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Karmelo Anthony is facing judgment from an all-white jury. Not a single Black juror made the final panel. Whether you think he's guilty or innocent, it's fair to ask how a young Black defendant can be said to have a true jury of his peers when no one on...

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Minister Dominique Alexander, speaking on behalf of Karmelo Anthony's family, explained how he helped guide the family in selecting attorney Mike Howard, whose legal fee was reportedly $75,000. According to Alexander, the family initially sought Black legal representation. However, they were quoted a fee of $500,000, while the attorney they ultimately retained required a significantly lower amount at $75k The family raised enough money to assemble a legal dream team. They had the resources to secure some of the best legal minds available. Yet when the moment came to make a decision, cost became the determining factor. Freedom has never been cheap. Every gain won by Black people in America came at a price measured in blood, sacrifice, imprisonment, economic hardship, and relentless struggle. When the stakes involve the future of a young Black man facing a system that has historically treated Black defendants differently, the question should never be what costs less. The question should be what provides the strongest defense possible. A Black lead attorney would have brought more than legal expertise. They would have brought cultural understanding, historical context, and a deeper awareness of the racial dimensions that many believe surround this case. They would have been positioned to aggressively challenge racial bias, scrutinize jury selection, and fight to ensure that Black voices were represented in the jury box. Even if white attorneys were brought onto the legal team, Black legal leadership should have remained at the center of the defense strategy. Representation matters. Perspective matters. Understanding how race operates inside courtrooms matters. When a community mobilizes its resources to defend one of its own, the objective should not be securing the cheapest defense. The objective should be securing the strongest defense. There is a difference between saving money and maximizing justice. History has shown that Black families often pay a far greater price when they fail to recognize that distinction

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Phillip Scott -- founder of African Diaspora News, a YouTube channel with nearly 2 million subscribers -- says black Americans should NOT admit they would be partial to black defendants during jury selection, because a black juror would have helped acquit Karmelo Anthony. "Those of you who do get called to jury service, I think you should go. And you never know, you may be trying to help out a brother or sister. And when you go, when they ask you this question -- 'Hey, could you be fair?' Don't say, 'No, I ain't being fair.' Don't say no stupid crap like that. Please don't. Say, 'Yes, I can be fair. I can listen to the evidence,' because most of us can listen to evidence and be fair. Okay. And let's get on these juries, because if we can get on these juries, then you know if one black person get on a jury, it decreases our chances for conviction. Do you know that? It's all kind of studies about that -- about the more black jurors on the jury, the more that we have a chance of being acquitted. Not because black people just want to let go criminality. No, all of us do not agree with criminality. If you a black person in a black neighborhood committing crimes and being horrible, we want you out of there. We don't want you in the black community. Hell no. But if we see a situation like Karmelo Anthony, right?" "All Karmelo said is, 'If you physically touch me, I will defend myself if you do it.' That's basically what he was saying. So 'watch and see what happens' just mean 'I'm going to defend myself.' If a black person was in that jury room and they were saying that -- 'Yeah, he said touch me and watch what happens.' I'm like, 'Don't you got a right to, if you told me, if you put your hands on me I will defend myself? Would you be wrong for saying that to me?' Basically warning me do not put my hands on you. Every person would be right to warn a person: 'Don't touch me. Don't physically accost me. Don't punch me. Don't do nothing to me. Leave me alone.' [He does not explain how this warning justifies the stabbing] And nobody talks about how Austin Metcalf went over there to Karmelo Anthony. Had nothing to do with him. And if Karmelo Anthony was such a problem, why he didn't go get a police officer? That police officer's there. Why didn't you go get a school administrator? They were there. Why didn't he go do that?" "That was racial and we all know it. Any of us who have played these different schools, they got racism in them. We know them."

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