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.
ADDENDUM:
This Legal Insurrection post features a number of comments by black people who agree that Karmelo Anthony is clearly guilty of murder and needs to pay the price. I think their position represents that of the majority of black people, despite the attention-getting behavior of those who consider Anthony a victim.
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.
Yesterday I saw a video from a black man–don’t have the link— which pointed out that many black mothers rear their children with the admonition, “Don’t let them touch you,” with the implication that a violent response is justified.
Here is another video w Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, @ 3:00. They’re Defending Karmelo Anthony. Let’s Respond.(hat tip to huxley. The blogger is another black who did not deify St. Karmelo.) Jasmine Crockett dixit:
First point: While Austin Metcalf was bigger than Karmelo Anthony, he was not on top of Karmelo. Nor was Austin Metcalf beating Karmelo. Which means that Jasmine Crockett does not accurately describe the Austin Metcalf/Karmelo Anthony situation.
Nonetheless I would agree with Congresswoman Crockett that if someone bigger than me were on top of me, and beating me up, I would be legally justified in being “not limited to fists.”
I can think of a situation some years back when a larger person was on top of a smaller person, beating the small person up, and the smaller person’s response was “not limited to fists.”
I refer to George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was IIRC 6″ taller than George Zimmerman.
Would Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett agree that George Zimmerman was justified in doing what he did? The jury acquitted George Zimmerman, so it saw some justification in George’s killing Trayvon Martin.
Gringo:
Not only that, but Trayvon was repeatedly bashing Zimmerman’s head against the pavement, and there was indeed evidence of that.
Zimmerman also claimed that Martin saw his gun and reached for it.
And of course Crockett wouldn’t think Zimmerman was justified.
The black community has been marinated in grievance, entitlement, and the bigotry of low expectations since the ’60s…or if I’m feeling generous, the ’90s.
Nothing asked. Everything given. Zero accountability. And here we are.
We (whites and blacks) exist in two separate irreconcilable realities.
When you reward grievances without establishing their legitimacy, you create an incentive for people to create grievances for gain. Are all of these displays being made in good faith, in real anger and outrage, or are they performative?
The result should not be a surprise. The result is also a warning and a red flag that indicates a course correction is becoming critical.
Thomas Sowell said some years ago: “”When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
This Legal Insurrection post features a number of comments by black people who agree that Karmelo Anthony is clearly guilty of murder and needs to pay the price. I think their position represents that of the majority of black people, despite the attention-getting behavior of those who consider Anthony a victim.
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That sounds overly optimistic. Sure, I’d like to believe it. But I don’t see a reason to.