The Karmelo Anthony Problem

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The Karmelo Anthony Problem
A.J. Christopher
10–12 minutes

On April 2, 2025, Karmelo Anthony went to Memorial High School looking for a fight. Though he was participating in a track meet, he felt the need to bring a knife in his backpack. Once at the school, he sat in the tent of the opposing team. When confronted by Austin Metcalf, who told him to leave, Anthony reached into his backpack and said, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf then grabbed Anthony in an attempt to forcibly move him out of the tent. Anthony then used his knife to stab Metcalf in the heart, killing him almost instantly.

Touch me and see what happens. This is the ethos for which Anthony was willing to murder an innocent boy.

On paper, Anthony sounded as if he were a model citizen with a bright future. Coming from a stable, two-parent household, he was the captain of his own school’s track and football teams. He worked two part-time jobs and was a straight A student. At the time of his crime, he was a month away from graduation, and was planning on going to college. Until the moment he plunged his knife into Metcalf’s chest, he had never had any incidents with law enforcement.

What are we to make of this? How are we supposed to understand how someone as seemingly normal as Karmelo Anthony was willing, in a manner of seconds, to destroy the lives of others, not to mention his own life, over such a petty argument?

Touch me and see what happens. Anthony didn’t develop this ethos on his own. There is a sickness in black subculture in contemporary America, and the sickness is this: Too many young black males are immersed in a socio-racial ideology that glorifies violence, preaches that only the meanest dog on the block wins, and dictates that any perceived threat from anyone who “steps up to me” must be countered with a wildly disproportionate, overwhelming response.

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[Cyber Liberty]

As the Author says, this is a black problem, and only black people can solve it.  No amount of reparations or midnight basketball will help, because these are all external to the problem.  The problem I see is nobody is stepping forward....

[Smokin Joe]

As the Author says, this is a black problem, and only black people can solve it.  No amount of reparations or midnight basketball will help, because these are all external to the problem.  The problem I see is nobody is stepping forward....

[DCPatriot]

As the Author says, this is a black problem, and only black people can solve it.  No amount of reparations or midnight basketball will help, because these are all external to the problem.  The problem I see is nobody is stepping forward....

Sadly it's much too late for that.



 

[Luis Gonzalez]

As the Author says, this is a black problem, and only black people can solve it.  No amount of reparations or midnight basketball will help, because these are all external to the problem.  The problem I see is nobody is stepping forward....

Actually, this is simply shining a light on a very obvious, very serious problem we have in the US.

Young, black America, and black s in America in general, are decivilizing (my word), and resorting to violence when they’re unable to shout others into subservience.

A larger problem looms just over the horizon.

[DCPatriot]

Actually, this is simply shining a light on a very obvious, very serious problem we have in the US.

Young, black America, and black s in America in general, are decivilizing (my word), and resorting to violence when they’re unable to shout others into subservience.

A larger problem looms just over the horizon.

Amen!  Avoid direct eye contact with this aggressive species.

In fact, stay the hell in your home Dusk to Dawn.

And bar the windows and doors...lotsa RING cameras.

[Cyber Liberty]

Amen! Avoid direct eye contact with this aggressive species.

In fact, stay the hell in your home Dusk to Dawn.

And bar the windows and doors...lotsa RING cameras.

That's the problem.  With the mass transit in the bigger cities, and the ability to coordinate activities by cell phone apps like Signal, avoidance is becoming more difficult because mass chimp-outs are happening in neighborhoods near you and me!  The likelihood of seeing this shit going down is through the roof.

[Hoodat]

As the Author says, this is a black problem, and only black people can solve it.  No amount of reparations or midnight basketball will help, because these are all external to the problem.  The problem I see is nobody is stepping forward....

This isn't a black problem.  It's a liberal problem.  Liberals have destroyed the black family.  They are the ones who have driven the father off, rewarded babies out of wedlock, destroyed the education system, and have replaced basic values with an envy and victimhood mentality.

[Luis Gonzalez]

This isn't a black problem.  It's a liberal problem.  Liberals have destroyed the black family.  They are the ones who have driven the father off, rewarded babies out of wedlock, destroyed the education system, and have replaced basic values with an envy and victimhood mentality.

How is what you posted relieve blacks of owning their own actions?

Why do we keep relieving them of the responsibilities for their own actions, with a narrative that blames anything and everything b but the people breaking the windows and beating on others?

How do I get that treatment?

Hey. Live is tough. Get over it.

While you’re at it, learn that in THIS society, we don’t get to kill others because they touched us.

[Fishrrman]

DC writes:
"Sadly it's much too late for that"

The black "family" pretty much fell apart in the late 1960's, and has never recovered. Three or four generations of blacks have grown up with no concept of what being from and in a traditional family is. For many, it's a totally alien concept.

At this point, there may be no "going back" for them.
The welfare system prevents it.
The black culture won't promote it...
...Perhaps even denies and denigrates it as "acting white".

I dont see any "solutions" here.
Just a festering problem that is likely to grow even worse.

[Hoodat]

How is what you posted relieve blacks of owning their own actions?

It doesn't.

Why do we keep relieving them of the responsibilities for their own actions, with a narrative that blames anything and everything b but the people breaking the windows and beating on others?

Because we let liberals define that narrative while they absolve themselves of any responsibility.

How do I get that treatment?

Become a liberal while continuing to allow liberals to define society.

Hey. Live is tough. Get over it.

I'm not complaining about how tough life is.

While you’re at it, learn that in THIS society, we don’t get to kill others because they touched us.

No shit.

[DCPatriot]

DC writes:
"Sadly it's much too late for that"

The black "family" pretty much fell apart in the late 1960's, and has never recovered. Three or four generations of blacks have grown up with no concept of what being from and in a traditional family is. For many, it's a totally alien concept.

At this point, there may be no "going back" for them.
The welfare system prevents it.
The black culture won't promote it...
...Perhaps even denies and denigrates it as "acting white".

I dont see any "solutions" here.
Just a festering problem that is likely to grow even worse.

@Fishrrman

You're forgetting the video shorts on social media drawing millions of views of crazy Black people losing their sh*t any perceived slight or inconvenience.  Stealing merchandise in packs...

That and Hip-Hop Culture

It's past time for every law abiding citizen to be carrying...if you want to put a stop to this.

[Cyber Liberty]

It doesn't.


Because we let liberals define that narrative while they absolve themselves of any responsibility.


Become a liberal while continuing to allow liberals to define society.


I'm not complaining about how tough life is.


No shit.

That just confirms to me that the only answer is for blacks to fix it for themselves. If they choose not to, FOR WHATEVER REASON, there will be a race war, which they will lose big time, in sufficient numbers their relative population will be greatly reduced. 

[Hoodat]

That just confirms to me that the only answer is for blacks to fix it for themselves. If they choose not to, FOR WHATEVER REASON, there will be a race war, which they will lose big time, in sufficient numbers their relative population will be greatly reduced.

It will be a much easily managed task for them if our government stopped rewarding irresponsibility, bad choices, unemployment, and births out of wedlock, and started improving education and increasing accountability.

Everything started falling apart after Johnson took office.

[Cyber Liberty]

It will be a much easily managed task for them if our government stopped rewarding irresponsibility, bad choices, unemployment, and births out of wedlock, and started improving education and increasing accountability.

Everything started falling apart after Johnson took office.

It doesn't matter what our "Government" does. This involves what people do in their heart.  I don't see it happening. If you live in the city, arm yourselves, because it's coming to a neighborhood near you.  Many of us have already bugged out to the country!

[mountaineer]

A black woman reacts.

Sensurround
@ShamashAran

I'm ANGRY.
I have spent most of my life under the apparently mistaken impression that the civil rights movement was about convincing people to stop treating me differently because I am black.  This now appears to be an unfashionable position.

The modern trend seems to be convincing everyone to become extremely aware of race at all times, preferably while yelling.  I realized this while watching the reaction to the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Not the verdict itself, but the reaction.

The verdict was a court proceeding.  The reaction was what would happen if you fed twelve gallons of aviation fuel to a leaf blower and pointed it directly at the nation's remaining supply of racial goodwill.

Almost immediately, the internet filled with declarations that the jury was "all white."  This was an interesting development because it wasn't.  This presents a challenge for the narrative engineers.  In previous eras, a fact that contradicted your argument was considered a problem.  Today it appears to be considered a minor administrative inconvenience.  The jury contained a Muslim woman, several Asians, and a Hispanic man.  But apparently "They were all white."  I assume this was determined using advanced academic mathematics I am not qualified to understand.

This same mathematics allows people to explain that race is a social construct right up until they need it to win an argument.  Then it becomes a rigidly defined biological category again.  (Science is amazing, isn't it?)

Then came the claims that Austin and his friends had ganged up on Karmelo.  This was also fascinating because that didn't emerge during testimony.  No matter.  We live in a golden age of flexible facts.  See, if the old facts stop producing the desired amount of outrage, new facts can be harvested from the internet and brought directly to your home.

And then things got genuinely scary.  One prominent personality announced:  "You don't want to bleep with black people, because we might bleep kill you."

Now, I would like to pause here.  Because I am black.  And this was extremely useful information for me.  I had somehow reached adulthood without realizing I was supposed to be threatening people.  This wasn't in the handbook of "racial behaviors" I was issued at birth.  I was under the impression that my responsibilities consisted primarily of paying taxes, worrying about my blood pressure, and trying to remember where I put my car keys.  Apparently I have instead been participating in a campaign of racial intimidation without even knowing it.

This explains why I keep losing my "Black membership" card.  The thing that scares me is not that people say this nonsense.  America has always produced loud idiots, as it's one of our great exports.
What scares me is how many people cheer.

How many people hear a statement that sounds suspiciously like a threat and decide it is wisdom.  How many people hear racial tribalism and mistake it for racial solidarity.  Because here's the ugly truth.  Every time one of these people opens their mouth, somebody who has never met me learns something about me.  (Or thinks they do.)

They learn that black people believe violence is justified.  They learn that black people reject evidence.  They learn that black people only care about race.  They learn that black people view justice as a team sport.

Now, I get to spend my twilight years proving I am not the person they just described.  That is what makes me angry.
Not offended.  Not annoyed.  Angry.

See, the Americans in my generation (Gen X and before) worked themselves half to death trying to convince the country that we are individuals.

Individuals with different opinions.  Different politics.  Different dreams.  Different flaws.  But still, regular people.  Now a collection of professional race hustlers seems determined to undo all of that so they can collect engagement on social media.

The entire enterprise feels like a man setting fire to his own house because he enjoys being interviewed by the local news.  The worst part is that they think they are helping.  They genuinely seem to believe that making every issue about race will somehow help.  I don't understand this.  This is like believing that pouring bourbon into a lawnmower will improve fuel efficiency.

The theory sounds questionable from the start.  The results are even worse.

I don't want people to fear me.  I don't want people to excuse me.  I don't want people to hate me.  I don't want people to admire me because of my race. I want the same thing I have always wanted.  I want people to look at me and see a person. Not a demographic.  Not a historical grievance.  Not a political weapon.  Not a member of a tribe. Just a person.

Every bleep time some loudmouth gets online and starts screaming "racial identity matters" more than evidence, more than character, more than truth itself, I find myself wondering how many more bridges they're planning to burn before they run out of matches.

Judging by the reaction online, the answer appears to be:
Quite a few.

10:22 PM · Jun 11, 2026

https://x.com/ShamashAran/status/2065258483587367278

[Hoodat]

It doesn't matter what our "Government" does. This involves what people do in their heart.  I don't see it happening. If you live in the city, arm yourselves, because it's coming to a neighborhood near you.  Many of us have already bugged out to the country!

I understand your cynicism.  I'm just sick and tired of seeing our money going towards stacking the deck.

[Polly Ticks]

A black woman reacts.

An excellent post.

"I don't want people to fear me.  I don't want people to excuse me.  I don't want people to hate me.  I don't want people to admire me because of my race. I want the same thing I have always wanted.  I want people to look at me and see a person. Not a demographic.  Not a historical grievance.  Not a political weapon.  Not a member of a tribe. Just a person." => This used to be what most people said they wanted. Now, you're a racist if you say you want to be color-blind.  It's exhausting.

[Cyber Liberty]

An excellent post.

"I don't want people to fear me.  I don't want people to excuse me.  I don't want people to hate me.  I don't want people to admire me because of my race. I want the same thing I have always wanted.  I want people to look at me and see a person. Not a demographic.  Not a historical grievance.  Not a political weapon.  Not a member of a tribe. Just a person." => This used to be what most people said they wanted. Now, you're a racist if you say you want to be color-blind.  It's exhausting.

"We don't have a Race Problem,  we have a Problem Race."  More true every day.

[Kamaji]

A black woman reacts.https://x.com/ShamashAran/status/2065258483587367278

That was an awesome response.

[Wingnut]

"We don't have a Race Problem,  we have a Problem Race."  More true every day.

So true.  It summer in the city down here.  I saw several families of black vacationers out at our Wallyworld just doing what black folk do.  Come in the out door. Clog the isles and talk loud like in a movie and wont move aside. You know, the common courtesy we were taught growing up. I saw carts full of the marked down cooked rotisserie chicken, Ribs, and Miller beer.   The only thing they didn't accost was the 14 bins of watermelons lining the produce area...  Which I found funny because every white person had a ripe melon in their cart and a shit ton of fireworks.  The brothers must shoot bullets to celebrate the 4th.!

The fatigue is real.  I carry a knife like kamellow when outside of the car now.  A little bigger than the one he used to kill young Mr. Metcalf.  If you ever saw Dirty Harry, my plan is to do what Harry did to Scorpio's thigh if the time/situation warrants..