A Howard University professor is under fire for blaming Austin Metcalf’s father for not teaching his son enough about black culture, which she seemed to insinuate resulted in his murder.
Karmelo Anthony was convicted Tuesday of murdering Austin at a track meet in April 2025 and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, admonished Anthony for making the case about race and told him he’s been feeling “pure unfiltered rage” while grieving the loss of his son.
“I said from day one, this was never about race, please don’t politicize it,” Jeff said. “But what did you choose to do, both. It’s about right and wrong. We’re all humans. We all bleed the same color.”
“You failed your parents, you failed yourself, and you failed society. You don’t belong in this community,” he continued,  “You’re going to prison. You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f*cking son in the heart.”
Dr. Stacey Patton <a href="https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/dear-jeff-metcalf-your-son-is-dead">published an article</a> on Substack on Wednesday titled, “Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries.”
Patton responded to the grieving father’s heartbreaking victim’s impact statement by saying it was time to “talk about Jeff Metcalf’s failure as a father.” She said this was appropriate to do because it was the same treatment given to the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice.
“In your own memorial language, you told us about the kind of white boyhood Austin was raised inside. It was a boyhood steeped in conquest language, hunting rituals, warrior fantasies, masculine toughness, and the romance of force,” she wrote. “You told us about a child praised not just for being kind, curious, gentle, or careful, but for becoming a ‘leader’ and a ‘warrior’ in a racist culture where those words too often mean dominance.”
She argued Austin Metcalf “learned early how to hold a weapon, how to aim, how to take down a living thing, how to be proud of the kill, how to have that moment folded into the mythology of father and son,&#8221; and that set him up to be a victim of violence.
“YOU taught Austin what it meant to be a ‘warrior.’ YOU taught him that toughness was honorable. YOU taught him that taking up space was normal. YOU taught him that confrontation was courage. YOU socialized Austin into entitlement long before he ever reached that track meet,” Patton wrote in the lengthy essay.
“YOU failed to teach your boy that black children have boundaries. YOU failed [to] teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jurisdiction. YOU failed to teach him that another child’s space is not a challenge to be conquered. … YOU obviously failed to teach your son that touching, confronting, crowding, testing, or policing another person can have consequences. You failed, Jeff,” she added.
The Howard professor ultimately concluded that “black children have good reason to be on guard around white bodies.”
She went on to say she was glad Karmelo Anthony never looked the grieving father in the eye, as he had requested while he read his statement. 
“There was power in him not looking at you,” Patton wrote. “There was refusal in it. There was survival in it. There was an ancient knowing in it. Because black people know what it means when a white man demands eye contact from a black child after already deciding what that child is. We know the old ritual. We know that sometimes ‘look at me’ is not a request for humanity. It is a demand for surrender. And Karmelo did not surrender.”
Professor Patton’s Substack has nearly fifty thousand followers, and her open letter to Jeff Metcalf has received nearly two thousand likes. But not everyone was happy with it. 
“Demonic,” one commenter replied.
“This is pretty disgusting,” another person <a href="https://x.com/AdiMagnolia/status/2065213824828113320">wrote</a>. “They’re asserting a right to murder white people who aren’t docile, deferential, and subordinate. Who don’t ‘know their place.’ Some of them have become the racists they claim to hate.”
“Black boys, and all boys for that matter, should have a boundary if not stabbing someone to death. That’s the boundary,” another <a href="https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2065263527108006335">wrote</a>. “It’s an extremely easy boundary NOT to cross, billions of people live their whole lives without ever crossing it. If there’s ANY boundary, it’s that.”

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Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony claims he is broke and cannot afford a lawyer despite his family raising more than $635,000 through a crowdfunding campaign for his legal defense. 
Anthony, 19, who was found guilty and sentenced to 35 years behind bars for murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, requested a court-appointed appellate attorney on Wednesday, according to new filings reported by WFAA.
The filing says Anthony is a &#8220;penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/frisco-murder-trial/one-day-after-conviction-karmelo-anthony-files-notice-of-appeal-and-says-he-cant-afford-a-lawyer/287-6c56a100-fea6-4d7e-87b6-b95370305c3f">according to WFAA.</a>  
Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison after a Texas jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025.
In the days that followed, the stabbing drew national attention. Anthony’s family launched a fundraiser on GiveSendGo, a <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/about">Christian crowdfunding platform</a> that allows fundraising campaigns connected to criminal cases.
The now-deleted <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/HelpKarmelo">fundraising page</a> complained that it’s been a “challenging and difficult time” for Anthony’s family and claimed that “the narrative being spread is false, unjust, and harmful.” A similar fundraiser was taken down by GoFundMe because campaigns raising money for murder suspects violate the platform&#8217;s terms of service, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-teen-raises-thousands-in-fundraiser-after-killing-white-student">The Daily Wire previously reported. </a>
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Following Anthony’s conviction, GiveSendGo said it had closed the fundraiser.
“The fundraiser was supported to support pre-trial needs, and those funds were disbursed over the last year,” the company <a href="https://x.com/GiveSendGo/status/2064757980315443390?s=20">said in a </a>statement. “With that stated purpose now complete, the fundraiser has been closed.&#8221;
The Daily Wire, however, accessed the page on Thursday and found that it was back online with donations continuing to pour in before it was yanked down again later in the day. Screenshots show the fundraiser, created by Anthony&#8217;s mother, Kayla Hayes, had raised more than $635,000, with anonymous donors continuing to contribute.
GiveSendGo did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment. The platform&#8217;s previous statement did not address how much money Anthony&#8217;s family received. 
On Wednesday, Anthony filed notice of appeal, one day after he was sentenced. The filing begins the formal process of challenging both his conviction and sentence, which can take years to progress through the courts and does not guarantee a new trial.
“After the conclusion of the trial yesterday, we gave the court our official notice that Karmelo Anthony is filing an appeal,&#8221; Anthony’s defense lawyer, Mike Howard, <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/frisco-murder-trial/one-day-after-conviction-karmelo-anthony-files-notice-of-appeal-and-says-he-cant-afford-a-lawyer/287-6c56a100-fea6-4d7e-87b6-b95370305c3f">said.</a> &#8220;We believe there are several important issues for the appellate courts to consider. An appeal is the next part of the legal process and a right afforded every American.”
One day after the guilty verdict, Anthony was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-murderer-karmelo-anthony-has-new-look-as-hes-officially-thrown-behind-prison-bars?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=SEE+IT%3A+Murderer+Karmelo+Anthony+Has+New+Look+As+He%E2%80%99s+Officially+Thrown+Behind+Prison+Bars">transferred to a state prison</a> near Navasota, Texas. His intake photo shows his head shaved as he begins his 35-year sentence.
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Breaking: Karmelo Anthony has been transferred to the Pack Unit in Navasota by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Here is his prison mug shot. <a href="https://t.co/cm14aycoHI">pic.twitter.com/cm14aycoHI</a>
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064837796754231391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>

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Cardi B is being mocked for her response to the Karmelo Anthony verdict, with commenters saying she learned the exact wrong lesson from justice being served.
&#8220;Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING,&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/iamcardib/status/2064521641988637183">wrote</a> on X soon after the verdict was read. &#8220;This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!&#8221;
The rapper also hosted a live <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2064904705386356949">conversation</a> on X on Wednesday, complaining about having to tell her sons it’s not okay to argue with white people.
“I sure learned something from this. I learned to tell my sons, if a white boy … do not argue with no white boys … ‘cause baby, ain’t no law protecting you if something goes down with them. That’s what I learned from this case. I’mma tell my sons, you arguing with a white boy, walk the f*ck away. ‘Cause the law don’t protect you.” 
Anthony, 19, was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a high school athlete, whom he fatally stabbed at a track and field meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison and has already filed an appeal. 
While Anthony’s family claims he was targeted for his race and that Metcalf provoked him, video evidence reportedly shows that Anthony refused requests that he leave the track team’s tent before he stabbed Metcalf. The jury agreed that the killing was not self-defense, as Anthony&#8217;s defense and supporters claimed.
Some social media users pointed out the flaws in Cardi B’s logic. 
“In her dumb and convoluted way, she does seem to have inadvertently learned a good lesson — teach your kids not to stab other kids, because they will go to prison,” podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey <a href="https://x.com/conservmillen/status/2065081352773366171">observed</a>.
“I don&#8217;t know how but this trial and the aftermath have demonstrated a significant cultural problem within certain circles or communities. The outrage because this dude got pushed in high school and he wasn&#8217;t allowed to kill in response is about as big a red flag as you can find,” another person <a href="https://x.com/Ruhroe/status/2065089317588836430">wrote</a>. 
“How about don’t stab and murder a white boy or murder anyone and then you don’t have to worry about a murder charge and being held accountable. Can she buy some common sense, I know she can afford it,” another person <a href="https://x.com/Russellmcc_37/status/2065031680960729539">wrote</a>.

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Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett doubled down on her defense of Karmelo Anthony, claiming his murder conviction for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf was evidence of a “broken system.” 
Crockett told TMZ on Wednesday that the sentence of 35 years was excessive &#8220;for a kid who had decided to go under a tent that was not his team&#8217;s tent, as it was raining, and simply didn&#8217;t want to be put out in the rain by some random kid that he didn&#8217;t know, who was larger than him.&#8221; 
&#8220;Because if a white boy would have said that they were afraid of a black boy, something tells me that that jury that didn&#8217;t have any black people on it, they would have believed him in his fear,&#8221; she added.
 The failed Senate candidate said her “heart breaks for so many reasons.” Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of stabbing Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. 
“It takes me back to what actually made me decide to get into this legislative work in the first place, because I know that our systems are broken. And what we saw with that verdict is the evidence of a broken system,” Crockett said. 
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Jasmine Crockett tells <a href="https://x.com/jacob_wass?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jacob_wass</a> there was one major factor in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. <a href="https://t.co/XYX5bNJagz">pic.twitter.com/XYX5bNJagz</a>
— TMZ (@TMZ) <a href="https://x.com/TMZ/status/2064780873971417197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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She went on to claim that “a lot of people don&#8217;t know what it is to live as a black person in this country” and that the outcome would have been different had Anthony been white instead of black. 
“Oh my God. I know Collin County. So absolutely,” she said when asked if she thought race was a factor. “And unfortunately, that was not the county for a black boy.”
Crockett continued to downplay the incident, noting that some people referred to the murder weapon “as a tool” and called the knife a “small object.” She also claimed that Anthony should have been given mercy because he only stabbed Metcalf once. 
Those remarks echoed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jasmine-crockett-downplays-white-teens-murder-after-karmelo-anthony-convicted?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Crockett+Claims+Karmelo+Anthony%E2%80%99s+Knife+Was+Too+Small+To+Be+Considered+Deadly">previous comments</a> Crockett made that the knife used in the stabbing should not count as a “deadly weapon” because of its size. 
During a Tuesday podcast, Crockett claimed that the Metcalf family, who are white, doesn&#8217;t understand the &#8220;fear and agony&#8221; of black women.  
“Black women, especially black women who have black male children live in fear and agony every single day … fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way and we’re going to have to have just some real conversations about race in this country,” Crockett said.
The case has garnered national headlines as leftist activists claim that the jury was racist, despite testimony from multiple black teen witnesses who reportedly said Anthony was in the wrong.

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Karmelo Anthony was transferred to a state prison in Navasota, Texas, just one day after he was convicted of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.
Anthony was booked at the Collin County, Texas, Jail on Tuesday, mere hours after his conviction. By Wednesday, he was transferred to the Wallace Pack Unit, according to CBS 11 journalist J.D. Miles. Anthony&#8217;s prison mugshot shows that his head has been shaved as he officially starts his lengthy stay in state prison.
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Breaking: Karmelo Anthony has been transferred to the Pack Unit in Navasota by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Here is his prison mug shot. <a href="https://t.co/cm14aycoHI">pic.twitter.com/cm14aycoHI</a>
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064837796754231391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
The 19-year-old was sentenced on Tuesday to 35 years behind bars for Metcalf&#8217;s murder, and shortly after sentencing, his jail booking photo was released to the public:
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New mugshot of Karmelo Anthony in the Collin County Jail as he spends the first night of his 35 year sentence for murder. He will like be transported to prison in the coming days. <a href="https://t.co/yENKRyD6AP">pic.twitter.com/yENKRyD6AP</a>
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064531082783945151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
The <a href="https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/p1.html">Wallace Pack Unit</a>, where Anthony is now held, has over 1,400 male prisoners and is a minimum-to-medium security facility.
Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf, who was white, at a track event in April 2025 in Frisco, Texas. The case quickly generated national attention, both due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-of-karmelo-anthony-hosted-the-most-disgusting-press-conference-ive-ever-seen?author=Matt+Walsh&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Family+Of+Karmelo+Anthony+Hosted+The+Most+Disgusting+Press+Conference+I%E2%80%99ve+Ever+Seen">a narrative peddled by the Anthony family</a> and the glaring lack of coverage from the legacy media, which routinely highlights and escalates white-on-black incidents.
The high-profile trial started on June 1 with jury selection and wrapped in a matter of nine days. Video footage and witness testimony — even from defense witnesses — generally indicated that Anthony provoked the situation with Metcalf and deadly force was not needed, contradicting the self-defense argument from Anthony’s team.
Anthony broke down in tears when the verdict was read and was visibly shaking; he also broke down when his 35-year sentence was announced. It’s unclear if Anthony cried during any other part of the trial. 
Jeff Metcalf, the slain teen&#8217;s father, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/slain-teens-dad-unloads-on-karmelo-anthony-in-courtroom-cant-even-look-me-in-the-eyes">read a powerful victim impact statement</a> after Anthony&#8217;s sentencing. He told Anthony he forgives him, but does not forgive his actions.
“A piece of me died with my son, and I’m expected to keep living,” he said. “You’re free to make choices all you want, but you’re not free from those consequences. You will face those consequences starting today.”
“People think that grief is sadness but it’s not. It’s rage! Pure unfiltered rage,” the father reportedly shouted while slamming his hands on the table in front of him. “You failed your parents, you failed yourself and you failed society, you don’t belong in this community.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fck-austin-karmelo-anthony-supporters-harass-threaten-friends-of-slain-teen-outside-courthouse?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘F*ck+Austin%21’%3A+Karmelo+Anthony+Supporters+Harass%2C+Threaten+Friends+Of+Slain+Teen+Outside+Courthouse">‘F*ck Austin!’: Karmelo Anthony Supporters Harass, Threaten Friends Of Slain Teen Outside Courthouse</a>

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It turns out you can walk up to a group of young men, plant yourself in their tent, taunt them when asked to leave, threaten them while reaching into your bag, and plunge a knife into one of their chests, and still be staunchly defended by radical leftists.
If, and only if, you&#8217;re black. And the victim is white.
Jasmine Crockett, one of the biggest crocks-of-sh*t in Congress, just proved yet again that the Left only sees color, and their warped Manichean worldview will never change.
After a Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a Frisco, Texas track meet — deliberating for all of <a href="https://abc7.com/story/karmelo-anthony-trial-update-jury-deliberating-texas-teen-charged-murder-school-track-meet-stabbing/19264598/">three</a> hours before reaching the obvious conclusion — and sentenced him to 35 years, Crockett rushed to the mics. She declared the knife <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2064541374750371906/video/1">&#8220;wasn&#8217;t a deadly weapon.&#8221;</a> She implied she&#8217;d have done the <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2064535366397313205/video/1">same thing</a>. Then she played the ultimate victim card: <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2064549059273146821/video/1">&#8220;Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through.&#8221;</a>
The knife went two inches into Austin Metcalf&#8217;s chest. It punctured his heart. He died in his twin brother&#8217;s arms. But sure, Jasmine. Tell us more about your agony.
It is 2026. A sitting congresswoman is claiming victimhood by melanin levels, while the family whose son was stabbed to death at a high school track meet (for the crime of asking someone to leave his team&#8217;s tent) is told their grief doesn&#8217;t measure up. The sheer audacity is not just appalling. It&#8217;s a window into everything that is rotting this country from the inside out.
The Democratic Party&#8217;s race-based suicidal empathy, its fanatical prioritization of &#8220;equity&#8221; over equal opportunity, and its color-coded dismissal of crime isn&#8217;t just a policy failure. It&#8217;s a suicide pact for civilization itself. When skin color determines who gets leniency and who gets the book thrown at them, you don&#8217;t get justice. You get dead innocents and a society tearing itself apart.
The Left went soft on crime to make certain statistics look better on paper. Never mind that FBI <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43">data</a> shows black Americans, who make up 13% of the population, account for over 50% of homicide perpetrators. Never mind that the overwhelming majority of black victims are killed by other black perpetrators; a crisis the Left refuses to address with any of the urgency it reserves for racial theatrics. The problem isn&#8217;t data; the problem is that acknowledging it disrupts the narrative.
Suicidal empathy has consequences. <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2026/05/15/charlotte-light-rail-stabbing-spurs-push-for-cashless-bail-reporting/">Iryna Zarutska</a> was a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled war and came to America looking for safety. She was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train in August 2025 by Decarlos Brown, Jr. A man who had been arrested 14 times and released under cashless bail on a misdemeanor charge despite a documented history of violence and mental illness. North Carolina Democrats&#8217; soft-on-crime policies put him back on the street. Their indifference put him on that train. North Carolina eventually passed Iryna&#8217;s Law, but Iryna was already dead.
Karmelo Anthony, meanwhile, is publicly defended by a sitting congresswoman who essentially told the world she&#8217;d have done the same thing.
But reverse the races. Imagine a white boy who stabbed a black boy. The Left would be burning cities down quicker than Graham Platner cheating on his new bride.
They don&#8217;t want equal opportunity. They want equal outcomes. And they&#8217;ve been engineering it since the Marxists swapped class warfare for identity warfare. Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett, Karl Marx, and Herbert Marcuse all imbibe from the same poisonous well: the world is divided into the oppressors and the oppressed, and the only solution to this is dismantling the oppressors by any means necessary. Marcuse preached that tolerance should be granted to the Left and denied to the Right. Today&#8217;s Democrats live that sentiment daily.
DEI quotas that punish merit, affirmative action that lowers standards, and reparations talk that treats success as theft. The formula is simple: if the right protected class isn&#8217;t &#8220;harmed,&#8221; the hounds stay quiet. But let a white man succeed, or God forbid, defend himself against a protected-class attacker? The mob descends.
This rot has seeped into schools, corporations, and courtrooms for decades. Class struggle became racial struggle, and &#8220;equity&#8221; became the new holy grail. Achieved, naturally, by punishing the productive and excusing the violent.
And how&#8217;s that working out? It&#8217;s killing us.
Iryna Zarutska is dead because Democrats let her killer out of jail on a promise to show up to court. Austin Metcalf is dead because a young man was raised on a toxic diet of victimhood and anti-white grievance that convinced him that being shoved deserved a retaliatory knife in the chest. In New York City, a homeless veteran is dead because soft-on-crime policies sprung a career criminal from jail too early. Seventeen-year-old Tyson <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/tyson-goodsell-murder-charges-north-mankato-minnesota/">Goodsell</a> was shot dead in Minnesota in May 2026 by Somali gangs. 
Across the pond, your crystal ball for America in 20 years, 18-year-old Henry Nowak bled out on a sidewalk after his killer stabbed him with a ceremonial blade, lied to the police, and called Nowak a racist, and watched British officers handcuff the dying boy instead of calling an ambulance. This week, a Sudanese asylum seeker nearly <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZY0T5WpfN8/">beheaded</a> a man on a Belfast street.
That is what the Left&#8217;s tolerance is doing to us. Blood in the bleachers. Blood on the subway. Blood on the sidewalks. Blood on the streets of Belfast.
And Jasmine Crockett, instead of fighting any of it or addressing why black children are born out of wedlock at nearly <a href="https://ceousa.org/2020/02/26/percentage-of-births-to-unmarried-women/">70</a>% — a rate that study after study links directly to youth violence and crime — instead of cracking down on the criminals devastating her own community, she defends them. Because the theory says to. The theory that law and order are oppression. That family structure is a tool of the patriarchy. That borders are violence. That Western civilization and whites are the villains. That it all needs to be burned down.
The Left is allowing a pervasive and destructive ideology to hollow out this nation. It used to be visible. You could see the consequences of communism and Marxism in famines and gulags. Now it&#8217;s invisible. It lives in lesson plans, corporate training manuals, and the phones in our children&#8217;s hands. It has useful idiots like Jasmine Crockett STILL defending killers by race. STILL dismissing victims by creed. STILL seeing in color only.
It echoes the OJ Simpson verdict, the moment black women <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2064498502625849406/video/1">cheered</a> an acquittal not because justice was served, but because it felt good to see “someone who is rich and famous, and black” get away with it. Justice wasn’t the point. Keeping score was.
Enough.
Stop letting people who seek destruction lead our institutions. Be a builder.
Stop being a victim, take what you&#8217;ve been given, and do something worthy with it.
Karmelo Anthony deserved his sentence. Austin Metcalf deserved to live. It didn&#8217;t matter what either of them looked like. The reality is that both of these young men deserved to grow up, live past their teenage years, and build something meaningful in the freest nation on earth. That is no longer possible for either of them.
If we want a society where young men actually make it, we need to raise them differently. In nuclear homes. With faith. With gratitude and decency. With the understanding that the world owes them nothing and that building something requires virtue, not grievance.
Jasmine Crockett, I can&#8217;t wait for you to retire. In your newfound free time, I hope you at least attempt to understand all of this.

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If the Karmelo Anthony trial had happened under a Kamala Harris presidency or back in 2020, American cities would likely be burning right now.
Instead, there is near silence. The race-baiting playbook just officially broke.
You&#8217;ve heard me say many times on the show that politics is downstream of culture, meaning that when culture changes, politics follows; that culture is the leader, and politics follows the culture.
But sometimes culture is downstream of politics, meaning that leadership actually matters. And that is particularly true when it comes to race relations in the United States. The leadership of our country matters.
When our leaders promote meritocracy, equal justice before the law, and colorblindness rather than diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Americans tend to follow.
By contrast, when our leaders promote racial polarization, Americans also tend to follow.
Back to Karmelo Anthony.
A year and a half ago, Karmelo Anthony, a black 17-year-old, stabbed to death 17-year-old Austin Metcalf , who was white. He murdered him in cold blood in front of witnesses. The case was clear from day one.
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But Karmelo Anthony&#8217;s family and his spokespeople began retelling a racial narrative in which Anthony was justified, or at least understandable in why he did what he did, because he was the victim.
A victim of what?
Perhaps because of the actual victim, Austin Metcalf, who allegedly threw him out of a track tent; perhaps because of racism; perhaps because of white America more broadly.
None of that worked.
Yesterday, Anthony was convicted of murder. He will see 35 years in prison and be eligible for parole in 17.
There weren&#8217;t any riots, no major protests, not even much of a legacy media response.
That’s because in a sane and rational universe, in which law and order prevail, Americans understand that race has nothing to do with whether murder must be punished. Murder must be punished, no matter who the murderer is and who the victim is.
Would the lack of response have happened if Kamala Harris were president, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama?
I have my doubts.
I&#8217;m old enough to remember the destruction of racial comity in America when Barack Obama got directly involved in the Trayvon Martin case in 2013. That was the case in which Trayvon Martin, a young black teenager, was killed by George Zimmerman under disputed circumstances. There was a long trial; Zimmerman had claimed that it was self-defense, and the prosecution tried to claim that Zimmerman had done it in cold blood.
And Barack Obama got directly involved, saying, if he had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon, which, of course, was not true.
I remember major riots when a white cop shot a black man who had attacked him in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. And then the entire legacy media falsified the story, claiming that the cop was racist and that Michael Brown had tried to surrender to him. “Hands up, don&#8217;t shoot!”
Which never happened.
Obama again injected himself and said that nobody in Ferguson would have made something like that up.
It was entirely made up.
It is not a coincidence that race relations in America took a nosedive beginning in 2013-14. Remember 2020, when the death of George Floyd —almost certainly due to drug use combined with excited delirium, not police brutality — led to the most disastrous race riots in modern American history.
So if Kamala Harris were president, what would have happened after the Karmelo Anthony conviction yesterday? Would we be prepping a new round of recriminations over supposed systemic racism in the United States?
That is the question we should be asking, because much of what President Trump&#8217;s presidency is about, his return to power, is about avoiding the worst outcome.
And this is just another example of where the worst outcome has been mitigated or avoided because Americans turned away from the race narrative that was sold by the Democrats.
On the Karmelo Anthony family Give Send Go page, there are comments such as these:
<blockquote>I hope you raise $1 mil. These white people can die mad like they ancestors did. Whites have been obsessed with black people for years.  It&#8217;s 2025. The hate is embedded into their DNA at this point. They don&#8217;t know if they love us or hate us. Lol, too bad we don&#8217;t care.
I am donating again after seeing the need for additional protection/expenses. I am so glad to see him get released on bond. These crackas need to understand we are not our ancestors and they will reap what they sow. I hope that knife made a full recovery. Justice for Karmelo.</blockquote>
There&#8217;s no real allegation that Austin Metcalf&#8217;s behavior was racist in any way. Right from the beginning, the Metcalf family acted with honor. Metcalf&#8217;s father publicly forgave Anthony in a Christian fashion and explicitly stated that this was not a race issue.
The real question is: Why didn&#8217;t this thing explode?
The answer is because you did not have people in prominent positions of power, say, the presidency, trying to facilitate and foster this, because in this moment, the president of the United States we&#8217;ve called upon would say justice was done. A murderer is going to jail.
And that&#8217;s all.
It’s because the American people responded to a decade of racialized politics by saying, “We are tired of this. We don&#8217;t want it. We&#8217;re not interested in a DEI regime that divides Americans by race. We don&#8217;t want that anymore. We want equal justice before the law. We don&#8217;t want every criminal situation to become some sort of referendum on whether America is systemically racist.”
We&#8217;re not interested in that anymore.

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The Karmelo Anthony Verdict Just Broke The Left’s Favorite Narrative

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Karmelo Anthony filed to appeal his first-degree murder conviction one day after a Texas jury sentenced him to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing high school athlete Austin Metcalf.
Anthony&#8217;s defense attorneys <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/karmelo-anthony-appeals-murder-conviction-frisco-track-meet-stabbing">filed the notice of appeal</a> on Wednesday, which begins the formal process of appealing the conviction and sentence to a higher court. 
The filing is a procedural step that could take years to move through the courts and does not guarantee a new trial.
The development comes after Collin County, Texas, authorities released the booking photo of Anthony, who has <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/10/us-news/karmelo-anthony-placed-in-isolation-at-texas-prison-after-conviction-in-austin-metcalf-murder/">reportedly</a> been held in isolation.
“New mugshot of Karmelo Anthony in the Collin County Jail as he spends the first night of his 35-year sentence for murder,” <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064531082783945151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2064531082783945151%7Ctwgr%5E0b078c4fcb5071c9cc3df54573ce58c69420585e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fsee-it-new-mugshot-of-convicted-murderer-karmelo-anthony-released">CBS 11 reporter J.D. Miles posted.</a> “He will [likely] be transported to prison in the coming days.”
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New mugshot of Karmelo Anthony in the Collin County Jail as he spends the first night of his 35 year sentence for murder. He will like be transported to prison in the coming days. <a href="https://t.co/yENKRyD6AP">pic.twitter.com/yENKRyD6AP</a>
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064531082783945151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
Anthony is expected to be transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for intake and classification before being assigned to a prison unit, <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/karmelo-anthony-appeals-murder-conviction-frisco-track-meet-stabbing">according to FOX4.</a>
On Tuesday, a Texas court convicted the 19-year-old of first-degree murder and sentenced him to 35 years behind bars. He was facing a sentence of anywhere between 5 and 99 years.
Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf at a track event in April 2025 in Frisco, Texas. The case quickly generated national attention, both due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-of-karmelo-anthony-hosted-the-most-disgusting-press-conference-ive-ever-seen?author=Matt+Walsh&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Family+Of+Karmelo+Anthony+Hosted+The+Most+Disgusting+Press+Conference+I%E2%80%99ve+Ever+Seen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a narrative peddled by the Anthony family</a> and the glaring lack of coverage from the legacy media, which routinely highlights and escalates white-on-black incidents.
The high-profile trial started on June 1 with jury selection and wrapped up in a matter of nine days. Video footage and witness testimony — even from defense witnesses — generally indicated that Anthony provoked the situation with Metcalf, and deadly force was not needed, contradicting the self-defense argument from Anthony’s team.
Anthony broke down in tears when the verdict was read and was visibly shaking; he also broke down when his 35-year sentence was announced. It’s unclear if Anthony cried during any other part of the trial. 
Notably, when Metcalf’s family read victim impact statements before the court, Anthony reportedly kept his head down and refused to look them in the eyes, even when asked to do so.
“You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f*cking son,” the victim’s father, Jeff Metcalf, said.

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Leftist civil rights leaders and race hustlers condemned the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony’s trial, claiming it was unjust and racist.
Anthony was convicted of murder on Tuesday after just two and a half hours of deliberations over the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. While Anthony&#8217;s family peddled claims that he was targeted for his race and that Metcalf provoked him, video evidence shows that Anthony refused requests that he leave the track team&#8217;s tent before he stabbed Metcalf.
Despite the evidence and the quick verdict, some black leftists claimed the outcome was racially motivated. 
Dominique Alexander, a Dallas-based civil rights leader, political activist, and founder of the Next Generation Action Network, <a href="https://x.com/JayTC53/status/2064438950589354412">said</a>, “Black America should be very upset about what went on today.” He called the verdict “flawed” and &#8220;unjust.&#8221; 
The case’s result tells people that “black lives do not matter in the criminal justice system,” according to Alexander. It shows racism in law, Alexander said, demonstrating that black people will “be afforded the same laws as anybody else.” He added that he is not “playing the race card,” but presenting the fact that black people have suffered from these laws for 400 years.
A <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYM6qEBiZ6/?igsh=MTk3NTdtOXVyb2g1aA%3D%3D">post</a> shared on Instagram by Dr. Umar Johnson, a motivational speaker and author who has dubbed himself &#8220;prince of Pan-Africanism,&#8221; compared the Anthony case to the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, claiming that Anthony was “lynched by an all-white jury.” The post shared by Johnson also claimed that &#8220;black people aren’t allowed to defend themselves” and that there is “no justice!” 
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<a href="https://x.com/AttorneyCrump/status/2064443533365264462">Ben Crump</a>, a prominent American civil rights attorney, said the case presents “hard questions about fairness, justice, and whose actions earn the benefit of understanding.”
&#8220;Those questions are not new, and we owe it to every family touched by this to keep asking them,&#8221; Crump added.
Civil rights attorney and CNN contributor Areva Martin also <a href="https://x.com/ArevaMartin/status/2064457541699178591">said</a> that Anthony’s verdict “raises questions.”
&#8220;This case is far from over. We should expect an appeal, including challenges related to the exclusion of Black jurors,&#8221; Martin added. &#8220;Faith in our courts requires more than a conviction or an acquittal. It requires confidence that every defendant was afforded a fair trial.&#8221;
Martin said that the reason this verdict will be difficult for the “African American community” to accept is due to the exclusion of “all of the black potential jurors.” Multiple black witnesses, however, said that Anthony was in the wrong and spoke highly of Metcalf. Martin also argued that Anthony pulled out the knife because he was “fearful of his life” and believed he would be injured, despite the fact that Metcalf said he would not fight Anthony.
Not everyone in the black community is upset by the verdict. Judge Glenda Hatchett, the prominent American attorney, author, and television personality, said in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZYXUqhTSSh/">video</a> on Instagram that she did not find a “basis for self-defense.” The testimony did not show &#8220;his life was in danger” or that it “justified the fatal stabbing,” according to Hatchett.
Coming from a “mother’s heart,” Hatchett said that parents must teach their children how to “think clearly” in these situations.
“He was not supposed to be in the tent,” Hatchett said. “He was asked to leave the tent. Why not just leave the tent?”

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Collin County, Texas, authorities on Tuesday night released the booking photo of Karmelo Anthony, the teen convicted of murdering high school athlete Austin Metcalf.
Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years behind bars. Tuesday was his first day serving out his sentence.
&#8220;New mugshot of Karmelo Anthony in the Collin County Jail as he spends the first night of his 35 year sentence for murder,&#8221; CBS 11 reporter J.D. Miles posted. &#8220;He will [likely] be transported to prison in the coming days.&#8221;
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New mugshot of Karmelo Anthony in the Collin County Jail as he spends the first night of his 35 year sentence for murder. He will like be transported to prison in the coming days. <a href="https://t.co/yENKRyD6AP">pic.twitter.com/yENKRyD6AP</a>
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064531082783945151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
Anthony, who is black, fatally stabbed Metcalf, who was white, at a track event in April 2025 in Frisco, Texas. The case quickly generated national attention, both due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-of-karmelo-anthony-hosted-the-most-disgusting-press-conference-ive-ever-seen?author=Matt+Walsh&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Family+Of+Karmelo+Anthony+Hosted+The+Most+Disgusting+Press+Conference+I%E2%80%99ve+Ever+Seen">a narrative peddled by the Anthony family</a> and the glaring lack of coverage from the legacy media, which routinely highlights and escalates white-on-black incidents.
The high-profile trial started on June 1 with jury selection and wrapped in a matter of nine days. Video footage and witness testimony — even from defense witnesses — generally indicated that Anthony provoked the situation with Metcalf and deadly force was not needed, contradicting the self-defense argument from Anthony’s team.
Anthony broke down in tears when the verdict was read and was visibly shaking; he also broke down when his 35-year sentenced was announced. It&#8217;s unclear if Anthony cried during any other part of the trial. 
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Karmelo Anthony breaks down in tears you can hear inside courtroom. His bond has been extinguished he is in the custody of Collin County Sheriff
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) <a href="https://x.com/jdmiles11/status/2064431182121443570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
Notably, when Metcalf&#8217;s family read victim impact statements before the court, Anthony reportedly kept his head down and refused to look them in the eyes, even when asked to do so.
&#8220;You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f*cking son in the heart,&#8221; the victim&#8217;s father Jeff Metcalf said.
Hunter, Metcalf&#8217;s twin brother, reportedly said to Anthony, “If you could just look me in the eye while I speak, I would really respect that.&#8221; Anthony looked down at the ground until Hunter was done speaking.
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