Wednesday, 30 April 2025

WHAT? Austin Metcalf’s Father Denounces His Son’s Supporters

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This is pretty crazy, but I’ll do my best to show you the full story and let you decide.

Because there are definitely two sides to this.

And perhaps you might come to the same conclusion that I am coming to which is: both sides might be wrong here.

But let me show you what I mean first….

I assume most of you by now know the story of Austin Metcalf who was (allegedly) stabbed in the heart by a black kid at a track meet for the crime of telling him he couldn’t sit where the track team is sitting.

He died on the scene in his twin brother’s arms.

Horrific story.

But what I want to talk about is the parents’ reaction to it.

First I want to go to this clip of Austin’s father speaking after Austin was stabbed in the heart and killed.

I will say this is a short clip and perhaps sounds different in longer context, I don’t know, but what I am hearing here is a father that is far more worried about not offending black people than he is over the fact that his son was just brutally stabbed in the heart and killed.

See what you think:

I have to tell you, if that’s me my first reaction is not going to be saying how bad I feel for my son’s killer because he made a bad decision that will stick with him the rest of his life.

That’s not really gonna be my focus, probably ever.

Because that kid still has a life.

The other kid doesn’t because the life was stabbed out of him.

So that really sits very strangely with me, I have to be honest.

I know some people will say that’s the Christian way to respond, but I don’t know….

Jesus wept was he heard his friend Lazarus was dead, he didn’t give a speech about race politics in that moment.  Time and place.

I guess I would just expect the focus of the father to be on the son who was killed, not on how this might be adversely affecting his killer.  Seems really strange.

Now let’s advance the story to what happened yesterday and I’ll tell you what’s going on to the best of my understanding.

In the clip I’m going to show you below, the big black guy in the cowboy hat is part of some group called “Team Black Males Winning” and the only way I can really phrase it is he seems to be the “handler” of Austin Metcalf’s dad.  I think the dad hired him to manage PR for him, again seemingly with an outsized focus on race politics and less on the death of his son.  That’s just my take.

So that’s who that guy is.

The white guy talking to him is Jake Lang, who labels himself a J6 Prisoner and to be fair also seems to be focused on race politics from the white side.

He’s basically calling out the father for focusing more on race and more on how this might affect the (alleged) killer, rather than standing up for his son.

But (and this is the part where I think all are in the wrong) he’s going about it in a very bad way and he too seems far too focused on race from the other side.

Take a look:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

[Speaker Unknown]
With your son… Can I have a conversation with you?

No, because you could have called him before that. You could have called him.

I’ve been reaching out. I’m one of the biggest figures in America.

So Jeff, I’ve given you a message. I’ve given you your message.
And here’s the response. I’ve given you your message. And here’s the response.

You’re not giving my message. You’re giving your message.
What’s your issue with the event?

What he said was this:
He said that you as a father should be on the bus with him delivering the message that he’s delivering.

Unfortunately, he’s not a father, and the gentleman with him is not a father.
Maybe they don’t understand what loss is. But at the end of the day, I’ve given your message.

I do understand what loss is. Let me have one minute of my message to Jeff Metcalf.

Okay, this is bullshit bro. This is bullshit.
This is not a good faith discussion.

We’re not going to talk to him bro.
Hold on, hold on.

So Jeff, go ahead. Go ahead.

Jake
Hey Jeff, it’s Jake Lang here.

Jeff, first of all, my entire heart rests in your hands.
I would be in my position not even if somebody even knew your son, but somebody that shares the same understanding.

I grew up as a seventeen-year-old young white man too,
and I grew up in fear of my life around Black people,
because they were killing and robbing people around me all the time.

And I don’t understand—as a father—how you could sit idly by
and not condemn the culture that killed your son.

There is an epidemic problem in this country,
and your voice could be one of the loudest voices in this country,
but you’ve chosen to recoil out of fear and continue the suppression.

Why will you not stand with me and with the rest of the people?
We’re not calling for racial divide. We’re not calling for hatred.

We’re saying three hundred fifty thousand attacks on white people
by Black people a year in this country is wrong.

Why can’t you stand and say that? Maybe you can.
Would you be willing to stand by me in a press conference,
or in an individual interview, and talk about this issue
that is larger than Austin at this point?

God rest the beautiful young man’s soul
that would have been one of our strongest voices if he was still alive today.

Done.

[Speaker Unknown]
Yes I am, sir.

Okay, my turn to speak.
Part of the fucking problem, my friend.
You’re trying to create more race divide than bridging the gap.

I do not condone anything you do.
You do not have any fucking—

Jake
That’s called white guilt.

[Speaker Unknown]
No, let it go.
You’re creating more Austin Metcalfs with your weakness, sir.

You are creating more Austin Metcalf.
Black man here—you are being weak.

I got to be honest with you about that, sir.
You’re being weak.

Condemn your son’s killer and the culture that caused it.
That’s the problem.

You’ve been submitted. You’ve been submitted.

Backup clip here with captions added if needed:

This was posted by Jake Lang on his personal profile:

Really curious to hear what you all think about this….

I think they’re all pretty messed up.

About the only person I can identify with is the mother who says she’s angry right now and she’s leaving it at that.  I get that.

I also agree with the black man in the video above who chimes in at the end to say “Black man here, you do appear weak” in response to Austin’s dad.

There is room to be mad about a senseless killing…

There is room to call for justice…

There is room to call out barbaric behavior….

All without turning this into some ridiculous race issue.

Just call out evil where you find it, regardless of what “race” it is.  No more, no less.  No piling on, but also no free passes.

Is that fair?

Simple?

Just speak truth.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

View the original article here.


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