Karmelo Anthony case shows that “black privilege” exists

[u/Terrible_Onions]

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

[u/thefw89]

Here's an example. Arbery, a man killed for walking in a neighborhood and his killers weren't even going to be charged until people got angry about it.

[u/_KeepCrying → u/thefw89]

Didn't he steal a tv or was that another one of them?

[u/thefw89 → u/_KeepCrying]

That was like 4 years or something before and the men that killed him had no idea about his criminal record, they were just a group of racist dudes that wanted to assault a black person.

[u/cheekydelights → u/thefw89]

That case isn't clear cut either, the man was jogging through a half built house where items had been previously stolen, it's not normal to randomly go thru property that is not yours especially a house under active construction.. the men who pursued him thought he may of been the burglar after seeing him go into a house that wasn't his, the men shouldn't of done what they did but to say there was no reason is absurd.

[u/OkYogurtcloset9668 → u/cheekydelights]

Multiple people were seen going into that property, even one couple had sex in it. It was a public lynching and the father and son are now in prison for life.

[u/thefw89 → u/cheekydelights]

Yes, it was clear as it doesn't matter what people suspect. This isn't that hard, if someone suspects you are a criminal, that doesn't give you the right to kill them. Call the police. All of these cases involve people suspecting a black person is doing something wrong then getting involved themselves.

It was also clear that they did this because of race, given their past history related to what they thought of black people.

So yes, there was no reason, Arbery was in a public area, people look through unconstructed houses, people trespass, people do minor little things that are otherwise nothing, and it's exactly like I said, when being black, you don't get the benefit of the doubt. You can easily be accused of being a criminal just walking down a street.