Howard University professor blames Austin Metcalfs father for his murder in sick rant

A Howard University journalism professor blamed Austin Metcalf’s father for the teen athlete’s murder in a Substack post — callously tearing into the grief-stricken parent for not teaching his son that “black children have boundaries.” Dr.Stacey Patton shared the disturbing piece on Wednesday, dissecting Jeff Metcalf’s emotional courtroom address to killer Karmelo Anthony, 19, after he was sentenced to 35 years behind bars. The Texas father demanded Anthony look him in the eyes as he told the murderer he’s been robbed of a life with his son during his tear-jerking victim impact statement Tuesday. “You failed yourself.

You failed your parents.You failed society.

You don’t belong in this community,” Jeff read from his notebook. “This was never about race,” Jeff Metcaff went on, addressing arguments from pro-Anthony protesters throughout the case.“This is about right and wrong.”But Patton said Jeff Metcalf is the one who “failed” and took despicable jabs at the dead boy’s father — accusing him of raising his son to be racist. “You stood in that courtroom and told a black teenager he failed his parents, himself, and society.

But perhaps the harder truth is that you failed your son first,” the professor wrote in the piece titled “Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries.”Patton argued that the father saying that he raised his son to be a “warrior” and “leader” was inherently racist because “those words too often mean dominance.” The 48-year-old who holds a PhD focused on African-American studies from Rutgers University went on to say that Austin, 17, knowing how to hunt was telling of the “white masculinity” that “was being celebrated” around him. “YOU failed to teach your boy that black children have boundaries.YOU failed [to] teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jurisdiction.

YOU failed...