Charles Coleman

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4,277 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 5d ago

Charles Coleman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Don Lemon Show · D.L. Hughley on Trump, the Knicks & the Karmelo Anthony Case · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, Don, there is an adultification of Black males that goes, well, Black children, both male and female. voice-verified

So there are two prongs to this. voice-verified

One is, like you said, Texas is one of the states, one of the few states who still has some of these automatic triggers around voice-verified

trying youths as adults under certain circumstances. voice-verified

And that's not necessarily a universal practice in the United States. voice-verified

It is a state-by-state specific consideration. voice-verified

But the other problem is that historically, going back to slavery, Don, there is a history voice-verified

of adultification of Black children in such a way that we see them and perceive them, particularly people who are not Black, see and perceive them as being anywhere between an entire year to an entire three years older than what they are. voice-verified

The significance of what that means beyond the law, Don, is how we discuss the case, voice-verified

how he processed the case how jurors actually see carmelo anthony they are not able to process not necessarily always able to process him as a teenager as as monique made a very important point pointing out when she was describing him a boy voice-verified

The language that has been used in media, the language that we use to talk about our young men, our boys, oftentimes races them ahead in terms of their perception in the public. voice-verified

And in this case, I would submit before the court voice-verified

and before the court of public opinion for many people in ways that do not allow them the protection of innocence that we see when we have discussions about, for example, Kyle Rittenhouse. voice-verified

There is an infantilization of voice-verified

offenders who are not black that we do not enjoy. voice-verified

And therefore, when you strip away that infantilization, there's also a stripping of their innocence as well. voice-verified

And that plays a factor when you're talking about a case like this in Carmelo Anthony. voice-verified

It's hard to say, Don, because I don't know. voice-verified

I'm not familiar enough with the record in terms of whether there was an attempt to rehabilitate these jurors. voice-verified

As Monique has said, there apparently was one juror who said that they would not be able to voice-verified

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