, and maybe he knew, you know, she was a bisty one to say the least, because in the end, guess what he did. He solved the situation by stepping up, gently, pulling her aside, and saying, just get the other bike. You heard him in this video say why don't you just dock the bike and get a new one, And the kid's going, no, no, no, we just got the bike. We're not gonna dock it. We just took it out of the dock again. I think we're gonna see, well, I don't know. I don't really have plans to like pour over their stupid bicycle receipts. It's ridiculous that it's gone this far, But I guess we'll see if anyone cares in a week what that process was. Again, I told you my theory that I think what happened is they had the bike, they accidentally docked it, and you can see it's it's actually pretty easy to dock it. They might have just been resting it. They had the bike it accidentally docked. Again, we don't see the moment before, so I don't know why she went to this bike when they were clearly standing around it and buy it, and there were other bikes. I don't know why she went to that bike. Maybe she liked that bike, Maybe that's her lucky spot. Who knows, I have no idea. Or maybe they weren't even standing by it in the moment before. Maybe they weren't, maybe they were further away. Again, this is why you can't judge any one person's entire personality an entire life, on one video. That's not fair. You never see the moment before, and you don't know anything about their lives. They both might be perfect saints. She might be the most generous person on earth. He might work for the homeless shelter. We don't know anything about these people except this interaction, and it is totally unfair to judge them according to this interaction. It's certainly unfair to label their entire lives as a vile and inhuman simply because you didn't like the way they reacted. Either way. Either one to this situation. As I said before, I think if it were two people of the same race, we would just chalk it up to that's big city living, right, You get into those conflicts I mentioned in my substat article. One of the things I said is when I was growing up, I'm gen X. When I was growing up, the push was to I'm not sure a better way to say this, but normalize Black America. It was the idea of, hey, stop stop otherising us, stop portraying us as this exotic group of people, or Hollywood would always make us either the gangbangers or the noble savage. You know, the wise old black woman who she didn't mind that she was poor. She loved being poor. She want you white folks to be rich because she'll just live off wisdom in the warmth of her family. And you, all rich white people, you take some of this wisdom and you get richer, and you get happier, because that's what makes me happy. You know, that's the stereotype. And we were saying, no, you know, you need to stop looking at people as a race. We really bought into the MLK idea of content of character, and you know, you're all our little kids playing together, and there was a huge publicity pushed for it. Not every black person was on board with it, but it went mainstream and it worked. It worked really well for all the reasons why anti racism was working now, because it had a huge push in Hollywood, it had a huge push among the celebrity crowd. It had had ad campaigns to go with it, people like Bill Clinton. We're touring and doing the National Race Conversation, and we were really talking about sort of to stop other rising black people. And it worked so well that a whole generation of white people grew up thinking I can treat a black person the way that I treat everybody else. So if so, if I'm a rude person, well I'm gonna be just as rude to the black person as I am to the white person, because I'm a rude person. If I'm an aggressive person, I'm going to be just as aggressive with the black person as I am with the white person, because I'm an aggressive person. When I saw ar In interacting with this with this young man, what I saw was a woman who was like, yeah, I just I can treat him the way I treat everybody else. I suspect again This is all just speculation. I am not saying I know this for sure. I don't know anything about this woman's life. I suspect that she is a bit of a Karen in her daily life, and so she probably figures I'm not a racist. I'm not. I'm definitely not a racist. I work in a New York City hospital where I serve people of all backgrounds, all ethnicities all day long. I live in the most diverse city in the country. I'm obviously not a racist, you know. I donate to the n double ACP like whatever she does to prove to herself that she's not a racist, and I bet you she does a lot because she seemed the dut word fetus is sticking out of my mind. It's playing a big part in in what I think her politics work. And so I'm guessing she's a typical East Coast liberal and again just a guess. But she but thinking, Hey, I'm not a racist, so I can talk to this group of kids the way I would talk to any group of kids. That's getting on my nerves. Yeah I'm gonna be rude. Yeah I'm gonna expect them to bow down to me because I'm older. I'm pregnant and I have a job, and I have told them this is what I want and they need to give it to me. And I don't care if they're white, black, Hispanic, or otherwise. I'm going to talk to them the same way. That's what I saw when I looked at her. I saw a woman who grew up in the era of well, we're just supposed to treat everyone the same, and so she treats everyone the same. And when she feels like being rude, she doesn't care what you look like. She's just gonna be rude. But she didn't understand, and I bet she does now that we don't live in that world anymore. Times have changed, and when we saw one problem, we've got to replace it with another. Otherwise the entire race industry dies. That's not just the race industry, that's any industry. Right. We're never going to solve the climate crisis. We're never going to solve the homeless crisis. We're never going to solve the drug epidemic because if we do, there's a lot of folks out of a job. Same with the race issue. So we did a pretty good job of integrating. Not perfect, but pretty good considering how far we came, how quickly. You think about where black people were in nineteen sixty and where they were in nineteen ninety, and that kind of jump, it's like it's like going from a rotary phone to the cell phone. Right, It's just a huge leap, huge leap in a short time. Pretty impressive. So we made that leap, somewhat solved a problem, at least shifted years. And then there are people who are like, well, no, I'm not happy with this, So now come CRT now comes anti racism. Now we have to go back to the time of telling everyone, yes, you're different, See your race makes you different. No, we are not the same. No we shouldn't be integrating. Yes, you should defer to a person's race. Race should matter to you when you're talking to a black person. If you're not black, it should matter to you. And she didn't understand that. She didn't get it. So she's the victim of the politics that are pretty popular on the East Coast. Again, I don't know what her politics are, but I'm a commentator, I'm a talker, and so if I were to guess, as I've said, I would say she's an East Coast liberal. She's just it was that Fetis remarked that that really made me think so, and it tickles me in a kind of way to know that she may have been caught up in her own politics. There's a lot in fact, that's normal. I have seen this. This is normal. I certainly know a lot of conservative Karen's. But every video you see of a Karen calling to cobs on black people, those are all white liberal women. They're all liberals. Remember that one lady that called the cops on that black family that was having a barbecue in the park. They're having a cook out in the park, right, and everyone was like, look at what black people have to face. No, that's y'all's people. That's a liberal right there. First of all, she's in San Francisco, so she's definitely a liberal. Definitely a liberal. And I knew exactly what she was doing because that San Francisco park has a note has a charcoal band. I think they all do. Yeah, you can't burn charcoal in the park, right, it's bad for the environment. It's San Francisco, I think it was Berkeley. Actually you can't burn charcoal. So she's a rule follower, right, she's a Karen. She's a definitely, she's a Karen. She's a rule follower. She's following the rules because she cares for the environment. And here comes this family and they're lighting up charcoal. No, they're killing the planet. They're murdering the atmosphere. We have laws against this. So naturally she follows the rules. She expects everyone else too, So she's calling the police. Well, that turned into a racial incident because she thought that she was going to get away with talking to black people how the same way she would talk to anybody. And it's not the environment that we live in. Furthermore, it's the environment she voted for. Hey, y'all, this is Alie Michelle. I'm a conservative social media influencer that has been censored by big tech. So I broke away from the restrictions and started a podcast called pillow Talk with Alie Michelle. My show is a space to have real conversations about the issues that impact our everyday lives without the fear of being canceled by the big tech tyrants. Subscribe to pillow Talk with Allie Michelle and FCB podcast on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you Hitch podcasts, Ali, Ali, come check on my show. I'll see you there in the end. Again. I just think that this the fact that we are in this post racial, anti racism America, it just makes it so hard for us to have compassion for one another. And it's why I wanted to do I wanted to explain myself further because I just couldn't get it all into that column. And I know people who are gonna read it and they're gonna go, Kira, it's not fair. Those boys were surrounding her, they were making her feel threatened, and there are other people who are going to go she wasn't being a Karen. She didn't have to do that. She thought she could get away with it because they're black or whatever. And both sides have dug in because of race. I think this woman was a liberal, and there are a lot of conservatives defending her. Why because race was brought into the issue, and conservatives don't like it when race gets brought in, so we feel automatically, we have to defend the way person automatically. So you're dug in on somebody who might not be dug in with you, But the only reason you are, the only reason you're responding is because someone else made this about race, and that makes you uncomfortable, and it makes you angry, and you feel that that's unfair, and so you feel like you need to come to her defense and you don't. And the same is true for the other side, by the way, same true for liberals, right, people who feel like she's got to be in the wrong totally because she's white and they're black. And once we know that, well, we can decide this story for itself. I'm telling you, when you just sit down and look at the video objectively and listen to all these people and listen to how they were talking to each other, this is another day in the big city. Like all these people needed to go home and get a good meal and have a glass of water, because a lot of times when you're irritated, you're dehydrated America, we don't drink enough water. Go home, drink a glass of water, put on your favorite show and tell your spouse about it, or tell your mom about it, or call up your friend and complain about it. That's what it was, that's all it needed to be. But we're in this anti racist era now where we're just not allowed to have regular interactions with each other, and by regular interactions, I mean both peaceful and uncomfortable. I gave you the story of the parking lot. Like that is just living in LA just being in southern California. That is just every day you're going to run into somebody who treats you unfairly, cuts in line, cuts you off in the street, takes your parking spot. You're gonna be treated unfairly by someone every single day. And sometimes you fight back, and sometimes you just throw up your hands and be like, well that's it. Bees like that sometimes that's city life. That's what I saw these two getting into. Well, you let me know what you think. Write me at jail t Y at ProtonMail dot com. J L t Y at ProtonMail dot com. Join my substack, by the way, if you want to support me, join me over there. It's just Kira Davis dot substack dot com. Just Kira Davis dot substack dot com. 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