The Karmelo Anthony case in Texas is bringing out the worst of the racebaiting perpetual victims who try to continuously divide society with their racist worldviews.
Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. Anthony was under the tent of another high school as it rained, was asked to leave multiple times, and stabbed Metcalf in an altercation where witnesses testified that Anthony was the aggressor. This all happened because Anthony was aggressive, and because he brought a knife to a high school track meet in the first place. He was sentenced to a maximum of 35 years.
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This case was as clear-cut as it gets, but there was one hangup for the media racial complex: Metcalf was white, and Anthony was black. Therefore, there had to be a racial angle to this, and Anthony had to be a victim of a witch hunt where the white teen was the aggressor. That was the line of argument taken by outgoing Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who claimed (against evidence) that Metcalf was the racist aggressor. Crockett also claimed that, if the roles were reversed, Metcalf would receive no punishment if he killed Anthony under similar circumstances.
We know what would have happened, though, if the roles were reversed and a white murderer had stabbed a black teen at a high school track meet. Cities across the country would burn, murals of the slain black teen would be put up on buildings, and corporations would be forced to issue statements condemning systemic racism. We know this because this is what happened in 2020 when George Floyd was killed by a police officer in a situation that was far less clear than Metcalf’s murder.
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Crockett is not alone. Angela Rye, who has worked for CNN and ESPN, falsely claimed that Metcalf was the aggressor in order to justify Anthony stabbing him. Howard University professor Stacey Patton similarly blamed Metcalf (and his parents) for his murder, because “Black children have boundaries,” and those boundaries apparently entail stabbing people to death.
What Crockett, Rye, Patton, and others are trying to do is socially segregate black people from the rest of society. They want black Americans to think that society is out to get them and that the justice system won’t protect them. They want to take a straightforward murder case and turn it into racial grievance to whip up division, to make black Americans think they will always be victims of white people and/or the justice system. They are racists, peddling racism, hoping to exploit divisions in pursuit of political power and media influence, to the point that they are willing to racialize and politicize murder based on the skin color of the killer and the victim.