The verdict and sentencing in the much-anticipated trial of Karmelo Anthony were handed down today, and thankfully, justice prevailed despite the overwhelming public pressure for the exact opposite.

A cursory glance at social media showed that certain individuals were not happy with the outcome in the least. They had expected Anthony to get off scot-free for the brutal killing of Austin Metcalf. And why shouldn't they? Any look into what they are complaining about indicates that they know exactly nothing about the make-up of the jury or the events that transpired when Anthony stole Metcalf's life away. Others simply have issued threats to Whites because they hated the outcome.

Dear white ppl, don't let this verdict fool you. You'll still get fucked up playing them Austin games.

— Jichael Mackson🇺🇸 (@dareal88keyz) June 9, 2026

It’s time to raise hell. No more turning the other cheek. #karmeloanthony

— Jacy, LPC | the TRAUMA queen (@ATMwithJacy) June 9, 2026

George Zimmerman goes free, and Karmelo gets convicted. AmeriKKKa.

— Melech. (@MelechThomas) June 9, 2026

I’ve never seen somebody die from getting stabbed with a 3-inch knife. This is why I feel Austin Metcalf lunged at Karmelo and got himself killed; the application of force seems to be on him.

— Mike Baggz (@MikeBaggz) June 9, 2026

Karmelo will get out of prison. That boy ain’t getting out the grave.

— Booker G. Washington (@BookerGWash) June 9, 2026

Another Black person’s life ruined by the criminal justice system. This crooked society doesn’t know the first thing about justice.

— Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) June 9, 2026

The Karmelo Anthony verdict shows that the justice system has reverted back to the Jim Crow South era.

It is no longer about evidence.

It is no longer about right or wrong.

It is about keeping racial score through the prosecution and imprisonment of Black people.

It was no…

— Isaac Hayes III (@IsaacHayes3) June 9, 2026

Many assume that the jury was made up only of Whites. It wasn’t. Many assume that Metcalf had no right to demand that Anthony leave his track team’s tent. He did. Many assume that Metcalf simply killed himself by accident during the altercation, somehow concluding that the knife wielded by Anthony could not possibly have killed Metcalf otherwise. That one utterly defies logic, but the bar is rather low with some of these people.

We’ve seen this schtick before. How many people believe, even in the year of our Lord 2026, that Kyle Rittenhouse only shot minorities on the night of his 2020 Wisconsin shooting? We were inundated with the nonsensical “crossed state lines” mantra for months on end. People willfully ignored the violent attacks Rittenhouse was subjected to and portrayed him as a trigger-happy kid who was bent on murder. These claims, as with many from the Anthony trial, exist solely because the victim in each scenario is White. Those pushing the myths are giddy to admit it. The culture that we live in has empowered that type of thinking.

I’m a little too young and have a little too rural of a background (being 27 and from the middle-of-nowhere Kansas) to have fully experienced the Obama era in the way that many in politics today have. I will ask you, reader, to think about his presidency and what existed before it. Were race relations better or worse in America before he entered and subsequently left office? The answer to many will be obvious.

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Luckily, this sort of thinking can really only be found on the internet. I can count (definitely not on one hand) the number of times I’ve met people with such a radical line of thinking before. It’s not commonplace, but it is growing. Your children are being taught this in school and college. Take any sociology class and you’d be astounded at the garbage that gets shoved down your throat.

Good people and patriots are working hard to change that.