The Media’s Mission in Anthony Case is to Increase Racial Animosity

No matter how transparently insane it may seem to normal people, nothing covered in today’s corporate leftist media surprises me these days. Indeed, it often seems like insanity is the point. I spend a good deal of time as a writer just reporting on the myriad deceptions found in supposedly “mainstream” newspapers and news sites, and I have no fear that I will ever get close to exhausting the existing examples.

But watching the coverage of Karmelo Anthony case—the 17-year-old who stabbed another teen, Austin Metcalf, in the heart at a Texas track meet, made clear that there’s more at work than just a simple desire of the media to promote insanity. Indeed, Newsweek’s coverage of the story made it clear what the media considers its main mission today: To convince the public that blacks are endlessly victimized by monstrous whites, who always escape any consequences for their malicious actions, because (naturally) the institutions at the heights of our society are white supremacist and designed to protect them.

The Newsweek story begins by pretending to be simply reporting on the beliefs of others: “To supporters of Anthony … there is a clear racial double standard.” But it’s not just Anthony’s supporters who make this claim. The authors of the Newsweek article do, too. Boiled down to a sentence, the argument is that white Americans, who are (for a bit longer, anyway) the majority in American society, are incapable of adequately considering the role fear plays in violent conflict when the fearful individual is black rather than white and that this incapacity is a direct result of their innate hostility to black people.

Anthony, the argument goes, perhaps reasonably feared for his safety, and even his life. We are supposed to believe this even though the dispute with Metcalf happened in the context of a high school sporting event where Metcalf was clearly unarmed and had announced, according to witnesses, that he had no intention of attacking Anthony but merely to make sure that Anthony vacated a tented area that was reserved for members of Metcalf’s team. Anthony’s fear for his safety was so great, the Newsweek writers would have us believe, that it needed to be weighed as a significant mitigating factor in the judging the outcome of the interaction, which ended with Anthony, fatally, thrusting a knife through Metcalf’s chest.