Popular podcaster and progressive spiritual leader Larry Reid has rejected claims by some online that his call for black Americans to make a mass exodus from the United States was prompted by the conviction of Karmelo Anthony for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet.
“My comments regarding a ‘White People Problem’ and a modern ‘Exodus’ were not a reaction to the Karmelo Anthony case, despite what some media outlets and social media accounts have claimed,” Reid, a senior spiritual leader of the online platform Reformation Church of Atlanta, said in a statement to The Christian Post Monday.
“Anyone familiar with my work knows I have been teaching these concepts for years through my broadcasts, online teachings, lectures, coaching programs, and public commentary.”
Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder on June 9 for the fatal stabbing of Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas, track meet on April 2, 2025. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison, which sparked significant public discussion, including from Reid, who raised concerns in his June 10 broadcast about what he calls “The White People Problem.”
“Black wisdom begins when you stop asking in a situation like this, which side is completely right and start asking what truths are existing simultaneously. Black wisdom is a rarity right now, especially because our emotions are hijacked by what we see,” Reid said in the June 10 broadcast.
“We can’t help but see an identical case in the same state. Caysen Allison … white boy, stabbed a classmate. He was found not guilty of murder and given 10 years. Now, Karmelo Anthony … same state, stabbed his classmate. He’s guilty of murder, [gets] 35 years,” he argued.
“We can’t help but see how many times when the defendant is white, the charges, the way that is handled, the process is totally different. We can’t help but see that. And you can’t blind our black eyes from it because we see. We’ve seen this before. We’ve seen this for decades and we are tired of it. Our black is tired.”
Reid, who has a large online following, describes himself as an “African Christian Mystic rooted in the teachings of Jesus, centered in the Divine Presence within, and informed by the wisdom of Africa, humanity, prophecy, astrology, [numerology], ancestral consciousness, and sacred truths found across many ancient spiritual traditions.”
In the same broadcast, Reid then pushed an ongoing message that black Americans should leave the U.S. because integration isn’t working out for everyone. He also accused people who he says are “infected with whiteness” of raising racist children.
“Integration has had great benefits black people for some of us. Let’s drain this place of its benefits and make our mass exodus and go home and build,” he said.
“See, civil rights did not make white people that are infected with whiteness stop being racist. They still raised racist children that run this country to this day,” he argued.
“Let’s drain this place of its benefits and make our mass exodus and go home and build. I’m not saying everybody. Some of us should be here. Some of us should stay here. Some of us, this is where our assignment is. But if you don’t have that kind of direction from spirit, your ancestral duty is to begin charity at home,” he insisted.
“Drain this place. Exit it. Go home and build. The land ought to tell you who and what it is. This land ain’t rich enough to hold who you are. You come from a land that flows with milk and honey. They pulled you out of that land ancestrally and brought you to a place to where your royalty was not recognized, used your black power, your black mysticism, your African spirituality, and your physiological superiority to build this country and give everybody reparations except you. Don’t believe that America don’t give reparations. They do to the tune of billions, just never gave it to us.”
Conservative media outlets such as Breitbart News reported that “Larry Reid calls for a ‘mass exodus’ of black Americans to Africa in response to the Karmelo Anthony verdict.”
Adela Cojab, a legal advocate and podcaster, told Sky News that she found Reid’s rhetoric in response to the Anthony case concerning.
“This is not a case to hang your hat on. This is a case of cold-blooded murder,” she said.
Cojab said Reid’s comments are “exactly the kind of rhetoric that takes it [discussion] away from the facts and takes it to the point of identity politics where people can’t see beyond the idea that there was a black kid sent to jail for something that happened to a white kid.”
“What I would harp on is the idea of draining resources. When they say let’s drain this country of resources, they are removing themselves from what the country is,” she said.
“We love the United States of America because America is made up of its parts. It’s a melting pot. It’s a place where people come from around the world, and yes, sometimes when you look at slavery, it wasn’t in the nicest place, but at the end of the day, America really has 250 years later, it’s repaying all of that.”
April Chapman, another podcaster, called Reid’s analysis “Marxist entitlement baptized in ethnic narcissism and African spirituality.”
“Larry Reid’s ‘black exodus’ is Marxist entitlement baptized in ethnic narcissism and African spirituality. If your worldview requires reparations, DEI, mysticism, and blaming white people for everything, your problem is not America,” Chapman said on X. “Your problem is spiritual blindness.”
In his statement to CP on Monday, Reid said he has been making his call for black Americans to exit systems they find oppressive for several years.
“These are long-standing themes in my work, not responses to a single news event. When I speak about a ‘White People Problem,’ I am not referring to all white people. I have repeatedly taught that there is a difference between white people and what I call ‘whiteness’ — a social, political, and psychological system that has historically concentrated power, resources, and influence in ways that often disadvantage others. That’s an infection that not all white people have and even some black people have,” Reid stated.
“My message has been that black people must develop greater discernment. Not every white person participates in that system in the same way. Some actively uphold it. Some benefit from it while remaining unaware of it. Others work against it and support justice, equity, and self-determination,” he explained.
“When I speak about an ‘Exodus,’ I am not simply talking about physically leaving the United States,” he continued.
“I am talking about a broader shift in consciousness. The Exodus I teach is mental, financial, emotional, psychological, educational, nutritional, and, when possible, geographic. For generations, many black Americans have been conditioned to believe their only path to security, opportunity, and identity exists within systems that have often failed them.”
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