Last Friday we discussed the killing of a white high school junior in Texas named Austin Metcalf. Metcalf was stabbed through the heart by Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old black student who attended a different school. According to the arrest warrant, Anthony was in the wrong tent at a track meet, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. Metcalf told him to leave; Anthony dared Metcalf to touch him; Metcalf apparently touched Anthony or his backpack; and then Anthony produced a knife from the backpack and killed Metcalf. Afterwards, police say, Anthony threw the murder weapon away. When police asked Anthony what had happened, he admitted that he had stabbed Metcalf, then asked them if his actions could be considered a form of self-defense. Of course, there hasn’t yet been a trial in this case. Karmelo Anthony, like everyone else accused of a crime in this country, enjoys the legal presumption of innocence under our Constitution. At the same time, reasonable people can look at these facts and come to one obvious conclusion, which is this: Unless the police and all of the witnesses are engaging in the single most organized conspiracy to frame a criminal defendant that’s ever been undertaken in the history of this country, for no apparent reason, then there was clearly no justification for Karmelo Anthony to kill Austin Metcalf. There was no reason for him to bring a deadly weapon to a track meet in the first place, much less use that weapon to execute an unarmed teenager, and then attempt to hide evidence. In other words, any defense of Anthony must rely on something other than the facts. Over the past few days, that kind of defense is exactly what has emerged. Despite the overwhelming evidence in this case, tens of thousands of people have now publicly declared that, in essence, Metcalf had it coming. This sentiment isn’t based on forensic evidence or new witness testimony or anything like that. Instead, the defense of Anthony is based on the fact that Anthony is black, and Metcalf was white. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show We will go through some of these defenses, below, so you can see the exact arguments I’m referring to. The important thing to keep in mind, however, is that the identity of the person writing the post doesn’t matter. What matters are the massive amount of positive responses these posts have received. Each post listed below has received tens of thousands of positive responses, in the forms of replies and “likes,” along with millions of views. So even if we’re talking about professional agitators here, it really doesn’t matter. The point is that the agitation is working. A significant number of people are responding positively. Here for example was a post written by the commentator Tariq Nasheed, who describes himself as a “foundational black American.” A suspected white supremacist named Austin Metcalf (pictured with his twin) allegedly demanded honor student Karmelo Anthony give up his seat—like it was the Jim Crow era. Karmelo defended himself from the alleged threat. The Daniel Penny case set this precedent. Nasheed added: If Kyle Rittenhouse was justified in using lethal self defense… And Daniel Penny was justified in using lethal self defense…. Then Karmelo Anthony was justified in using self defense against alleged bullies who instigated an altercation, correct? Collectively, these two posts received over six million views and tens of thousands of likes. Austin Metcalf, according to this post, was a “suspected white supremacist” even though there’s been no evidence whatsoever to suggest that’s true. It’s just completely invented. In this instance, as in pretty much every other instance, the words “white supremacist” are really being used as a synonym for “white.” The people responding to this post understand that Austin Metcalf wasn’t a member of some white nationalist group. They don’t care. They simply despise him because he was white, which is all it takes. Then Tariq compares this situation to the “Jim Crow era,” which is apparently meant to imply that it’s impossible for black people to be in the wrong place, at any time, for any reason. If you are a white person, then evidently you are not allowed to tell a black person that he’s not allowed in a particular area. That appears to be the logic here. If you wake up at 2:00am and a random black person is inside your home, and you tell him to leave, then you’re basically reinventing Jim Crow. The rest of Nasheed’s defense makes a half-hearted comparison to the Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny cases. Nevermind the fact both Rittenhouse and Penny were repeatedly threatened with lethal force before they responded in kind, which is why juries acquitted both men. Also never mind the fact that Tariq Nasheed thinks both Penny and Rittenhouse should be in prison — which means, by his own logic, Anthony should be too. But in reality, as those cases demonstrated, lethal force is the appropriate response to someone pointing a loaded gun in your face, or to a violent felon who’s terrorizing a subway car as he yells, “I’m going to kill you” and “I’m prepared to go to jail for life.” On the other hand, lethal force is not the appropriate response to a student touching your backpack during a track meet. The only person who could possibly be confused about this or pretend to be confused is someone who is seeking, as desperately as he possibly can, to justify the murder of a white minor at the hands of a black killer. That is the only explanation for this kind of reasoning, or lack thereof. We are witnessing the endorsement of racial violence, on a very large scale. To give another example, someone named Talbert Swan, who calls himself a “bishop,” posted a similar comparison on social media. Again, it received an overwhelmingly positive response: Y’all said 17 yr old Kyle Rittenhouse was justified in killing two people with an AR 15 because he felt threatened. 17 yr old Karmelo Anthony was defending himself when he killed Austin Metcalf with a knife and y’all think he deserves to go to prison. I wonder whyTE. What’s being conflated here, again, is that Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t merely “feel” threatened. The jury determined, correctly, that Rittenhouse’s fear was objectively reasonable. It was not a pretext. Rittenhouse did not invent his fear in order to kill anyone. Nor did he kill anyone because he has very little impulse control, or because he grew up in a culture that glorified violence. He killed people because they attempted to kill him first, and any reasonable person could see that. It was quite literally on video. There was no denying it. The reason these people are making the Rittenhouse comparisons is that they’re projecting. They want to glorify racial violence, but they don’t want to make it explicit, at least not yet. So instead, they’re pretending that white people are already glorifying racial violence. They’re then framing black-on-white violence as a proportionate response. Here’s another post, from someone calling himself “Mike Baggz.” It racked up something like seven million views and 30,000 positive responses: Whenever white supremacists immediately flood our mentions before the full story is even out, you know something’s up. It turns out, Austin Metcalf was the aggressor, and the Black kid, Karmelo Anthony, was defending himself. According to this analysis, the person who goes into the wrong tent while armed with a deadly weapon, and then dares someone to touch him, is not in the final analysis the “aggressor.” What’s missing in this analysis is that Metcalf never put Anthony in any fear of his life, reasonable or otherwise. Touching someone’s backpack at a track meet when they’re in the wrong tent is not a threat of lethal violence, especially in this context. Therefore, Anthony was not justified in using lethal force as a response. And Anthony probably knew that, which is why he got rid of the murder weapon, and why he asked the police officers if he could possibly have a viable self-defense claim — which is not something you do if you have a viable self-defense claim. But a lot of people seem intent on ignoring these facts. Here’s another post with ten million views and around 80,000 likes: The twins didn’t just ‘ask him to leave.’ They tried to JUMP him. before attacking him, they tried to take his belongings, BROKE his phone, and STOMPED on it. … Ask yourself: If two 200+ lb attackers came at YOUR child, what would you expect them to do? Karmelo defended himself against violent aggressors. That is NOT a crime. None of this is true. Austin Metcalf didn’t “jump” anyone. He didn’t attempt to steal any belongings, nor did he break anyone’s phone. All of that information was contained in a fake Facebook post from someone pretending to be the local chief of police. Anyone with access to Google, or who’s equipped with basic common sense, could have figured that out immediately. But millions of people wanted to believe that this post was true, even though it was obviously fake. And the reason these people wanted to believe this fake information is that, when you get down to it, they would support a black person — any black person — who kills a white person, for any reason. This is the OJ Simpson effect, except Karmelo Anthony isn’t famous. He has no pre-existing fanbase. This is the purest form of racial resentment. And now it’s on full display. We’re not dealing with an honest disagreement about the facts here. We’re dealing with people who believe that violence against white people is justified, solely on the basis of their skin color. That is why, as of right now, a GiveSendGo fundraiser for Karmelo Anthony, the man who just stabbed a teenager in the heart and killed him, has raised more than $175,000. Yes, the killer’s family, with his official GiveSendGo, has raised $175,000. Those are people — actual people, not bots or trolls — giving someone money for killing a white kid. The fundraising page complains that it’s been a “challenging and difficult time” for Karmelo Anthony’s family. It claims, “the narrative being spread is false, unjust, and harmful.” A similar fundraiser was taken down by GoFundMe, because raising money for murder suspects isn’t acceptable under their terms of service. But it’s apparently fine for GiveSendGo, the supposedly Christian alternative. The reason this is happening, the reason a killer is being celebrated and even funded by a significant number of Americans, is that everything I said on Friday is true. The culture among young black males in this country glorifies violence. And in particular, it glorifies violence against white people. That’s why young black males are disproportionately violent, to a degree that’s almost impossible to believe. Black people are roughly 12 times more likely to kill a white person, and 28 times more likely to violently assault a white person, than the other way around. This is what happens when the vast majority of black children are born without present fathers. It’s what happens when black culture is dominated by degeneracy. And it’s what happens when the worst kinds of people are hailed as heroes of the black community. Now it’s a kid who stabbed another kid in the heart. In the past it’s been George Floyd or Michael Brown or any other BLM martyr we might name. If not them, it’s rappers and athletes, who would be the least objectionable of the bunch, at least in most cases. But ask yourself: when was the last time that a great black man of high moral character, someone who achieved something meaningful, was given the George Floyd or Karmelo Anthony hagiography treatment? You become what you admire. This is true of people and cultures. When you elevate people like Karmelo Anthony and George Floyd, you become like them. There are great black men and women in the world and throughout history, obviously. Just one modern day example is Ben Carson, one of the world’s greatest surgeons. His personal story is harrowing and inspiring. But he’s been cast out of “black culture.” Mainstream black culture celebrates George Floyd or Kendrick Lamar far more than it would ever celebrate a man like Carson. Not only are the good, decent, productive black men and women not celebrated they are in fact condemned by the very culture that should be celebrating them. This is what happens with all of the Left’s victim groups. When you are a victim group, your heroes must be victims. The qualification to become a hero is not that you achieved something, but that something bad happened to you even if, in reality, you did the bad thing to yourself (as was the case with George Floyd, Karmelo Anthony, Michael Brown, and so on). We see a version of this problem in American culture at large. We tore down the statues of our true historical heroes, and now they’re being replaced by pop stars and celebrities and other assorted degenerates. The end result of this trend, which is continuing even though so many Americans reject it, will be that many more people will die. Any country that tolerates racial violence will inevitably descend further and further towards dysfunction and open race warfare. If BLM types can justify the killing of Austin Metcalf, they can justify the murder of any white man, woman or child. That is their goal. That is why they’re sending money to the family of Karmelo Anthony and comparing him to Kyle Rittenhouse. And it’s why everyone, whether they’re white or black, needs to pay very close attention to where they’re living and what schools they’re sending their children to. Until this culture changes, and right now there are no signs that it will, the consequences of ignorance are simply too great to ignore.