Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1168 | Should Austin Metcalf’s Dad Forgive His Murderer?

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

In today's episode, we're discussing the heartbreaking story of the death of high school track student Austin Metcalf at the hands of alleged suspect Karmelo Anthony. We go over the details of what happened, and while we don't know why Karmelo allegedly stabbed Austin, we do know that killing someone for mere words is never justifiable. That didn't stop social media from jumping to conclusions about Austin, even going so far as to call him a white supremacist and saying he deserved to be stabbed with absolutely no evidence. We also talk about what duties Christians have when it comes to forgiveness, and we are praying for the families affected by this terrible tragedy. Share the Arrows 2025 is on October 11 in Dallas, Texas! Go to sharethearrows.com for tickets now! Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (03:40) Austin Metcalf murder (12:11) Metcalf family reactions (19:20) Christian forgiveness (27:09) This was not justified (33:15) Social media response (44:01) Crime statistics --- Today's Sponsors: Seven Weeks - Experience the best coffee while supporting the pro-life movement with Seven Weeks Coffee; use code ALLIE at https://www.sevenweekscoffee.com to save up to 25% off your first order, plus your free gift of their new single-serve brew bags! Good Ranchers — Go to https://GoodRanchers.com for their Spring Into Action special, and subscribe to any of their boxes (but preferably the Allie Beth Stuckey Box) to get free bacon, ground beef, seed oil free chicken nuggets, or salmon in every box for a year. Plus, you’ll get $40 off when you use code ALLIE at checkout. A’del — Try A'del's hand-crafted, artisan, small-batch cosmetics and use promo code ALLIE 25% off your first time purchase at AdelNaturalCosmetics.com --- Related Episodes: Ep 1111 | Daniel Penny’s 'Toxic' Masculinity Saved Lives https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1111-daniel-pennys-toxic-masculinity-saved-lives/id1359249098?i=1000679813482 Ep 792 | What's to Blame for the Chicago 'Teen Takeover'? | Guest: Heather Mac Donald https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-792-whats-to-blame-for-the-chicago-teen-takeover/id1359249098?i=1000609986059 Ep 171 | Biblical Forgiveness: The Mercy of Brandt Jean https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-171-biblical-forgiveness-the-mercy-of-brandt-jean/id1359249098?i=1000452616753 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. A little announcement, if you are in the Greenville, Spartanburg area of South Carolina, or really anywhere close to that, you should come to my free event on Thursday night, Clemson University. I am being hosted by the Clemson chapter of Turning Point USA. Super excited about it. It is totally free. You don't have to have tickets. You don't have to be a student. So if you are a related gal or a related bro, I would love to see you there. It's always nice to have the in-person support of friendly faces because you never know how hostile these events can get. I don't anticipate this being any kind of tense or problematic situation. There's going to be a ton of security just in case. Unfortunately, turning point sometimes is like a lightning rod for controversy, not by any

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I don't like talking about controversy, especially within a body of Believers, believe it or not, I feel responsible to do that. And certainly when someone is misrepresenting, perhaps maliciously, something that was said on this show, I feel responsible to defend it and to clarify and to support the claims that I've made. Or if I am proven wrong, to apologize and to clarify. And so that's what we did in regards to the prosperity gospel in the so-called black church on yesterday's episode and so many of you, sisters in Christ, brothers in Christ, who happened to have more melanin than me, commented in support of what I was saying.

And I just appreciate that. A lot of you, of all different melanin counts and ethnicities that make up the body of Christ in this audience, share the arrows with me. And I am right there with you, ready to share the arrows with you too. And I just appreciate that so much. We are waiting into not necessarily controversial theological areas today, although maybe part of it will be, but it's really more cultural and maybe political, but it certainly is, again, racial. As we talk about this horrifying story of the murder of a teenager in Frisco, Texas named Austin Metcalf. Now, most of you have probably heard at least the basics of what happened that this young man, 17 years old, was murdered at a track meet. Just to give you some context is someone who grew up in Dallas and has frequented Frisco many times. This is a very nice area of the metroplex. This is a very

in general, rich area. And this track meet was among public schools, but the public schools that were competing against each other are pretty affluent. Obviously, you've got a diversity of socioeconomic backgrounds at any public institution, but we're not talking about South Dallas schools that you might expect some level of violence. This is very shocking for this area. has been a shock to the community. And I just want to tell you the details. Before we get into the backlash and the debate that has surrounded this, like, let's just talk about the human beings involved and the sadness that we should always feel when an image bearer of God is murdered. Austin Metcalf is the 17-year-old victim. He was a high school football player from

Frisco Memorial High School. He was fatally stabbed on 8.000. April 2nd, 2025. I talked about it several times on my Instagram during a track meet. The suspect, 17-year-old Carmelo Anthony from Frisco Centennial High School, allegedly stabbed Metcalf in the chest following a brief altercation. That's the language that is used by the press just as a C-YA. But we know, according to the witness testimonies of dozens of people who saw this happen, even the admission of Carmelo Anthony that this kid actually did commit this crime. So here are some details. According to witnesses, the confrontation began when rain drove students to shelter under tents. So each school has their own designated tent. There are seats reserved for the students of that particular school in that specific tent. Anthony went under a tent of Memorial High School. school, even though he is not a student at Memorial High School. He is a student at Centennial High School, another high school in the area. So when Anthony, this is again, according to witness testimony,

was sitting in the wrong tent, the tent that was not designated for his school, Austin Metcalf, apparently asked him to move from their tent. And Carmelo reportedly replied, Touch me and see what happens. Now, other reports actually say that it started with him saying, make me. So he didn't want to move, I guess. And Austin Metcalf said, well, I want you to move. He kept on insisting that he moved. And then when he said, make me, we don't know exactly what Austin said. In response to that, maybe he said, okay, I will. Who knows? But then when Carmelo Anthony said, touch me and see what happens, Austin apparently grabbed his backpack. He touched Carmelo to kind of move him, pull him out of the seat with his backpack still attached to his back.

And as he was doing that, Anthony reportedly pulled a knife from his bag and stabbed Metcalfe once in the chest before fleeing the scene. And blood was spilling everywhere according to Metcalf's twin brother, Hunter. Hunter held Austin Metcalfe, according to his own testimony in his arms, tried as hard as he could to place his hands, to place pressure on his heart, on his chest, where the blood was spilling out to try to stop the bleeding. And he says that he saw, he said this on Fox News on Will Cain's show, he saw the soul of his brother leave his eyes. And he also said tragically that that's when his own soul left his eyes. Anthony was, or left his body. Anthony was quickly

apprehended by Frisco police and upon being referred to as a suspect, Anthony said this, quote, I'm not alleged, I did it. Okay, so apparently pretty proud of the choice that he made and asked if what he did would constitute as self-defense. He also said he put his hands on me. I told him not to, according to the arrest affidavit. Anthony has been charged with first degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond. Metcalf, according to friends and parents who knew him, according to his community, was a standout athlete with a 4-0 GPA named MVP of his football team, was receiving college football offers. His family described him as a leader with a bright future. And there is so much discussion about how the family has responded and about if race had

anything to do with this because Carmelo Anthony was black and Austin Metcalf was white. And I will just say up front that we don't know. Just as I said, scandalously, after George Floyd died, that we have no idea what the motivation of Derek Chauvin was when he leaned on his back. It was assumed that it was white supremacy. It was assumed that it was racial discrimination and prejudice. We didn't know that. It was simply assumed. because of the colors of the people involved. And it caused, of course, this whole firestorm and weeks and weeks of deadly riots because of that assumption. But that is called partiality. That's not justice. That's not based on truth. That's not based on evidence. That's based on an

assumption. And that's not right. In this case, I do not know if Carmelho Anthony was, you know, singled this kid out. It doesn't sound like he's single in a out, but that he reacted the way that he did because Austin Metcalf was white. I don't know that. I don't know the motivation behind it, but I do have thoughts about some of the commentary surrounding all of this. But first, let me pause and let me tell you about our first sponsor for the day. And that is seven weeks coffee. Seven weeks is America's pro life coffee company. They're on a mission to fund the pro life movement, one cup of coffee at a time. Why are they called seven weeks? Because it's seven weeks a baby is the size of a coffee bean.

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this kid was sitting under our tent. at track we asked him to move he started getting aggressive and talking reckless and my brother stepped in he said he's the move he's like make me move also grabbed his backpack this kid i i try to whip around as fast as i could but i didn't see the stab but then i look at my my brother and then i'm not going to talk about the rest so just that's that's just what i saw and i mean i try to I try to help them, but... I just, I cannot imagine being that young man going through that kind of trauma, holding your brother, your twin brother, your best friend that you shared a womb with.

You held him while he took his final breath. You were with him when he took his first breath, and you held him as he took his final breath. Man, I just pray that Jesus would be close to this man. comfort him, help him use this testimony to strengthen him and to share the gospel with others because this could either make or break him. I mean, he could allow God to be near to him and to use him in very powerful ways one day or this could be the traumatic event that he just is never really able to recover from. And it can also be both. Like within our pain, within our sadness within our trauma. God can make beauty out of ashes. So just pray for him.

Pray that he would have people speaking truth into his life, comforting them there when he needs it. I think young men especially feel this burden to compartmentalize to kind of push away the hardship that they've endured to be strong, to not cry. And, you know, there is some benefit to that. There is some benefit to compartmentalization. I don't think that we need to be constantly pouring out our emotions, but emotions are also necessary. They're also good. And our capacity to feel pain is not a bad thing. It can actually be very healthy to recognize what we've endured. And so just pray for him and pray for his parents. His dad is reacting to this, Austin Metcalf's dad. He also gave an interview. I personally, I'm not sure why a family would want to give interview.

right after a tragedy like this happened. But maybe it's just to clear the record. Maybe they feel like they want to make sure that their son, that their brother is being represented correctly in the media. Maybe they just feel like they're speaking truth. I'm not sure. I just think that this would be so hard. It might be the last thing that I want to do after enduring a tragedy like this.

But here is Austin's dad saying, look, this is not about race, Sot 1. I want to make this very clear. This is not a race issue. This is not a black and white issue. I don't want someone stepping up on a soapbox trying to politicize this. I don't appreciate some of the remarks I've seen online that people say there was this fight and they don't know. They weren't there. Yeah.

And he is talking about, and as we'll get into, he's talking about like both sides there. Like he's not just talking about, oh, conservatives asking, does this have to do with anti-white prejudice? There are a lot of people as we will get into. who are not light, who are saying, oh, well, you know, these white kids must have been bullying him because he was black and this was the straw that broke the camel's back and he was just defending himself. And so I think this dad is probably addressing all kinds of commentary. If I were to give a recommendation to this dad, I would say don't look online. Don't read the comments. Don't be a part of this dialogue and discussion that's just going to make the pain worse. And I understand why the dad is saying this. Some people were mad

in thinking that he was defending the murderer. I don't think that's what he's doing. I think that he doesn't want this very real human tragedy to be a part of a political discussion. I understand that desire. It might not be feasible because so much is understandably political and cultural today, but I understand why he wants to say that, of course, but I would just encourage him to log off, to not look at any of the discussion. He also said this, which caused a lot of disagreement, I would say especially among Christians, about whether or not this is the right approach to forgiveness. Here's not too. This is murder. I don't know. I know they have someone in custody. And you know what? I already forgive this.

person already already god takes care of things god's going to take care of me god's going to take care of my family his mom and his brother um they have a different take on this here's top three i am not like their dad i am so angry at that boy it's just just not fair that's all i'm I understand. I like to say it's not fair. I'd like to say it's for Dave, not forgotten, but I'm not at that point yet to forgive that kid boy. He did to my brother because, you know, 17 years, my best friend just there and didn't blink

of an eye. I lost him. Oh, that sweet boy. I just feel for him so much. Here's my take on this because a lot of people were mad. How could the father go on there and forgive? There was a story a couple years, a few years ago now. I might have been five years ago, so I can't even remember the names of the people,

but it was a white female police officer who accidentally shot and killed a young black man. It was a terrible thing. She was definitely in the wrong, but it wasn't some purposeful, malicious incident. And I remember, the name is on the tip of my tongue, but I remember the brother in the courtroom, the brother of the victim hugged the police officer and held her and said, I forgive you. And a lot of people on the left were upset with him for showing that kind of grace and mercy to her.

But it was really a beautiful moment. Here's my take on this is that both of these reactions right now by the mom and brother and by the dad are okay. I think both of these reactions are okay. I understand where both of them are coming from. I do not think it is correct to say the Christian is called to unconditionally and immediately forgive no matter what. Now, that might be scandalous to say.

I don't think that that is the biblical example or the explanation that we are given for Christian forgiveness. So let me explain this a little more. Ephesians 432, one of my favorite verses, be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you. So as God in Christ forgave you, obviously God and Christ forgave us a lot. We are born in sin. We are dead in our sin apart from Christ. As Ephesians 2 says, there's nothing we can do to clean ourselves off, to pick ourselves up, to make ourselves worthy,

or acceptable before God. It was Jesus's perfect sacrifice that wiped our slate clean that saved us by grace through faith in him. This was a gift, not our own doing, not a result of work so that no one can boast. That's the rest of Ephesians 2, verses 8 through 10. And so how God in Christ forgave us, it was a whole lot for people who completely betrayed him who were following the prince of the power of the air who were sons and daughters of disobedience for God to reach down and to save those who mocked him, who disdained him, who wanted nothing

to do with him simply because of his love for us. Like that is a lot of forgiveness. But we do know that God's forgiveness through Christ comes by grace through faith and that grace-powered repentance before God is a prerequisite for God's forgiveness. That does not mean that we earn it. That doesn't mean that we are making ourselves acceptable before him on our own, through our own efforts. It is powered by the Holy Spirit, but that repentance is a necessary step in forgiveness

and ultimately salvation. And so I think that. When we read in Matthew 18, Jesus say that you are to forgive. How many times are you to forgive? He answers, Peter, I don't say seven times, but I say to you 77 times. That's Matthew 1821. When Peter says, how often will my brother send against me and I forgive him? Jesus is basically saying, he's not literally saying 77 times. He's like as many times as it takes. You keep on forgiving. But I think if we read in context, we are not just talking about blanket, a blanket unconditional forgiveness immediately in every circumstance. We are talking about within these interpersonal relationships, especially with our fellow Christians, people who are seeking our forgiveness,

people who are repenting. If we read the parable directly after Jesus says this, I think we get some clarity. If you start in verse 23, this is kind of long. You probably know this parable already. Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold with his wife and children in all that he had and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, have patience with me.

and I will pay you everything. And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when the same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred dinari. And seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, pay what you owe. So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, have patience with me and I will pay you. He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distracted. And they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him,

You wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because he pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant as I had mercy on you? And in anger, his master delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his debt. So also, my heavenly father will do to every one of you if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. So Jesus is saying, God had this great mercy on you, forgave you all of your wrongs, your sins, everything you did against him. You now, therefore, have the responsibility to show the same mercy and forgiveness to someone else. You can't be cruel to others who are seeking your forgiveness after God is forgiven you. But we see in this story that the fellow servant that needed that

forgiveness and mercy was seeking it, that he was repentant. He was seeking that forgiveness and the other servants should have given it to him. And same at the very beginning when we see the original servant who ended up being a wicked servant. When he got his debt cleared, he was asking, he was repentant. And so I think it is okay in some cases to withhold forgiveness from someone who is not repentant. Now, let me give a caveat to that because we also read in Ephesians 431, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice. Okay. So even if someone has not repented, even if Carmelo Anthony is proud of what he has done, even if he is not repentant, I still think that the father is right to let go of

bitterness and to say the justice system is going to work how it's going to work and God avenges and he's going to take care of me and he's going to take care of the situation and I am letting this go. I will not allow it to make me callous. I will not allow it to make me hateful. I will not allow it to cause me anxiety and to burden me. I think that that is still correct. And I wonder, and you can let me know what you think about this because I'm still working this out myself. I wonder if it is possible to say, I have not forgiven that person yet, but I have let it go. But I'm not allowing it to crush me anymore. I am not allowing it to make me bitter or resentful because I trust in God's goodness.

I trust that he is going to take care of wickedness once and for all. And for you to pray for that person as your enemy and to bless them instead of curse them and to want salvation for them, want redemption for them, want what is best for them. That doesn't mean that you want them to escape justice because earthly justice is instituted by God for our good and for the good of the most vulnerable. I wonder if it's possible to hold all of those things at the same time. You can let me know what you think about that. Obviously for the Christian, having bitterness and resentment and hatred and not trusting God to take care of you is really not the option.

But even there, I do think that there is a Holy Spirit-powered process that has to happen after situations like this. The reaction to this has just been insane and it's been very, very sad. Carmelo's dad says that Carmelow was a quote-unquote good kid. emphasizing his positive attributes by noting that he works two jobs is an A student. And it's pretty typical for parents to defend their kids in situations like this, but he insists to the New York Post that Carmelo was not the aggressor and not the one who started the altercation that led to the stabbing, suggesting his son was provoked into the violent act. And that's just where we've gone too far.

That's just where we've gone too far. There is no witness that says that, yeah, this was justified because it looked like Austin Metcalf was trying to kill him. This was a disproportionate reaction. It does not matter if Austin Metcalf said something intimidating to him, was rude to him, cussed at him. And I'm not even saying he did any of these things. But hypothetically, if he had, if he had been aggressive, if he had pulled him up by his backpack,

if he had pushed him over, if he had punched him. None of that is a justification for stabbing someone in the heart. That is not an excuse for fatal force. You have to feel, you have to reasonably believe that your life is in danger, that someone is about to take fatal force against you to justify your own fatal force in self-defense. And the fact that we have not only his dad, but as you will see, hundreds, if not thousands of people online saying, well, that's what you get for starting a fight. That's what you get for putting your hands on someone.

That's what you get for disrespect. You even have people making up complete total rumors that this guy said the N-word to him. There is absolutely no witness testimony verifying that. It's almost become a meme at this point. When something like this happens, when there is a black aggressor against a white person, you always see this rumor start to circulate. Oh, he must have said the worst thing possible that you can say to a black person without any evidence whatsoever. That is a horrible accusation to logic against a person. And guess what? Even if he had said it, it wouldn't justify this. You know that, right? It doesn't matter what someone says to you, what someone calls you. That doesn't justify violence, especially fatal violence. It doesn't

matter the amount of disrespect you feel. It doesn't matter how rude they were to you that that doesn't justify killing someone ever, no matter what your skin color is. I just want to make sure that we all know that because we can't live as a society if there's one subset of Americans being taught by their parents that, okay, words are never a justification for violence. Murder is absolutely off the table and you should avoid all forms of physical aggression as long as you possibly can in every circumstance that you possibly can. And physical aggression should only be reserved for certain situations where you have to definitive. yourself or defend a vulnerable person that is being abused or being assaulted or being seriously endangered in some way. In every other circumstance, you should use your words. Now, you can say, okay, well, Austin Metcalf should have done that too. He shouldn't have

pulled the backpack. Okay, that's fine, but that's not a justification for murder. Okay? So one subset of Americans is hearing that message from their parents. And if another subset of Americans is hearing, yeah, if you're disrespected, you get yours. If someone says something to you or it calls you by a name, it's because of your skin color, or it's because of your background, or it's because of X, Y, Z, and you got to defend yourself. You got to do whatever it takes. You got to kill them. You got to get them. You got to ruin them. This reminds me of Ethan Lemming. Remember this story? This happened in Ohio a couple years ago at LeBron James's school that he established there.

There was a white kid that was shooting like a water gun with his friends at kids who happened to be black in like a parking lot at their school. While those kids that were getting shot with a water gun, it was like very obviously a water gun, it didn't look like a real gun. They beat this kid to a pulp until he died. And even when Ethan's friends were saying, stop, stop, like he's unconscious, stop. stop. They curb stomped dumb. They beat him to death. You probably didn't see a whole lot of media outrage about that because apparently they felt disrespected. A disproportionate response is a sign of a

lack of impulse control. Very often a sign of bad parenting, but definitely like a deep character issue. And if that is true on any systemic level, among any kind of person with any kind of skin color that is a huge threat to the safety of society. Okay. So there's no excuse for this going on, despite what some people are saying. We'll get into that in a second. Let me pause and tell you about Share the Arrows. I just wanted to remind you that Share the Arrows is October 11th in Dallas, Texas, outside of Dallas, Texas, and we're super excited about it. We are so pumped about all the speakers that we have. We've got Ginger Duggarvolo. We've got Elisa Childers, the Apologist. We've got a health panel,

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too. It is such an edifying day, and you will be given so much courage, and I will be speaking as well. Go to sharetheaeros.com. That's sharetheaeros.com. All right. So we've got this person, Tariq Nishid. Now, he is, I almost don't even think he's a person, a real human, because he says stuff like this all of the time. But the reason why it's, I think, important to include him is because he riles real people up with these ridiculous statements. And so he posted two pictures, very strategic pictures. You've got Carmelo Anthony in his suit and tie. And then, I mean, there are pictures where, I mean, Carmelo Anthony is holding guns. He's like flicking off the camera. too. And I'm not saying that that is what makes someone a murder or make someone guilty, but I'm just

saying strategic choice of picture here. He's got a suit and tie on. And then he's got a picture of the Metcalf brothers and they are clearly in hunting gear and they're holding guns. They're in Camo. And I guess that's supposed to make us think that they're bad people. I actually saw one commenter say, I saw those brothers in Camo knew they were racist and knew Carmel. Anthony was defending himself, which is really sad. But Tariq Nishit said a suspected white supremacist named Austin Metcalf pictured with his twin, allegedly demanded honor student. Carmelo Anthony give up his seat like it was the Jim Crow era.

Carmelo defended himself from the alleged threat. The Daniel Penny case set this precedent. This is so ridiculous in every single level. Daniel Penny actually did stop a threat. The person that he was trying to hold back was. threatening people on a subway. And so he put him in a headlock until he calmed down. And we all hope for people like Daniel Penny when we are in public places. And a dude who is losing his mind is making us feel unsafe. All of us are really hoping that there's a brave, strong man around who is willing to do

the right thing. This has nothing to do with that. Austin Metcalf was not a threat to anybody. And he was in the wrong seat. Carmelo Anthony was, according to witness testimony, actually is. in the wrong seat. And then you've got people, Mike bags. Whenever white supremacist immediately flood our mentions before the full story is even out, you know something's up. It turns out Austin Metcalfe was the aggressor and the black kid, Carmelo Anthony, was defending himself. Again, completely, completely wrong. You've got people comparing this to Kyle Rittenhouse. Again, whatever you think about where Kyle Rittenhouse should have been in Waukeshawn on that night, he also was defending himself, literally against fatal force.

He's got Bishop Talbert Swan, another one of these ridiculous grifters who said, y'all said 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was justified in killing two people with an AR-15 because he felt threatened. 17-year-old Carmelo Anthony was defending himself when he killed Austin Metcalfe with a knife. Okay, no, it's different. When you are defending yourself against someone who is armed, who is trying to kill you, that self-defense. when you kill someone because they touched your backpack and told you to move, that's not self-defense.

And then I posted a video about how awful this is and that it speaks to so many societal issues that we have parenting problems, violence problems, lack of self-control problems, disrespect culture problems, so many different things. And I posted that video on Instagram and Facebook and I got a ton of comments from people saying things like this. There's a video of twins bullying, bullying brothers jumping him. Okay, the grammar is not great on Facebook, jumping him and others. You forgot to say they put their hands on him first. Y'all say whatever soothes your soulless soul.

What I don't even know? That's not even true. There's not video of the brothers bullying him. Another person, really, was you there? First learned the truth talking on something you don't know about. Was you in Frisco, Texas? No. So you saying this is bad, but what you think you doing is good, but the child had a choice that was

adult's job, not the child. Why no adult called to handle it? Not that, okay, I'm actually not trying to like make fun of this person. The thrust of what they're saying is you're blaming a child for doing something and you shouldn't have. Someone else said, stop lying. Those twins were bullies and the young man was defending himself. Again, not true. Another person, y'all doing a whole lot of assuming over headlines. Witnesses said that Austin was the one putting his hands on Carmelo before it escalated. You're promoting the death penalty and assuming you know what that child's home is like. You, ma'am, are sick. I don't know what the child's home was like. I have no idea what his parent life was. But yeah, I do think that he should be tried as an adult and that the death penalty should be on the table. We read biblically, Genesis 9,

that the death penalty is the proportionate and right punishment for murder. And by the way, I think it can be argued that this was premeditated possibly. I mean, he brought a knife to attract me. Why would you bring a knife to attract me? Another person, girl, child, carry on, the sins of generations of oppressors. God is judging. If you know, you know. So apparently the argument there is that Austin Metcalf was murdered because someone

who might have looked like him 200 years ago owned slaves. Yeah, that's the biblical definition of justice. We all know that God punishes the, um, Current generation for the sins of not just their ancestors, but someone who might have looked like them a very long time ago, definitely. Another person tell the truth. The kid attacked him first. Should he have stabbed him? No. Okay. He didn't attack him. He didn't attack him. It is very frightening to me that these people, many of these people who probably have kids themselves, believe that you can stab someone, murder someone. murder someone because they touched your backpack because they pushed you we can't we can't live in society together if that is how we feel and I saw someone because I posted some of the screenshots of these I posted them on X and I saw someone say why are you only posting the comments of black

women I didn't do that on purpose at all I just screenshoted the comments on my Facebook post maybe there are people commenting on my Facebook post who don't fit that demographic. I have no idea. These were just the comments I saw. The fact that they all happen to be black women, I don't know. Like, I'll let you decide why that is. It's crazy to me, though, that we would be defending a murder. I don't know if these people are defending him because of his skin color, because of shared ethnicity, shared melanin count, but that is idolatry. That is sick. You cannot think this way. whether you are white or black as a race idolater and still execute justice. You can't because justice is blind.

Justice is impartial. Justice is truthful. We see that modeled for us throughout scripture. So if you are unable to see right from wrong, if you are unable to see truth from facts because of the skin colors of the perpetrators of the victims of the people involved, then you have no business. No business being a part of a society that values freedom and justice. You just don't. You are actually an impediment to justice for all kinds of people.

I mean, that is why our justice system works. It's not perfect because it's made up of fallible people, but because we believe in this unique concept that justice must be blind, that it must not be a respecter of persons, that we should not be prosecuting people or sentencing people based on their background, based on their skin color. Unfortunately, though, that is what social justice ideology teaches because social justice and actual justice are not the same. They're very different. Social justice says you should weigh someone's skin color. You should weigh their socioeconomic background.

You should weigh whether or not their parents or grandparents or great-grandparents may have been oppressed or may have been oppressors. And if you're making all of those calculations, you're never going to get to an actual just equitable conclusion. You should read Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Soul. You'll understand it. So there is a GoFundMe or was a GoFundMe for Carmelo Anthony. Support Carmelo Anthony's legal defense. But thankfully, GoFundMe reportedly took down the fundraiser.

Now there's a Givesend Go. Someone named Malcolm X is King to Me on X. posted a screenshot, an old screenshot of the Givesend Go. the whites are in shambles because we took care of our own. See, this is the kind of like April Thompson was saying yesterday, she calls it ethnic narcissism. This kind of ethnic narcissism blinds you to reality and morality. It always will, no matter what your skin color is. And it's very sad.

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And this has 100. 173,000 likes, or at least when we got the screenshot it did. It probably has more than that now. And it had over 7,000 comments. And Matt Walsh is always just going to say it. Like, he's always going to say what he's thinking. He's always going to say it in the clearest terms. And there's just a lot to appreciate about that. He said, if I told you that a young man stabbed another young man to death for telling him that he was in the wrong seat. And then I told you that one young man in this altercation was white and the other black. And then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant. Every single person would know the answer immediately. young black males are violent to a wildly outrageously disproportionate degree. That's just a fact. We all know it. And it's time that we speak honestly about it or nothing will ever change. So this is actually true. It is a very uncomfortable truth.

And maybe you could argue that this is not relevant to what happened with Carmelo, Anthony, and Austin Metcalfe, that this could have happened between any two people. maybe this Carmelo Anthony kid doesn't have a history of violence at all. But when the conversation is almost always that the white person is in the wrong, that they had what was coming to them, that they must have been racist, or if the roles are reversed, that it must have been motivated by white supremacy, you're going to have people out there trying to set the record straight factually. And the reality is that this is true.

We have a very small portion of the population. I think black men make up about probably 6% of the population. If black Americans are 13% of the population, then black men would probably be about half of that. So you've got 6% of the population that account for 40 to 50% of all homicides in this country. And it's actually less than that because obviously not every black American man is going to be a murderer. So you're looking at probably like 3% or less of the population accounting for a huge percentage of the homicides in this country. And actually, you wouldn't know it by the media coverage that we have. But according to FBI data, homicide data from 2019, it is a black person is 2.3 times more likely to kill a white person than the reverse.

And yet, if you look at the media coverage, you will only see the real. races of the people involved when there is a white perpetrator and a black victim. The Washington Free Beacon noted this. They said, according to a review by the Washington Free Beacon done in 2022, analyzing articles published between 2019 and 2021, a white offender's race was mentioned in roughly one out of every four articles compared with one in 17 articles about a black offender. And so the reason why there is, why there was so much backlash to what Matt Walsh said, of course, there are some people out there who think that you can't say anything negative at all about a black person without it being white supremacist or racist or bigoted or wrong. But also,

the reason why there was such pushback is because people don't believe that that's true. They don't believe the statistics spare that out when it actually is statistically true. Even according to hate crime data, which Matt Walsh notes, which I'm not even sure is reliable because I don't think the FBI really has any motivation to like properly, to properly report on this. But it is far more likely for a black person to commit a crime against a white person of that nature than the other way around, even though white people make up about 60% of the population and black Americans make up about 13% of the population. So when he says, yeah, there's a disproportionate violence problem among those who happen

to be black that is actually statistically and factually true. Now, they are most likely, black Americans are most likely to kill black Americans, white Americans most likely to kill white Americans. Same with Hispanic Americans. Only demographic that that is not true for, Asian Americans are most likely to be killed, not by another Asian, but actually by a black American. black person. Again, that is remarkable considering that they are such a small portion of the population. That is a very uncomfortable truth. No one should take joy in talking about that. Maybe you could argue

that's not the time and the place that's not relevant here again, but it is actually true. And if we care about black lives, like if we care about our communities who are filled with all different kinds of people, if we care about our children, we should care about that fact. The facts actually do matter. The statistics actually do matter. And we should be asking why. What is going on? And there are people, I'm certainly not the first person to say that, but beyond just, well, it's probably white Republicans. Like, it's probably just this abstract issue of white supremacy. I promise you nothing will ever, ever, ever get done or ever get better if that is the direction that we always go. Jason Whitlock pointed this out. of course he got a lot of applause, but also a lot of pushback.

Jason says, unfortunately, black Americans have been brainwashed in the demonic black culture religion established by Hollywood and the music industry. I don't know what you think about that. If you think that is, if you think that's true, but Jason Whitlock talks about this a lot. And obviously, as someone who grew up in quote unquote black culture himself, it would seem like he knows a little bit about it. No matter what, no matter what races were involved. this is absolutely a tragedy. Some people are like, don't just pray for Austin Metcalf's family.

Pray for Anthony Carmela's too. And obviously I agree with that. Please. Like, pray for their comfort, but pray that they would see truth. Pray that justice would be carried out here. Pray somehow for God to be glorified. And pray somehow for revival and awakening in all of our hearts that we would all be pursuing goodness and do a better job of raising our kids to not be like this to not make this kind of decision. It's very sad. All right. My last sponsor for the day is Adele Natural Cosmetics. I love Adele. I use their products every day. I use their essential cleanser every night. It takes all my makeup off and makes my skin feel really smooth. I love their exfoliator too. It's got like a coffee smell to it. I do that about once a week and it makes your skin

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