Black Power Continues to Decline in the Karmelo Anthony Case

The black community claimed the teen killer was the real victim. No one else bought it.

Justice was served to Karmelo Anthony this week. A jury found the black teen guilty of murder in the death of Austin Metcalf. Anthony claimed he stabbed the white track star in self-defense. The jury disagreed.

But the black community believed it. In their eyes, Anthony was a good boy who did nothing wrong. Metcalf embodied the Ku Klux Klan and committed a grave offense by telling Anthony that he was sitting in the wrong place. The black youth had no choice but to stab his white opponent.

The reality was quite different. Anthony was asked by Metcalf and his teammates to leave the tent 15 times. It was only supposed to be for their team. Anthony refused and threatened “touch me and find out.” When Metcalf leaned in toward Anthony, the black youth stabbed him.

No reasonable person would find this an act of self-defense. But blacks did.

The case should redpill the public on the absurdity of black delusions. Americans like to believe that everyone, regardless of color or creed, will set aside their own biases and make decisions based on facts and logic. Obviously, people, regardless of color or creed, often struggle to do that. But it’s particularly a problem for many blacks. Anthony was their hero here. The facts didn’t matter. What mattered was that he was black and his victim was white. That made him innocent in their eyes. Any disagreement could only be motivated by racism.

This isn’t an opinion left to the fringes and anonymous X accounts. These are the opinions of black lawmakers, entertainers, and “civil rights” leaders.

The good news is that the rest of America ignored these ramblings. Anthony’s guilt was clear to the jury, just as much as it was to the public. Five years ago, it may have been a different story. But not today.

It’s another sign of black power in decline. Anyone encountering Anthony’s defenders would realize they’re insane. Seeing so many blacks engage in this nonsense–complete with violent threats, total disregard for facts, and general obnoxious behavior–did tremendous reputational damage to this demographic. It further reinforces the notion that a demographically transformed America will be less, not more, inclined to sympathize with black delusions.

Many Highly Respected listeners wondered if Anthony would escape justice. While always an unlikely prospect in 2026, there have been numerous cases where a black criminal evaded justice in the murder or assault of a racial outsider.

Here are a few examples I’ve previously covered:

• A jury deadlocked over convicting two black thieves of the 2017 murder of an elderly white photographer in San Francisco. The murder was caught on film and the defendants admitted to committing the heinous act. But defense attorneys claimed that one perp could not be found responsible due to her suffering from a “sickle cell crisis,” drug withdrawals, and a low IQ. This argument apparently persuaded some of the jurors.
• The three black men involved in Ethan Liming’s 2022 beating death saw their murder charges reduced to lesser offenses. One of the participants was only sentenced to 180 days in jail.
• Kansas City officials refused to press murder charges in 2022 against a black woman who shot and killed an off-duty white firefighter. The firefighter had confronted the woman’s boyfriend after he threatened a gas station clerk. The boyfriend fought the white man, but the fight was not going well for him. The girlfriend shot the firefighter, which authorities determined was in self-defense.
• A black man in South Carolina was found not guilty in 2021 after shooting and killing a white retired volunteer fire chief as the victim sat in his car. The shooter claimed the victim startled him and that was a sufficient explanation to find him innocent of murder.

There are even more cases you can find from the late 2010s and early 2020s. In the age of peak woke, black power reigned supreme. It allowed some criminals to literally get away with murder. They could claim they were “frightened” or that a murder conviction would send another unfortunate soul to jail.

Black jurors openly say they will rule based on racial solidarity. Multiple black jurors who exonerated the clearly guilty O.J. Simpson did so to get back at white America. A number of potential black jurors in the Metcalf case were dismissed because they professed they couldn’t find a “brother” guilty. The jury ended up including zero blacks.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett expressed the views that would’ve once (maybe) helped Anthony walk free. “Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day,” she argued in one clip. “A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably had never spend a day living that way.” She also told TMZ that Anthony was only found guilty due to racism.

Metcalf’s supporters argued that they now have to worry about their sons being assaulted left and right by whites since they can no longer defend themselves. It takes serious delusion to believe black youths risk attack by white youths. We don’t live in Birth of a Nation. But many blacks think we do.

These delusions, unfortunately, were treated seriously during peak woke. They helped convict Derek Chauvin and the white men who confronted Ahmaud Arbery. These arguments are why cities across the country stopped enforcing the law and allowed a crime wave to kill thousands. They inspired corporations and schools to teach about white privilege and systemic racism. It was dangerous to challenge this insanity. Criticizing Black Lives Matter was enough to get you fired or kicked out of college.

We’re, thankfully, no longer living in that time.

Anthony’s supporters did more disservice to his cause than anything else. It’s jarring for Americans to see $600k raised for his defense–and then wasted on luxuries by the Anthony family. Regular Americans can’t comprehend people violently threatening peaceful whites who simply showed up at the courthouse to show support for the Metcalf family. They can’t understand how anyone could get this worked up about a clearly guilty killer.

The scenes outside the courthouse, alone, did generational reputational damage to black America.

The Anthony verdict follows another case where black delusions suffered a major loss. An Asian store owner, Rick Chow, was found not guilty last week in the shooting death of a black thief. This case would’ve been treated as a new Trayvon Martin case in another time, and it’s likely it would’ve resulted in a guilty verdict for Chow. But Chow’s lawyers proved he acted in self-defense to a jury, to the chagrin of black leaders.

Black politicians and entertainers expending social capital to defend Anthony was a terrible mistake. But they’re too stuck in their own bubble to realize this. They think they can cow public opinion just by saying “racist” and pretend Anthony was the Emmett Till who fought back. They were wrong.

Some right-wingers think this racial solidarity is an advantage. But in this case, it was more of a disadvantage. Obviously, it would’ve worked in their favor if it got Anthony off a murder charge. But it didn’t work. It prevented blacks from even being on the jury and appalled the rest of the country.

It was easier for black leaders to convince the country of these delusions under the old black-white dynamic. We fell for Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse case, Trayvon Martin, and many other fables thanks to the controlled media environment and cultural memes about black oppression. In the past, the media would’ve not interviewed Anthony supporters outside the courthouse; it would do too much damage to the narrative. In the uncontrolled media environment of today, we all can see how they think and act in response to a brutal black-on-white murder. There’s no way to sugarcoat it.

America’s new arrivals, unlike many normie whites, aren’t that interested in black oppression myths. They know they don’t really benefit from them, and many of them are confused by the rest of America’s willingness to believe them. They’re not that interested in a rainbow coalition that serves black interests, particularly when it encourages criminals to prey on them.

Mass immigration brings a host of problems. But one of its few upsides is that it undermines the power of black mythology over American life. This all comes across as nonsense to Guatemalans and Pakistanis. The non-whites on the Metcalf jury ruled the same as the whites.

Black cultural and systemic advantages are weakening. There may soon come a time that blacks will have to assimilate to normal American standards to get anywhere. They may no longer get special privileges just for being black. If they kill a white kid over a seat, they will go to jail for murder just like anyone. If they want to go to Harvard, they will need the same grades and SAT as that of the rest of the class. If they want a good job, they will need to offer more than their skin color.

They will still have MLK Day, Black History Month, and Juneteenth. Academic history will still fixate on their stories and problems. And we still might give Oscars to movies just because they’re made by blacks. But they will never get reparations, they will never get the two-tier justice, and they will never get the special citizen status many of them desire.

America has moved on from the days of mandatory Afrolatry. Black leaders and celebrities just haven’t gotten the memo.

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