So­ca artiste Nailah Black­man is call­ing for em­pa­thy and uni­ty amid the on­go­ing con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Ka­ia Sealy, say­ing she felt over­whelmed by what has been hap­pen­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a video post­ed to so­cial me­dia last night, Black­man said she usu­al­ly avoids speak­ing on mat­ters that do not di­rect­ly con­cern her be­cause “it’s very easy to be mis­un­der­stood”, but said she felt com­pelled to speak out.

“Word of the day to­day is em­pa­thy,” she said, “Em­pa­thy is a hu­man emo­tion that al­lows one to feel and un­der­stand what some­one else is go­ing through from their per­spec­tive.”