A woman named Kadia Iman went viral after a video showed her snatching the mic away from an educator during a graduation ceremony.
Iman could be heard telling the older white woman, "I want the mic! Let go! You didn’t let me get my moment. I’m graduating today. I don’t like how you snatched the mic out of my hand, so today is going to be all about me!"
Iman, who has more than 18,000 followers on TikTok, addressed the incident on her page. She told viewers, "Basically, what happened was I was walking on and we had to say our names before we get on the stage. So I was saying my name and she literally — my name is long, obviously, I have like three syllables in my name."
She added, "So, I didn’t even get to finish saying my name, and then the people that went before me, they all got to say their name, their major, and even extras. Me and another girl noticed that she was pulling the mic down super fast for some Black people — I don’t want to be that person, so I just couldn’t let her … I just couldn’t let that happen.
"I just feel like I worked so hard to graduate and went through so much s*** to graduate that I just felt like I had to reclaim my moment. I’m sorry. I’m not a problematic person. I don’t want to ruin no one’s day."
