Karmelo Anthony’s Race Doesn’t Matter
There is no reason to make an open-and-shut murder case into a race-based morality play.

The Karmelo Anthony case in Texas is bringing out the worst of the racebaiting perpetual victims who try to continuously divide society with their racist worldviews. Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. Anthony was under the tent of another high school as it rained, […]
There is no reason to make an open-and-shut murder case into a race-based morality play.
The case has garnered national attention entirely for its racial angle.
The citizens charged with adjudicating this case took that task seriously and called Anthony’s crime what it was: murder.
There’s a popular saying: There are two Americas. This phrase was vindicated on Tuesday after Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf. For one America, the sane America, this was the obvious verdict. For the other America, the racist America, Anthony should have been acquitted and seen as the victim because he’s black. The […]
Sen. Tim Kaine says he has a "hard time understanding" claims that Karmelo Anthony's murder verdict was unfair or racially motivated by jurors.
The Texas judge who presided over Karmelo Anthony's murder trial described him as a "nice young man," but stood firmly behind the jury's stiff prison sentence in the high-profile case.
Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony claims he is broke and cannot afford a lawyer despite his family raising more than $635,000 through a crowdfunding campaign for his legal defense. Anthony, 19, who was found guilty and sentenced to 35 years behind bars for murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, requested a court-appointed appellate attorney on Wednesday, according to ...