There’s a popular saying: There are two Americas. This phrase was vindicated on Tuesday after Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf. For one America, the sane America, this was the obvious verdict. For the other America, the racist America, Anthony should have been acquitted and seen as the victim because he’s black.
The Anthony case is very simple: At a track meet, the young man entered the opposing team’s tent while armed with a knife. When asked to move, he refused and made threats. When the hostile Anthony was physically confronted about being where he did not belong, he stabbed an innocent kid in the heart with a knife, leaving Metcalf to bleed to death in his twin brother Hunter’s arms. Anthony admitted to this after the stabbing.
Open and shut case, right? Not according to the other America. Anthony, who should have received a life sentence if not the death penalty, received a lighter sentence compared to the 99-year sentence he faced at trial. He only received a 35-year sentence with parole eligibility halfway through. At the earliest, he’ll be in his mid-thirties when he gets out — at the latest, his early fifties. Yet, a representative for the convicted murderer, Thelma Anderson, called the verdict a “legal lynching.” Some in the media even lied about the jury to paint that false picture, claiming it was all white, when five of the 12 jurors were non-white, and at least four witnesses who testified in the case were black.
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Noted leftist Cardi B called the verdict “DISGUSTING” and claimed, “This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) attempted to justify the murder by slandering the slain Metcalf and suggesting he was beating Anthony up.
Crowds outside the courthouse chanted, “Say his name: Karmelo!” One of his supporters shouted, “They BOTH should’ve been dead! Both brothers!” Another said, “The only good cracker is a dead cracker!” One Anthony supporter called the twins “domestic racist terrorists” and blasted the “white motherf******” on the jury. The murderer’s supporters raised over $600,000 on GiveSendGo for his family, with many donors commenting violent anti-white racist remarks. A community organizer in Dallas posted on Facebook, “F*** it dig Austin Metcalf up and stab his a** again.”
One of Anthony’s supporters outside the court whined on camera, “What do I tell my five boys? What do we do now!?”
Oh, the horror — you can’t stab an innocent kid to death and get away with it just because you’re black! How ever will society go on?
For most of the country, murder is wrong regardless of which color is doing the murdering and which color is being murdered. For some, however, murder is justified or outright encouraged if the killer is black and the victim is white. Why is it that when a white person murders a black person in cold blood, you don’t see crowds of people chanting in support of the murderer? It’s because anti-black racism is so rare that left-wing groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center have to pay people to engage in it.
Yet anti-white racism is so pervasive among the other America that some people still think OJ Simpson was innocent despite 90% of the jurors allegedly only voting to acquit because he was black. CNN’s Ashley Allison went as far as to say that Simpson “represented something for the black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because there were two white people who have been killed and the history around how black people have been persecuted.”
White people are 12 times more likely to be killed by a black person than the other way around, per capita. Yet when a white person kills a black person in self-defense or the defense of others, they’re demonized (see Daniel Penny). And when a black person murders a white person in cold blood, they’re victimized or even celebrated.
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In her bewildering commentary on the matter, Crockett made the ridiculous claim that “black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through.” That’s a perfect representation of how the other America thinks. They’re so obsessed with race, fake victimhood, and pretending to be oppressed that they’ve become incapable of empathy toward people when it’s not politically advantageous for them.
When Martin Luther King Jr. coined the phrase “two Americas,” he was talking about one America living in prosperity and another living in systemic oppression. While that dichotomy is dead in the 21st century, another pair of Americas has taken its place. One represents the majority of Americans — black, white, and otherwise — who believe in justice and equality for all. The other America represents a loud minority that believes black people should be able to murder white people without facing repercussions. Thomas Sowell once said, “racism is not dead, but it is on life support” — and the other America refuses to pull the plug.