Amala Ekpunobi story

 

hey hated white people I'm half white

am I supposed to hate that half of

myself am I supposed to hate my family

that was a light bulb moment for me

my name is amla enoughy and this is my

story

i'm 20 years old i was born in florida

and i'm a social media influencer and

prager force member

so my father was a nigerian immigrant he

moved to america he met my mother

they fell in love and got married and

they had

three children me being the middle child

and he was in my life up until i was six

years old

and then my parents got divorced so

i have very little memories of him as a

child

and as they were divorced i didn't see

him very often

maybe every year or so

and now he bears very little influence

in my life which i know

is common for most people in the black

community unfortunately

so i sort of fall into that statistic

if you will so my mom is a very

strong-willed woman a very opinionated

woman she happens to work

for the left she is a fundraiser so she

gets all the funding for the

organization that she works for

as a child my mom's beliefs were

ingrained in me she

taught me leftist ideology and in what

she believed from a very young age and i

was always

well aware of where she fell on the line

and

expected to believe the same not having

my father in my life did have an impact

on me

but i found father figures elsewhere

and two people who had a major influence

on me were my grandparents

and they are this strong beautiful

conservative couple that has been

married for years and years

and they taught me how to be a lady

they taught me how to carry myself and

be mature

and i find myself very lucky actually

that even though

my family does not agree with the values

that i

am putting out to the world that my

family accepts what i do

and that they are proud of what i do

even though they disagree

when i was 17 and i graduated high

school i took up a job

as a youth organizer at my mother's

organization

and as i was working there i remember in

particular

walking into the office and hearing

these conversations specifically in

regards to white people

and it was blatantly racist there was no

way around it there was no beating

around the bush

they hated white people and i sat down

with the vp of the organization and

i told him i was concerned i'm half

white i grew up with

my white family am i supposed to hate

that half of myself am i supposed to

hate my family

he essentially told me you have to

understand that people are angry

and they're rightfully angry and they're

going to say these things and maybe they

don't fully mean it but you have to sit

down and you have to take it and you

should be angry too

so that was a light bulb moment for me

and i went out to seek answers on my own

since nobody wanted to answer them

i went online and i found an interview

in particular

of thomas sol and something that

resonated with me is that

he was a marxist for most of his young

life

just as i was and that shared experience

was a beautiful revelation to see

and now he is this beautiful mind who

has intellect

beyond what i will ever be capable of so

he is a major

inspiration for me and a big part of why

i'm a conservative today

so when i think about the black

community in america

and how we are taught to be victims it

is devastating for me

and what happens is you

are raised in a society in which really

nobody is treating you differently

but you have the mindset that they are

and

not only does it hold you back from

creating your own success but it holds

you back from taking accountability

and you no longer are responsible for

your actions because you have somebody

to blame

and people perpetuate that and they tell

you that's okay

and they say yes you are a victim and

then you go out with that mindset and

when success doesn't happen for you you

blame it on other people

and ultimately i think that is the main

problem with that narrative is that

there's no accountability in the black

community anymore

and people get very very angry when you

say things like that

because they want their race to be seen

they think it's such a pivotal part of

who they are as a person

and it's overtaking character it's

overtaking morals and values it's

overtaking

where you even land politically your

race is

seen as this sort of pivotal structure

to who you are

when that should not be the case we are

bringing back segregation in this

country

and people will sell it to you as if

we're doing it in a positive manner but

it is segregation nonetheless and that

is never positive

so that's another narrative that the

american people are being sold that we

need to uplift black people and in doing

that we need to keep them in their

separate categories and we we

need to give them their success

and it perpetuates the very same racist

narrative that they are trying to run

away from because if black people can't

do anything without your help

and without the help of white liberals

or white leftists

what are you saying about the black

community you're saying that they're not

capable of doing things without you

you're taking away

their character you're taking away their

success and putting it under your name

we are seeing this positive segregation

in the black only college dorms we're

seeing it in affirmative action

we're seeing it in our streaming

services like netflix and hulu where we

have black only categories

i went onto youtube the other day and i

got a

big poster that said let's uplift black

creators and here's a list of black

creators on our platform

we are segregating virtually every

single facet of our society and we're

doing it

in this gradual process and teaching

people that it's a positive

aspect of our lives when it's not the

left is very very supportive of

anti-american values and anti-american

speech

and they see it as taking back

a country that has not served them even

though america has done

wonders for everybody who lives here i

fear that if

things continue on the same track that

they're on right now we are going to

lose all sight of what america ever was

or what america should be

and there are strong campaigns to

strip america of its tradition and of

its values

and a lot of it is what we are taught

when we go

into school we are taught that this

country of freedom and liberty

has all these transgressions that nobody

wants to talk about and nobody wants to

discuss

and really we have a systemic issue that

we

really are not the the free and tolerant

country that we

preach to people that we are we are not

the beacon on the hill that we try to

get other people to perceive us as

and i think it is just a child that is

born of misinformation

and lies i think that we can all find

common ground in looking at

the beautiful things that this country

has to offer we get to

experience more freedom than anybody in

the world

the fact that i can go out and have

freedom of speech and say what i feel

and what i think

it's also amazing in this country that

we

can come here and enjoy all these

opportunities create businesses create

our own world create our own dream

and to know that you can go out and be

whatever you want to be

is a beautiful thing that should

absolutely be celebrated on both sides.