Female rap artist Cardi B has responded to the murder conviction of 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony by declaring that she now warns her black sons never to argue with white boys because, in her view, the justice system will not protect them.
According to The Post Millennial, Anthony was sentenced on Tuesday to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, an unarmed white teenager, during a 2025 high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. The case, which prosecutors argued was a straightforward act of aggression, has been recast by some activists and celebrities as a racial injustice, despite the evidence presented in court.
"I sure learned something from this," Cardi B said in an interview, using the case to justify a sweeping indictment of the legal system. "I learned to tell my sons: do not argue with no white boys, because baby, ain't no law protecting you if something goes down with them. That's what I learned from this case."
The rapper added that she has instructed her sons to "walk the f*ck away" if they start arguing with a white boy, insisting that "the law don't protect [black people]." Her comments, rather than focusing on personal responsibility or the facts established at trial, instead amplify a narrative of systemic bias that ignores the jurys findings.
A Collin County jury found Anthony, a black student from Centennial High School, guilty of murder in the April 2, 2025, stabbing death of Metcalf, a white student from Memorial High School. Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the chest after refusing to leave Metcalf's team tent, later confessing to the stabbing but claiming self-defense, a claim the jury rejected after no evidence supported it.
The black community quickly turned the murder into an unfounded issue about race, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Anthony and supporting him throughout the proceedings. That campaign continued even as the facts showed Anthony had brought the knife to the event, escalated the confrontation, and then fled the scene while Metcalf died at the hospital.
After his conviction, Cardi B posted on X: "Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING...This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!" She later recorded her thoughts on a livestream, expressing sympathy for both families but insisting the case would have unfolded differently if the races were reversed, despite testimony that multiple black students identified Anthony as the aggressor.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Anthony approached Metcalf and others, escalated the situation, and used a knife he had brought to kill the victim, with witnessesincluding black studentscorroborating that he initiated the violence. Black supporters of Anthony arrived outside the courthouse in force, turning a tragic and preventable killing into yet another racially charged spectacle rather than a sober reminder of the consequences of violent choices.
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