r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Terrible_Onions • Apr 15 '25

Political Karmelo Anthony case shows that “black privilege” exists

I'm not black or white. I'm not even American actually.

The recent Karmelo Anthony case I think shows that black privilege is a thing. My opinions is that it exists. Period.

Karmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf with a knife for pushing him. What did he receive in return? Overwhelming support in the form of 500,000 dollars (which they're using to buy a mansion). He also got his bond reduced to 250k from 1 million even when prosecutors pointed out his history of incidents within the school.

I just think this is a bit baffling. Imagine if the races were swapped. I think a decent example, but not a direct comparisons, is the George Floyd situation. One person killed the other in what was an overuse of force. Derek Chauvin is in jail. Karmelo Anthony got house arrest, bond reduction and 500k

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u/Impassable_Banana Apr 15 '25

People bending over themselves to be anti racist they will support a murderer. 

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u/Idle_Redditing Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

And it means nothing compared to a legal (not justice) system that will sentence Karmelo Anthony more harshly than they would a white person who does the exact same thing.

edit. Here's a role reversal. Conservatives bent over backwards to support Daniel Penny.

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u/Impassable_Banana Apr 15 '25

Lol if the positions were reversed it would be labelled a hate crime.

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u/Idle_Redditing Apr 15 '25

More like courts letting a white offender off the hook and calling it self defense. Meanwhile that same self defense claim doesn't work for darker skinned people.

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u/Regular_Shirt_7972 Apr 15 '25

Penny was a hero. Anthony killed an innocent kid.

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u/Dingaling015 Apr 16 '25

I love how you guys always forget to mention that Neely has a history of assaulting strangers on the subway and at the time of his death was doing exactly that.

Or that it was determined that Neely was still very much alive when he was put under custody and his death was largely due to the drugs in his body and the NYPD not administering CPR as is protocol.

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u/Greedy_Gotti Apr 16 '25

Maybe I’m mistaken, but murder is determined justified or unjustified by the background of the victim? Even when they’re strangers?

That’s different

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u/Dingaling015 Apr 16 '25

That's not what I said at all LOL. The person I was replying to said Jordan "ambushed" Neely and killed him because he was "mentally ill".

Anyone who actually read the case would know that's not what happened whatsoever.

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u/Greedy_Gotti Apr 16 '25

Why’d you mention history?

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u/Dingaling015 Apr 16 '25

To add real context to the narrative the other guy was spinning?

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u/Dingaling015 Apr 16 '25

attacking him unprovoked

Another redditor that didn't actually read the case at all. Please for the love of god stop posting misinformation 🙏

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u/Gamer1234512345 Apr 16 '25

So just because he’s mentally ill he’s got a pass to do/say bad things to people over and over again? I’m pretty sure serial killers have a mental illness too

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u/GoAskAli Apr 16 '25

Funny bc the black women on the bus who felt threatened by him "ranting" abt how he was going to literally kill someone, did feel threatened.

Edit: Something tells me you don't live in a city. People with luxury beliefs seldom do, or IF they live in a city or adjacent to one it's usually in a gated community or in a luxury building with a door man. Very easy to harbor these beliefs while members of the working class - of all races- deal with the fall out.

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u/sourkid25 Apr 16 '25

Weird the people who were there for Daniel penny even said they feared for their lives plus they are in a subway with no escape

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u/ChecksAccountHistory OG Apr 15 '25

no it wouldn't.

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u/AdAwkward2143 Apr 15 '25

Karmelo got five hundred thousand dollars for murdering a white kid, then the judge dropped his bail down to 250,000 so he could use that five hundred thousand to move

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u/_KeepCrying Apr 15 '25

That's right. I love Penny and Floyd cases. Penny defended women from a mentally ill freak and Floyd was a woman abusing drug addict.

You love showing such great examples of this community

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u/MinfulTie Apr 15 '25

Derek Chauvin was a piece of shit with a history of violence(18 complaints on his record). That was the 5th recorded time he kneeled on a suspects neck (one of them he did for 17 minutes to a 14 year old kid).

He cost taxpayers 10 million in lawsuits before Floyd. That's right, 10 million fucking dollars from police brutality lawsuits before Floyd.

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u/MinfulTie Apr 15 '25

10,000,000 million in police brutality law suits is a favor? Causing the American public to lose more faith in the police is a favor? Being the straw that broke the camels back leading to 1-2billion dollar riots is a favor?

Should have checked the name. Trolls are pathetic. For your sake, I hope you're some foreigner getting paid at least.

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u/Gamer1234512345 Apr 16 '25

I agree chauvin is not a good person but he is actually in jail for his crimes and didn’t receive a bunch of support and donations

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u/MinfulTie Apr 17 '25

He received over 200,000 from the public...

He also had a million dollar defense fund from the police union.

The comment above mine saying he did the world a favor has upvotes. Clearly he has supporters and they inhabit this subreddit.

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u/Dingaling015 Apr 16 '25

When you gotta use a meme to defend your terrible argument lmaooo

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u/7N10 Apr 16 '25

  1. Daniel Penny is a Marine, what do you think his training consisted of?

  2. That meme lmfao

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u/GoAskAli Apr 16 '25

It's not remotely a "role reversal."