The SNL sketch that got Damon Wayans fired mid-season was this "Mr. Monopoly" sketch where Wayans decided before the show went live to play his cop character as flamboyantly gay.
Wayans later said that Eddie Murphy previously warned him he better come up with his own sketch ideas or the other writers were going to write him as stereotypical black characters. "Everything Eddie said came true." As for why Wayans chose this particular moment to rebel, he said, "I snapped. I just did not care. I purposefully did that because I wanted [Lorne Michaels] to fire me," which host Griffin Dunne said he saw occur literally right after they all walked off stage.
There's a lot of lessons to be learned from the Karmelo Anthony case, especially for our children.... But one I hope doesn't go overlooked is WATCH WHO YOU CALL YOUR FRIENDS!!!! Karmelo was called to that tent by someone he THOUGHT was his friend. Defense attorney showed multiple pictures of them together... But he came to testify AGAINST KARMELO. He "allegedly" recorded the whole thing. But then said he was only "pretending to record* and when he was showing his phone to everyone for them to see "He was only showing Karmelo ig page" be fucking fr. This young man you think is your friend, you've been around kicking it multiple times, call you to come sit with him. He's first laughing at you when you're getting bullied. He pulls out his phone to record you getting bullied. Then when you protect yourself AND HE HAS THE EVIDENCE THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE he deletes it and then testify against you. Because the bullies are more popular and goes to the same school..... Please be careful who you call your friends YOUR LIFE COULD LITERALLY DEPEND ON IT!!!
If Karmelo didn’t defend himself and somehow was killed by these twins; the narrative would have been “they were threatened by the mere presence of Karmelo”
Same state. Different justice.
2023: Alec Adamson (Prosper, TX) shoots & kills a Black student, leads police on car chase + foot pursuit.
Sentence: 4 years. Served: 2.
2025: Karmelo (Frisco, TX) gets jumped by white students, defends himself with a knife.
Sentence: 35 years.
Tell me this isn’t two-tiered justice.
Karmelo Anthony, whom comes from a 2 parent, affluent home, 5’9, 130 lbs, at the time, was approached by twin brothers, over 6’0 & 200+lbs, raising by a single mother, &father w/ a criminal record. Metcalf brothers, history/toxicology never revealed.
The facts from court:
🔹 Karmelo has epilepsy (the CONTINUED assault could have triggered a fatal seizure).
🔹 The massive Metcalf brothers were towering over him.
🔹 Karmelo was SEATED the entire time.
How can you be the "aggressor" while remaining seated, when YOUR life is on the line? This is 100% self-defense.