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.
That's why you need Black people on the jury. When this jury heard a Karmelo Anthony cry out, they heard nothing. That's not an accident. That's why representation in that jury box matters.
Judge Joe Brown is up here talking like it’s the 1940s, telling Black people to “knuckle up” and calling Karmelo Anthony dishonorable for not fighting straight up against a bigger, stronger Austin Metcalf.
Stop it.
We all know if Joe got into a fistfight today and lost, he’d be in court the next morning suing everybody!
That “fight fair” era is long gone. It was fading in the 80s. You’re 30–40 years late.
Joe, check your inbox. There’s a memo waiting titled: times have changed.
Ask any of the many white men who picked up a weapon instead of throwing hands.
Telling Black people to fight fair in a world that clearly doesn’t is not wisdom, it’s bad advice.
Now is not the time for you and Jemele Hill to lecture Black Boys.
Save some of that energy for White Boys calling us racial slurs and putting their hands on us.
Those days are over.
Tim Black
I usually don’t give people like DeVory Darkins extra shine, but what he did deserves to be seen.
He took footage of 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony; a 4.0 student breaking down in a tent and LAUGHED at it. Scoffed. For content.
For his anti-Black base.
Karmelo is not Columbine.
Not Sandy Hook.
Not the Tops supermarket shooter.
Not the Emanuel Church gunman.
He is a teenager who defended himself. Period. I stand on that.
But DeVory?
He stood on Daniel Penny.
Said nothing about Jordan Neely.
And now he’s mocking a grieving Black child.
That’s not conservatism.
That’s anti-Blackness with a platform.
Watch this clip and share it everywhere. This is who he is.
#DeVoryDarkins #KarmeloAnthony #TheTimBlackShow #TimBlackTV
@randomcouch1 Because the judge ruled against the Defense motion of a “Batson Challenge” resulting in the dismissal of 3 qualified, unbiased Black Jurors.
Go away Troll.
A 17-year-old asked the officer if the other kid was going to be okay. Three hours later the jury called him a murderer. Why did they refuse to listen to what they heard?
Brandon Tatum says he's not Black first. The Black delegation has reviewed this. We are motivated sellers. We will trade Brandon Tatum to white America. We are throwing in $100 and a Krispy Kreme coupon to sweeten the deal. Take him.
Charlie Kirk hired Brandon Tatum because of his Black skin — to give a mostly anti-Black organization cover. Now Brandon says race isn't real. You spent a decade cashing checks from your Blackness. Tim Black has notes.
I’ve got serious issues with Brandon Tatum.
But let’s be real:
As flawed as “American before Black” sounds, it’s still more grounded than being “Democrat first.”
Because at least one is about country.
The other is about loyalty to a party that hasn’t delivered shit.
Let’s stop pretending.
The Democratic Party is not a “Black first” party.
It’s a “secure the Black vote, then move on” party.
Every election cycle:
Promises go up.
Black turnout shows up.
Results dry up.
Take policing reform.
After George Floyd, Democrats had full control and a national mandate.
Where is the federal police reform bill?
Exactly.
A Black Anti-Hate Crime Bill?
Crickets.
And still, we’re told to stay loyal.
Why?
What exactly are you loyal to?
Because if a party can count on your vote no matter what, they don’t have to earn it.
And that’s exactly what’s been happening.
B1