Race Card Politics Just Won’t Die

“Rooftop Pastor” Corey Brooks is right in writing about Black Karmelo Anthony’s alleged murder of White Austin Metcalf, “America still can’t put down the race card … And it’s the shame of our nation.”

The Project H.O.O.D. founder’s Fox News op ed called out both the “tribal left” and “tribal right” in the wake of that tragic high school encounter resulting in death: “When race is the only lens, it blinds us to due process and justice. Those screaming the loudest and strutting like cocks on social media are not trying to heal. They’re hustling in the tradition of Al Sharpton. All because, in today’s culture, the race card is still too valuable to put down … When a black teenager stabbed a white teenager at a recent Texas high school track meet, it was not long before Americans online predictably turned this into a racial controversy – even before the facts were known.”

As Brooks, Pastor of Chicago's New Beginnings Church asked, “Was the actual incident between the two teens [even] a racial one?” The facts in the police report and statements by nearly 30 eyewitnesses seem simple enough. Anthony admitted to stabbing Austin in the chest with a knife after being “touched” or “pushed” by the deceased after being told by him to leave a tent reserved for his school’s students. Anthony’s attorney is claiming the stabbing for that touch or push was justified as “self-defense.” Yet, argues the Pastor, conservatives took to social media to berate the progressive MSM for again taking the side of the “black kid,” while liberals likewise widely suggested the arrest of Anthony was somehow the result of a white lynch mob reminiscent of the post-civil war KKK. Concluded Pastor Brooks, by looking at the tragedy strictly from a “linear … racial lens,” both sides are doing a disservice to the kids involved in a tragedy that ended one’s life and will probably destroy the other’s; and that inability to hold the race card for once “shames” us all.

Davd Soul