Moderate Centrist Normal Completely Heterosexual Candidate James Talarico Backs Knife-Murderer Karmelo Anthony: "The System Is Not Working for Black Texans"

He just gets more centrist and normal and Christian every single day.

Talarico Backs Karmelo Anthony in Divisive Murder Case: Says Black Teen's Conviction for Stabbing White Football Star Shows 'System Is Not Working for Black Texans'

On Wednesday, Anthony scored a major victory getting the original judge removed from the case

Chuck Ross
August 19, 2026

James Talarico has waded into the racially charged case of the murder of teenage football standout Austin Metcalf, with the Texas Democratic Senate nominee throwing his support behind Metcalf's convicted killer, Karmelo Anthony, now 19.

Anthony's attorneys are back in a Texas courtroom on Thursday, seeking a new trial, and on Wednesday succeeded--in a significant win--in having the judge from the original trial removed.

Talarico, in an interview on a black radio show earlier this month, said the conviction of Anthony, a black teenager who fatally stabbed Metcalf, who was white, at a high school track meet in Frisco, is proof that the criminal justice system "is not working for black Texans."

"Right now we've got a system that doesn't serve all Americans equally, and, and we know that black Texans have been, um, have not gotten the justice they deserve," said Talarico, a member of the Texas House of Representatives.

Talarico offered that controversial take during an August 5 interview on The Breakfast Club, a popular New York City talk radio show that has been a proving ground of sorts for white Democrats who seek to woo black voters. In 2016, Hillary Clinton proclaimed on the show that she carries around hot sauce in her purse, a claim that host Charlamagne tha God said sounded like she was "pandering to black voters." In 2020, Joe Biden said on the show that "if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."

In his interview, Talarico was asked to respond to a viral clip from last month that showed him emphatically nodding along as a woman at a town hall called the Anthony conviction a "tragedy."

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Talarico appeared on The Breakfast Club as he struggles to woo black voters following a bitter primary fight against Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a black Democrat from Dallas (and a regular on The Breakfast Club). Crockett, who has likewise defended Anthony, accused Talarico of running "a racist race" in the primary. Talarico came under fire for allegedly referring to former Senate candidate Colin Allred as a "mediocre black man."

Talarico has embraced other hot-button policies in an appeal to black voters. He denounced the SAVE Act, which would strengthen ID requirements to vote, as an attempt to "rob" black voters. He recently endorsed the idea of reparations for slavery, stating that "repairing past harms is part of my faith tradition."

By the way, the media is reporting the judge was removed from sentencing because he was "biased." They don't tell you what that means. They want you to infer that he is racially biased.

Nope. The "bias" consisted of him saying, post-conviction, "the jury got it right."

I don't even understand how this is "bias." A judge can form impressions from a case, just like a jury. In fact, if a judge believes the jury got it very wrong -- so wrong their judgment cannot be said to be based on the evidence -- he is allowed (required, actually) to set aside the jury's judgment and enter his own judgment.

So how can it be "bias" to merely agree with a jury whose judgment is based 100% on the obvious facts?

Two-tiered justice -- it's actually an American innovation. It began with Derek Chauvin.

Actually it began long before that. That's when it became just accepted leftwing cult doctrine that white people are subject to a different law than "oppressed" minorities.

One thing to ponder...

Karmelo got $600K for murdering some random white guy

but Lindsay Clancy got $900k for murdering her own kids.

So perhaps Karmelo does have an argument for the unfairness of all this right?

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