A West Kentucky College pupil took to social media this week to share a horrifying racist incident to which he was subjected. Nonetheless, that is no remoted incidence…it’s jus is simply the continuation of the development of racist run-ins we’ve seen since You-Know-Who acquired in workplace.
Malachi Allen posted a video saying he’d skilled one thing this week “nobody ought to have ever witnessed.” Visibly shaken, he went on to say he wasn’t making the video to “play the sufferer” however to “unfold consciousness.”
Allen then defined that an older white man approached him, pulled a knife out on him and threatened to shoot him with a shotgun all whereas calling him the N-word.
“I simply wish to say that racism shouldn’t be proper irrespective of your ethnicity [or] what technology you’re from. This was truthfully a scary expertise for me,” he stated by way of tears, including {that a} police report was filed and that costs will probably be pressed towards the person. “I simply hope justice is served.”
The Root reached out to WKU police in addition to the native Bowling Inexperienced Police Division for particulars. We additionally tried to contact Allen.
It looks like ever since Donald Trump returned to presidency, racists have been much more emboldened to show their bigotry now than the primary time period. We’re in 2025 and Black individuals are being attacked like they nonetheless can’t legally use the identical rest room as white of us – and there’s an ever rising checklist of incidents to show so.
Lately, a white lady was caught on digicam calling a Black toddler the N-word on a playground. Her racist supporters then flooded a GoFundMe with donations to assist her. A Black teenage activist was despatched a letter stuffed with racist threats saying she deserves to be hanged from a tree after she received a settlement from getting socked within the face by a cop.
A white excessive schooler was turned in by his mom after being caught writing loss of life threats towards Black individuals and racial slurs on the facet of a highschool. A Black hospice care employee was bodily attacked by an older white man who known as her racial slurs and advised her, “You don’t belong right here.”
As if we would have liked to reiterate the message, racism isn’t going wherever. As a lot because the token Republicans attempt to tout that our nation isn’t racist, the insurance policies being drafted from the White Home are very clearly an assault on Black individuals, from training to healthcare.
As we wait to see how these insurance policies unfold, we will anticipate extra harmless Black individuals like Allen to be focused.