Black college grad’s mic drop goes viral after scuffle with white educator
ByYaron Steinbuch
June 22, 2023 1:46pm
Updated
a Black college grad’s mic drop goes viral after scuffle with white educator
By Yaron Steinbuch
June 22, 2023 1:46pm Updated
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A black college graduate’s mic drop moment has gone viral in a video showing her grabbing the microphone from a white educator who apparently didn’t allow her to say her full name.
Kadia Iman, a digital creator with an OnlyFans account and more than 18,000 followers on TikTok is seen snatching the mic from the stunned white woman, who tries in vain to keep holding it.
“I want the mic! Let go! You didn’t let me get my moment,” she said before mentioning her name to the audience gathered outside. ”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!”
The graduate, clad in a pink-topped cap and black gown, then drops the mic and storms off.
A bystander is heard saying, “Oh! Drops the mic! Congratulations!”
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Kadia Iman grabbing the mic
Black college graduate Kadia Iman has gone viral for her mic drop after she grabbed it from a white educator, whom she accused of stopping her from giving her full name to the crowd.
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Kadia Iman addressing the crowd
“You didn’t let me get my moment,” Iman shouted after wresting the microphone from the woman.
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It wasn’t immediately unclear what college she graduated from.
In a separate video, she explained what happened.
“Basically, what happened was I was walking on and we had to say our names before we get on the stage,” she says in the clip. “So I was saying my name and she literally — my name is long, obviously, I have like three syllables in my name.
Kadia Iman speaking to the crowd
“Today is going to be all about me!” she declared.
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“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,” Iman explained.
“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,” the young woman explained.
“I just feel like I worked so hard to graduate and went through so much s–t 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,” Iman said.
The video received thousands of comments from people who offered their congratulations.
Kadia Iman in her cap and gown
“I just felt like I had to reclaim my moment,” the content creator explained later.
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“The tussling for mic killed me congrats tho,” one said.
“Congratulations queen but the security doing nothing is killing me,” another wrote.
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Many simply wrote: “Period!”
Efforts by The Post to reach Iman on social media were not immediately successful.
