The Karmelo Anthony Case Raises Questions About the Adultification of Young Black People

The Karmelo Anthony Case Raises Questions About the Adultification of Young Black People



Karen Hunter Reacts to Karmelo Anthony’s Guilty Verdict

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The Karmelo Anthony Case Raises Questions About the Adultification of Young Black People

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32 thoughts on “The Karmelo Anthony Case Raises Questions About the Adultification of Young Black People

  1. Great conversation and perspective of another layer of bias in society against black kids. And my mom said you're going to cook a meal, sew a button and know how to do laundry.

  2. The Frisco ISD released restricted surveillance video of the  April track meet stabbing that killed a student.  The 30 minute video, viewable only by request, shows events before during and after the attack, including the emergency response.

    We need more people to make a formal request to view the video, and report back.

    Requests must be submitted as an open records request to the district's Legal Affairs Department. To draft your request under the Texas Public Information Act (PIA), you must explicitly state what you are looking for in a written letter or electronic submission.

    They likely won't email it without charging enormous administrative fees for blocking out images of other students in the footage.

  3. Even though I’m in the senior citizens range (60) lol, I still remember what my educational experience was like. My parents elected to put me and my sister in an elite private school in the suburbs even though we lived in the city. I spent my formative years doing what sociologists call “code switching” knowing how to conduct myself when I was at school and how I was when I was back home in my urban black middle-class neighborhood. I entered the school in 1st grade and stayed all the way through 12th. As expected there were only a handful of us “chocolate chips” at each grade level. I was genuinely liked by both black and white students which gave me the false impression that my being black was not such a big deal- WRONG! I’ll never forget the first harsh lesson I learned, it was 9th grade and one of my( white) female classmates was having a house party and I wasn’t invited, even though we got along well. Of course I was upset and I tried to keep it from my mom but mom’s have this way of using some kind of truth serum mind trick to get you to spill the beans. I told her about not being invited to the party and my mom asked a question that at the time I didn’t understand the logic behind but it became clear quickly when I mentioned all the other boys that I knew didn’t get an invite and they were black like me. That’s when my mom broke it down and talked about the realities of racism, it was hard to hear at first because I got along well with everyone but mom kept reinforcing the point that even in friendly environments race and racism are never far away. The other thing both my parents stressed to me and my sister was just because we were going to an elite private school we should not go thinking and acting like we were better than our black peers we were growing up with. Being a teacher our mom was very involved in our education, advocating for us when she felt something was amiss (a grade lower than the quality of work presented, being ignored by teachers when class discussions were going on, etc) in other words my mom put those white teachers and administrators on notice about her expectation that we be treated fairly and respectfully. Today this might be seen as “helicopter parenting” but I don’t remember it that way. I saw it as mom having our backs as we were going through the school , giving us voice when we were too little or when the situation called for one teacher talking to another teacher. So to wrap up this long comment I would say there was three things that helped me have a successful academic journey: 1) mom and dad teaching us about the realities of racism so as we would not be blindsided when racism reared its ugly head. 2) Our mom being present in our education, advocating for our interests when she felt it was needed. 3) Always keeping us grounded in that going to private school didn’t make us better than our black peers who did not go to private school. I did the same thing with my daughter when she was attending the predominately white public schools in the predominately white town we lived in. I can proudly say she turned out fine, yes she had her moments (like why the black boys wouldn’t date her but date the white girls, and why the white boys didn’t look her way,etc) but these did not stop her from graduating and going off to college.

  4. This trial is a total sham. The students changed testing over 14 months under threat. The video was chopped up, blurry and grainy that was shown in court. The original 11+ minute sirveillance video has been seen by various people that have publicly reported the same : 4 footballers intentionally surrounded Karmelo and collectively jumprd him. Now paxton, TX AG, has blocked viewing. This is being challenge. Ive lived in Texas over 35 years and know

  5. This just shows who you stand for should Kyle rittenhouse do time for his murders, should Daniel penny for his sneak attack and murder or Rick chow no you can’t make it seem right that this young man did anything wrong at all is disturbing to me no you can speak but just not to people like me 👎🏿

  6. He doesn’t get to look like a boy, because he is a young black man and unfortunate he is not given that grace and it’s sad. I’m really over everyone pointing the fingers at him and not asking themselves as to where were the adults at this track meet?

  7. I'm 78 years old Black woman. I have experienced so many racist things in my lifetime. I gotta say I'm surprised he wasn't given life and no parole! Especially with an all-white jury. I wonder who his defense was. Can Antony now sue the courts for ineffectual counsel and get a new trial?

    Think about this one. Medicine in America is based on white American males Nearly all the medicines we use now are based on tests conducted on white men. When we were used during medical experiments, we were not given workable cures like the (Tuskegee experiment). We allowed Black men to die even when medical people knew penicillin cured syphilis. Ot how about not giving Black women pain meds because we don't feel pain like other humans do. Is it any wonder if the medical establishment doesn't think we Black folks feel pain, that translates into murder when police and other armed white people keep firing?

  8. “You teach people how to treat you” …so you’re teaching your children to stab people who shove them?

    “I see a little boy” hmmmm and metcalf isn’t? Even though they’re both in high school? Or are you fine with a “little boy” stabbing another “little boy” in the chest?

    You consider 29yo still being a boy??? Wtf?

    I can’t finish this video, it’s too willfully ignorant.

  9. There were no black jurors because blacks can't be honest. They admitted in jury selection that would never convict a black man. Just like the OJ Simpson trial.

  10. According to Wikipedia, Karmello Anthony was born on May 10, 2007, so he was 16 at the time of the April 2025 incident. If Texas charges those who are 17 and older as adults, why wasn’t Karmello charged as a juvenile?

  11. The AGE you are when the trauma happens that’s where your life tends to stop the age that you are when trauma happens is where your life stops and where were stuck so whatever age you are when trauma happens that’s where you are in our villages how much trauma we are around all the trauma that happens to us i’m not speaking for white America. I’m not speaking to white America. This is for black folk don’t dislike white communities. U2 ladies preaching preaching and teaching black America. Don’t just listen to them. Take some introspection of yourselves. This is what helps us help our children help our reality and help our childrenreality, thank you ladies so much for this so so much thank you

  12. What you all are talking about somehow we allowed an allow this GenZ concepting that has replaced what you all are talking about and what is needed we as black Americans have bought and allow this conversation about Gen Z and so our children buy into that and will allow it, but why are we allowing it when white America, consider us as 3/4 of a human being there yet to apologize for that and in return, we have allowed their white system to sit the tone to that part of our children’s lives. This Gen Z it exudes itself through social media music and it disrupts the direction that we need our children are black children to stay in and develop who they are this doctor that’s on the show her concepts we need black female counselors, and that Gen Z concept is also poured entire children by these white counselors mental health counselors we feel we have to send our kids to they don’t know anything about us. They don’t some of them don’t even care to study. It’s what they study for all. That’s not true. We need more counselors concepts like Dr. Show to the content creator, thank you thank you thank you and thank you to the doctor, she is a true doctor

  13. If you are a surname, your parents figured it out for you.As soon as you reached the third or fourth grade, they taught you how to iron.They taught you how to cook a simple soup.By eleven, you could cook turkey and dressing by twelve, you could cook a meal.And none of them would be there to tell you what to cook.You had to cook and plan it?That was for the people who are fifty five and older

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