The son of the legendary Isaac Hayes recently shared a disturbing video on Instagram of a Karen who tried to prevent him from entering his gated community. In the clip, the woman—who was seemingly intoxicated—also told him that he should be “white.”
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Isaac Hayes III, who works as a tech entrepreneur in addition to being the manager of his late father’s estate, posted the clip of him being accosted by a woman as he was driving to his house in an upscale suburb of Atlanta.
“You trying to get in? Who are you? I’m on the board,” the leopard-print clad woman said.
“You driving here like a bat out of hell, you drive in and drive out...f**k you, it’s all ridiculous, we have dogs, we have people and you don’t even care,” she continued.
The Karen then appeared to say: “Why don’t you be white?” Hayes recounted his disbelief in the Instagram caption.
“Christmas Eve Karen: I’ve never seen a Karen in the wild. Well tonight I had my first up close encounter with one,” he wrote.
“I stayed calm, I made no sudden movements and got away as quickly as I could. Outside of preventing me from entering my community, cursing at me and telling me I should be ‘White.’ It’s pretty surreal. White Supremacy is crashin’ out all 2025. Be safe.”
The incident reportedly occurred at the gated community of Cobblestone at Brookhaven.
Hayes III recently garnered public attention earlier this year over his disapproval over the Trump campaign’s use of his father’s song “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
In September, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled that Trump and his campaign had to stop using the track. Hayes expressed relief at the decision.
“I want this to serve as an opportunity for other artists to come forward that don’t want their music used by Donald Trump or other political entities and continue to fight for music artists’ rights and copyright,” he told reporters per CBS News.
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