The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has confirmed that an employee has been terminated over her remarks about Karmelo Anthony in the wake of his murder conviction and subsequent 35-year prison sentence.
The TDCJ confirmed to <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/article/karmelo-anthony-parole-supervisor-facebook-comment-22302990.php">The Dallas Morning News</a> that Donna Robinson was no longer with the department after she posted on Facebook about the case, saying that she believed Anthony was likely to be &#8220;protected&#8221; in prison. She also added, &#8220;I&#8217;m just glad we didn&#8217;t have to bury another Black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK&#8217;em I said what I said.&#8221;
Libs of TikTok shared screenshots of the post on Friday, following up later with a post stating that Robinson had been let go.
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This woman claims to be on the Board of Pardons and Parole in Texas
She allegedly posted this after Karmelo Anthony was found guilty.
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&#8220;I am a parole supervisor at TX DCJ Karmelo will be ok he I can almost assure you will be protected on the inside. I for one don&#8217;t give fk about the family&#8217;s loss. It&#8217;s about time these fking bigots feel the pain tha they have inflicted on other people since the beginning of time!&#8221; she posted.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just glad we didn&#8217;t have to bury another black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK&#8217;em I said what I said,&#8221; she added.
The TDCJ said in a statement to The Dallas Morning News that Robinson&#8217;s comments undercut the department in a way that was deemed unacceptable, and after a review of her public statements, she was fired.
&#8220;These statements are incompatible with TDCJ policy and values. They demonstrate bias and a lack of the impartiality essential to the fair administration of justice in Texas,&#8221; the statement said, noting that employees were expected on a regular basis to make decisions in the workplace that had to be free from bias. &#8220;Discriminatory or inflammatory conduct that erodes public confidence in the criminal justice system will not be tolerated.&#8221;
Anthony, 19, was convicted for the murder of Austin Metcalf, 17 — whom he fatally stabbed at a high school track meet — and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

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The father of slain Texas teenager Austin Metcalf blasted the parents of Karmelo Anthony as “cowards,” accusing them of making the high-profile murder case about race. 
Jeff Metcalf made the comments shortly after a jury sentenced the 19-year-old Anthony to 35 years in prison for murdering 17-year-old Metcalf with a knife at a track meet in Texas in April 2025. 
After Anthony&#8217;s sentencing, Metcalf spoke on a <a href="https://rumble.com/v7b3yt0-jinxedsip-exclusive-the-jeff-metcalf-interview-with-sarah-fields-ep.-53.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&amp;sci=71c8a082-9d9c-4ea5-835d-2810ef2eb2d9">three-hour stream</a> hosted by independent journalist Sarah Fields on the JinxedSip podcast. He gave his thoughts on the trial, the racial issues at play during the trial, and his emotions about the lengthy ordeal. 
Anthony&#8217;s parents, Andrew Anthony and Kayla Hayles, blamed the conviction and sentencing of their son on racism in a recent interview with CBS.
“Drew Anthony. Kayla. You&#8217;re cowards. You wouldn&#8217;t even show up for your son&#8217;s sentencing or victim&#8217;s statement impacts. You abandoned your kid. You left him there. I guess he&#8217;s no more use to you because you can&#8217;t get any more GoFundMe money or [GiveSendGo] money. You are grifters. You should be ashamed of yourself,” he said. “You raised that child, and I swear to God, CPS should come check on those other three that you still have.”
Anthony’s family raised over $600,000 after the murder. 
“You never once admitted or took accountability. You tried to play victim. The real victim is the one who died, not the one who shoved a knife in his chest,” he added. “I come to pray with you and show the world we can close the gap of this unbelievable racial divide. And what&#8217;d you do? Widen the gap even further.”
Metcalf was referring to how he was turned away from a press conference hosted by the Anthony family after the killing. 
“I feel sorry for that young man,” Metcalf said of Anthony. “He&#8217;s fixing to live a living hell. Not that he doesn&#8217;t deserve it. Yes, he does. But I&#8217;m human. And I&#8217;m sorry. I don&#8217;t wish harm or ill will on anyone. It&#8217;s not the Christian thing to do, man. It&#8217;s not the way I was raised. It&#8217;s not what I was taught. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s right or wrong. I just know it is what it is.”
Metcalf also commented on the racial politics at play in the case. Leftist activists claim that Anthony was only convicted because he was black and have complained that there were no black jurors. 
“Because you can&#8217;t be unbiased, you dumb sh*ts. If you answer the question, ‘I can&#8217;t send a black man to jail because he&#8217;s black,’ they&#8217;re not getting on the jury. You&#8217;re so unintelligent, you can&#8217;t even fill out a form correctly,” Metcalf said. “You don&#8217;t even know who your f*cking daddy is because 78% of you don&#8217;t have your father in the home anymore. You got baby mamas running around with eight kids so they can get EBT cards to feed you all. You think I&#8217;m being racist? No, I&#8217;m being real, because [it’s not] only black people. White people do the same sh*t.  I&#8217;ll call them out just as hard as I&#8217;ll call you out.”
Metcalf also said that he raised his sons not to judge people by the color of their skin. 
“We don&#8217;t see color. We&#8217;re not racist. We have friends of all diversities, nationality, ethnicities. It doesn&#8217;t matter,” he said. ‘Justice doesn&#8217;t see color. Hate doesn&#8217;t see color. Love doesn&#8217;t see color.”
He also said he never wanted race to be part of the trial.
“From day one, I said this was never about race. Please, don&#8217;t make it about race and don&#8217;t politicize it. And what did you do? You chose both. The race card, black fatigue. It&#8217;s real. I&#8217;m sorry. You have embarrassed your own culture and race. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. We got a lot of [white] people that embarrass the sh*t out of me too. But you guys, you got a patent on that sh*t. And the only people who&#8217;re going to change it  are you. Don&#8217;t blame the white person &#8217;cause we can&#8217;t change it. But you&#8217;re gonna blame the white person for every f*cking thing else.”
“You can do everything in America that I can do. Tell me one thing, you can&#8217;t do that I can&#8217;t do. We all have equal rights,” he added. 
At one point during the stream, he referred to Anthony as a “watermelon felon&#8221; while mocking the activists who have tried to make the case about race. 
“Let me make something racist up so &#8230; go viral. I got a new name for Mello, OK? Because he was such this little boy you [were] always trying to portray. How about ‘watermelon felon?’  How&#8217;s that one strike you?” he said. “I hope he enjoyed his first night in his cell last night because he&#8217;s going to have many nights to think about what the f*ck he did. I forgave him, so I don&#8217;t carry the hate and the anger.”
The interview with Fields was the first after a gag order ended after the trial wrapped up on Tuesday. 
“Jeff Metcalf was given the floor without interruption. After being under a gag order for a year, he could finally speak raw and unfiltered,” Fields <a href="https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2064940589104136689">said</a>. “THIS is what independent journalism is about. The mainstream media never would have dared.”

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Austin Metcalf’s Father Explodes On Karmelo Anthony’s Parents

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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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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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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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Supporters of convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony harassed slain teen Austin Metcalf&#8217;s friends as they left the Collin County courthouse on Tuesday.
Anthony was convicted on Tuesday of murdering Metcalf at a track meet in April 2025, and was sentenced to 35 years behind bars.
“F*ck Austin Metcalf! I hope he burns in hell!&#8221; Anthony supporters yelled at Metcalf&#8217;s teenaged friends, according to reporter Breanna Morello.
Tamera Nealy, who&#8217;s been reporting on the Anthony murder trial, said Metcalf&#8217;s friends were &#8220;surrounded by a large group of Karmelo Anthony supporters&#8221; when they left the courthouse. Members of the group shouted, &#8220;F*ck Austin,&#8221; and said they would &#8220;piss on his grave,” Nealy was told. They also shouted that Metcalf&#8217;s friends, who are teenagers, “should be dead&#8221; and spit at them.
&#8220;Regardless of anyone’s views on the case, no grieving teenager should be subjected to harassment, threats, or degrading treatment while leaving a courthouse,&#8221; Nealy said.
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BREAKING: I was just told by Austin Metcalf’s friend that as him and a group of friends left the courthouse today, they were surrounded by a large group of Karmelo Anthony supporters. According to them, members of the crowd shouted, “F*** Austin,” said they would “piss on his…
— Tamera Nealy (@tnnealy02) <a href="https://x.com/tnnealy02/status/2064559209987936555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
One friend of Metcalf&#8217;s, who appears to be a minor, posted on X, &#8220;Doing this sh*t at us for no f*cking reason other than us being there to support our dead friend. No f*cking respect at all when we have been friendly to everyone regardless of side of the case.&#8221;
Journalist Sarah Fields, who was in the courthouse every day of the high-profile trial, asked others to not share the video of the harassment, since it shows the faces of grieving minors and identifying markers, presumably a license plate.
&#8220;According to those involved, individuals screamed that they were glad Austin was dead and followed and filmed them from the courthouse steps all the way to their car,&#8221; Fields reported. &#8220;The incident has been reported to law enforcement, and I have provided the identity of the streamer involved to the family.&#8221;
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Please DO NOT share or repost the video that is starting to circulate of a few of Austin’s friends being harassed as they walked from the courthouse to their car. The video clearly shows their faces and identifying details of the vehicle.
According to those involved, individuals…
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) <a href="https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2064714884789526555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/slain-teens-dad-unloads-on-karmelo-anthony-in-courtroom-cant-even-look-me-in-the-eyes">Slain Teen’s Dad Unloads On Karmelo Anthony In Courtroom: ‘Can’t Even Look Me In The Eyes’</a>

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‘F*ck Austin!’: Karmelo Anthony Supporters Harass, Threaten Friends Of Slain Teen Outside Courthouse

‘Fuck Austin!’: Karmelo Anthony Supporters Harass Friends Of Slain Teen Outside Courthouse

Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that black women suffer more “agony every single day” than the family of murdered high school athlete Austin Metcalf.
Crockett made the remark during an unhinged two-hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrPQgeiMVDs">stream</a> after 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering the 17-year-old Metcalf. Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf during a track meet in April 2025 in Frisco, Texas, and the case quickly garnered national attention. 
Responding to the murder sentence, Crockett turned to race, arguing that the Metcalf family, who are white, don&#8217;t understand the alleged pain of black women.  
“Black women, especially black women who have black male children live in fear and agony every single day &#8230; fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way and we&#8217;re going to have to have just some real conversations about race in this country,” Crockett said during her stream. 
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Rep. Crockett: &#8220;Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/GVielzMf51">pic.twitter.com/GVielzMf51</a>
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Crockett, who will leave Congress at the end of her current term after a failed run for Senate, added during the stream that she didn’t think the knife carried by Anthony at the track meet qualified as a “deadly weapon.” 
“Well, I would have argued the size of it alone, you wouldn&#8217;t even think it&#8217;s a deadly weapon,” she said as the panel she hosted argued that the knife used in the murder was a multi-tool and it only killed Metcalf because of where he was stabbed. 
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Rep. Crockett (D) says the knife used to kill Metcalf &#8220;was not a deadly weapon&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/evYfecEhqW">pic.twitter.com/evYfecEhqW</a>
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She also claimed the jury should have considered whether it was “one stab versus a gazillion” that led to Metcalf’s death. 
“Because those are the ways that you look at intent, right? Like if you got a machete, bro, it&#8217;s a wrap, right? Like I mean, like the size and even in arguing these are the things that you argue right, like, is like what do you expect will happen if somebody got a machete versus what do you expect will happen if somebody has like a switchblade, like, or a Swiss Army Knife,” Crockett said. 
Crockett added that the jury should have considered the size of Metcalf compared to Anthony. She claimed the size differential could have strengthened Anthony&#8217;s self-defense claims.
&#8220;If a 300 pound man is beating me, like, on top of me and beating me down, I&#8217;m not limited to fist,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You know, I would argue that even, the only time we go into things like people&#8217;s hands being considered deadly weapons, is typically, like, if they&#8217;re a professional boxer, that kind of stuff, but I think by the time you start getting to, like, football player, good argument. Good, freaking arguments. We are not talking about, like, the golfers. We&#8217;re talking about football players, right?&#8221;
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) suggests that she also would have stabbed Austin Metcalf: <a href="https://t.co/TBn3txFSAi">pic.twitter.com/TBn3txFSAi</a>
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At the end of the stream, Crockett claimed one of her takeaways from the trial was that more black people needed to be on juries. 
“So, black people, stop walking yourself off the juries. First of all, make sure you show up,” she said. “Stop wondering why our kids are not being saved when you literally have people that don&#8217;t even see their humanity nine out of 10 times pulling up to jury duty and you saying you got other things to do and you trying to come up with every excuse for not showing up. You got to pay it forward.”
Contradicting Crockett’s racial narrative, a number of black teen witnesses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-reaches-verdict-in-karmelo-anthony-murder-trial?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Jury+Reaches+Verdict+In+Karmelo+Anthony+Murder+Trial">testified</a> during the trial that Anthony was in the wrong and praised Metcalf’s character.
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.

Crockett Claims Karmelo Anthony’s Knife Was Too Small To Be Considered Deadly

The long-awaited sequel to 2006’s smash hit “The Devil Wears Prada” is getting some pushback, being accused of “blatant racism” for leaning into Asian stereotypes.
“The Devil Wears Prada 2,” starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, is getting blasted over a brief moment in a trailer. The scene introduces Andy Sachs&#8217; (Hathaway) new assistant, Jin Chao, played by Helen J. Shen, who some say is portrayed as a nerdy, socially awkward Ivy League grad.
In the trailer, Andy appears reserved upon meeting Jin, prompting the assistant to quickly rattle off her credentials.
“If you don’t want me, you can interview someone else. That’s totally fine,” Jin says. “I did go to Yale, 3.86 GPA, lead soprano of [Yale singing group] the Whiffenpoofs, and my ACT score was 36 on the very first time.”
Commenters also took issue with the way Jin donned a buttoned-up collared shirt and thick glasses, which they argue feel out of place for employees at a major fashion company.
Social media users from around the world, especially in Asian countries, expressed their frustration with the clip.
“The promotion up to this point was really great, but right before release, they suddenly hit us with blatant anti-Asian racism and flipped the car,” one user in Japan wrote in a post that’s been viewed more than 16 million times.
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プラダを着た悪魔、ここまでのプロモーションめっちゃ良かったのに、公開直前に突然ド直球のアジア人差別を見せつけてきて横転 <a href="https://t.co/uNUYIzXl7U">https://t.co/uNUYIzXl7U</a>
— 黄色人種ちゃん (@dekaketu_purin) <a href="https://twitter.com/dekaketu_purin/status/2046767047435247708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“We are in 2026… what made them think we’ll find this kind of racism funny,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/kaxishk/status/2046919948384243754?s=20">said</a>. 
“Short stature, messy hair, childish clothing, big glasses, a ton of qualifications and high education and grades, servile and incompetent, a name that sounds just like &#8216;Ching Chang Chong,'&#8221; a third person echoed. “In this day and age, deliberately clipping out such a thick, over-the-top level of Asian stereotype that&#8217;s actually rare nowadays for ad use—did they judge that going full-on with the blatant discrimination would be more commercially appealing??”
As The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/devil-wears-prada-2-racism-backlash-asia-1236574540/">noted</a>, a lot of the widespread criticism is the result of X posts being automatically translated, meaning comments from around the world are being circulated in the United States.
However, some, including Korean-American filmmaker Joseph Kahn, said the backlash reflects a cultural misunderstanding and claims that Jin is so weird she’s cool, at least to a Gen Z audience. 
“There&#8217;s an uproar with Japanese Twitter about this Asian character. They feel she&#8217;s a caricature, which she is, but not about Asians but Gen Z. Her outfit is actually very couture in a film about fashion,” he <a href="https://x.com/JosephKahn/status/2047085534103932968?s=20">wrote</a>.
“Her glasses and hair clips are of the moment. The body shape disparity comes from Anne Hathaway who mandated there would be &#8216;diversity of sizes&#8217; which could either be taken as genuine virtue signaling or an actress wanting to be the skinniest and tallest onscreen. Nevertheless, the Asian character is being depicted as a fashionable, striver in the fashion world with typical Gen Z neurodivergency.”
&#8220;Nerds don&#8217;t exist in Gen Z because they&#8217;re all awkward freaks and all dress like Nintendo cartoons,” he concluded. “Anyway Japan, welcome to America.”

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When Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), came to speak at Claremont McKenna College in the 1990s, I was a student there. I don&#8217;t remember what he said, but I remember the gun sticking out of his sports coat. It was a .357, something Clint Eastwood would carry in Dirty Harry. We had heard that this was the man who had taken on the KKK in the heart of Alabama, and the gun made the legend real.
On Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced a sweeping federal indictment against the SPLC, accusing it of funding the very terror groups it claimed to be fighting.
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, the same city where the SPLC was founded, returned an 11-count indictment charging the organization with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. It was not the Department of Justice, not a political appointee, not a press conference, but a grand jury of American citizens that sat in judgment.
According to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid at least $3 million to eight individuals affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, the National Socialist Movement, the United Klans of America, the Aryan-Nation-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and other white supremacist organizations. These are the very same groups the SPLC was raising hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy. The money was allegedly funneled through shell companies with names like &#8220;Fox Photography&#8221; and &#8220;Rare Books Warehouse,&#8221; and loaded onto prepaid cards to conceal its source from the financial institutions the organization used.
One recipient, identified in the indictment only as F-37, was a member of the online leadership group that organized the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. On August 12 of that year, a white nationalist named James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. Heather Heyer, 32 years old, was killed. Dozens more were injured. Fields is now serving life in prison. F-37 helped put that rally together. He made racist postings. He coordinated transportation for attendees. He did all of this, according to the indictment, at the direction of the Southern Poverty Law Center. And from 2015 to 2023, the SPLC paid him roughly $270,000, all while publicly condemning the very event he helped organize.
&#8220;The SPLC was not dismantling these groups,&#8221; Blanche said. &#8220;It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.”
FBI Director Kash Patel put it simply: &#8220;The money never lies, and they got caught.”
Nothing has been proven yet. The SPLC will have its day in court. Its interim CEO has called the charges false and politically motivated. The organization says the payments were part of a confidential informant program designed to gather intelligence on violent groups, and that the program&#8217;s secrecy was necessary to protect those informants. Those are defenses a jury will evaluate.
But what strikes me most about this indictment is not the fraud itself. It is the why behind it. Why would an organization founded to fight racism need to pump up racism? Why manufacture the very evil you claim to oppose?
The answer is white guilt. And to understand it, you have to understand what white guilt actually is.
White guilt is not a feeling. Most people treat it as one, rejecting it with some variation of “I never owned slaves.” Both responses describe an emotion. Both miss the mechanism entirely. You cannot feel actual guilt for sins you did not commit.
White guilt is instead the cultural and institutional atmosphere that Americans live inside, whether they feel it or not. It is the language permitted in public life and the language that ends careers. It is the criteria by which institutions measure their own virtue rather than their actual outcomes. It is the moral authority that determines whether you are on the “right side of history” or stand condemned as a racist.
My father, Shelby Steele, has spent 40 years on this question. To paraphrase him, white guilt, at its core, is the vacuum of moral authority that was created when America finally confessed to four centuries of racial evils in the 1960s. That confession ended legal discrimination. But it also left whites accused of racism, whether they had personally discriminated or simply lived in a nation that had. Even though many whites had bravely confronted these racial evils, including members of my own family, the end result was a collective loss of moral authority. They were stripped of their innocence, the very innocence that would become the most coveted thing in American institutional life to this day.
This was not innocence in the legal sense, but moral innocence, the status of being on the right side of the nation&#8217;s deepest wound. As my father wrote in his 1988 Harper&#8217;s essay, &#8220;I&#8217;m Black, You&#8217;re White, Who&#8217;s Innocent?&#8221; — &#8220;Both races instinctively understand that to lose innocence is to lose power. Now to be innocent, someone else must be guilty, a natural law that leads the races to forge their innocence on each other&#8217;s backs.”
The driving force in American society became not true compassion for the oppressed, but the desperate need to prove that you are not the oppressor. Whoever can most credibly claim innocence of the nation’s racial sins, or claim to represent those who suffered, gains the moral authority that translates into institutional power, political influence, and cultural dominance. Innocence became the currency. The SPLC understood this better than almost anyone.
The SPLC did not begin as the institution now facing these charges. Founded in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, by Dees and Joe Levin, with civil rights legend Julian Bond as its first president, the SPLC took on genuine fights. Growing up, my parents told me stories over the dinner table about how the organization integrated state troopers, challenged unfair electoral districts, and sued the Klan after violent attacks. That early work, using the law to make the promises of equality real, especially in the heart of the Deep South, is why I was excited to meet Dees. It makes what followed all the more devastating.
Rather than meet the post-1960s reckoning through color-blind standards, genuine accountability, and the equal application of American principles, many whites chose the easier path: the performance of perpetual atonement. Instead of investing in the genuine development of black Americans, they became professional fighters against racism, the only remaining way to purchase the innocence that the vacuum of moral authority had taken from them.
From suing real Klan violence, the SPLC institutionalized white guilt. It built a vast donor base by mapping extremists and labeling an ever-growing list of dissenters as “hate” that must be fought. Conservatives like Charlie Kirk, who never committed violence, found themselves listed alongside actual white supremacists. Far from the days of fighting the Klan, the SPLC was now slaying windmills. The mission expanded not because the threat grew, but because the machine required an enemy. The emergency could not be allowed to end.
Perhaps we should have seen this corruption earlier in 2019 when Morris Dees himself was fired. The official reason was unspecified misconduct. Staff members sent letters to management describing &#8220;decades of racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment&#8221; inside the organization, founded to fight those exact things. One letter was signed before Dees&#8217;s firing was announced; a second, sent after the firing, accused leadership of being &#8220;complicit in&#8221; decades of such misconduct and demanded an investigation into an alleged cover-up. An outside review was commissioned, but its conclusions were never made public.
The grift formula, once you see it, is simple. You inflate the threat, sound the alarm, position yourself as the brave slayer of hate, and collect hundreds of millions from donors desperate to feel they are on the right side of history. The donor gets innocence. The corporation gets its ESG credential. The foundation gets its social justice bona fides. And the SPLC gets paid.
Real black communities bear the cost of this bargain. Real black families in real cities, especially those in the underclass, live with the consequences of institutions more interested in the performance of anti-racism than in the far more difficult and unglamorous work of developing individuals into productive members of society. The SPLC raised hundreds of millions in the name of protecting the vulnerable. The real product here was donor innocence.
If these charges hold, this is not merely fraud. It is white guilt at its most predatory.
The vacuum of moral authority that the civil rights reckoning created was supposed to produce genuine accountability, genuine repair, genuine progress. Many Americans truly sought that. They were eventually outmaneuvered by those who saw white guilt not as a wound to be healed but as a resource to be mined. And if the grand jury&#8217;s indictment is proven true, that industry did not just fail to reduce racism. It paid racists to keep racism alive, because alive racism was worth more to the machine than a color-blind society could ever be.
But this false innocence is not a simple lie. A lie knows itself to be false. False innocence is a moral credential claimed without moral action. It is innocence purchased through performance rather than earned through character. It is the DEI certificate that substitutes for actually caring about black lives. The hate list that substitutes for actually reducing hate.
This false innocence is more than a personal corruption or failing. It has become the air that we breathe. The man who says he feels no white guilt may be telling the truth about his feelings. But ask him if he would say, openly and without hesitation, everything he actually believes about race in America. In certain rooms, in certain institutions, around certain people, he already knows the answer. The cost is real. He is living inside the world of white guilt, whether he feels it or not. The machine does not require his confession. It requires only his silence.
This is what makes false innocence genuinely evil in the precise sense. It has corrupted the conditions under which honest people can speak honestly. It has made false virtue more valuable than the actual remedies. It has turned moral authority into a commodity that the loudest performers collect and the most honest people forfeit. And when an organization like the SPLC allegedly takes that logic to its endpoint by manufacturing the very hatred it claims to fight, because hatred is the raw material the innocence machine runs on, you are looking at the very heart of the white guilt machine.
I still think about Morris Dees and his gun at Claremont McKenna. If the indictment&#8217;s allegations are proven, the gun was the whole point. The prop that made the performance credible. The danger that made the donors open their wallets. The legend that kept the white guilt machine running. The windmills had to keep turning. So someone had to be paid to tilt at them.
The SPLC&#8217;s story is not an outlier. It is white guilt in America, followed to its logical conclusion.
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Eli Steele is an award-winning American filmmaker. He writes at <a href="https://manofsteele.substack.com/">Man of Steele</a> on Substack.

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The SPLC Institutionalizes White Guilt By Manufacturing The Very Hatred It Claims To Fight

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

White Guilt

In August of 2017, extremists came out of the woods, carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks, carrying Nazi swastikas, chanting the same exact antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the early &#8217;30s. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan — “so emboldened by [President Trump] that they saw him as an ally.”
Those were the words of our former vegetable-in-chief, Joe Biden, who claimed the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the moral catalyst for his entire presidential campaign.
A federal indictment now suggests that the catalyst was manufactured, and the people who built it were the same people weeping the loudest over it.
The Justice Department has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for purportedly funding the Unite the Right rally, assisting with its messaging and coordination, and secretly funneling over $3 million to the leaders and organizers of the very racist groups the SPLC claimed to be dismantling — among them the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. Their paid informants weren&#8217;t just monitoring extremist groups; they were actively promoting them, while the SPLC simultaneously denounced those same groups in its publications and solicited donor money to fight them.
Jaw. Drop.
Yes. An organization whose stated mission was to &#8220;dismantle white supremacy and confront hate across the country&#8221; funded white supremacy and hate across the country.
The audacity is seriously breathtaking.
Not only did the Left fabricate Donald Trump&#8217;s response to Charlottesville — he did not call neo-Nazis &#8220;Very Fine People”; he explicitly said they should be &#8220;condemned, totally&#8221; — but it now appears they had a hand in orchestrating the very spectacle they used to build that lie.
To appreciate the full scope of this, we need to examine the Southern Poverty Law Center and its omnipresence in our daily lives, constantly working overtime to paint Republicans as the bad guys.
Founded in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, the SPLC positioned itself as the preeminent watchdog of American hate, &#8220;combating white supremacy.&#8221; A noble mission, in theory. In practice, it became something far more useful: a political targeting operation. As genuine white supremacy became an increasingly marginal force in American life — because America is, by any honest measure, not a racist country, and hasn&#8217;t been in years — the SPLC pivoted. Rather than declare victory and close up shop, it expanded its definition of &#8220;extremism&#8221; to encompass mainstream conservatism. The mission was simple: label conservatives BAD, and use that label to cut them off from corporate America.
These weren&#8217;t fringe operations, either. The SPLC worked with Amazon, PayPal, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Mastercard, among others, telling them who not to do business with — and that list included perfectly peaceful, normal conservatives. Yet all the while they were warning companies away from “neo-Nazis,” they were funding neo-Nazis. This is Aesop’s &#8220;wolf in sheep’s clothing&#8221; for our modern political era.
The informants — referred to as “field sources” or simply “Fs” — were not heroic spies. They were key players in the movements that the SPLC claimed to oppose.
Take &#8220;F-37&#8221; — secretly paid by the SPLC, a member of the online leadership chat that planned the 2017 Unite the Right event, and an attendee who went at the direct instruction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings and coordinated transportation to the event. The SPLC paid him more than $270,000.
F-30 led the National Socialist Party of America, was the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC even featured F-30 in their &#8220;Extremist File&#8221; on their own website — while simultaneously cutting him checks totaling more than $70,000.
F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization the National Alliance and actively fundraised for it. He served as a paid SPLC informant for more than 20 years and was secretly paid over $1,000,000.
These findings are egregious, plentiful, and absolutely unsurprising.
From its founding, the Democratic Party defended slavery, fought its abolition, and launched the Civil War to preserve the institution. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an explicitly anti-slavery counterforce. Abraham Lincoln — the first Republican president — was elected on the promise of containing slavery&#8217;s expansion. Democrats smeared him, seceded from the Union, waged war against his government, and ultimately assassinated him for the crime of wanting to free black Americans. The Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats in Tennessee in 1866. Today, Democrats continue to fund the very groups they now pretend they never supported.
The Left has spent decades constructing elaborate historical revisionism around a so-called &#8220;party switch&#8221; — the theory that the parties essentially traded ideological identities sometime in the mid-20th century, conveniently absolving Democrats of their entire history. It is, at best, a dramatic oversimplification.
The racist Dixiecrats did not defect en masse to the Republican Party. They largely stayed put. What changed was the branding. The plantation politics of control and dependency simply modernized, metastasizing into a federal welfare apparatus that keeps constituencies loyal and politicians powerful.
Republicans were never the party of slaves. Republicans were never the party of white supremacy. Republicans ended slavery, passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and fought Democrats&#8217; racism every single step of the way.
Why do Democrats do it? It must get exhausting, constantly rewriting history, tearing down the institutions they manipulated, and blaming every grievance in life on oppressors — when the true oppressor lies at the heart of the Donkey. 
The Left’s power is predicated on a specific narrative: that America is irredeemably racist, that Republicans are its standard-bearers, and that only Democratic governance stands between marginalized communities and existential threat. Strip away that narrative, and there is no justification for DEI mandates, race-based policy, or collectivist governance.
The reality is that America is an extraordinarily tolerant country — so they have to manufacture racism through organizations like the SPLC, to keep the fear alive, the donations flowing, and the power grab rolling.
Democrats have a lot of nerve pointing fingers from the plantation they built and never abandoned. But they can&#8217;t stop, and they won&#8217;t. They have to lie. They have to fabricate. Because it is all they have left.
Don&#8217;t fall for it. The blueprint of this particular lie is now visible in court documents. 
I wish we could all just move on and be normal Americans again. We can forgive past errors — history is messy, and both sides have stains. But I fear nothing will change until we stop letting them rewrite reality, gaslight the country, and play Big Brother with every label they slap on us.
America doesn&#8217;t have a white supremacy problem. It has a Democrats-funding-white-supremacy-groups problem, and now the receipts are in federal court.

Alt Right, Neo Nazis hold torch rally at UVA

Democrats Have Been Funding ‘White Supremacy’ The Whole Time

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White Supremacists March with Torches in Charlottesville

Is This The Worst Political Psy-Op In Modern History?

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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Matt Walsh

Apparently, one of the most powerful leftist charities in the world has been donating money to groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing agitprop organization that raises roughly $100 million every year, has been handing money to white supremacists.
Why in the world would they do that? What the hell is going on?
Let&#8217;s begin with this premise. The demand for white supremacy on the Left outstrips the supply.
What do I mean by this?
I mean that people on the Left think, broadly speaking, that Americans are horrible racists. Then they look around at the world, and it turns out that Americans are some of the least racist people in history.
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Americans basically rank dead last in racism on the planet right now. If you go to any other country on planet Earth, you will notice significantly more racism than there is in the United States.
If you go to Japan, there’s a fair bit of racism, as in South Korea, as in India.
But when you come to the United States, the polls suggest that the vast majority of Americans are fine with living next to people of different races and fine with intermarrying with people of other races. We have very high rates of ethnic intermarriage in America. We are an extraordinarily tolerant and diverse people.
But for the Left to make its play for a communitarian, centralized government, they have to constantly suggest that the government must be there to ram decency and goodness down the throats of those evil racists.
And the only way that you can sell that proposition is to create a false supply of racism, which brings us to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the most powerful left-wing groups in America. It&#8217;s a supposedly civil rights nonprofit originally founded in 1971, in Montgomery, Alabama. It built a reputation on using litigation and “research” — pretty shoddy “research” — to combat what they have called white supremacists and other domestic extremist groups while advocating for marginalized communities as their stated purpose. Over time, that turned into monitoring so-called extremist movements. They published a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/">hate group list</a>, a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/">hate map</a>, and they pushed programs on bias and intolerance.
This was used to mainline their intel into everything from media to education to law enforcement. The FBI, up until October 2025, was using inputs from the SPLC to determine the kinds of people to monitor.
Even in the private sector, SPLC data was being used. Amazon, under Jeff Bezos, said that it used SPLC data to decide whom to exclude from its Amazon Smile charity programs.
How prominent has the SPLC been? Since 2010, a search of The New York Times pulls up 711 instances where the SPLC is cited as an authority on hate or discrimination statistics.
They are the go-to. The New York Times sees a Jussie Smollett story, and they call up somebody from the SPLC to talk about it. There&#8217;s a Nick Fuentes story; they call the SPLC to talk about it. There&#8217;s a Charlie Kirk story, and they call the SPLC to talk about it. 
The New York Times repeatedly quoted the SPLC data in its coverage of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the media routinely claimed that President Trump said there were &#8220;fine people on both sides,” which was not what he actually said. They lied about that, but the “Unite the Right” rally has been the calling card for entire swaths of the Left for a very, very long time. The New York Times even quoted the SPLC leadership to provide historical context for the rise of the alt-right.
In fact, a Google Gemini search of The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today shows that 20 to 25% of all analytical pieces on the “Unite the Right” rally referenced data or quoted directly from the SPLC.
Why is this relevant? 
It turns out that the SPLC provided some of the funding for the “Unite the Right” rally. Yesterday, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanch, announced criminal charges for the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
He said:
<blockquote>Today, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11 count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the charges in the indictment, the SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.</blockquote>
The DOJ is saying that the Southern Poverty Law Center was basically paying all sorts of white supremacists and extremists to generate more white supremacy so that they could continue fundraising.
Here&#8217;s what’s true virtually everywhere in the nonprofit world — they exist, theoretically, to solve problems. You give money to a nonprofit to solve a problem. If the problem goes away, you no longer give to that nonprofit.
Let&#8217;s say that you are the leader of a nonprofit or your leadership class of a nonprofit, and it turns out the thing you&#8217;re trying to solve has been pretty much solved in the United States — such as the “racism of the American population.”
When you launched in 1971, racism was a very, very real and ever-present part of American life. But today, racism is not even a blip on most Americans’ radar.
But you&#8217;re the Southern Poverty Law Center, and you need to raise some money.
So what do you do? You create a fake supply of white supremacy so you can go back to your donors and say, “The problem is worse than ever.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center is accused of using donor money to pay actual white supremacists.
It&#8217;s totally insane.
According to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and">press release</a> from the Justice Department, “Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million and donated funds to individuals were associated with various violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Socialist Party of America, the American Nazi Party, and Unite the Right.”
Unite the Right happens to be one that leaps off the page because the SPLC and the Left made bank off the “Unite the Right” rally for years and years and years. It was the key example they used over and over and over again to prove that the Right happened to be racist, even though the Right did not associate with the “Unite the Right” rally.
Blanche said on the Laura Ingraham Show on Tuesday that the Biden administration opened the investigation and then closed the investigation.
I wonder why.
“How did they get away with this for so long?” Ingraham asked.
“It&#8217;s a great question. I said today during the press conference that we know that this investigation was opened during the Biden administration and then mysteriously closed,” Blanche answered. “I really don&#8217;t have any information about why it was closed. And then we started again last year, the FBI did, working with the U.S. attorney in Alabama. And it&#8217;s extraordinarily egregious. You just talked about it. But imagine a donor to the SPLC, if they were told, ‘By the way, we&#8217;re going to give the money you&#8217;re giving us to the Ku Klux Klan &#8230; in some cases over $1 million.’ I mean, it&#8217;s incredible.”
We should remember the SPLC’s game was to label anyone remotely conservative an extremist.
This is the game. It does lend itself to the idea that much of what we consume in the media, on social media, and in politics is just not true. As for the “hatred” that a lot of Americans feel for other Americans, a lot of it is ginned up by groups like the SPLC.
The fakery here is quite real, and people make money off of it because the algorithm favors it. The algorithm favors amygdala-friendly responses.
The amygdala is the emotional center of your brain. It’s what responds to fear signals. The prefrontal cortex is the reasoning center of your brain, which says that the fear is not what you should be worried about. It&#8217;s not real.
The internet and virality are designed to appeal to your amygdala.
Thus, if you&#8217;re the SPLC, you say, “White supremacy is a threat to you and your family; it&#8217;s virulent, it&#8217;s violent, and it&#8217;s racist.” The whole pitch goes directly to the amygdala, because at no point does the prefrontal cortex kick in and say, “Wait, hold on, I know none of my neighbors are racist. They don&#8217;t like racism. They think it&#8217;s bad.”
But because the amygdala has kicked in, you now think worse of your neighbors, even though you have never really thought about the issue using the reasoning part of your brain.
The same is true in the algorithmic space online. There are a lot of accounts that go extremely viral because they use extraordinarily charged language, which tends to feature second-person pronouns. If I speak directly to you, the minute I say “you,” it&#8217;s probably firing up the centers in your brain that are more emotionally resonant. If I use words like “evil” or “wicked” or “soulless,” those are words that are much more likely to fire up the emotional centers of your brain than to appeal to your prefrontal cortex.
It&#8217;s a shortcut for politicians and influencers — and for groups like the SPLC. 
The more that you can use emotionally charged language that is second-person directed, the better you will do.
That&#8217;s why we all seem to be living in a world that is totally different from reality these days. The more time you spend online, the more you see this sort of stuff that is routinely retweeted and reposted, and is always deeply emotionally charged stuff.
That shtick is the entire game. And that&#8217;s why you feel alienated.
It&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve said a thousand times, and I will say it a thousand times more, that you ought to talk to your neighbors in person, because when you talk with your neighbors, your prefrontal cortex will kick in as opposed to your fear center in the amygdala.
And you might learn that the neighbor with whom you disagree about tax rates actually is not a racist.

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