As the journalist who reported on this case and paid a high price for it, I’ll tell you that Karmelo did not just k*ll an unarmed white kid.
The family started a GiveSendGo, raising over half a million dollars. They did not even pay for bail; a friend of the advocates did. Their advocate threatened the school that he would hold public protests if they did not give Karmelo his diploma, and the school buckled. Karmelo was able to be at home on house arrest and is able to go to the barber and the library. He has been able to spend the holidays with his family, while the family he destroyed has spent the holidays mourning their son. The victim's parents have both been threatened, doxxed, and swatted.
Both the Anthonys and their advocates have lied and targeted me and my family. I have been doxxed. My husband has been doxxed. I have been swatted. I have been targeted with CPS. My children’s lives have been threatened to the point that one Anthony supporter said that he was going to sl*t my child’s throat.
A man who had to be investigated by the FBI and CID is currently sitting in my county jail because he was counting down the days until I gave birth to my child so that he could “end me.” This man was a social media friend of the advocate for the Anthony family.
All because I dared to thoroughly report on a black 17-year-old who stabbed a white 17-year-old at a track meet.
No one knows this case better than me. And I know just how dark and evil these people truly are.
And yes, I am FULLY fatigued.
USA. A diner. The waitress asked me how I want my eggs, and my mind went completely blank.
"How do you want your eggs, hon?"
Want. How do I WANT them. No one has ever asked me this. In my land, the egg arrives as the cook decrees, and you thank the egg, the cook, and your ancestors, in that order.
"Scrambled? Over easy? Sunny side up?" she offered, gently, the way one talks a man down from a roof.
The terms did not help. Over easy — over WHAT, easily? Easy for whom? Sunny side up — these people have named an egg after the dawn. Who does that. I needed time.
I have chosen battlefields faster than I chose those eggs.
She refilled my coffee and said she'd come back. It was the second refill. I had been deciding for nine minutes.
The man on the next stool leaned over. "Just say over easy, man. You can't go wrong."
"And if I CAN go wrong?"
"...it's eggs, buddy."
It's eggs. Eight hundred years of my family training itself to want nothing, and this man dismissed all of it with a fork in his hand. He was right. I will never tell him.
"Sunny side up," I declared, with the weight of a man choosing a path for life. "I will face the sun."
"You got it, hon."
The eggs came. Two small suns on a white plate, looking up at me. Golden. Ridiculous. Exactly what I wanted.
So THAT is what wanting feels like. I had to cross an ocean and hold up a breakfast line to learn it.
The man on the next stool got his check and left. "Good choice," he said.
I have never been more proud of anything.
A man does not ask the eggs to be simple. He only becomes a man who knows what he wants.
Tomorrow: over easy. I am almost ready.
I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!
We got a box here from The Queen City!!
It's the Charlotte 49ers and they sent us some AWESOME swag! Some great players and people went to Charlotte... get a ticket!!
Thank you Coach Albin and @CharlotteFTBL for this great box, good luck this upcoming season!
Southampton NY isn’t the easiest place to get to so I might as well get this started early!
Ticket giveaway for the US open!
Bonus points if you take a kid
(12 and under are free)
My husband @mattvanswol posts daily about the violence in North Carolina: teen takeovers, violent crimes disproportionately involving young Black and Hispanic men.
And I’ll be honest, every time I see them pop up, it makes me VERY UNCOMFORTABLE.
As a historian, you frequently discuss race, but exclusively through the lens of oppression, victimhood, or power imbalances.
I now know that this approach can distort historical conclusions by ignoring how geography, institutions, and cultural pressures shape outcomes far more than oppression alone.
This uncomfortable feeling is my indoctrination at work and something I believe we ALL need to start pushing against.
Not out of hatred towards any group, but out of an ethical responsibility to the truth, and with love.
Matt is posting facts, not opinions.
Ignoring facts creates a bigger problem.
Look at the CNN article cover. It doesn’t mention race demographics and doesn’t show a picture of the teen takeover.
The man who murdered Iryna Zirutzka was a black man who allegedly yelled ‘I got that white girl.’ A fact that was widely ignored by Legacy media. CNN called him “a Charlotte man” and doesn’t show his face.
In Europe, reports of grooming gangs or rapes often scrub the perpetrators’ Middle Eastern or Muslim backgrounds to avoid ‘racism.’
Illegal immigrants, murdering young women are portrayed as something other than their race or migration status. They ignore the facts at best and victimize the criminals at worst.
When you convince generations they are permanent victims, deserving simply from their skin color… effort declines. Ambition atrophies. And bad people take advantage.
We can’t keep pretending these patterns don’t exist because discomfort feels safer than truth.
Historians know better: ignoring an uncomfortable truth doesn’t protect the vulnerable,
it MAKES them more vulnerable.
We need to start owning uncomfortable truths, so we can shine light on the darkness.
The American Black community is being hurt by this social contagion and many black conservatives are calling it out.
DEI doesn’t build excellence; it lowers standards and undermines real examples of excellence.
What we need to prioritize? Merit, strong families, personal responsibility, CHURCH and cultural boundaries that say: violence is unacceptable, no matter who commits it.
Every child - Black, White, Hispanic deserves to feel safe and the only way we get back there is this:
1. Report the TRUTH.
2. Value FACTS over feelings.
3. Reward MERIT over minority status.
4. Demand ACCOUNTABILITY over excuses.
I want every community to thrive.
We can begin to heal when we stop weaponizing ‘racism’ against reality and start judging individuals by character and conduct alone.
True EQUALITY should be our goal.