The case of Karmelo Anthony continues to gain national attention.
In April 2025, at track meet in Frisco, Texas, Anthony (then a 17-year-old Centennial High School student) allegedly fatally stabbed fellow high school student 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in the chest with a pocketknife during a confrontation. Anthony turned himself in shortly after the incident, but he pled not guilty to his charge of first-degree murder, claiming he acted in self-defense.
On June 3, a jury was seated. No black jurors were selected.
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock admits he was thrilled by the news.
“I am overjoyed there are no black people on this jury,” he says unapologetically. “I don’t want anybody on this jury that’s sitting there thinking about, ‘I gotta do the black thing,’ or ‘I hear the facts different because I’m black.’”
He insists there is no need for “a black perspective” in this murder case — only “a justice perspective.”
“American black people,” Whitlock argues, “seem to struggle to take the racial lens off of how they see things.”
White people, he notes, can struggle with this too, but it is “more pronounced” in the black community.
“I think we have a much better shot at getting some justice here with an all white or a non-black participant on this jury,” he says, acknowledging that these are “uncomfortable truths.”
Guest Shemeka Michelle agrees.
“When I was reading some of the answers that some of the jurors gave, such as it would be hard for me to convict a brother … those aren’t the type of answers that you give if you really want to be considered,” she says, referring to the black male prospective juror who was struck after he said he would “have a hard time putting a brother in jail.”
“The fact that they actually went in there and let their biases be known just says either you have low IQ or you really just didn’t want to be a part and so you said what you knew would get you tossed out,” she continues.
Whitlock gives these struck jurors “the benefit of the doubt” and interprets their admitted biases as a good sign.
“I don’t think they wanted anything to do with the pressure to have to make a racial decision. … All of this self-defense deal, it makes no sense to anybody,” he says, “and I think that black people were wise enough — some of them — in this case to be like ‘man, I don’t want to be on this jury.”’
Admitting bias thus became the perfect off-ramp, he explains.
While he acknowledges the possibility of “woke white leftists” on the jury who will use the history of slavery to excuse Karmelo Anthony’s actions, Whitlock says the jury’s deliberation should be “three minutes.”
“I’m hoping that’s the way it goes down.”
To hear more, watch the episode above.
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