The reaction to the Karmelo Anthony verdict: he’s the victim!
Some people consider Karmelo Anthony the innocent victim here. My sense is that the people reacting this way to the Anthony verdict are a relatively small group, but they’re very vocal and getting a lot of media attention. The group is composed of extremely angry black people and virtue-signaling white “progressives.” But even one person reacting this way is one too many.
One of these people is Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother, who spoke to the pro-Anthony demonstrators after the trial:
? WATCH: Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother riles up the crowd by REPEATEDLY screaming “RACIST, BIASED, PREJUDICED” as she left the courthouse
“They sent a MESSAGE that a white person can hit a black boy and get away with it! They can do whatever the F—K they want!”
This entire… pic.twitter.com/p80ibpTnTF
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 10, 2026
Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother riles up the crowd by REPEATEDLY screaming “RACIST, BIASED, PREJUDICED” as she left the courthouse
“They sent a MESSAGE that a white person can hit a black boy and get away with it! They can do whatever the F—K they want!”
So Austin Metcalf “got away with it”? Being murdered wasn’t punishment enough to satisfy this lady? What else would she have liked to see happen to Austin Metcalf and his family? Perhaps she’d prefer something of this sort?:
Twisted Karmelo Anthony supporters are bombarding the family of slain high school football player Austin Metcalf
with sickening death threats, including a disgusting message saying Austin’s twin brother, Hunter, should have also been killed.
It’s almost irrelevant to point out that Austin Metcalf is not reported by witnesses to have hit Karmelo Anthony, because even if he had done that it wouldn’t have given Anthony license to kill him. It used to be that just about everyone understood that. But for some, the rule is now, “if you lay a hand on me, even if I’ve been asked to leave a school tent because it’s not my school, and then I refuse to do so and insult and curse at you, I get to kill you.” Or maybe just, “if you lay a hand on me I get to kill you.”
At least this was Anthony’s grandmother saying it; she is expected to be understandably upset at the fact that he’s going to prison. But people deal with upset in any number of ways, including apologizing to the real victims – the Metcalf family and anyone who witnessed the killing – and looking inward rather than deflecting blame outward. That this woman chose the latter route is telling.
But then there are people who are supposed to be leaders. For example, there’s Jasmine Crockett, who made a series of extraordinary statements on the case, including this one:
Rep. Crockett: "Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through" pic.twitter.com/GVielzMf51
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026
Pure intersectionality. Black women rank very high on the all-important victimhood ladder, according to Jasmine Crockett.
Also see this from Crockett about the size of the knife wielded by Anthony, although that’s irrelevant, and about motive and the self-defense justification. This woman is a lawyer and knows better, but her need to whip up racial anger is strong:
Some of Karmelo’s crazed supporters are now reportedly randomly punching white people. Do the white people get to stab them in the heart? Assuredly not.
Its Cultural Marxism pushing race war.
Unsettling any normal society that White Supremacists are taking over.
“But then there are people who are supposed to be leaders. For example, there’s Jasmine Crockett, who made a series of extraordinary statements on the case, including this one”
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I am not picking on you, neo, I swear! But the description of political office holders as “leaders” rankles me to no end. I know it’s semantics, and I apologize, but I hate automatically ascribing leadership qualities to someone who manages to win an election.
Disgusting! Blacks need to stop demanding special treatment, and the rest of the country needs to stop granting it.
When Karmelos’ sentence was reported on the radio, I thought the announcer said 45 years, which would be better than the 35 he was given. Still, 35 is better than anything less.
If he were to be paroled after 17.5 years he would be about 36 years old, which would be unjust after the completely inexcusable murder he committed!
sharksauce:
That’s why the phrase “supposed to be” is in there.
“Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.”
George Orwell, “1984” — “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”
Heaven help us.
His grandmother is a graceless creature.
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‘Racist’ generally means that proper status hierarchies have been violated; he cannot be held accountable for having killed a social inferior. Both his grandmother and Jasmine Ratchet are animated by this feeling.