The Karmelo Anthony trial has begun, and already the verdict has been written by people who aren’t sitting in the jury box. Supporters have decided it was self-defense. Critics have decided it was murder. The media circus is warming up. The racial narrative is already being loaded into the chamber. But here’s the simple truth: a trial is not racism. Evidence is not racism. Cross-examination is not racism. A jury hearing witnesses — including black teenage witnesses — is not racism. That is the legal system working. And if we lose the ability to let facts matter more than slogans, then we are not defending justice. We are burning it down.