A jury rightfully convicted Karmelo Anthony for murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison, but if there isn’t finally a complete rejection of the toxic “Black Lives Matter” movement, similar events are going to play out well into the future. There will be more violence and, if justice is served, more young black men in prison.
At the heart of the BLM ideology is the lazy, destructive assertion that “black and brown” people are oppressed by whites and therefore minorities, particularly blacks, are entitled to exhibit antisocial behavior with impunity, such as resisting arrest, stealing, or, as in the case of Anthony, bringing a knife to a high school track meet in the event he decides to murder someone under the guise of self defense.
