The Karmelo Anthony Verdict Just Broke The Left’s Favorite Narrative
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’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.But Karmelo Anthony’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’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’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’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’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: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’s 2025. The hate is embedded into their DNA at this point. They don’t know if they love us or hate us. Lol, too bad we don’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.There’s no real allegation that Austin Metcalf’s behavior was racist in any way. Right from the beginning, the Metcalf family acted with honor. Metcalf’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’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’ve called upon would say justice was done. A murderer is going to jail.And that’s all.It’s because the American people responded to a decade of racialized politics by saying, “We are tired of this. We don’t want it. We’re not interested in a DEI regime that divides Americans by race. We don’t want that anymore. We want equal justice before the law. We don’t want every criminal situation to become some sort of referendum on whether America is systemically racist.”We’re not interested in that anymore.
