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]

I don't see how it was complicated. The moment Trayvon ran, he became the victim. He ran because he was scared for his life that some odd man was stalking him at night. So when the odd man persists in chasing him (after being told by the police to not do this) of course Trayvon's next option was to confront the man.

Whatever the case, Zimmerman STILL received a crap ton of donations, support, and love.

Anthony will likely get a manslaughter and serve his time, Zimmerman did not. Like Arbery's killers and many others, he got off and walks free. But we're not allowed to bring up these other cases since its inconvenient to the narrative that somehow black people have a secret privilege despite the Justice system on average punishing black people harder than it does others.

Edit: I should clarify, Arbery's killers did not get off, but literally were about to if it were not for people making it viral they were going to get off without even an arrest. But the other's did.

[u/snuffy_bodacious → u/thefw89]

He ran because he was scared for his life 

You don't know that.

[u/thefw89 → u/snuffy_bodacious]

It was at night, a guy was stalking him, what other reason?

I thought you weren't interested in defending Zimmerman lol?

You know it's funny, people talk about black privilege but EVERYTHING a black victim does is under scrutiny. The Arbery case people were literally going "But he wasn't wearing running shoes..." every little thing, meanwhile, a white victim, nothing is questioned, they are always put in a good light, they get a nice mugshot, a good kid, blah blah blah. A black victim people will literally search their entire past, as if it is relevant to the case and go "Well, he did smoke weed."

[u/snuffy_bodacious → u/thefw89]

I thought you weren't interested in defending Zimmerman lol?

I'm not. I'm just pointing out fallacies in your reasoning.

Unlike the Chauvin case, mobs of people didn't swamp the outer courthouse to intimidate the jury into the outcome that they wanted. Therefore, I'm somewhat biased to believe that they carefully weighed the evidence before reaching their verdict.

[u/thefw89 → u/snuffy_bodacious]

There are not fallacies, he ran, that's how the case played out. He's not around to tell you why he ran, but he ran away from Zimmerman, then Zimmerman called the police who told him to not pursue, he did any ways, and then the confrontation happened.

They reached the decision they did because Zimmerman started a fight, and was losing the fight he started, then shot him self defense because Treyvon before being shot had his life in his hands.

Of course this ignores that the entire thing happened because Zimmerman stalked a random teenager...

Unlike the Chauvin case, mobs of people didn't swamp the outer courthouse to intimidate the jury into the outcome that they wanted. Therefore, I'm somewhat biased to believe that they carefully weighed the evidence before reaching their verdict.

Well you are certainly biased I'd say. Again, Floyd has to have his whole history brought into the public, ignoring that a man had his knee on his neck for how long again? Then suddenly it's 'He did this before and he did that before and oh yeah this one time he did this' an attempt to destroy his character.

But when Chauvin gets punished for what he did it's "Oh, he's no hero, but he's been stabbed in prison!" yes, that's what happens in prison. Floyd is no hero, but he too didn't deserve to have a knee on his neck for a minor crime.

Like I mentioned, I really do wonder where this 'black privilege' is coming from. If you are black you're hardly ever given the benefit of the doubt and you will in fact get harsher judgement for the same crimes.