(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A prominent Atlanta podcaster and self-proclaimed “spiritual leader” sought to stoke further racial tension in the wake of Karmelo Anthony’s murder conviction, but ultimately offered a solution that some white nationalists may support also.
Larry Reid, a self-styled impresario in the ATL, called for a “mass exodus” of black Americans to their ancestral homeland in Africa, citing irreconcilable differences with the white race, Breitbart reported.
Podcaster Larry Reid calls for a "mass exodus" of black Americans to Africa in response to the Karmelo Anthony verdict.
"I want you to begin to think about this America and the white people problem that we have… As a collective, let's drain this place of its benefits and make… pic.twitter.com/M9zEVfcPqx
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 11, 2026
“I want you to begin to think about this America and the white people problem that we have,” Reid said. “… As a collective, let’s drain this place of its benefits and make our mass exodus and go home and build.”
Reid refuted the idea that black lives had improved since the era of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement led by fellow Atlanta native Martin Luther King Jr., saying that the problem of racism was passed down from one generation to the next, like a genetic disease.
“Civil rights did not make white people that are infected with whiteness stop being racist,” he said. “They still raised racist children that run this country to this day.”
By contrast, Africa offered a paradise free from the problems that American identity was imbued with, such as the need to coexist with honkeys while having black cultural contributions go unrecognized and unappreciated.
“You come from a land that flows with milk and honey,” Reid said.
“They pulled you out of that land ancestrally and brought you to a place to where your royalty was not recognized,” he continued. “Used your black power, your black mysticism, your African spirituality, and your physiological superiority to build this country and give everybody reparations except you.”
The latest indignation comes after a Texas jury sentenced 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony to a prison sentence of 35 years over the stabbing murder of then-17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Dallas-area track meet.
Despite Anthony’s claim of self-defense, evidence and witness testimony made clear that he had initiated the conflict and threatened Metcalf, who later bled to death in front of his twin brother.
Some black leaders, such as lame-duck Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, have exploited the situation to provoke racial animus.
“He simply didn’t want to be put out in the rain by some random kid,” Crockett said in defense of Anthony’s actions.
But with the current climate seeing something of a backlash to the 2020 race riots sparked nationwide by the death of George Floyd while in police custody, black radicals have struggled to gin up the same level of outrage over the Anthony verdict.
🚨 WTF?! Rep. Jasmine Crockett just DEFENDED Karmelo Anthony's murder of Austin Metcalf: "He simply didn't want to be put out in the rain by some random kid."
"One time, 2 inches. He didn't stab him 5, 6, 7 times…"
Q: If Anthony was white?
CROCKETT: He wouldn't get a 35-year… pic.twitter.com/YkYgTVP7iK
— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) June 13, 2026
Reid’s solution, encouraging black separatists to repatriate Africa, has been attempted before with limited success.
Notably, the American Colonization Society sought to return some 15,000 former slaves to what is now Liberia during the 19th century, but many of them eventually perished after finding life there more difficult than they had anticipated.
As recently as 2022, black leaders like Jonathan Capehart, a Washington Post associate editor, have urged blacks to flee the country, supported by statistics from the Southern Poverty Law Center that showed white people were becoming more crazy.
Black people are not afraid of White people. We’re afraid of “crazy” White people…Now, an alarming new report from @splcenter shows that the ranks of “crazy” White people appear to be growing. https://t.co/YGo2w1kOHD
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) June 7, 2022
But Capehart’s call seems to have fallen largely on deaf ears. Grok estimated that, over a roughly five-year time span, the “Blaxit” diaspora had inspired an exodus of around 2,000 to 5,000, “with the true net permanent migration probably on the lower end of that range.”
Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.
