There is something rich about Karmelo Anthony describing himself in his court filing as a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal,” after his parents squandered the crowdfunded defense fund of $625,000 on meals at Cheesecake Factory, luxury handbags, and a new home in a gated community, presumably needed to foil attempts by relatives to sponge off them.

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If the Anthony clan is representative of the intact black family that conservatives like Ben Shapiro are always clamoring for, then we should rethink that proposition. The elder Anthony instilled in his son arrogance, machismo, and a sense of victimhood, a deadly cocktail that no sane father would want to foster. Both parents show a disturbing lack of remorse for the actions of their little pit bull.

If the family’s crowdfunding success is any measure of wider black support, then we should also ponder what the civil rights movement has wrought. In the six decades since MLK’s, “I have a dream” speech, white parents must still caution their children about upsetting their black classmates in any fashion, lest they end up with a penknife in their chest.

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If Democrat U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett’s defense of Anthony is any measure of tribalism in this country, then “Houston, we have a problem.” Whereas liberal white women scold white men for being toxically masculine, black women, like Crockett, are big cheerleaders of black men’s hyper-aggression.

I witnessed a display of it in college, when several black male students cut in line at the cafeteria. When a white student objected to their arrogant actions, black female students came up behind him and hit him over the head with a tray. They, like Crockett, are in full support of their black brothers, even if it means they stick a knife in a white boy’s chest from time to time.

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By a miracle of God or aided by the fact that there were no black jurors, the jury trying Anthony did not shirk its responsibility, and removed him from society for the next 35 years (his first chance at parole is at 17.5 years). That is a good thing because you cannot convince me that he won’t pull that stunt again. By the time he is released at age 50 if he serves his full sentence, most of the fight should be out of him.

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