Jamal Bryant's Nolan Wells Rally Is a Remake of Jussie Smollett | Jason Whitlock Harmony

**Jason Whitlock** (0:00)
Jamal Bryant called it a lynching.
On Nolan Wells' 19th birthday, in a church, birthday cake in the sanctuary, Ben Crump in the room, Spike Lee seated in a pew, and not one charging document on the table.
The Carmelo Anthony pitch just hit a wall. Saturday, August 22nd, 2026, Judge Michael Chitty denied the motion for a new trial. 35 years, Austin Metcalf, a knife under a Frisco track tent. The jury already rejected self-defense. The judge locked the door. Then the file they hid walked into the light. Guns, knives, a 2023 text about shooting up a school, an ex who said he stalked her. Talk of rage he could not control. One report has prosecutors describing a fantasy of stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade. We cannot preach a racial saint with a verdict and a rap sheet. The cameras left Frisco. They needed a death with no contradictory facts. They found Nolan Wells. This is that fire. Grab your Bible.
Greater St. John AME, Horn Island, still unexplained. Ben Crump's own independent autopsy, still says, undetermined cause, undetermined manner, undetermined. Bishop Erica Crawford told that room they would not speculate and they would not manufacture a story.
Then they handed the microphone in the hour to Jamal Bryant. Usher's pass cards, checks to the Eighth Episcopal District, memo, Nolan Wells celebration, legal expenses dressed as a birthday gift. The money is honest about the night. The sermon is not. Take a listen.

**Jamal Bryant** (1:58)
Not because he needs information, but because he wants to put it on record. What is the answer? And the Lord said to Canaan, where is Abel your brother? That's not a rhetorical question. It is the oldest civil rights question. It is the question this family has been asking of Jackson County. It's the same question we've been asking the Department of Justice. It's the same question we've been asking all of the judges. And the same question we're asking the young men who suddenly have amnesia.
And I wanted you to notice what Cain's response is. Because it's the same response we've been hearing since July 5th. Am I my brother's keeper?
It's the response of every system that has been slow to investigate a black child's death. I bet you a million to wonder if it was five black boys and one white boy on the boat.
By now, there would have been an arrest, there would have been a warrant.

**Jason Whitlock** (3:24)
So a minister from Atlanta comes to Biloxi, Mississippi to talk about a child, a boy he never met. And that minister takes Genesis 4, a murderer who already killed and pinned it on a county that has not charged a soul.
King's excuse becomes every delayed subpoena. A million to one boat hypothetical becomes evidence. That is not investigation. That is a racial bet sold as a fact. A sealed file is not a confession. A delayed subpoena is not a noose. Jamal Bryant needs the delay to sound like a cover-up because a cover-up is the only case he has. He asked the young men on that boat if they had amnesia. He asked Jackson County. He asked the Department of Justice. He never asked the one question that would end the show.
What if this is not a murder?
Mark Morrell already stacked Trayvon, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Bryant went older. He needed a lynching. Watch.

**Jamal Bryant** (4:39)
Christine does not have 31 years. His father doesn't have 31 years. His siblings don't have 31 years.
We have a moment to disrupt a cycle because the blood that absorbed in Genesis 4 is the same blood that is now stained in Mississippi. To go from Megah Ebbers to Emmett Till and now to Nolan Wells, the blood stops here.

**Jamal Bryant** (5:15)
We came tonight to stop a blood cycle.

**Jamal Bryant** (5:19)
We are tired of all of these innocent black bodies being killed. And since I'm here, I came under all of the authority of Calvary to say all of these lynchings have got to stop now.

**Jamal Bryant** (5:35)
Black people don't lynch themselves. Y'all better stop that lie. We gotta go back to our original gangster music. Before I be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord and be free.

**Jason Whitlock** (5:55)
This man is sitting in a church, talking about gangster rap music. Talking about he came under the authority of Calvary, to smear everybody in Mississippi, everybody white. Somebody he's never met. And then there's Nolan Wells' parents who clearly have no church home. That's why they're bringing in ministers from New York, Al Sharpton, ministers from Atlanta, Jamal Bryant.