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From Rob Smith: "An Apology To The Parents Of Austin Metcalf On Behalf Of The Black Community:On behalf of the Black community, I would like to apologize to the parents of Austin Metcalf for making a hero out of the young man that killed your son. I apologize that there are so few fathers around and so few male figures around to teach the Black community about emotional discipline, about what's right from wrong, about emotional regulation, about not making a hero out of a thug and a criminal.I apologize on behalf of the Black community because they are the ones that are raising money for your son's killer. They are the ones that are funding this new lavish lifestyle that your son's killer is living. I apologize on behalf of the Black community because they are so confused about, again, what's right and what's wrong, that in some weird, twisted sense of racial solidarity, they would celebrate the young man that killed your child in cold blood.I apologize on behalf of the Black community because you don't deserve to see this. You deserve to be grieving your child. You deserve to be remembering your child. You deserve to be able to share stories about what an amazing human being and young man he was. But instead, you're subject to online mobs that support the killer of your child. You are subject to people that are raising money to support the killer of your child. You are subjected to people in the Black community that are making excuses for the killer of your child and making your child seem that he is somehow at fault for being stabbed to death.So for what you are seeing on social media, for what you will continue to see for the next few months, I apologize to you on behalf of the Black community because a lot of us are so bereft of empathy. A lot of us are so angry and hurt and bitter and damaged and trapped in cycles of pathology that we would make excuses for a young man that stabbed another young man to death, and we are so trapped in that pathology that we don't even know which way is up.I apologize on behalf of the Black community for their treatment towards your son's killer. And I can only hope that your child can rest in peace and that you can remember him as he was."