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Karmelo Anthony And America's Race Problem

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by Portfolio Armor
Friday, Apr 18, 2025 - 22:32
Karmelo Anthony (left, obviously), and the teen he killed, Austin Metcalf.
Karmelo Anthony (left, obviously), and the teen he killed, Austin Metcalf. 

Karmelo Anthony And America's Race Problem 

The social scientist Charles Murray wrote a book a few years ago called Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race In America

The charges of systemic racism and White privilege that are tearing the country apart float free of reality. Two known truths, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be acknowledged and incorporated into the ways we approach public policy: American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians have different rates of violent crime and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. These two truths drive the problems in policing, education, and the workplace that are now ascribed to systemic racism. Facing Reality lays out the evidence clinically and in detail, without apologies or animus.

Murray mentioned four major races there, but America's racial problem chiefly relates to blacks. Blacks have the highest violent crime rate, by far (about 10x the white rate), and they are also, on average, the least intelligent. There are of course brilliant and law-abiding blacks, and dumb and violent whites, but decades of objective data don't lie. You are more likely to be killed by someone who looks like Karmelo Anthony than someone who looks like the young man he killed, Austin Metcalf. And you're statistically safer having an air traffic controller or surgeon who looks more like Metcalf than Anthony. 

An Aggravating Element In America's Race Problem 

Murray was right as far as it goes in that paragraph, but there's another element that's perhaps even more politically incorrect to mention here. In addition to being, on average, more prone to violent crime and less intelligent, African Americans often exhibit egregious levels of antisocial behavior, particularly toward whites. Again, there are of course wonderfully pleasant blacks and unpleasant whites, but the aftermath of Karmelo Anthony's killing of Austin Metcalf has exposed this tendency. 

Austin Metcalf's father immediately forgave his son's killer, in what some have called a mockery of full Christian forgiveness (since Karmelo Anthony hadn't expressed any remorse or asked for forgiveness). The response by Karmelo Anthony's family and supporters has been quite a contrast. They verbally attacked Metcalf's father, and apparently even attempted to SWAT him. 

The Anthony family has used funds ostensibly raised for their son's legal defense to enrich themselves, in a new twist on the "ghetto lottery",

And otherwise acted in stereotypically negative fashion.

Their donors have similarly distinguished themselves.

Why This Antisocial Behavior Has Seemingly Gotten Worse

Maybe, because no one famous or powerful has criticized it in almost thirty years. We had a black President for eight of those years, and his tendency was to rhetorically identify with black criminals who were killed in the commission of a crime. Possibly, the last famous American who spoke out about black antisocial behavior was the comedian Chris Rock.

Rock has become more ethnocentric as he has gotten older, and strayed from his youthful truth-telling, but what he did in his still timely 1996 HBO special "Bring The Pain" was remarkable.*

Rock cleverly split African Americans into two groups, and assigned all the antisocial behavior to the second one. At the same time, he mocked black attempts to blame negative stereotypes about them on the media ("When I go to the money machine tonight, alright, I ain't looking over my back for the media..."). You can watch the full special below. In the first part, he builds rapport with his mostly-black audience. He starts dropping bombs on them at about the 30-minute mark. 

*The one untimely bit in this special was where Rock joked about how there aren't many blacks in Minnesota. 

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Saturday Afternoon Update

Apparently, there was a rally in support of Karmelo Anthony today. Haven't seen reports about how many came out for it. 

 

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