OldArmy71 said:
I agree with you. It does not in any way excuse this horrible, senseless murder, but I do believe it partially explains what was going on with KA.
As someone who grew up in the segregated/Jim Crow South, I have brooded on this issue for many, many years.
White people, including me, like to think to ourselves that black people no longer have any grounds for racial grievance. Segregation and Jim Crow are illegal and long in the past.
The problem is that millions of black people live with relatives--grandparents, for instance--or know people in the community who are my age (77) and who grew up in the same segregated world I grew up in.
The world of segregation is a living memory for those folks, and they pass those memories--and fears and resentments and angers--on to their children and grandchildren.
Many black people are able to go on with their lives and not be trapped in that past, but there are millions for whom that past is vividly real and can control their lives if they let it.
I grow more despairing that our society is just stuck in the past with not much of a way forward.
P.H. Dexippus said:Rep. Crockett: "Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through" pic.twitter.com/GVielzMf51
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026Rep. Crockett (D) says the knife used to kill Metcalf "was not a deadly weapon" pic.twitter.com/evYfecEhqW
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) suggests that she also would have stabbed Austin Metcalf: pic.twitter.com/TBn3txFSAi
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026
jagsdad said:P.H. Dexippus said:Rep. Crockett: "Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through" pic.twitter.com/GVielzMf51
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026Rep. Crockett (D) says the knife used to kill Metcalf "was not a deadly weapon" pic.twitter.com/evYfecEhqW
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) suggests that she also would have stabbed Austin Metcalf: pic.twitter.com/TBn3txFSAi
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026
300 lbs ??? Man, Austin is sure putting on weight for being unalived. Bet his coaches would like that secret.
Got a Natty! said:
Is anyone googling "Quitequa" to see where the heck it is?
You have to be a redneck to be from there.
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I grow more despairing that our society is just stuck in the past with not much of a way forward.
OldArmy71 said:
I grow more despairing that our society is just stuck in the past with not much of a way forward.
GaryClare said:
I have a question to ask you guys on the board. My wife and I were walking past a convenience store this morning. I saw a sign on the store advertising two 20 ounce Cokes for $3.75. I asked my wife, "who would pay $1.87 for a Coke?". She told me it wasn't "1950" and that is what a Coke costs.
Well, that triggered me. It brought me back to my high school days in 1980 at the field house where after practice all the "rich guys" bought Cokes out of the Coke machine. A Coke cost 25 cents back then but I didn't have 25 cents to spend on a Coke. So I just watched all the rich guys get Cokes and I got nothing but water from the water fountain.
My question: Am I disenfranchised and would it be ok if I picked a fight with a guy and then stabbed him in the chest with a knife?
If this is all ok, I am going to open up a GoFundMe to rally the community for support.
#JusticeForGary
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and support.
GaryClare said:
I have a question to ask you guys on the board. My wife and I were walking past a convenience store this morning. I saw a sign on the store advertising two 20 ounce Cokes for $3.75. I asked my wife, "who would pay $1.87 for a Coke?". She told me it wasn't "1950" and that is what a Coke costs.
Well, that triggered me. It brought me back to my high school days in 1980 at the field house where after practice all the "rich guys" bought Cokes out of the Coke machine. A Coke cost 25 cents back then but I didn't have 25 cents to spend on a Coke. So I just watched all the rich guys get Cokes and I got nothing but water from the water fountain.
My question: Am I disenfranchised and would it be ok if I picked a fight with a guy and then stabbed him in the chest with a knife?
If this is all ok, I am going to open up a GoFundMe to rally the community for support.
#JusticeForGary
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and support.
fc2112 said:
I'll sometimes see these cutesy family photos of Facebook with 6 generations of mothers all standing together and everyone is "oooooh that's so wonderful" and it's really just obvious all the women in this family roll over on their backs at about 14 years old.
Rapier108 said:OldArmy71 said:
I grow more despairing that our society is just stuck in the past with not much of a way forward.
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." -Booker T. Washington
VaultingChemist said:Got a Natty! said:
Is anyone googling "Quitequa" to see where the heck it is?
You have to be a redneck to be from there.
It's Quiteque, right next door to Turkey, Texas……home of Bob Wills.
If your geology professor was a a Western swing fan, you would make a side trip to pay homage.
fc2112 said:
I'll sometimes see these cutesy family photos of Facebook with 6 generations of mothers all standing together and everyone is "oooooh that's so wonderful" and it's really just obvious all the women in this family roll over on their backs at about 14 years old.
VaultingChemist said:Got a Natty! said:
Is anyone googling "Quitequa" to see where the heck it is?
You have to be a redneck to be from there.
It's Quiteque, right next door to Turkey, Texas……home of Bob Wills.
If your geology professor was a a Western swing fan, you would make a side trip to pay homage.
GaryClare said:
I have a question to ask you guys on the board. My wife and I were walking past a convenience store this morning. I saw a sign on the store advertising two 20 ounce Cokes for $3.75. I asked my wife, "who would pay $1.87 for a Coke?". She told me it wasn't "1950" and that is what a Coke costs.
Well, that triggered me. It brought me back to my high school days in 1980 at the field house where after practice all the "rich guys" bought Cokes out of the Coke machine. A Coke cost 25 cents back then but I didn't have 25 cents to spend on a Coke. So I just watched all the rich guys get Cokes and I got nothing but water from the water fountain.
My question: Am I disenfranchised and would it be ok if I picked a fight with a guy and then stabbed him in the chest with a knife?
If this is all ok, I am going to open up a GoFundMe to rally the community for support.
#JusticeForGary
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and support.
Got a Natty! said:
Is anyone googling "Quitequa" to see where the heck it is?
You have to be a redneck to be from there.
VaultingChemist said:Got a Natty! said:
Is anyone googling "Quitequa" to see where the heck it is?
You have to be a redneck to be from there.
It's Quiteque, right next door to Turkey, Texas……home of Bob Wills.
If your geology professor was a a Western swing fan, you would make a side trip to pay homage.
Ulysses90 said:Quote:
I grow more despairing that our society is just stuck in the past with not much of a way forward.
There is good reason for despair unless people who send their kids to public schools and universities take action to reverse the Long March Through the Institutions that Antonio Gramsci described over a century ago. The march began with the universities because that where the public school teachers are trained. Then they seized the public schools and after that the rest of the institutions in western society falling was a fait accompli.
The leaders of the institutions were completely unwilling to fight back against the leftists. Herbert Marcuse's Marxist disciples under the guise of the "free speech movement" seized Columbia and Berkeley in the early 1960s and every other university followed. By the end of the 20th century you had Larry Summers forced to resign as president of Harvard for making a noncontroversial statement that hurt the feelings of feminists and he had no defenders that mattered. A few years later you have a Marxist with a room temperature IQ in the person of Claudine Gay running Harvard and its massive endowment.
Purging the public schools of leftism is the strategic objective that cannot be bypassed. Putting it off delays any chance of victory by decades. I'm not sure that anyone including Donald Trump has the stomach to do this but it is essential.
Teachers control the teaching of history but they have replaced that with teaching a Marxist narrative that replaces history. Students don't learn history. They learn how to respond when confronted with historical facts by ascertaining who was the oppressed and who was the oppressor and that provides their lens of interpretation.
History and civics should be taught from the fundamental fact as stated by Tim Worstall that, "Abject poverty is the natural state of mankind, wealth the thing created." Leftist indoctrination has taught three generations of American public school student how to divide but never to multiply.
GaryClare said:
"who would pay $1.87 for a Coke?".
A Coke cost 25 cents back then but I didn't have 25 cents to spend on a Coke.
Am I disenfranchised and would it be ok if I picked a fight with a guy and then stabbed him in the chest with a knife?
AJ02 said:VaultingChemist said:Got a Natty! said:
Is anyone googling "Quitequa" to see where the heck it is?
You have to be a redneck to be from there.
It's Quiteque, right next door to Turkey, Texas……home of Bob Wills.
If your geology professor was a a Western swing fan, you would make a side trip to pay homage.
Not gonna lie. I thought "Quitequa" was a black person's name.
FrioAg 00 said:
Our standard of living, even for the "poor", has risen to levels it's difficult to comprehend. What's worse, because all we ever focus on is relative standards of living, somehow no one is even happy about the great lives we're living.
Or maybe we always underestimated how much do the reward was in the struggle, and not the outcome. Maybe both.
But you could take the "top 1%" from 50 years ago and describe the world today to them and they'd never believe it. Cars that rarely don't work, 3k to 5k square foot houses as a standard, true 40 hour work weeks are seen as really grinding, everywhere you go your AC, then entire universe of data at your fingertips at all times, food and groceries delivered to your home, effectively universal healthcare available 24/7, most people taking 2-4 vacations per year, etc
Everyone today is entitled beyond what they can comprehend
Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff, labels Karmelo Anthony a “watermelon felon”, acknowledging the racial element of his son’s murder after initially trying to offer Anthony’s family grace.
— AF Post (@AFpost) June 11, 2026
Anthony and his supporters justified Metcalf’s murder as revenge against racism and White…
Serious Lee said:
father metcalf isnt holding back after the gag orders been lifted. Did a pretty spicy interview with Sarah Fields last night which produced this soundbite, which should be all over the news shortly.Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff, labels Karmelo Anthony a “watermelon felon”, acknowledging the racial element of his son’s murder after initially trying to offer Anthony’s family grace.
— AF Post (@AFpost) June 11, 2026
Anthony and his supporters justified Metcalf’s murder as revenge against racism and White…
jagsdad said:
300 lbs ??? Man, Austin is sure putting on weight for being unalived. Bet his coaches would like that secret.
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You can call a spade a spade here.
Owlagdad said:
If white folks just get up and leave, will the blacks think have some sort of victory, some sort of superiority?
Backyard Gator said:Serious Lee said:
father metcalf isnt holding back after the gag orders been lifted. Did a pretty spicy interview with Sarah Fields last night which produced this soundbite, which should be all over the news shortly.Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff, labels Karmelo Anthony a “watermelon felon”, acknowledging the racial element of his son’s murder after initially trying to offer Anthony’s family grace.
— AF Post (@AFpost) June 11, 2026
Anthony and his supporters justified Metcalf’s murder as revenge against racism and White…
I mean, he tried to be the bigger man and they continually spit on him, then they attacked him and his family.
Can you blame him?
He had to keep quiet and internalize his rage all through the lead up to the trial and through the trial. His son was murdered April 2, 2025, so 433 days between losing his son and the conviction. 433 days of biting his tongue and saying nothing while they slandered him and his family. 433 days while they called him a racist and both of his sons bullies.
Now his son's murderer is convicted, and received a light 35 year sentence. He has doesn't have closure, because while people are still out there screaming about the 'injustice' of Anthony's conviction and sentence, he returns home to a wife and son and huge hole in his heart because his son is still gone.
I'm honestly impressed at his self-restraint.
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) June 10, 2026
🚨 BREAKING / RECEIPTS: Thelma Anderson was presented online as a legal voice after the Karmelo Anthony verdict but there is one very important detail people were not told.
— AMERICA FIRST 🇺🇸 (@DavideZ1911) June 11, 2026
The State Bar of Texas currently lists Ms. Thelma M. Anderson as “Not Eligible to Practice in Texas” with… pic.twitter.com/mZWabN1MB8