In this YouTube segment, Karamo acts as a mediator for a mother (Speaker A) who is struggling with the pain caused by the father of her child, Sherrod. The dialogue reveals that both parents were teenagers when the child was conceived, and each made mistakes without guidance. Karamo repeatedly emphasizes that the root of the hurt lies not in the individuals themselves but in the adults who failed to support them during their youth. He urges the mother to recognize the shared innocence of their teenage years, to forgive the father as a scared child, and to release the blame placed on each other. By reframing the conflict as a product of adult neglect rather than personal fault, Karamo aims to move the conversation toward mutual forgiveness, emotional healing, and the possibility of rebuilding family connections.
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I never denied Hadassah in her face, never.
Did he at one point decide, "I'm going to stop denying her"?
I don't, he did at one point try to rectify the situation.
Yes.
But that energy was out there already. The person that they think that I was is out there already. The hurt was there already.
I get that.
Now he would do, he would come around and do whatever and be with her. And then I don't see it for a while. I don't care what anybody have to say about me. I mean, this whole world can say whatever they want.
I know who I am.
I know who I am. Don't worry about what people say about me.
Hear me out, 'cause I gotta get y'all to a good place so I can get your daughter back out here. I need y'all to hear this because you just said, yes, he rectified, but the hurt was already out there. He was a kid who made a mistake, but he tried to rectify it the best he could with limited tools. The people y'all are angry at are adults. It's not each other.
That's true. I believe that.
But y'all have to recognize that you're mad. You're not mad at each other. Y'all are arguing about choices when y'all were kids who didn't have any guidance.
That's true. That is so true.
Y'all gotta stop being mad at each other.
That's true.
Because my child was born when I was 16. His mother was 16. We made mistakes, we said things. I can't hold her to things she did then just like she can't hold me. Yes, there was damage out there. Yes, things happened, but we had to look at each other and say, you know what? That wasn't your fault, this wasn't my fault, that was these adults' fault who tormented us as kids because they didn't have the language to be there for us.
Right.
Y'all were innocent children.
I am not the same person I was when I was 14 years old. And neither am I. And can you help me with this hurt?
I can, I can. But the first thing to do to help you with that hurt is that you have to recognize that literally this man isn't the reason. It was adults. It was adults. He was a scared child that made a bad decision, just like you were a scared child. Y'all gotta start to forgive each other and realize this wasn't our fault. Because once you do that, and I'm on my knees right now because I'm begging you, Once you do that, then I can help you to heal the pain you felt from adults. Because right now the pain is misguided and that's why y'all arguing. That's why y'all are fighting. So you have to be able to say, "I forgive you, you were a child." And you say, "I forgive you, you were a child. It wasn't our fault." Can you say that to him? I forgive you, you were a child.
I forgive you, Sherrod.
Forgive you, it wasn't your fault. It was the devil. I forgive you. Do you accept that?
