Leftist civil rights leaders and race hustlers condemned the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony’s trial, claiming it was unjust and racist. Anthony was convicted of murder on Tuesday after just two and a half hours of deliberations over the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. While Anthony’s family peddled claims that he was targeted for his race and that Metcalf provoked him, video evidence shows that Anthony refused requests that he leave the track team’s tent before he stabbed Metcalf. Despite the evidence and the quick verdict, some black leftists claimed the outcome was racially motivated.  Dominique Alexander, a Dallas-based civil rights leader, political activist, and founder of the Next Generation Action Network, said, “Black America should be very upset about what went on today.” He called the verdict “flawed” and “unjust.”  The case’s result tells people that “black lives do not matter in the criminal justice system,” according to Alexander. It shows racism in law, Alexander said, demonstrating that black people will “be afforded the same laws as anybody else.” He added that he is not “playing the race card,” but presenting the fact that black people have suffered from these laws for 400 years. A post shared on Instagram by Dr. Umar Johnson, a motivational speaker and author who has dubbed himself “prince of Pan-Africanism,” compared the Anthony case to the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, claiming that Anthony was “lynched by an all-white jury.” The post shared by Johnson also claimed that “black people aren’t allowed to defend themselves” and that there is “no justice!”  Instagram — Dr. Umar Johnson Ben Crump, a prominent American civil rights attorney, said the case presents “hard questions about fairness, justice, and whose actions earn the benefit of understanding.” “Those questions are not new, and we owe it to every family touched by this to keep asking them,” Crump added. Civil rights attorney and CNN contributor Areva Martin also said that Anthony’s verdict “raises questions.” “This case is far from over. We should expect an appeal, including challenges related to the exclusion of Black jurors,” Martin added. “Faith in our courts requires more than a conviction or an acquittal. It requires confidence that every defendant was afforded a fair trial.” Martin said that the reason this verdict will be difficult for the “African American community” to accept is due to the exclusion of “all of the black potential jurors.” Multiple black witnesses, however, said that Anthony was in the wrong and spoke highly of Metcalf. Martin also argued that Anthony pulled out the knife because he was “fearful of his life” and believed he would be injured, despite the fact that Metcalf said he would not fight Anthony. Not everyone in the black community is upset by the verdict. Judge Glenda Hatchett, the prominent American attorney, author, and television personality, said in a video on Instagram that she did not find a “basis for self-defense.” The testimony did not show “his life was in danger” or that it “justified the fatal stabbing,” according to Hatchett. Coming from a “mother’s heart,” Hatchett said that parents must teach their children how to “think clearly” in these situations. “He was not supposed to be in the tent,” Hatchett said. “He was asked to leave the tent. Why not just leave the tent?”