They Lied About Karmelo Anthony. What Else Have They Lied About?

Now that Karmelo Anthony has been shipped off to prison, and riots nationwide have failed to materialize, you will discover that no one in the mainstream press wants to talk about the story anymore. He’s no longer useful to anyone — not even his own family. 

But there was a very important element of the Karmelo Anthony case — one that we should never forget, even if the media wants to pretend it never happened. I’m talking about the absolute, unrestrained brazenness of all the lying that we had to listen to over the past year. 

It rivaled the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in terms of how flagrantly dishonest the coverage was. Democrats, BLM activists, and the corporate press all repeatedly deceived the public about basic, fundamental aspects of the story — even though anyone with an internet connection could disprove the lies in about five minutes. 

They claimed the video footage was irrelevant, even though it was a key part of the case. They claimed Austin Metcalf pummeled Karmelo Anthony, when Metcalf barely touched him. They claimed there was an all-white jury, when only about half the jury was white. And on and on.

The lying had the desired effect. Anthony’s family raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Millions of black Americans were outraged. The other day, one of these outraged black Americans randomly attacked a white person on the side of the road, falsely claiming he was involved in the case. 

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SICKENING: A black man assaulted a white man after he mistakenly identified him as a juror in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial.

The lady can also be heard saying “He’s a Vet”

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 10, 2026

Source: @Breaking911/X.com

When this footage was uploaded to Facebook, virtually all of the comments were positive. 

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DISGUSTING: After black man from FL posted the video attacking the white veteran, Facebook removed it from his page. Now, however, it has gone viral because his followers have taken screenshots and are sharing it widely across social media, laughing in the comments and treating… https://t.co/UAEth8eikr pic.twitter.com/a0CpxJExYj

— I Meme Therefore I Am ???????? (@ImMeme0) June 10, 2026

Source: @ImMeme0/X.com

If you’ve been paying attention over the last 30 years, none of this is new. Black activists lied about OJ Simpson, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jacob Blake, George Floyd, and every other black martyr in their war on white people.  

They’ve been telling flagrant lies for a very long time — even when those lies are extremely easy to debunk. 

By any measure, though, the Karmelo Anthony case is one of the most egregious examples. It was such an obvious case of first-degree murder that the defense didn’t even present a case, for all intents and purposes. Really, the defense witnesses helped the prosecution, over and over again. There is no coherent version of events that justifies the killing of Austin Metcalf. And yet, the lies and the outrage persist.

Seeing all of this, one of your first reactions — once you get past the pure disgust, and the desire to bring about immediate change in this country — should be to ask yourself: What else have they lied to us about, over the years? I’m not talking about the narratives that all reasonable people have already rejected. I’m not talking about OJ Simpson or George Floyd. 

I’m talking about the narratives that, even if you’re pretty skeptical of left-wing race propaganda, might still seem convincing to you. In other words, now that we’ve seen how flagrantly they’re willing to lie for the benefit of a killer like Karmelo Anthony, what other famous “black victims” in American history need a second look?

It’s a difficult question to address, because the entire point of propaganda is to muddy the historical record, so that no one in the future can debunk the lie. That’s why, for example, NBC News wrote on X: “Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally…”

Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin, was hospitalized after he was bitten by a venomous spider, the noted firearms enthusiast says. https://t.co/sPEoH0rhjy

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 7, 2026

They know Kyle Rittenhouse was attacked during a riot that caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of property damage. They know the rioters tried to beat him with a skateboard and shoot him with a handgun. 

But the goal of NBC News is to recast this event as a “civil rights rally,” so that 50 years from now, historians will portray Rittenhouse as a deranged gunman who mowed down peaceful protesters. NBC News doesn’t care that there was a public trial, complete with extensive video evidence, which proved Rittenhouse legally defended himself during a riot. They’re hoping they can rewrite history anyway. And they might be right.

The point is, seeing through this kind of propaganda isn’t easy when the propaganda was written more than 70 years ago. But we should try anyway, just to see what we find out. 

The important point is that they’re blatantly lying to our faces about events we all experienced and that, in most cases, were caught on video for the whole world to see.

If they can and do lie about those sorts of things, imagine what kind of lies they can tell about events that none of us experienced, with no videos to go back and check to confirm the narrative. 

Consider every supposed racist atrocity from decades or centuries ago. Every “innocent” minority wrongfully persecuted by racist whites. I’m not saying that all of those stories aren’t true. I’m saying that you can’t assume that they are true. You have to go back with a skeptical eye, willing to question even the narratives that are most taken for granted. Indeed, especially those narratives. So we will do that now. 

We’ll start with the killing of a 14-year-old black boy named Emmett Till. 

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Emmett Till. As the writer Steve Sailer has pointed out, he’s not just a fixture in high school history textbooks. He was also center-stage during the BLM hysteria of the past few years. “Emmett Till, who was murdered in 1955, has been mentioned in 427 different New York Times articles over just the last 10 years. … Emmett Till was mentioned more often in American books in 2022 than in any previous year.”

As far as enduring myths go, Emmett Till is certainly up there. The basic narrative, which you’ve probably been told in school, is that Till was abducted and lynched by racist white people in Mississippi back in 1955. His alleged crime was whistling at a pretty white woman in a grocery store. Her name was Carolyn Bryant Donham. That was a serious violation of racial codes at the time.  

Bryant, who was very offended, lied to her family and told them that Emmett Till had groped her. In response, Bryant’s husband and his half-brother hunted the boy down a few days later, abducted him from a cabin, and brutally lynched him. The story was a major catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. 

Many decades later, in her 70s, Bryant admitted that she had lied about Emmett Till. Black activists demanded that prosecutors charge her with a crime. Ultimately, Bryant died before they could get vengeance.

This is the official narrative. A few years ago, when Bryant passed away, CBS News repeated this version of events verbatim on the air.

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Virtually every aspect of what the anchor just said is a fabrication. First of all, Emmett Till was not accused of merely “making advances” towards Bryant. That’s an extremely sanitized and deliberately misleading way to present the story.

According to Bryant’s testimony in court, as well as her memoir, Emmett Till grabbed her hand and said, “How about a date, baby.” When she tried to flee, Emmett Till followed her to the cash register, forcefully grabbed her waist, and said, “What’s the matter, baby, can’t you take it?” He told her that she didn’t need to be afraid and explained, “I’ve been with white women before.” 

Emmett Till didn’t leave the store until one of his friends entered and forcefully removed him. So this was, according to her, an attempted sexual assault. Not just an “advance.” 

These facts are obviously not flattering for Emmett Till. And for what it’s worth, this behavior would not be out of character for the Till family. 

Emmett’s father was named Louis Till. He enlisted in the Army during World War II to avoid going to prison for domestic violence. But Louis Till’s behavior didn’t change overseas. He was court-martialed for the murder of an Allied civilian during the Italian Campaign, as well as the rape of two pregnant Italian women. He was ultimately found guilty and hanged. Incidentally, he had been incarcerated at the same military prison as the American poet Ezra Pound, who was jailed for treason. Pound even wrote a verse about Louis Till, saying, “Till was hung yesterday for murder and rape with trimmings.”

Now, of course, the fact that Emmett Till’s father was a domestic abuser and a rapist does not, by itself, demonstrate that Emmett Till did anything wrong. But if we’re being honest, it makes it far more likely that he would engage in similar conduct. And taken together with Bryant’s testimony, it’s obvious that the context makes her claim more credible, though still none of us can ever know for sure what really happened in that store that day. 

But the major lie about Emmett Till is what happened many years after his death. The claim from the Left, the media, and activists is that Bryant later “recanted” her allegations that Emmett Till had physically assaulted her. They say that Bryant admitted, in her dying years, that she made the whole thing up, and she feels really bad about it. This is a core part of the story. Here’s ABC, repeating the claim:

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What you should notice about all of these stories is how definitive they are. All of the official versions of the Emmett Till story make the claim that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Bryant admitted she was wrong. Pretty much everyone accepts this version of events — to the point that, just a couple of years ago, black activists tried to have the elderly woman thrown in prison. At the time, she was in her 80s and in failing health. But they didn’t care. They went all the way to a grand jury, which rejected their claims. 

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And it’s all based on a total fabrication.

Bryant never recanted her allegation. The claim that she recanted was made by a historian named Timothy Tyson. He wrote a book in 2017 called “The Blood of Emmett Till,” in which he claimed that Bryant recanted her claims about Till in 2008 — many decades after the incident. He recorded all of his interviews for the book, including his interviews with Bryant. That’s standard practice for historians. So you think he’d be able to support his claims — especially a claim as explosive as this one.

It turns out that somehow Tyson’s transcripts and audio recordings didn’t capture this bombshell admission. The FBI opened an investigation into Tyson’s claim — since it would obviously be relevant to a criminal proceeding, even if the statute of limitations had expired — and they found no support for it whatsoever. 

This quote is from a Washington Post article in 2021:

The Justice Department has closed the latest federal investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in rural Mississippi. … Federal authorities reopened the case three years ago, after a new book reported that Bryant had denied in an interview that Till had made any advances. In theory, that could have meant she lied in decades-old court proceedings. … Justice Department officials said Monday that when the FBI questioned Bryant about those alleged statements to the book’s author, she said she did not make them, and the author’s interview tape and transcripts do not show her making such statements. … The book said Bryant told Tyson that Till had not come on to her sexually, a disclosure that directly contradicted her testimony six decades earlier, when she told a jury that Till grabbed her by the waist and uttered obscenities. … In a statement, Justice Department said the FBI was unable to confirm Tyson’s assertion that Donham had recanted her prior testimony. When agents interviewed her, she denied ever recanting and provided no new information, the Justice Department statement said. Authorities concluded there was “insufficient evidence to prove that she ever told the professor that any part of her testimony was untrue,” the statement said. “Although the professor represented that he had recorded two interviews with her, he provided the FBI with only one recording, which did not contain any recantation. … A transcript of Tyson’s other interview also did not contain the alleged recantation, officials said.

Separately, NBC News reported the following that same year:

But Donham denied to federal investigators that she lied in her testimony, a source with knowledge of the case said, and there were inconsistencies with statements made by Tyson.

To this day, they’re lying to us about what the woman alleged Emmett Till did to her. They’re lying by claiming that the woman recanted. And they’re burying a lot of information about Emmett Till, including the fact that his father was a rapist. And with all that in mind, you have to wonder if they’re telling the truth about any aspect of this particular story. Once they’re willing to fabricate important details in order to create a myth for the purposes of launching the Civil Rights Movement, then there’s no reason to listen to a word they say. 

Does that mean that his killing was justified? No, obviously not. It was a brutal murder. We know that. There’s no disputing it. But the popular narrative about this case leaves out important details and blatantly lies about others. There’s no disputing that, either. Which makes you wonder what else about this story they aren’t telling us. Nothing about the story, or any of these kinds of stories, can be taken on faith anymore. 

Lynchings, in general, are one of the most inflammatory aspects of American history — and therefore, no one wants to be honest about them. There’s a hysteria about lynchings that led to a federal anti-lynching bill just a few years ago, even though no black person has been lynched in living memory. (But white people have certainly been attacked for their skin color, as we saw at the top of the show). There’s this idea that, if you object to any of the propaganda about lynching, then you must endorse the murder of innocent black people. But that’s not true. And all that matters is the truth.

The popular narrative about lynching today is that it was a form of murderous violence inflicted by white people on black people for racial reasons. It’s true, of course, that those kinds of lynchings have occurred in American history. Not anytime recently, which is what made that anti-lynching bill so ridiculous, not to mention the fact that lynching was already very much illegal anyway. And yet even Tuskegee University, which is a historically black university, admits that between 1882 and 1968, more than 27 percent of lynching victims were white. If lynching was a form of racial violence, then why would a significant percent of the victims be white? 

The answer is that, historically, lynching was a form of mob justice. In the vast majority of cases, the victim — white or black — was accused of committing a serious crime. Often — we can’t know exactly how often — they were indeed guilty of committing the crime. The important point is that lynching was not an exclusively racial form of violence. Often it had nothing to do with race at all. We can confidently say that most of the 27 percent of white victims (assuming that percentage is not an undercount, which is a very massive assumption) were not lynched for racial reasons. Does it make sense then to assume that every black victim was lynched for racial reasons? Of course it doesn’t. In a certain significant percent of cases, they were lynched for the same reason whites were lynched — because they had committed, or were accused of committing, a crime. 

And lynching was not invented in 1882. It had been used all through the early history of the US, and before that. It happened during colonial times, too. We don’t have any data on the racial makeup of the victims in the early 19th century and prior to that, but there is good reason to suspect that a large number of them were white. And this wasn’t just mob justice. Sometimes it was. Sometimes mobs of angry townsfolk banded together to kill some alleged wrongdoer, even though they had a court system and jails that could have brought the alleged criminal to justice in a civilized and constitutional way. But sometimes lynching was less a case of mob justice and more a case of frontier justice. 

Large swaths of the American territory, through much of its early history, didn’t really have a functioning court system. There wasn’t much you could do with murderers, rapists, and cattle thieves in those cases but execute them quickly and leave their bodies hanging from the tree as a warning to anyone who might think of committing similar crimes. It was brutal and ugly, but sometimes brutal and ugly options were the only ones available. 

So again, we have a story that is much more complicated than the one told today by the media and the education system. Lynchings happened for hundreds of years. A huge number of them had absolutely nothing to do with race. Some of them were actually justified and necessary. Some of them were not. Some of them were racial killings. Some of them were not. We can’t possibly know what the percentages look like. We can’t break it down into a pie chart. 

Instead, the popular narrative has simplified the pie chart so that the racial killings are all that’s left, and now lynching has become a symbol of anti-black racism. 

Historically, though, the concept of lynching did not have that automatic racial connotation. It’s only relatively recently that the noose has become a racially charged symbol. But it should tell you something that literally every prominent case of a racist noose being left somewhere to intimidate black people, at any point this century, has turned out to be a hoax. 

One of the most powerful scenes in the miniseries adaptation of Lonesome Dove is when Tommy Lee Jones’ character lynches a group of thieves and murderers, all of them white. It’s fiction obviously, but also a pretty fair reflection of historical reality. And importantly, 35 years ago when the show came out nobody flagged the lynching scene as some kind of historical whitewashing. It looked normal to the audience because that’s how everyone understood the concept of lynching until, I would argue, the last 20 years or so. That’s when the propaganda went into overdrive.

The reason I went into detail on these particular myths is that they persist to this day. There are plenty of other myths — like the Tawana Brawley case, the Michael Brown “hands up don’t shoot” lie, the Breonna Taylor nonsense, etc., that we could add to this list. But if you’re paying the slightest bit of attention, then you already know those narratives are false.

By contrast, the historical myths I just mentioned are still pushed by our schools and the corporate press to this day.

We should use the conviction of Karmelo Anthony — and the flood of lies that surrounded this case — as an opportunity to remind ourselves that much of our history, as it’s communicated to us in school, is simply fake. The lies are brazen because brazen lies — told with confidence — are the most effective.

The same people who tell you that Karmelo Anthony was a victim are the same people who are lying to you about the Civil Rights Movement, and the extensive damage it’s done to our country. We just released a two-part documentary on the topic on The Daily Wire. It could’ve been 500 parts.

After enduring the Karmelo Anthony trial — and all the lies we’ve been told — it’s now abundantly clear that these people are never going to stop lying. All we can do in response is to read as many primary sources as possible, tune out the hysteria and intimidation, and reclaim our history. 

They lie about our past so that they can repeat the same tactics over and over again. It’s the only move they have. And as Karmelo Anthony rots in prison, while Rick Chow and Daniel Penny and Kyle Rittenhouse go free, they must be realizing that their one move — namely, lying about everything — is finally losing its effectiveness. 

The truth is winning. All we have to do, which I’m going to devote the rest of my career to doing, is to continue telling the truth about our history. 

The more they howl — the more they threaten us, the more they attack us — the more we know they’re losing whatever power they once had. They are afraid and desperate. 

And especially after the Karmelo Anthony verdict, it’s never been more obvious that we will defeat them.