Karmelo Anthony’s Defense Implodes And Exposes The Big Lie Of The Civil Rights Era

Karmelo Anthony allegedly brought a prohibited knife to a track meet, trespassed into the other team’s tent, refused to leave, reached into his bag in a threatening manner, challenged people to fight him, brutally stabbed Austin Metcalf, an unarmed 17-year-old, who lightly shoved him in response, then ran away and tried to hide the murder weapon. 

And yet, even with these facts in mind, the trial of Karmelo Anthony has revealed a slew of new details that underscore just how horrific and premeditated this alleged murder was.

 It’s not an overstatement to say that Anthony’s defense has imploded far more quickly than anyone anticipated. As bad as you thought this case was, it’s much worse. The trial has also revealed that everyone in that tent — including witnesses called by the defense — portrayed Karmelo Anthony as the aggressor who refused to leave and provoked the confrontation.

We need to establish at the outset that this trial isn’t really about Karmelo Anthony, in isolation. This trial is also about the $600,000 that was donated to Anthony’s defense solely because he murdered a white teenager. This trial is about the hordes of black activists outside the courtroom, cheering for a murderer and endorsing his violent, depraved behavior — again, solely because he murdered a white teenager. It’s also about our post-1960s legal system, which prohibits schools from punishing dangerous black students like Karmelo Anthony, and which forces white people to live around them. 

We’re launching Part Two of our documentary on the Civil Rights Movement on the Daily Wire, called “The Looting of America,” which demonstrates — in graphic detail — exactly how we ended up in a country like this. We talk about how many white people came to be terrified in their own neighborhoods — at schools, at track meets, everywhere — because of court-ordered busing, public housing policy, and so-called “urban renewal efforts.” We talk about the development of a fundamental, unstated rule of modern society — a rule we’re all familiar with, and which Austin Metcalf broke — which states that you’re supposed to tolerate antisocial behavior by black people, no matter how offensive it may be, or else you’ll end up dead. 

It sounds like an overstatement, but it’s not: We’re all expected to go about our lives with the understanding that, if we dare to offend a young black man, we could end up in a body bag. As the writer Patrick Casey put it:

“Austin Metcalf’s murder is particularly salient because almost everyone, regardless of race, has encountered a black person carrying out an antisocial act – cutting in line, mouthing off, blasting music on the subway, etc. – which is accompanied by the implicit threat of violence. … Most people don’t want to share a society with people who routinely violate public norms and are prepared to murder anyone who objects.”

When you see the vagrant kicking trash cans down the street, you’re supposed to walk the other way — or else you might end up stabbed to death, like that left-wing activist in Brooklyn a few years ago.

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Muere apuñalado el activista de izquierdas, Ryan Carson, delante de su novia en una calle de Nueva York a altas horas de la madrugada. pic.twitter.com/mlvm2etBLp

— Wall Street Wolverine (@wallstwolverine) October 3, 2023

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We talked about this story at the time. The white guy made the mistake of getting up off his bench and engaging with the crazy black guy. He shouldn’t have done that, obviously. He should’ve done the “racist” thing and crossed the street. But he’d rather risk his life — and die — than violate the sacred rule. 

Along the same lines, when you see some unknown black athlete in your team’s tent, refusing to leave and acting belligerent, you’re supposed to look the other way. And if he ends up stealing your property, oh well — at least you’re alive and not “racist.”

John Derbyshire was fired from the National Review in 2012 for saying this, but it’s true: Every white father needs to have a talk with his child about black violence and antisocial behavior. It’s simply a fact that, on average, black people are far more likely to resort to violence at the slightest provocation. 

This is how “justice” works in the hood. If they feel their honor is threatened, or that they’re being “disrespected,” many black people will stab or shoot you, without any hesitation. That doesn’t mean all black people are violent. But the statistics are indisputable. If you tell a black guy on the subway to turn his music down, you’re risking your life to a much, much greater degree than if you asked, say, a Chinese woman or a white man.  

We can be fairly confident that Austin Metcalf never received this “talk,” based on the public statements of his father in this case (when he told everyone that race had nothing to do with his son’s death). But it’s a vital conversation for every child to hear — including black children. Most of the homicides in cities like Chicago or Detroit or Baltimore are related to some impulsive act of violence, committed by a black man who feels he’s been wronged in some relatively minor way. 

And when these young black men leave their neighborhoods and interact with white people at track meets, or on the side of the road, or on the subway, or anywhere else, their attitude doesn’t change. Many of them are still willing to kill over any challenge to their “authority,” no matter how slight. So everyone needs to be aware of the risk.

It’s also worth pointing out that the type of violence overwhelmingly perpetrated by young black males is almost always cowardly and dishonorable. Very often it’s a group assaulting one person. Often kicking and beating the victim while he’s on the ground. The assault is usually committed suddenly, with no chance for the victim to defend himself. Karmelo Anthony allegedly pulled out the knife and stabbed Austin Metcalf in one fell swoop, then ran away. Metcalf never had a chance. 

I point this out because often the violence is prompted by the assailant’s feeling that he’s been “disrespected” in some way. There was a time in the history of Western civilization when white men would sometimes resort to violence over disrespect. That’s what dueling was all about — a practice that was commonplace in Europe and the United States for centuries. So common that, famously, a sitting vice president shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But the whole point of a duel was that both participants knew exactly what was going to happen. They were both armed, they were meeting at a specific time and place to have the duel, and it was a fair fight. 

The idea was that in order to reclaim your honor, you had to fight honorably and honestly. Say what you will about the practice of dueling, but it was at least fair, and it took real physical courage for both parties involved. 

These days, a young black male will feel that his honor has been challenged in some way, and respond with sudden, disproportionate violence against an unarmed, unprepared opponent, and then run away while his victim bleeds to death on the ground. It’s violence done over alleged “disrespect,” but committed in the most craven, disreputable, gutless way.

Is this an exclusively black mentality? No, it’s not. There are other non-white groups that engage in disproportionate violence in response to criticism. That’s why Henry Nowak is dead. It’s also a third-world mentality, more generally. But in this country, by far, the greatest perpetrators of impulsive, inexplicable violence are young black men. 

One wrong word, and you’re dead. And we don’t solve the problem by ignoring it, or calling people racist when they voice their concerns about it, or changing their behavior to minimize the risk to their family.  The more we ignore what’s happening, the more innocent people will die.

Just the other day, a white student at Penn State named Billy Schmidt was slaughtered in the streets of South Philadelphia over a cellphone. And just based on that information alone, you can easily guess what the attackers looked like. We all know it. It wasn’t a group of white middle-aged men. It wasn’t a roving gang of Koreans. It wasn’t a splinter cell of Japanese females. 

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????Today, an innocent Penn State student was shot dead in cold blood for his phone in South Philly by black men!

A 22-year-old college kid named Billy Schmidt was brutally murdered right outside his home. He was walking back from watching the NBA Finals when two black men tried… pic.twitter.com/0O8IcwQDH4

— AshleY (@Aku_700) June 7, 2026

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It’s incomprehensible to that woman how anyone could be murdered over a cellphone. She truly can’t process it. And indeed, it’s a foreign concept to the overwhelming majority of people. The odds are good that, in your life, you don’t know anyone who would even dream of stealing someone’s phone, then shooting them over it. But in the hood, it’s commonplace. Many young black men, who are often raised without fathers, believe that they’re entitled to do whatever they want. They don’t consider the long-term consequences of their actions. They don’t control their impulses. They see a challenge to their authority, and they respond with lethal force. 

Therefore, if you want to maximize your life expectancy, you have to realize how quickly people in the hood — mainly young black men — will kill you, without a second thought. And you need to act accordingly. In this case, as his father pointed out, Billy Schmidt made the decision to chase after these thugs who had just robbed him, and yelled, “Give me back my phone!”

He had every right to do that, of course. In a civilized society, it would be the reasonable thing to do. But South Philadelphia is not a civilized society. Thugs in the hood will shoot you, without hesitation, if you get in their way. There’s no logic behind any of it. Indeed, just before one of the robbers shot Billy Schmidt, the other thief tossed the stolen phone under a car. So they committed armed robbery and first-degree murder, all for a cellphone that they didn’t even take. This is depravity that most people can’t even fathom.

The flip side of the equation — the one every parent needs to drill into the minds of their children — is that Billy Schmidt vastly underestimated the danger he was in. That’s not to blame Billy Schmidt. He obviously didn’t deserve to lose his phone, much less his life. But as a factual matter, many, many white people are underestimating the danger that they’re in — particularly in cities like Philadelphia. They’ve been indoctrinated with years of BLM propaganda, in all aspects of life, against their will. They’ve been taught that black people are only incarcerated at higher rates because of racist police. Over time, they internalize that propaganda. They come to believe it’s true. And now many white people are dying as a result.

As the trial testimony has now demonstrated beyond any doubt, Karmelo Anthony is yet another young black man who allegedly resorted to murder after his antisocial behavior was called out. In particular, the trial has revealed that Anthony is likely guilty of murder for two separate, independent reasons. First, he provoked a violent confrontation, which means he’s not allowed to claim self-defense under Texas law. Anthony knew he was breaking a well-established social norm, and he was looking for an excuse to kill anyone who challenged him. Secondly, Anthony used lethal force in response to a situation where he clearly wasn’t in danger of being killed or suffering great bodily harm. And because any claim of self-defense has to be objectively reasonable, his defense falls apart.

So this is not a case about one stabbing at a track meet, as horrific and tragic as that stabbing was. This is also about the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s about the urgency of undoing the genocidal and deranged laws (and legal doctrines) that are now getting far too many white people killed. It’s about ending all of the hand-outs and special treatment that black Americans receive, all in the name of “racial equity” — which everyone now understands is code for killing white people with impunity, and taking their stuff. 

This was always the goal of the Civil Rights Movement, from its earlier days. In Part Two of our “Real History” documentary on the civil rights era, called “The Looting of America,” we talk about the savagery and the brutality that white people endured if they didn’t have the resources to flee to the suburbs in the 60s and 70s. The people who were left behind — the ones who couldn’t engage in so-called “white flight,” which is the preferred term of Leftist historians and school textbooks — were sexually assaulted and executed for sport. They watched as their communities became living nightmares. And when they complained, they were met with total indifference from everyone — from black activists, liberal academics, and the United States federal government. They were left behind to suffer and die, as their communities — which had survived for generations — became violent cesspools virtually overnight.

When you watch black activists rally outside that courthouse for Karmelo Anthony, and when you see them donating $600,000 so that Anthony’s family can buy a new house, the only conclusion you can draw is that not much has changed. Decades of affirmative action and welfare payments and DEI — even the election of a half-black president, two times — have not merely failed to produce racial harmony in this country. Quite the contrary — by design, they’ve led us directly to this period of open anti-white racial warfare, which has erupted all over the West, from Texas to the UK. What you need to understand is that the government, at every level, is creating the conditions where this kind of violence can occur. They’re preventing civilized people from enforcing the law, and as a result, every day, children — particularly white children — are getting executed.

Will Karmelo Anthony be found guilty? Most likely, yes, he will — assuming the jury wasn’t compromised, which is admittedly a big assumption. But the most important takeaway from this trial — and the issue that we address in our documentary — is that white men are not dying in random, one-off incidents like this, any more than white people “just happen” to lose out on job opportunities or government contracts or university admissions. White children are dying in the streets of Philadelphia, and at track meets in Texas, for the same reason that defenseless, elderly white women were massacred in their own homes when diversity came to town in the 1960s. These people are dying because of a fiction that has persisted for far too long in this country — which is that racial disparities, always and everywhere, are the result of discrimination. 

This belief has acquired religious significance in most of the country. It’s both dangerous and completely false. The truth is that, if we had more “racial disparities,” and a little more self-awareness, a lot of innocent people would still be alive today. 

As it stands, if we continue on the trajectory that was set in the 1960s, we will continue to see many more “Karmelo Anthonys.” That’s what the corporate press wants, which is why they’re presenting the murder as a truly unforeseeable, shocking homicide. But it actually wasn’t unforeseeable at all. We created the circumstances that allowed the murder to happen. We effectively created a new constitution 60 years ago that rewards black grievance and violence. And just as quickly — before the next Austin Metcalf is slaughtered — we must tear up this new constitution and replace it with the one we started with.