Let me be clear about what just happened in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Because the celebration is traveling and the discrepancies aren't.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years.
FACT: The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours.
FACT: There were zero Black jurors on this jury.
FACT: The prosecution used peremptory strikes to remove 100% of eligible Black jurors while keeping a white educator after claiming they didn't want educators on the jury.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony never stood up. The confrontation happened while he was seated. Austin Metcalf was standing over him.
FACT: The jury had the option to choose manslaughter. They chose murder.
FACT: The "sudden passion" defense which would have capped the sentence at 2 to 20 years was rejected.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony's mother was the only witness called during the punishment phase. She asked for mercy. The prosecutor responded: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
FACT: Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence, roughly 17.5 years. He is 19 years old.
Now ask yourself, if the races and sizes were reversed, if Karmelo was 6'1" standing over a seated smaller white teenager who reached up with a knife, does this even go to trial?
You already know the answer.
Say his name. Karmelo Anthony.
Stay Dangerous.
The data on convictions of black men to all white juries is clear as day and has been for decades. I wrote a whole paper on it in 2012. Should never be allowed
Friendly reminder that on November 23rd, 2024, Jaxson Dart threw an interception vs Florida to seal the game, cried about it on the sideline, had the play overturned, then came back on the field with tears in his eyes to throw another one and cried some more
Bro to Bro : when you go out with your friends, take pictures together, take pictures of you eating & drinking. One day those memories will be the only thing you’ll have left. Life is short , enjoy your life without internet restrictions
This is exactly why I have zero tolerance for racism. That mindset still exists today…racist white people feeling entitled to question, control, and insert themselves into spaces that aren’t theirs. It comes from a belief that they’re somehow superior and that others are beneath them. At the root of it…it’s the same harmful thinking that refuses to fully see Black people as equal human beings!!
An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met
Indeed, imagine if Iran blew up a bridge in California, Paris, London — just one bridge, and the world would rightly erupt.
Yet in the Middle East, it’s bridge after bridge, hospital after hospital, school after school — bombed, erased, normalized and celebrated. Who will hold the powerful accountable?
White men are 98% of Presidents, 98% of US senators, 94% of the Supreme Court, 90% of the House of Representatives, 90% of CEO’s while making up only 30% of the population…
YOUR OPPRESSION IS NONEXISTENT.