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It looks as if yearly there’s a multitude of Karen encounters that go viral, upending the lives of racist, authoritative and exhaustingly nosy white girls who refuse to cease minding Black folks’s enterprise each time they resolve we don’t belong someplace.
It’s virtually as if these passive-aggressive white supremacists refuse to obtain the memo that, within the age of digital camera telephones, they run the chance of their pro-Jim Crow tendencies being uncovered, ensuing of their very public shaming and presumably a lack of employment or worse.
Anyway, not too long ago, Isaac Hayes III, the son of legendary soul singer, songwriter and composer Isaac Hayes, had his personal encounter with an unhinged (and apparently drunk) KK-Karen who confronted him with a easy request:
“Why don’t you be white?”
Hayes III, a tech entrepreneur and the supervisor of his father’s property, posted the clip of him being harassed by the Karen within the wilds, whose delusional sense of authority he refused to entertain, as he drove as much as his gated group house in metro Atlanta.
“You making an attempt to get in? Who’re you? I’m on the board,” the unidentified Karen stated, probably mendacity about being “on the board” of an HOA (except it’s an acronym for “Hueless Opressor Affiliation”).
“I don’t care,” Hayes III appropriately responded, after telling her “I dwell right here” and “I don’t must inform you who I’m.”
“You driving right here like a bat out of hell, you drive in and drive out…f**okay you, it’s all ridiculous, we have now canines, we have now folks and also you don’t even care,” she continued.
Even earlier than the white lady made her explicitly racist comment, it was clear she wasn’t afraid Hayes III was some intruder making an attempt to sneak by the gate unauthorized as a result of she might be seen making an attempt to dam him from utilizing the safety keypad, which a authorized resident or visitor of a authorized resident would want to make use of as a way to get in. So, it clearly wasn’t about how he was driving — it was about his Blackness, and he or she made that clear earlier than the altercation was performed and he went on about his enterprise.
“Why don’t you be white?” Karen requested as she lastly walked away.
“Christmas Eve Karen: I’ve by no means seen a Karen within the wild. Properly tonight I had my first up shut encounter with one,” Hayes III wrote on Instagram, recounting the occasion. “I stayed calm, I made no sudden actions and obtained away as rapidly as I might. Exterior of stopping me from coming into my group, cursing at me and telling me I must be ‘White.’ It’s fairly surreal. White Supremacy is crashin’ out all 2025. Be protected.”
Earlier this 12 months, Hayes III joined quite a few artists in expressing disapproval of President-elect Donald Trump’s marketing campaign utilizing his late father’s track “Maintain On, I’m Coming” throughout a marketing campaign occasion, and, in September, a federal choose in Atlanta dominated that Trump and his marketing campaign needed to cease utilizing the monitor.
“I need this to function a chance for different artists to come back ahead that don’t need their music utilized by Donald Trump or different political entities and proceed to battle for music artists’ rights and copyright,” he advised CBS Information on the time.
Yep — Trump is about to be again in workplace, and Black folks shouldn’t be stunned if these Karen encounters go into overdrive because of this.
It’s about to be an extended 4 years, y’all. Buckle up!
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