“What the hell is wrong with these people?” I heard someone ask as a clip of Jasmine Crockett played on the television at the restaurant bar the other day. What was Crockett talking about? Her sympathy for the murderer named Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Yes, that’s why she cares, or at least pretends to care, about the fate of the man who’ll spend at least the next 17.5 years of his life in prison in Texas. How could anyone, real or not, go on camera and express sympathy for a murderer, at the expense of the murder victim and his family, no less? There’s really only one possibility: the cancerous cultural rot Democrats have forced and enforced on the black community.
We have a very weird relationship with race in this country, one where white people have been bullied into only talking about other races in apologetic tones, like we did something to everyone else. We didn’t.
I, for one, am sick of watching videos of “teen takeovers” on the news and pretending that 90- plus percent of the “teens” share a characteristic beyond their presumed age. How do you address a problem if you aren’t willing to talk about it honestly?
I’m willing, so let’s go.
Most people can’t, or won’t, have that discussion, which suits Democrats just fine. And the rest of the media is as well.
Have you noticed how you only see white cable news hosts talking about issues involving race with black guests? Liberal or conservative, it doesn’t matter; it’s always the white host with black guests where the hosts do everything they can to agree with the guests.
It never goes anywhere or solves anything because no serious conversation can involve pandering, and pandering is all cable news does anymore on the issue.
The truth is, most minorities who have been convinced by politicians, pundits, and preachers that they are victims are, in fact, victims, only they’re victims of the people who convinced them.
Racism, to any extent that matters in America, exists on the left – both inspired and weaponized by politicians hoping the black community won’t realize they’re in the midst of the longest con ever perpetrated: the Democrat establishment against black people.
For more than three-quarters of a century, we’ve had Democrats, both black and white, controlling the cities where most black people live. I don’t think there’s a majority-black city in the country that has had a Republican elected official in my lifetime. Yet, those cities are the centers of drugs, assaults, and murder.
Yes, all those things happen outside of those areas, too, but from a percentage of the population and from a crime perspective, it’s not even close.
In 2024, 15,795 people were murdered in the United States. Of those victims, 6,753 were white, and 8,158 were black. The numbers are down from 2023, when 8,070 white people were murdered, and 11,060 black people were.
However, if you think about it, those numbers expose a horrifying fact: black people make up just 13 percent of the population, so how the hell can they be the majority of murder victims? Well, that’s just the first worm in the can – as people are about 95 percent more likely to be victims of violent crimes by people who have the same skin color as them, that means the murderers of those black people are also overwhelmingly black.
Democrats ignore this because they have no way to exploit it to their advantage. If a white person kills a black person, which happens sometimes (though rarely), they’re all set up for that and have talking points about “structural racism” and “white supremacy” at the ready. If that configuration is reversed, as it was with Karmelo and Austin Metcalf, they used to have nothing.
Now they have this perversion that somehow a fair trial resulting in someone who stabbed a kid in the heart and killed him was an injustice based on race. They’re sick.
Crockett whined, “Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spend a day living that way. And we're going to have to have just some real conversations about race in this country.”
Black women who live in fear for their black male children should live in fear of other black males, as they are the perpetrators in all but a rounding error of the murders of young black men. Crockett isn’t stupid; she’s evil. She knows this is true, but what political mileage can she gain by pointing it out?
In the wake of the murder of Austin Metcalf, black “influencers” and social media users have been positing pictures of themselves urinating on Austin’s grave, taunting his family, and calling for more “white boys” to be killed in some perverted version of “justice.” Members of Congress have expressed more sympathy for the murderer and his family than for the victim. Pundits lie about an “all-white jury,” while others instruct black people to lie to get on juries in the future so they can “protect” other black defendants.
I have seen a lot of each of those disgusting things described above, and I only saw one “black leader” who denounced or spoke in real terms about any of it. It wasn’t a “man of god” like Al Sharpton or Raphael Warnock, nor was it a former President or Vice President like Barack Obama or Kamala Harris. It was a sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith.
Smith said, “I would give anything to be able to say something definitively in Karmelo Anthony’s defense. If there was a shred of innocence to the incident itself, I would say so. I don’t want to see another black young man going to jail. But I don’t give a damn about what your race, I don't give a damn about what your race or ethnicity is. Just because you’re white and young doesn’t mean you deserve to be murdered. And just because you’re black and young with challenges that black folks face every single day doesn’t give you a license to murder someone. That's what happened.”
There were no roundtables convened on MSNow or CNN to discuss the cultural rot that would lead to only one man calling a murderer a murderer. There was no discussion or condemnation of the justification of the murder or the calls for more. And there was no one daring to point out the reality of violent crime in this country.
How can you solve a problem when you won’t acknowledge it? You can’t.
When black men are calling for other 15 and 16-year-old black men to kill more white people because “y’all will be out at 30, y’all ain’t gonna do life,” where is the condemnation? Where are the politicians and pastors?
I have been told my whole life how “important the black church is in the black community,” but I have never seen it mobilized for anything more than to elect Democrats. They’re great at mourning – George Floyd had three funerals that were quite the production – but they don’t seem to do much in the way of preventing the need for mourning in the first place.
Politicians are ready to show up to “show support” for whatever lie they’ve got trending on social media, but they suck at doing anything to avoid outrages and improve the lives of the people they claim to care about more than anything else.
Generations of black people have lived and died knowing nothing but Democrats in political power, punditry, and the pulpit, and never saw their family’s lives improve. That’s not “the system” being rigged against them; that’s the Democrats making sure they keep their heads above water enough, so they don’t drown while they routinely promise the alternative would somehow be worse. Never have these Democrats attempted to teach anyone the importance of learning to swim, as anyone who learns on their own is denounced as an “Uncle Tom.”
Democrats created a failed education system designed to keep poor minorities where they are and ensure government dependence indefinitely, and nothing more. They tolerate a culture of violence, where actually learning is attacked as “acting white” and getting ahead is called “selling out.”
Karmelo Anthony murdered a kid, not because “he felt threatened,” as he could have easily walked out of the tent if that were the case. He killed Austin Metcalf because he’d been conditioned by the left to be a victim and to believe that anything he did in response to that victimhood was justified.
It’s a mentality that leads to thousands of dead young black men every year, and millions more giving up hope of improving their lives. It’s also a mentality that leads to Democrats getting reelected in places that are the third world economically and have been for decades, because they’ve successfully conned black people into thinking Democrats actually care about them more than on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in an election year.
You can’t have a serious conversation about race in this country when half the political world benefits from an unserious series of lies on the subject.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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