We once had a God-fearing society. Then the pagans came in and threw God out of our culture, but thought they could keep all the good stuff. They were wrong. And one of those things that we lost was the ability to dispense justice through a jury system. Unfortunately, Pagan tribalism killed the jury system in America.
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com slash at politics by faith and subscribe over there. The story of the day, the Carmelo Anthony trial. All right, we're about halfway through the trial right now. Here's what happened. Get caught up, get in front of things here. Here's the basics.
Austin Metcalf. He was white. It's an important part of the story. He was 17 years old at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Carmelo Anthony is black. He's from a different high school in that area.
They were both at this track meet and there were thunderstorms, so the meet was delayed. For some reason, the black student, was in the white student's tent, the school tent area at this meet, right? And in the trial yesterday, two days ago, we found out from a witness that the black student, the black athlete was told to leave at least 15 times. Like, get out of here. This is not your school. Your school's tent is over there.
We don't know why he was there. We don't know the motive behind why this interaction ever even took place at all in the first place. At one point, Carmelo Anthony said, touch me and see what happens. Metcalf then pushed him. Anthony then pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, then ran away. Carmelo Anthony told police I was protecting myself.
We also know he was quote crying hysterically when he was arrested. He told police he put his hands on me. I told him not to. And then he asked the officer if what he did could be considered self -defense. Carmelo is charged with murder as an adult. He was 17 when this happened. This was last year.
This happened last, I want to say April. There is security camera footage of this. No one in the public has seen it yet. The jury has. They've now seen it. All right.
Pun to do with this story. I want to talk about the most upfront, obvious surface level part of the whole thing. And that is the skin color of the people involved and of the jury and of the outrage that you're going to hear when the verdict is ultimately given. This is a woman who is outside the courtroom. in support of Carmelo Anthony. If evidence does come out that Carmelo was not in fact fighting for his life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, do you think that the black community will accept that?
If evidence shows that he did not, no, we're going to stand by ours regardless. They stand by theirs. We're going to stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black mother. Let me put that on there.
I'm an African -American mother. So I have to put away my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain. So I do want to send prayers to Officer Metcalf, their family. But at the end of the day, I got to think like, okay, what did you do to them or whatever to cause this to happen, the reaction? We got to start taking accountability for our kids.
Because then again, if my kid, that's why it's a catch -22, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall, I'm going to tell you something. up, better mine than yours. Better mine than yours. So either way it go, everybody loses. A black boy allegedly erred, and I say allegedly, heavy on the allegedly, allegedly erred at somebody. You see what I'm saying?
So yeah, this is about race. Because if the shoe was on the other foot, they wouldn't give a damn. Who wouldn't give a damn? The, let me say this, let's say the community. So if Carmelo Anthony was the one stabbed and killed by Austin Metcalf. They wouldn't give a damn.
George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and country. You can't have a jury system like this. There's been studies on this, plenty of analyses on this. There was a study that looked at trials with black and white defendants. So black and white defendants and then black and white people on the jury. and who voted guilty.
So what they found in this analysis was if the juror is white, so a white juror, white defendant, the white juror says guilty 39 % of the time. If the defendant is black, so white juror, black defendant, the white person says guilty 32 % of the time. So about the same, but actually less. of but we'll call it the same, 39%, 32%. Okay.
Then they looked at black jurors, black juror. If the defendant was white, the black juror found that white guy guilty 73 % of the time. If the defendant is also black, so black juror, black defendant, they only found that black defendant guilty 24 % of the time. That is a massive difference. So again, when it was a white juror, it didn't really matter if it was a white defendant or a black defendant, 39, 32, whatever, it was about the same. But if there was a black juror, massive difference.
What did she say? We protect our own or something like that? That's tribalism. You can't have a jury system like that. You really can't have a jury system in a multi -ethnic society because the ethnicities become tribal. Now, in this particular trial with Carmel Anthony, Austin Metcalf is the person who was murdered, with Carmel Anthony, there are no black jurors at all.
Because in the jury selection process, which might be the most important part of the entire trial, one prospective juror said, I don't, this is a quote, I don't know if I feel right putting a brother in jail, even if he murdered someone like that woman said, what if it came out that he wasn't acting in self -defense? Well, nah, I still wouldn't put it. And then like someone who was actually, that's just some crazy woman outside the trial, but even someone who was selected for jury was like, nah, I can't put a, I can't put a brother in jail unless he admitted it. So it doesn't matter what One of the OJ jurors admitted on camera that letting OJ off was payback for Rodney King. It did not matter one bit what was ever said in that trial. However long that trial lasted, trial of the century, it didn't matter at all what happened.
It was already done. One of the jurors on the trial, as he walked out, threw the black power fist over at OJ, the whitest black guy ever, threw the black power fist at him. What? There was another major study done. This was done by the American National Election Studies, University of Chicago at Stanford. supported by the National Science Foundation.
It's like maximum credibility in the study. This was done before and after the 2020 presidential election. So they asked a bunch of different questions, like 100 different questions. One of those set of questions was, they called it a feelings thermometer. So the question was, how would you rate different ethnicities based on zero to 100? So 50 to 100 means you have a favorable and warm regard towards this group.
Zero to 50 means you don't have a favorable view towards this group, and you don't care much for that group. These are the words that they use. And they would ask you to rate, so let's say you're white. They'd say, all right, well, how do you feel about black people? How do you feel about Asian people? How do you feel about Hispanic people?
And then if you're any of those other races, they would say, well, how do you feel about white people? So they asked white people first, right? And they said, well, then not first, but I'll do my analysis first. They said white people, right? So hey, white people, how do you feel about white people? Actually, they would ask white people how they feel about white people.
So white people, how do you feel about white people? And white people are like, OK, I'm going to go around 70. And then, hey, how do you feel about black people? How do you feel about Hispanic people? How do you feel about Asian people? It was all around 70.
How white people felt about white people? 75%. How white people felt about black people? 73%. That two point difference in America we call systemic racism. Two points.
But they also asked Hispanic people. Hey, Hispanic people, how do you feel about Hispanic people? 85 % love Hispanic people. Hispanic people think Hispanic people are the bee's knees. Love, love Hispanic people. All right, Hispanic people, how do you feel about white people?
65%. Pretty big spread. 20 points. Again, white people, two points. Two point spread between white and black. Two.
And zero between white and Asian white and Hispanic. Zero. The same, same, same. White and black, two points. But Hispanic, between Hispanics and white, 20 points. Then they asked Asians.
Hey Asians, how do you feel about Asians? 82%. Love. Asians, how do you feel about white people? 68. Pretty big spread.
And then they asked black people. Hey black people, how do you feel about black people? 85%. Love black people. All right black people, how do you feel about white people? 60%.
25 point difference. Biggest spread at all. All these other three groups of people had huge spreads between, if I may, my own kind and white people. For black and white, 25 points spread. Meanwhile, white people, a two point spread between black and white people. And we call that systemic racism.
And we're lectured about it all the time. Back to the justice system. Hey, black juror, did this black 17 year old murder this white kid? No. Oh, well, here's security camera footage of it. Don't matter.
Now, if Carmelo Anthony is found guilty, there will be mass outrage from the left. Black Lives Matter, the whole thing. And then the video will be released finally to the public a year later. And it won't matter. One iota. to any of those people.
Truth doesn't. So as I'm recording this right now, the prosecution has rested their case. The defense picks it up next. The prosecution, the state, Metcalf's team, can then give a rebuttal. And then the defense gives a rebuttal to the rebuttal. And then it's up to the jury.
And it's got to be unanimous. We'll keep you up to date. But let's go to the Bible now. I want to talk about justice. How does the Bible define justice? Justice is giving people what they are due.
Now, when it comes to heaven and hell, you do not want what you are due because you are due hell. That's where Jesus comes in. Justice. There's a lot of different elements of justice. Let me just pick one for the sake of our time here. Justice is impartial.
Deuteronomy 1 .17 says, you shall not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man for the judgment is God's. Justice should be based, according to the Bible, based on the facts of the case. and the facts of the case alone. Now, partiality can go all sorts of ways, and you should go no way, only the way of the facts.
The Bible says you can't judge against a person because they're poor or because they're rich, but you can't do it both ways, right? So someone may say, well, don't be mean against poor people. Well, you also can't go against rich people either just because they're rich, right? You can't judge a person guilty because they're black, but you also can't say they're innocent just because they're black. It had nothing to do with it. And you also can't judge someone guilty or innocent based off of a different case, like they did with OJ.
Oh, what was the payback for Rodney King? The Bible speaks to this a lot, actually. Leviticus 19 .15, you must not pervert justice. We're going to get back to that word in a second. You must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich. You are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Deuteronomy 10 .17, by the way, neighbor, your neighbor, not race. Your neighbor, Deuteronomy 10, 17, the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God. Let's get back to that in a second as well. Showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. If I could pick one story as if the biblical God talking is not enough here. 1 Samuel 8, 3, this sentence here, his sons, speaking of Samuel and his sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice.
" There's the word again, perverted justice. The Bible a lot, Exodus 23 says, you shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. Keep far from a false charge and do not kill the innocent or the righteous for I will not acquit the guilty. You shall not take a bribe for a bribe blinds the clear sided and subverts the cause of of the just. I want to get back to Samuel, Deuteronomy 16, 18 says, You shall appoint to yourself judges and officers in your towns, which the Lord your God has given you according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not distort justice.
You shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe. There it is again, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. It's all throughout the Old Testament. So let's go back to Samuel. How terrible is it that Samuel's sons did not follow his way? They didn't follow dad's way.
or their Heavenly Father. They turned aside. Turned aside is a verb that is translated 30 different ways in the Bible. Isn't that amazing? And it depends what noun you have next to it. So if you have the word tent next to this word, then it means to spread it, spread it out.
If you have the word justice next to it, then it means to pervert it. Don't pervert justice. In the case I'm referring to, like what I'm talking about here, it's more denying it. Same thing, I guess, right? Now I'm not, well, I guess what's different is I'm also, I'm not saying the judge is taking bribes, but the jurors, They can't be motivated by anything other than the truth, whether it's taking a bribe, monetary bribe, or it's just deep seated racial resentment. The Bible has so many verses about taking bribes and just in general, lack of justice.
It is clearly something that God hates. If we had, and this goes back to that scripture we shared of, you know, your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords. If we had a jury of our peers, a system that we created full of Bible believing Christians, who were afraid of the wrath of God for perverting justice, when they are given the solemn responsibility of dispensing justice, of finding someone guilty or innocent, if we had a jury of peers who all agreed, all felt that same way, and all knew that God was watching, then a jury system can work, then a jury system is fair, and a jury system is good. But with the tribalism we have in America today, what's keeping people honest? Who cares? This is what happens when you throw God out of our culture.
We lost so much more. Pagans thought they could throw God out and keep all the other good things that came from a God -fearing country. We had all this good stuff that happened from a God -fearing, biblical -minded country and culture. All these amazing things. We took it all for granted. The godless pagans came in, threw out God, and thought they could keep all the good stuff.
And one of the good things they thought they could keep was a jury system. Who thought we were going to lose that? It's gone. Truth doesn't matter. You throw God out of our culture, you lose everything. I pray in this case, and all cases, for God -fearing justice.
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