Posted on 06/13/2026 10:29:11 AM PDT by Baladas
A Howard University professor tore into the victim-impact statement delivered by the father of slain Texas teen Austin Metcalf, arguing that the teen's death "did not begin with the knife" wielded by Karmelo Anthony but instead that his father's parenting style was to be blamed as well.
Dr. Stacey Patton, a professor at Howard University's School of Communications, penned an opinion piece titled "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries" to Substack on Wednesday on Substack, where she insinuated Anthony was acting out of self-defense.
"YOU failed to teach your boy that Black children have boundaries," Patton wrote. "YOU failed teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jurisdiction. YOU failed to teach him that another child’s space is not a challenge to be conquered. YOU failed to teach him that "community" does not mean white boys get to decide who belongs and who does not."
The case drew national after now 19-year-old Anthony stabbed 17-year-old Metcalf in the heart during a confrontation at a high school track meeting in April 2025. The case has become a flashpoint in broader debates about race, with Anthony's supporters arguing he has been treated differently because he is Black, while critics have rejected efforts to make the murder of Metcalf, a white teenager, about race.
"YOU obviously failed to teach your son that touching, confronting, crowding, testing, or policing another person can have consequences," Patton wrote. "And YOU failed to teach him that the same world that cheers white boys for being bold and aggressive will not always be there to save them when they mistake somebody else’s restraint for permission."
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You just cannot hate people like that professor enough.
From my understanding of the track event, team tents had boundaries too.
Let’s see about the soon to be Karmela’s boundaries when Bubba comes calling.
If black children have boundaries, she must be asking for whites to discriminate in how we deal with them. Has she considered that all people have boundaries, that perhaps people of whatever color should not be violating those boundaries such as by going into private spaces and refusing to leave when requested.
What an idiot rascist woman.
Got his 15 seconds of internet fame. The school that employees this racists needs to be defunded.
I am tired of blacks making excuses for criminal behavior, then wondering why people view them as dangerous. The negative stereotypes are earned- every single day and on multiple occasions.
By the content of their character
Because of this “professor's” along with other race-baiters’ POV, the black boys’ boundaries will perpetually be a jail cell.
Black boys have boundaries? WTF does that mean?
People need to stop making excuses for bad behavior. Karmelo should not have stayed under that tent. The victim should not have shoved Anthony. Anthony sure as hell should have kept that knife in his pocket.
I think we have all seen stupid teenaged D**k-measuring in our lifetimes. Most kids have the sense to walk away, and thus…everyone walks away.
Every once in a while someone doesn’t understand how unserious this stuff is; and they end up dead or serving 20 to life. I’ve seen it in bar fights and arguments over girls.
No one “needed” to be dead at the end of that day. There is plenty of blame to spread around. But in the end only one person pulled a knife and stabbed someone.
We had a football coach that made it very clear to us in high school: “That silly little fight on the day before your 18th birthday will blossom into an Assault/Mansalughter charge at midnight—like Cinderella’s pumpkin. Don’t be stupid. Don’t fight.”
Pure Critical Race Theory analysis: whites should submit to black supremacy. Not to mention Karmelo did all the boundary violations. DEI has been very cruel to black women who have been promoted to high positions only to be exposed as entitled racists like this professor.
Indeed so she is saying Austin should have killed Karmelo first right?
It was going good up until that awful last sentence. “White boys got privilege and can act up, be thuggish, maim and murder all they want and won’t pay a price.”
What a POS.
Its a valid topic for discussion
So it's fair to ask - what did Karmelo's father teach him? Did he have a father?
So what was taught in young Karmelo's house?
I've watched his grandmother speak in public - she appears to be full of rage and anti-white hate. Is that what Karmelo was exposed to every day?
Convicted Murderer Karmello's father failed to teach him that his skin color doesn't make him special.
Howard University is part of the problem.
Mr. Stacey Patton, your IQ score will be handed out to you shortly.
Howard University is one of the big HBCUs. So no surprise.
Wrong. HIS son didn’t murder anyone.
Yep. Convicted Murderer Karmello "dissed" the whole team ... they should have pounded him into a bloody smear on the pavement. It's the hoodrat way ...
the parents of Karmela (just like the parents of Trayvon before him) failed their son
they did not teach him to not use deadly violence against those who are not using deadly violence against you.
Parents matter in the making of a good citizen. We will never forget how big they failed in their job as parents no matter how much they try to distract us from their failure by passing the buck.
“ Is that what Karmelo was exposed to every day?”
That’s her PUBLIC FACE. What was said in the home was probably a million times worse.
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