The Democrat Party could really use some racial unrest right about now, and they’re likely to get it courtesy of the Karmelo Anthony trial currently taking place in McKinney, Texas…Equally newsworthy has been the circus taking place outside the courthouse. Supporters of both sides have tussled as they await the outcome, but the uncivilized antics and incendiary rhetoric coming from the Karmelo Anthony side are jaw-dropping (if not completely predictable)…This is just a mere taste of what’s to come. The kindling is being set by Anthony’s supporters, and the trial’s outcome will be the flame. And that’s because, despite the outcome, the race baiters have a ready-made excuse at hand to light cities on fire – and Democrats will be holding the flamethrower.,,,Another young black man has been unfairly punished by the judicial system! Let’s riot….And the Democrat Party is rubbing its hands with glee. They love nothing more than summers of riots, and this setup is just too perfect. While they twist themselves into rhetorical knots trying to defend a Nazi….[the] Karmelo Anthony trial is the answer to their sinister prayers and their Graham Platner-sized problem. American cities being looted and burned is the very distraction they need. Even better, the teen takeovers that have been blighting urban areas in recent months – something Democrat mayors won’t address because the chaos is the point – dovetail nicely with the brewing unrest. These kids have a long, hot summer stretching before them and nothing better to do.”
The piece is not the first to make this attempt at self-fulfilling prophesy, and it is reckless and irresponsible. I have constantly been shocked at how low the Axis will stoop, but this dog won’t hunt, as the saying goes, or better not for everyone’s sake. The George Floyd riots were based on presumed racism and inflammatory reporting, but a black man did die under a white cop’s knee, and he did utter the magic words “I can’t breathe,” at least giving the BLM hucksters something to go on, as in “riot all over the country by contriving a metaphor over an incident that had nothing to do with racism.” The Mike Brown rioting in Ferguson was based on lies to police by his companion and Axis journalists (good job, CNN!) repeating damning words—and catchy!— that Brown never said: “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
I don’t understand why Anthony didn’t plead guilty. That his lawyers didn’t talk him into doing so seems like flagrant malpractice to me. I thought it was foolish and risky for the prosecution not to put at least one black juror in the jury box, but the facts of the case were apparently so overwhelming that it will be hard to argue that racial bias played any part in the conviction.
I also don’t understand why anyone gathers outside courthouses in these trials so opposing racial fan clubs can shout at each other. Don’t these people have sock drawers? They can’t affect the verdicts, they can’t offer real support. They are gatherings of silly, emotion-driven boobs who have no lives, even in the cases where there are real questions about the defendant’s guilt—O.J., Michael Jackson, the Rodney King cops, George Zimmerman.
But black leaders and progressives just can’t be dumb enough to go into protest mode based on this case, can they? Even BLM, which has fallen on hard times since everyone figured out that the group is a racist, cynical grift, couldn’t be so desperate that it will try to make Anthony a martyr, could it?
To me, the significance of essays like the Red State piece is that they prove how low the credibility and legitimacy of the Left’s grievance machine has fallen, and how devoid of standards and values the recent conduct from the port side has been. Certainly the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder, the pro-illegal immigrant hysteria, and the ongoing Graham Platner farce explain that phenomenon.
Democrats can’t be dumb enough to try to make a martyr out of Karmelo Anthony. They just can’t.
Right?
Ethics Alarms 
I saw a video today of a woman outside the courthouse (I think, because the video framing sucked). She was black and yelling at a white guy that she is scared and confused now because she has four sons and doesn’t know what to tell them now. She doesn’t know how to protect them now. It is now too dangerous for those black boys to be. A comment on the video by a conservative black man said something like, “Well ma’am, perhaps you should merely teach them to not carry knives to places where they are prohibited, like track meets.”
I say this not to disagree with anything you have said. I want so much for this to not be an issue. That woman’s statement should mean nothing, since we all know that the way IQ is calculated means that half of the people out there have under 100 on the scale. However, I have seen a few videos posted of people getting cranky about this verdict because “it shows that there is no justice for a black kid who is just defending himself.”
I hope sanity prevails and we see no major issues with this verdict. I have to soon travel to a Democratic run city here soon on important business and don’t want to be caught up in any insanity from this. However, I am not holding my breath that good sense and reality will prevail.
“A comment on the video by a conservative black man said something like, ‘Well ma’am, perhaps you should merely teach them to not carry knives to places where they are prohibited, like track meets.’ “
Priceless!
PWS
“Democrats can’t be dumb enough to try to make a martyr out of Karmelo Anthony. They just can’t. Right?“
I am just curious what our host is willing to bet on this; the last word of the post indicates some doubt. I am afraid that Red State may have a point here, and I hope they are wrong.
I do not like the scenes outside the courthouse. A group of black people who believe the entire case is about race, and are cheering on Karmelo Anthony. One of the protesters is on video shouting “The only good cracker is a dead cracker”. Not that I am surprised by this, given that the GiveSendGo campaign for Karmelo’s defense was motivated by the desire to fight white supremacy. For Karmelo and his family, and for the donors to this fund the issue has always about race since the arrest, and not about justice (murder or self-defense).
I also do not like the counter protesters, with their “White Lives Matters” banners, American flag T-shirts, and some of them waving confederate flags. This is like waving a red cape in front of a bull, needlessly provocative. Why would anybody not just simply follow the court proceedings on television from home, and hope and trust that the jury reaches a just verdict?
About not having an African American on the jury, this is not evidence of jury rigging in disfavor of Karmelo by the prosecution. The county in which the trial took place has a 12% black population. The likelihood of a jury without any African American by random selection is 20%; this means that there was no significant bias against African Americans during jury selection. Statistics often uses a likelihood of below five percent as significant. One of the black juror prospects demonstrated bias during jury selection by stating that he “would have a hard time convicting a brother”, and had to be stricken for reason. The jury was not all white as there were four minority members on the jury, just not black. I do not blame the prosecution for trying to prevent racially biased jurors reaching an OJ Simpson style verdict based on racial considerations.
The trial proceedings did not show racial bias. Many of the witnesses against Karmelo Anthony were black. Austin Metcalf’s coach is black.
If the defense attorney is worth his salt and salary (which he has not proven during this trial) the best thing he can do is appeal the verdict based on the jury selection process. We will see how much merit it has. The speed and clarity of the verdict will be a big hurdle for the defense to get an appeal.
Sadly enough this society has enough low IQ people who will milk their grievance till the bitter end and will be willing to burn this society like in 2020. To them I would say “bring it on and make my day” and see how this works out in the mid-terms. They will find that accusations of racism have lost the power to shame and manipulate people, and now only contribute to the phenomenon of “black fatigue”.