 For video streaming, gaming, social media, plus smart home devices, and security systems standard high-speed or cellular internet is just too slow, but Broadband keeps your home connected. Call or visit Gearhart Broadband online. What was supposed to be a fun day of kayaking was tarnished by a racial incident for a young University of Pikeville student. Victor Nakayasu says as the female instructor at Muddy Boots was explaining what the group of U-Pike Band students and faculty needed in order to be able to kayak, she said something that left him stunned. And then I looked around I was like there is no way there's just no way that she's saying this and I was like okay let me pause. What do I got to be in order for me to continue into kayak? She said looked at me right in my eyes, free white in 21 and I was like wow wow I got to be white for me to do an activity that the school is paying us to go to. Nakayasu says what hurt the most is that everyone around including a few members of the U-Pike faculty remained silent and didn't stand up for him. And then you know I just kind of brushed it off and everybody laughed and no one said anything that's what bothered me. No one said anything like the people that call me friends the people that call me you know you're my brother they didn't say anything. Now I understand maybe they were in shock never heard something like this but that hurt me because she said that you know and nobody said anything it wasn't what or how she said it it was when she said it nobody said anything that's what broke me so I just went straight to the get a kayak and I started moving it to the river and then I was like okay I can't continue I need a paddle so went over there in the back saw tons of colors and she gave me a black paddle all black I said it suits me better and I was like why does this suit me better so this is why I said I was like oh it's probably because I'm black and then she laughed and sold it to others so I get on the river and I continue with my day but I knew for a fact that this was wrong it's so wrong. After this incident Victor says he talked with one of his close friends about leaving Kentucky and returning to Massachusetts. It doesn't matter where I go racism is only gonna follow me it's been like this for decades and even centuries it doesn't matter if I go back home to Massachusetts or if I stay in Kentucky I it's just it's just gonna follow me to wherever I go it's just like a little baggage I carry with me now I have felt discrimination in the past when I was a kid growing up but I have never experienced someone saying I can't do a certain activity because of my color it was always people calling me names it was never something that I I couldn't do I don't have any hate towards her I don't see color I see people that's what my parents taught me I forgive her and I pray that God forgives her and I pray that when people see her they just see people they don't see color and I hope that she can learn that. Reporting from Pikeville City Park I'm Jeremy Justice with Mountain Top News.