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Posted on 06/15/2026 6:24:17 PM PDT by Morgana
Last week in Frisco, Texas, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison. No one in the jury believed his claim of self-defense and instead found that Anthony provoked a confrontation with student Austin Metcalf by going into his school’s tent during a track meet, taunting the students there, refusing to leave despite repeated requests, and finally plunging a knife into Austin’s heart after being nudged.
It remains a mystery why exactly Anthony did this, which might explain why so many people even entertained his claim of self-defense. But the facts of the case show that Anthony apparently had no other reason to kill Metcalf than pure malice and aggression.
One could go further and ask why Anthony harbored these violent impulses in the first place. He lived in Frisco, an affluent, family-friendly suburb with good schools. He had two parents at home to take care of him. He played sports and had plenty of friends. He was a month away from graduating and could have done anything. So why throw it away?
In the absence of evidence, it is anyone’s guess. Perhaps Anthony’s supporters are right in assuming he was somehow bullied and held back by a racist system. Or perhaps Anthony was radicalized by toxic internet content that encouraged him to kill a white person. Or perhaps he was suffering from some unknown mental illness or emotional trauma.
Or, most likely, perhaps Anthony was a willful, irresponsible youth who was never seriously disciplined or corrected at school or at home, and therefore felt entitled to hurt and even kill people because he felt like it.
I have taught in this area of North Texas for several years and have encountered many students like Anthony. They terrorize their classes, do little work, and misbehave constantly. Yet they are never corrected or held back because they are black.
Like most districts in Texas, Frisco Independent School District has a two-tiered system of discipline. While nonblack students who misbehave are given the consequences of detention, suspension, or mandatory time at the Discipline Alternative Education Program, black students rarely experience any of this.
Instead, they might be sent to an administrator for yet another friendly conversation and returned to class without comment. If this continues to happen, the student’s parents might start complaining that the teacher is racist and targeting their child unfairly. If so, the teacher can either continue sending the student out in hopes that something changes, or she can simply let the kid play on his phone or laptop and let him take regular hour-long bathroom breaks so he doesn’t disturb the class.
The same approach applies to academic performance. If nonblack students refuse to do their work and receive a failing grade, the teacher will hear little about it. If this happens with a black student, the teacher will need to present extensive documentation of interventions, calls home, and opportunities for reassessment. Thus, for peace of mind, many teachers learn to give all their students, especially black students, a passing grade and make their class a total blowoff.
While this seems to work out in the short term for everyone, this creates significant problems over time. Those black students who struggle in class in elementary school only become worse in high school. As a rule, they are never held accountable, and this causes them to make little progress over the years. Besides rendering them unfit for the world beyond school, it also prevents them from truly integrating into the school community. Many of the nonblack students learn to steer clear of their black peers and avoid talking to them, which leaves the black students to associate only with one another.
By the time they reach high school, most of the black students will form a group and separate themselves from the rest of the student body, often having a reputation for being rowdy, belligerent, and uncooperative. The administrators will usually stand guard nearby when this group congregates in the halls and harasses other kids, and teachers will look for ways to mitigate their disruptions in class.
Sometimes these students are encouraged to participate in sports. Coaches usually have more latitude for disciplining their players and can channel any excess energy toward something healthy and productive. Even so, athletics can only do so much and sometimes can make the situation worse by giving an otherwise bad student a sense of entitlement for excelling at a sport.
In the end, I believe this hands-off treatment of black students at Frisco ISD played a large part in leading a student like Karmelo Anthony to stab Austin Metcalf. He appears to be one among many difficult black students who never grew up, took responsibility, and developed empathy for his peers.
While Anthony’s parents obviously deserve most of the blame for how their son turned out, the policies of Frisco ISD also likely played a role. Anthony should not have been at that track meet, much less allowed to roam free without supervision. He should have known that instigating fights and attacking students is wrong and unacceptable. He should have been held to the same standards as every other student instead of being left to develop homicidal delusions. It’s telling that no counselor or teacher testified on Anthony’s behalf at his trial. This strongly indicates he had a record of dangerous misconduct.
It wasn’t always this way. In 2020, after an audit from the Texas Education Agency that cited “disproportionate discipline among Black students,” Frisco ISD changed its policy to let black students off the hook. Hopefully, this horrible crime will cause the district to end this negligence. It wasn’t enough that Karmelo Anthony enjoyed all the privileges of living in Frisco; he needed to live up to those privileges by becoming civilized and peaceful.
For Metcalf’s sake as well as Anthony’s, this disciplinary double-standard must end so that another senseless murder doesn’t happen, schools can be safe, and diverse communities like Frisco can come together again.
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They are treating the black kids like the retarded children in the class room.
Think about it. When the retarded child acts out and throws his snack pack up against the wall they don't discipline that child. Why? because he's retarded.
This says a lot of what the schools think of black kids, which is very little. The fact they discipline white kids means they want those kids to succeed. The black kids? Well they know where they are headed, just where Karmelo landed this week.
It all boils down to street cred. He wanted to ‘up’ his street cred and instigating a fight and stabbing would do exactly what he wanted so badly.
He would have gotten praise and adulation from his homeys and they would have reinforced his self-entitlement.
When he was captured he essentially bragged that HE WAS THE ONE THEY WERE LOOKING FOR, and said “I DID IT!”
Then he inquired as to the condition of the boy he stabbed, thinking that he was only wounded, but the cops wouldn’t tell him anything.
He thought that if he was only wounded he would just get off with a slap on the wrist because of his age.
And then he would be Mr. Badass among his worthless ‘friends’ and homeys. Most of whom will probably be joining him in prison over the next few years.
What a class reunion!....................
Discipline, respect for authority and other people, and good moral character start in the home. It is not the school's job to teach those things, but they should demand its presence in those that attend and remove those who fail to demonstrate it with extreme prejudice.
Only going to get worse, since they voted for that cuck for Mayor.
And it's on purpose.
This two tiered disciplinary system is nothing more than the soft bigotry of low expectations. And the idea that blacks can’t comport themselves in a civil manner is in and of itself patently racist.
There might be truth to this in some or even many cases, but I suspect the author is generalizing and projecting from relatively limited personal experience, rather than objective data. He paints a picture of what I might think happens in schools, but I have to admit I really don’t know. Did Karmelo Anthony act out constantly at school? Without public release of his disciplinary records, we don’t know. We can see, however, his parents are selfish grifters lacking normal empathy, who blame everything on everyone but themselves. Role models like that will certainly ruin a child.
The same thing happened with mass murderer Nikolas Cruz at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He had a history of disciplinary issues before the shooting, but because of the lenient school discipline policy in place at the time, he was simply suspended, no matter how serious the offense, including physical confrontations. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel had an agreement with the school to not file charges against troubled students, instead, allowing the school to handle the problem in-house. In January 2019, the Sheriff was suspended from his position by Gov. DeSantis. A review by a Special Master found that his removal by the Gov. had been improper and recommended reinstatement. However, the Florida Senate held a special session in October 2019 and upheld his removal. Israel was defeated in the 2020 election to regain his seat.
Go read about mass murderer Nikolaus Cruz, and the lack of discipline while attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and where he murdered 17 people in February 2018.
I suspect he also wanted to be a gang member. One of Nancy Pelosi’s BFF’s.
Or perhaps Karmelo is an ignorant, irredeemable Amish POS.
Those schools, and many more are afraid to discipline black kids for fear of being sued into oblivion by the kid’s parents
I read it then, but it seems more the case now.
I wonder if his parents & grandparents saw those posts of his.
The people who excuse the “gangsta culture” are a big part of the problem. Right now the kids thinking about gang membership are getting mixed messages. The prison time says one thing but all the voices claiming murder is fine if you’re black feed the belligerence. I wish the ones who contributed to Karmelo’s delinquency would spend the time in jail alongside him; that would send a stronger message to everybody. The race-baiters have been destroying way too many lives.
It takes both, but home and school need to be on the same page re setting limits, maintaining order and accountability.
For those of you with children, better a smaller house in a white district than a fancy one near a black school. Much better an older car than your most precious jewels cast into a school where they will be a minority.
A younger male relative of mine had two young boys in primary school. Boys are blonde and blue-eyed. Wife is quite liberal and idealistic. Sent their kids to a "minority-majority" public school,near Washington DC
Their boys were bullied, they were sullen, withdrawn, full of anger. They hated school
Just last year, the family moved some distance away, to where the public school and neighborhood is mostly white and friends are all white. Boys are thriving and happy
After seeing all this, his liberal wife has also had her woke-bubble pierced and deflated. She has a lot more common sense about things now.
It’s not even being sued as much as having to confront the angry black women. It isn’t easy to be yelled at by an angry fat black woman.
It is not soft at all. It is the same KKK-based bigotry that assumes every black is a dumb n****r only good for workin' on the plantation. It's what Booker T. Washington gave his life to fight against.
I was born the day Brown v Board of Education was handed down. It was the ideal of bringing all Americans together. It pains me to say it 72 years later, but when blacks had their own schools and their own families with a mom AND a dad and the churches that inculcated morality, they were much better off, and their success rate was much higher.
Karmelo was not "born that way." He was raised that way by parents who didn't give a d*mn about him, and a society full of dumb c***ies who treated him like a dumb n****r. God forgive us.
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