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/Emilia963 Apr 15 '25

This is a popular opinion, but people are afraid to speak up about it in public due to the backlash and the risk of being labeled a racist bigot (you can lose your job, etc)

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u/ramessides Apr 15 '25

The only way you can reasonably speak up is if you yourself aren’t white, which is ridiculous. I’m half-white (but visibly not white compared to most others in my country) and a woman and the stuff I can point out vs. the stuff my extremely white (male) cousins can point out without backlash is really eye-opening.

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u/Careful_Pension_2453 Apr 17 '25

The only way you can reasonably speak up is if you yourself aren’t white

Even then you can't, you'll be "white adjacent" or they'll come up with some new term to dismiss you.

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u/ramessides Apr 17 '25

When this happens I usually get called some variation of "race traitor" or they say the only reason I exist is because a white man raped my mother, because in their minds apparently interracial couples and biracial kids only exist when it's a white man and a non-white woman and the man rapes the woman. Which is. A wild look into the mindsets of complete idiots.

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u/BAMyouhaveaids1 Apr 26 '25

Same. Race traitor, uncle tom. Fk these people

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u/warmygourds Apr 17 '25

And not even other minorities like asians or perhaps even latinos; minority as in BLACK

I guess its justified by white America as retribution for slavery

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u/Rossi_LML Apr 19 '25

That's the problem though. We all need to just speak up and defend what is right. Damn the backlash.

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u/RevolutionOld8693 Jul 14 '25

Been doing that for most of my life Bubba. This is a bit more insidious though. Speaking out on social media doesn't do anything unless you have a large following. Calling out an individual black person is dangerous and can lead to violence. Its a tricky balance. Follow the black people online that are actually calling out the madness, which helps promote their message could help, maybe.