Amala Ekpunobi
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And of course, because this is a black kid who stabbed a white kid, it almost seems like the split on this is fully because of race.
The people who are calling for justice for Carmelo Anthony are heavily indicating that a lot of the reason
that he is facing a first degree murder charge is because he happens to be black.
That if the rules were reversed and this was a white kid who killed a black kid, that we wouldn't be having this conversation.
No, we'd be having the same conversation.
because the law still applies.
I honestly think if this was a white kid who stabbed a black kid, we wouldn't have, I don't know, $620,000 raised for him for 18,000 people.
People get money for just about anything these days because they think
We are so fueled by our own opinions on things rather than the facts of what has taken place that maybe I'm wrong about that.
This is just so insane to me.
And now we're going to get to the jury.
Because you're gonna see a lot of articles coming up, a lot of statements being made about the fact that there are no black jurors for this particular trial.
In fact, People Magazine published this recently, no black jurors chosen for Carmelo Anthony trial in fatal Texas track meet stabbing.
You're gonna see a whole bunch of videos where people are coming forward and saying that this case is essentially rigged, that he's done for from the start because there are no black jurors and intentionally so,
for this trial now let me remind everybody both sides have to agree to the jury pool okay and they go through the jurors and they decide who they want to have on the jury and they are both both sides are accepting of that but we're getting tick tocks like this and let's follow here and see the argument made
You'd be curious to know whether or not they did any background checking as to whether or not