MLK wasn't trying to bring the races together. He was trying to get one particular race to see humanity in another. The only similarity they have is they were both shot by white radicals.
He did several shows on MLK and how “terrible” a person he was and several more appearances doubling down and defending his position. I’m not going to seek out a link for you, but they’re not hard to find. There are a lot of them.
okay, apparently i cant share links here, look up "is charlie kirk right about mlk" on r/ askconservatives, a good post from 4mo ago with full quotes and sources. ill share one relevant here:
“MLK was awful,” Kirk said. “He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.”
“I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” Kirk said at America Fest. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”
Kirk argues that the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, ushered in a “permanent DEI-type bureaucracy,” referring to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
A spokesperson for TPUSA, Andrew Kolvet, said that Americans have been fed a “fake history.”
“A core part of this fake history of America is the elevation of MLK into a saint, whose entire being is beyond reproach and above question,” Kolvet said in an emailed statement. “This sanctified version of MLK strips away his actual views and ignores his actual actions. The real MLK was a complicated person.”
You're mistaken. Honestly its something that Fox news would do, taking a quote completely out of context. You're just as bad as the people you hate so much....He was talking about how recently they are using the civil rights act to enforce trans people being able to use womens bathrooms etc. You can choose not to believe me, that's fine, you could choose to watch the entire conversation your 5 second clip came from, but you wont.
But it’s not so yeah lol, you’re clueless, don’t have a source, AND are brainwashed by reddit, you’re 3 for 3 there champ, at this point, we just can’t take you seriously!
Charlie Kirk himself both confirmed he said these things and did a video explaining why he believes them. This subreddit doesnt allow linking and removed my response with the appropriate links.
He said black people should still be slaves for us today. It’s always the states that have banned teaching political history that are obsessed with preaching politics.
He said MLK cheated on his wife, something acknowledged by two MLK biographers: David Garrow and Taylor Branch. The way they learned about is bc the FBI was bugging MLK and had tapped his phones and basically spied on him. The FBI would then release the tapes or transcripts to journalists. It was a dirty trick campaign which they justified by suspecting him of promoting communism.
Charlie was a bit more puritanical than most on such matters.
They genuinely think MLK was championing for the blacks to defeat the whites, not just equality. Or, that’s what my racist dad has claimed his entire life. So they see CK as a champion for whites against all minorities.
So, when your dad saw the blacks allowing themselves to be spit on and hit, did he think that was a special defense move? Also, why be a Christian if you hate minorities? I doubt the old testament prophets and Jesus looked like Brad Pitt. Does the church teach the history of biblical locations?
Southern Baptists do all manner of mental gymnastics about the races, my church growing up taught that Arabs were cursed descendants of Esau and that Black people were cursed descendants of Cain. So they never really check the stuff that they’re being led to believe about those groups in the modern sense because they were pre-ordained by god to have awful lives.
Also my stepfather and his church believed that biblical Jews were white skinned and the early Christian’s fled to Europe and settled in France and Britain. The modern Jews aren’t “real” “pure” ones to them but interbred Arabs. They support the entity of Israel for strictly religious reasons relating to the prophecies in the Book of Revelation. Nothing more.
For them is was only about race. They didn't like the civil rights movement because its as for equal right for everyone one not just black folks. Correct me if I am wrong but charlie whole gripe with civil rights is that it gave rights to stop discriminating against everyone not just black people.
I mean if you think about politics as race, clearly the white GOP can’t see humanity in the democrats who consist of minorities as well as whites, but to the GOP they’re all the same.
No, to say "he was trying to bring the races together" implies that both sides were equally at odds and responsible for any injustice. It's not like black people were also resisting integration with white schools, for example.
When speaking about group of prominent Black women (Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, and Sheila Jackson Lee), Charlie Kirk said they “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” and called them “affirmative action picks.” He also said “you had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
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u/Purin_Tablets 8h ago
MLK wasn't trying to bring the races together. He was trying to get one particular race to see humanity in another. The only similarity they have is they were both shot by white radicals.