Hate the Hate

Yesterday, convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony broke down in tears when his guilty verdict was read, and he was taken into police custody. Another life lost. I am not claiming that he is not guilty, and I’m also not claiming that he should receive a lighter sentence, I’m nearly pointing out that this is another young life lost. He’ll spend the next 35 years in prison. We can pass it off as just another thug who’s getting what he deserves, but I think that may be the wrong thinking. This is a troubled teen who became influenced by the worst elements of our culture. Over the last 40 years, there has been a steady vilification of white people in our society and our media. The white race, white males, straight white people have been systematically maligned and denigrated by segments of our society. If you go onto certain left-wing media outlets, or if you’ve delved into the bowels of the dark web, you’ll come away thinking that all white people are evil, and that all white people deserve to die.

Karmelo Anthony is a victim of this culture of hate, the same way that Luigi Mangione is a victim of that culture, the same way that Thomas Crooks was a victim, and Tyler Robinson. Anthony, Mangione, Crooks, Robinson are all pawns in this game of hate that’s being played on our society. They had been indoctrinated to hate certain people. Donald Trump has been called a Nazi and the next Adolf Hitler almost on a daily basis for the last ten years, and there have been three assassination attempts on his life. Health insurance CEOs have been made out to be evil capitalists who don’t care if people live or die, that’s why Brian Thompson was shot and killed in cold blood. Charlie Kirk – one of the godliest people I have ever seen – was portrayed as a hateful white supremacist, misogynist, and that’s why Tyler Robison is facing life imprisonment for his murder. Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson are being hailed as cult heroes as they sit in the prison cells for murder. That’s is how depraved the people on the left are.

White people are continually painted as evil by the left. Terms, such as white privilege, white supremacy, white colonialism, white slave owners, have been tossed around so easily with zero regard for their impact. We are told that all white people are irredeemably racist. White people are pressured into making land acknowledgments because “we” viciously stole the land from the peace-loving Native Americans. We have to continually apologize for our whiteness. College dorms and certain spaces on campuses are segregated to keep white people out. They’re flooding predominantly white countries with Third World people of color in an attempt to eventually eliminate the white race altogether, and all of this is portrayed as a good. This is what’s happening in our country and around the world. And that is what young adults like Karmelo Anthony are seeing and hearing on the daily basis, and taking actions into their own hands.

If you’re a black teen in America, who only watches left-wing media, it is not surprising if you end up hating all white people and thinking that all white people are evil and deserve to die because that’s what they have been told 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the people on the left. At least once a week, there is a new video on social media of a person of color walking up to a white person on the street and randomly assaulting them for no reason, like it is their right to do it. Iryna Zarutska is dead because Decarlos Brown wanted to kill a “white girl”. Why did he want to kill a white girl? Maybe because all he saw his whole life was white equals evil.

We’re not allowed to see depictions of a good white person. They took classic literature like, To Kill a Mockingbird, off the shelves of public schools because it was infected with “white savior syndrome”. We are not allowed to see a portrayal of an honest white man who actually does good for a black man. That’s not allowed. That is somehow racist. When To Kill a Mockingbird was performed on Broadway, they changed the character of Atticus Finch – one of the great characters in American literature – into a stereotypical southern white racist because that’s the only way white people are allowed be depicted – as evil racists.

Karmelo Anthony went to the track meet that day carrying a deadly weapon and looking to provoke a white kid so he could stab and kill him because he’s been told from the time, he was born that all white people are evil. So, when he saw Austin Metcalf, he didn’t see a fellow high school student like himself, he saw evil. He saw evil incarnate. That’s why he provoked Metcalf, and that’s why he killed him. When Karmelo Anthony was being transported to prison last night, he most likely did not even know what he did wrong. He probably drove by protesters holding up signs that said “justice for Karmelo”, like he is the victim of white supremacy.

We continue to vilify our fellow man; we continue to teach our children to hate, but is Karmelo Anthony‘s life any better that he was taught to hate white people? Did the way that hatred manifest itself improve his life? Of course not. He’s going to spend the next 35 years in a jail cell. And the purveyors of anti-white hate do not care what happens to Anthony, they are just glad that another white kid was killed.

Thomas Crooks is dead because he listened to the hate; Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson will spend the majority of their lives in prison because they listened to the hate. Renee Goode and Alex Pretti are dead because they listened to the hate. Their lives are not better. They are infinitely worse. The people on the left do not care about these people. They were their minions, their pawns. Over 30 people were killed in the BLM riots of 2020 that were fomented by the lies and demagoguery of the left. We don’t even know their names because no one cares.

It is easy to fall into the trap of hate these days with the proliferation of social media. Hate is the most powerfully destructive emotions we have. That is why Jesus said, “love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute you.” We must reject the hate inside of us because going down the rabbit hole of hate will only lead to our own demise.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.