Posted on June 17, 2026

What Does It Take to Wake Up White People?

Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, June 17, 2026

The killing of Austin Metcalf.


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I’ve spent 35 years wondering what it takes to wake up white people, and we have a tragic example in Jeff Metcalf. He is the father of Austin Metcalf, the 17-year-old white boy murdered by Karmelo Anthony. Karmelo took a knife to a track meet and sat down in a tent that belonged to a different team, where he didn’t belong.

Austin, who was responsible for the team tent, asked Karmelo to leave many times.

Karmelo cursed him, dared Austin to touch him, and then stabbed him to death. His self-defense claim was so flimsy, a mixed-race jury found him guilty in less than three hours, and he got 35 years.

Initially, Jeff Metcalf, the father, forgave Karmelo and was adamant that the incident had nothing to do with race and condemned anyone who said it did. Just a few days later, he showed up at a press conference called by Karmelo’s family, hoping for reconciliation.

“The only thing I would have said was, ‘Okay, can we pray together and show the world we’re united?’ ” he explained. Karmelo’s family called the police and kicked him out.

A year later, after the trial, Father Jeff was contemptuous of Karmelo’s black supporters and called his killer a “watermelon felon.”

Jeff Metcalf lost a son and then had his nose rubbed in it — over and over — before he finally saw that blacks are often utterly blinded by race. Fortunately, this case got a lot of press and, like the OJ Simpson trial 33 years earlier, it has persuaded a few white people — I hope a lot of white people — that the old idea of living happily together is a joke.

I’ll get to one such person later.

During the trial, Karmelo supporters outside the courthouse shouted down anyone who doubted the killing was self-defense. Austin Metcalf died in the arms of his twin brother, who was also on the track team. Karmelo supporters said the twin should have been arrested or that Karmelo should have killed then both.

And after the verdict? “Everyone lied on the stand,” said Mom. I guess that included black witnesses. As the Daily Mail’s reporter who covered the trial noted, “We have now heard from six teens who were at the stadium the day Austin Metcalf was stabbed by Karmelo Anthony. Four out of the six are black. All have testified that Karmelo Anthony was asked to leave the Memorial HS team tent, provoked Austin Metcalf, and pulled a knife before or whileAustin had even pushed Karmelo.”

There were no blacks on the jury, but including the six alternates, there were six non-whites, including a Muslim in a hijab. Karmelo’s parents — in the courtroom every day — apparently never looked at the jury, which they claimed was all white. In interviews, Karmelo’s father wore a “Believe Karmelo” T-shirt, but we don’t know whether to believe him or not, because he never testified — no doubt because he would have been a terrible witness.

At least one potential black juror was disqualified because he told the judge, “I wouldn’t feel right putting a brother in jail.” And so, of course, a YouTube show called Gin and Juice is now telling blacks to lie so they can get on juries and keep blacks out of jail.

If a black had been on the jury and refused to convict, there would have been no verdict, and Karmelo’s grandmother would not have had to scream “Racist. Bias,” as she left the courthouse.

And Donna Robinson would still have her job of more than 10 years as a Texas parole board supervisor. She got the boot after posting about the bereaved Metcalfs:

“I for one don’t give fk about the family’s loss. It’s about time these fkng bigots feel the pain that they have inflicted on other groups of people since the beginning of time! I’m just glad we didn’t have to bury another black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK’em I said what I said.

MLK’s daughter Bernice joined the chorus: “Justice is still being administered through a system with a long history of racial disparity in sentencing and punishment.”

Someone called Cardi B is – well, I’m not quite sure what she is – but she regaled her 37 million X followers with her view of the verdict: “Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING.”

There was an internet trend of black people posting doctored photos of themselves peeing on Austin Metcalf’s grave.

Roland Martin, who claims to be “The Voice of Black America” invited “legal analyst” and former prosecutor Thelma Anderson to explain the verdict to his 2 million subscribers: The witnesses all lied, “the energy was white supremacy,” the courtroom was a “slaughterhouse,” and the prosecutor sees blacks as “free labor.”

Stacy Patton, Associate professor at Howard University, told the father, Jeff Metcalf, that it was all his fault:

“YOU failed to teach your boy that black children have boundaries. YOU failed [to] teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jurisdiction. YOU failed to teach him that another child’s space is not a challenge to be conquered.”

A black nobody on X tweeted: “Black kids are the only kids who can’t afford to make mistakes without dire consequences” — and got 3.7 million views and 35 thousand likes.

Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett unbosomed her fear that every day young black men fear death at the hands of whites.

During her free ride to Houston law school, I guess she never learned that black men are about 12 times more likely to be killed by blacks than by whites.

Jasmine was joined by Congressmen Jonathan Jackson of Illinois, Shomari Figures of Alabama, and Christian Menefee of Texas, who all roared about the verdict.

The NAACP complained that “Black defendants face unequal outcomes compared to other similar situations.”

Our justice system wasn’t built for this. It assumes that jurors can weigh evidence fairly. Many blacks won’t. All they see is race. For them, a trial is just another form of tribal warfare.

Countless blacks believe that Trayvon Martin, Rodney King, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Ahmaud Arbery and on and on and on are martyrs to white supremacy. “Justice” for them means just one thing—stick it to whitey.

For years, I have said that if race relations were a marriage, we’d call it “irreconcilable differences,” grounds for divorce. More people now agree.

Tom Woods is a prominent libertarian and host of the very popular “Tom Woods Show.”

In a 2022 book, National Divorce, he wrote that liberals and conservatives are hopelessly divided and need to separate.

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The Karmelo verdict pushed him my way. He wrote: “After 7 decades of ‘civil rights’ activism, we have a huge black population that believes murder ought to be legal if against a white person.” He listed endless things whites have done for blacks, he ended with this: “[W]e have done everything humanly possible for you, and received only hatred and ingratitude in return. You are on your own now.”

Except they aren’t on their own and won’t be unless we make it happen. But isn’t it obvious? They will never happy. And wake up, white people — it’s not our job to make them happy. Name one person who truly believes this will all work out in the end. Just one.

We have dragged this ball and chain for 300 years, and we are tired. Are we going to break that chain or are we going to make our children fight the battle we were too spineless to fight? This will end one way or another, and the sooner the better.