Ask Charlie Anything 21: Was Trump Racist In the 70s? Gone With the Wind is Gone? Is It Harder to Get a Job with a ‘Black’ First Name? Best Sports Team of All-Time? Charlie Eats Like a Liberal, and MORE…
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00:01:37.000Welcome to another Ask Me Anything at the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:01:58.000Let's get to the first question from Finn in Los Angeles.
00:02:02.000Hey, Charlie, I live in California, and I keep seeing people post things about Trump being a racist, going back from 1973 and things with his casinos and comments.
00:02:14.000Can you answer this, Finn from Los Angeles?
00:02:16.000In fact, I'm going to do a video debunking this because it seems like it's going viral lately, where there's all these alleged incidents of the president being racist in years past.
00:02:25.000Here's just the most simple way to debunk all of that.
00:02:29.000Was President Trump racist when he was being given awards by the black community, when he was in hundreds of rap songs, when he was being embraced by people like even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?
00:02:40.000Was he a racist when he owned the New Jersey Generals, a football team?
00:02:45.000Was he a racist when he allowed Herschel Walker, the running back for the New Jersey generals, to literally babysit Donald Trump Jr.?
00:02:54.000This is selective cherry-picking history.
00:02:57.000Donald Trump, being in business in Manhattan for over 45 years, of course, encountered circumstances of subordinates or some of his affiliate companies that did things that would not make people proud of how they acted.
00:03:13.000And so you have to understand a lot of these lists and a lot of these propaganda campaigns against the president say, well, the Trump companies, the Trump companies, Donald Trump has never and will never be a racist, but that doesn't satisfy the radical left.
00:03:28.000That doesn't satisfy their own insatiable urge to destroy and deplatform this president at any and all costs.
00:03:37.000Unfortunately, here's what happens when you call everything a racist.
00:03:41.000Here's what happens when you go around and you say, that's racist and that's racist, when maybe it isn't.
00:04:21.000That is judging people based on the color of their skin, not on the content of their character.
00:04:27.000We have talked about four years building an America around where people's soul, their spirit, their decisions, their character mean more than their immutable characteristics.
00:04:41.000And so Donald Trump being revered by the black community, Donald Trump being embraced by the black community, Donald Trump being a magnanimous New York City businessman with some of the top grossing, top performing television programs is evidence that he is anything but a racist.
00:04:58.000When I first really started to realize that Donald Trump was something different and special when he was running for the presidency, is when Telemundo and all these different stations and shows started to cancel Donald Trump.
00:05:12.000This is a great lesson for today's time.
00:05:15.000When all of the left-wing mob tried to cancel Donald Trump back in the summer of 2015, they went for all of his businesses.
00:05:22.000They said, you can't host your golf tournaments here.
00:05:33.000Donald Trump said, I'm not going to stop running for the presidency because my country means more than just these contracts and these business deals that I have.
00:06:26.000Why don't you stream Gone with the Wind nonstop for 24 hours a day on the side of the Capitol building?
00:06:33.000Why don't you have a public airing of Gone with the Wind outside of Capitol Hill about how it's this beautiful, amazing American film that, yes, did talk about some of the evils of American society, but still it was well acted and is an American treasure.
00:06:49.000But oh, do we have to cancel that because it's not part of what the group humiliation mob wants you to have.
00:06:57.000Republicans say, well, how do we fight?
00:07:04.000It's operative to take a stand, to have a spine, to look the opposition in the eye and say, no more.
00:07:12.000You're not going to destroy our history.
00:07:14.000You're not going to take down another monument.
00:07:16.000And as I mentioned in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show, the taking down of the statues and the monuments is not even the highest issue for me.
00:07:25.000It's probably like 127 on the list of issues.
00:07:29.000Instead, I know that the radical left is using this as a tool.
00:07:35.000They're using this as an opportunity to try to achieve fundamental deconstruction and transformation of the United States of America.
00:07:45.000So, Finn, thanks so much for the question and congratulations.
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00:09:04.000So Brian from Arkansas says this, hey, Charlie, I just read that epic film, Gone with the Wind, is being pulled from HBO Max.
00:09:12.000Similar to the previous question, due to its depiction of slavery and glorification of the Confederacy, should we be concerned about the gradual erasing of American history that's happening in order to make leftists feel more comfortable?
00:09:24.000When do conservatives step in and say enough is enough?
00:10:50.000And I do not believe that the people that are pushing for this massive eradication of our history, this massive destabilization of our culture, I do not believe that they are a majority.
00:11:02.000I don't believe that they're a plurality.
00:11:04.000I believe they are an ever-increasing, angry, loud minority of a minority.
00:11:12.000I believe that the people that are arguing for these films and for these pieces of literature to be totally deleted from society, they are better at organizing than us conservatives.
00:11:27.000So for example, when we conservatives find something that we find to be somewhat troubling, like a movie that depicts Trump supporters being murdered or pieces of literature that are just so beyond the pale, we don't necessarily call for it to be canceled or deleted or erased.
00:11:47.000Might say, huh, that's not really my style.
00:11:50.000Maybe we shouldn't have that be viewable to children.
00:11:53.000What's so amazing to me is the contradiction within the American left.
00:11:58.000So the American left is more worried about gone with the wind being shown to young children than Planned Parenthood going into our schools to kids as young as 10 years old, as young as eight years old, and teaching them the most egregious sexual education you can imagine.
00:12:17.000There was a piece in the Washington Examiner that was an opinion piece back in September 5th of 2019.
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00:17:26.000Does it prove white privilege or systemic racism?
00:17:29.000In addition to this, many studies show that, quote, white people are more likely to be accepted to college than blacks despite that they have the same education status.
00:17:54.000So first of all, there is an article in the Chicago Tribune a couple years ago that says that there was no racial bias whatsoever based on skin color.
00:18:07.000Resumes with black, white, Hispanic names treated the same by Alexia Alade Ruiz.
00:18:14.000It says this, new research on hiring bias found resumes bearing names traditionally held by blacks and Hispanics are just as likely to call backs and job interviews as those bearing white sounding names.
00:18:25.000The findings announced last week by the University of Missouri diverge from the results of a famous study more than a decade ago, found that Lakeishas and Jamal's were far less likely to get job interviews than Emily's and Greg's.
00:19:11.000There is evidence that because of affirmative action policies, that black individuals are more likely to get into higher-end colleges with lower scores on standardized tests than white individuals.
00:19:22.000And then finally, Earl asks, another statistic says that 64% of people that work in the medical field have an unconscious racial bias.
00:19:29.000And quote, unconscious racial bias has never been proven because we don't even understand the unconscious mind.
00:19:34.000So to say that we know unconscious racial bias is some sort of incredibly cocky statement.
00:19:43.000And anyone that is serious about social psychology will tell you that we are just beginning to map the deepest levels of the American conscious.
00:19:53.000And the unconscious is something that we are still barely being able to touch.
00:19:56.000And this was originally theorized by Sigmund Freud, who gets too bad of a rap in nowadays because everything that he discovered, we just take as true.
00:20:05.000We do not even understand the unconscious, let alone do we understand unconscious racial bias.
00:20:10.000So to say that we know that 64% of people do something that they don't even know that they're doing and we're able to prove it is total and complete nonsense.
00:20:18.000And so, look, the left wants everything to be blamed on racism.
00:20:24.000And yes, racism is absolutely a sin, but it is not a blanket-all indictment of everything that is wrong with the world.
00:20:33.000You cannot blame every single structural problem on a singular sin.
00:20:38.000There are other issues that need to be dealt with besides racism.
00:20:42.000In fact, there are other sins such as gluttony, sloth, self-righteousness, pride, lack of openness.
00:20:50.000There's so many other sins besides racism.
00:23:31.000Why is it that Indian Americans who based just on the color of their skin, and by the way, I hate even talking about this because it's so unbelievably tribal.
00:23:42.000It just gets into the worst parts of human analysis, but this is where the left has brought us, so we have to talk about this.
00:23:50.000But wouldn't Indian American skin color be closer to a black American skin color than a white American skin color?
00:23:58.000So how is it that Indian Americans succeed at such a high rate if we are a colorist, racist society?
00:24:06.000Now, mind you, the left has now demanded that it's not enough just to not to be a racist.
00:24:13.000This is why you see videos of white people getting down on their knees, paying penance to the group humiliation gods of the left, begging for forgiveness for white privilege.
00:24:24.000This is also why Hollywood celebrities are making videos saying, I take responsibility for my hidden privilege.
00:24:30.000Now, mind you, they're not going to give up their Beverly Hills mansions or their chauffeur cars or their private jets.
00:24:37.000Instead, they're doing this because it makes them feel good.
00:24:41.000And this is why you see people getting canceled for their silence.
00:24:45.000So now the reason why the left is coming after our podcast on this program, so please support this program any way you can at charliekirk.com, is because we're not not stitch, it's not that we're staying silent.
00:26:17.000I went to kindergarten around the year 2000, 2001.
00:26:20.000I went to school with black kids, Hispanic kids.
00:26:23.000The high school I went to was 53% English as a second language.
00:26:27.000I went to high school with mostly kids that were Hispanic.
00:26:30.000I went to high school with illegal foreign nationals that were in the country illegally.
00:26:37.000And at the later end of my high school career, the white privilege nonsense started to get taught.
00:26:43.000But playing sports and playing track and field and football and basketball, we looked at each other truly as human beings with dignity.
00:26:52.000And of course, there were teenagers that at the time would act foolish, but at the end of all conversations, we looked at each other as humans, as friends.
00:27:07.000I'll never forget, when you walked into the lunchroom at Wheeling High School where I went to high school, it wasn't like the black kids sat all in one corner or the Hispanic kids sat in one corner.
00:27:21.000And to be honest with you, it was because the administration and the principal at the time, I had lots of disagreements with him on plenty of stuff that was happening.
00:27:31.000And I don't want to say his name because to be honest with you, if I say his name, he's probably going to get fired from wherever he is right now and they're going to run him out.
00:27:37.000That's the level that we're at right now, that if Charlie Kirk says something positive about a high school principal that he once had, about how he handled racial issues, this guy will probably lose his job.
00:27:45.000But what he, he made a point by always saying, we are not going to over focus on our differences.
00:27:53.000Just get to know each other, act decent, and build good character.
00:28:33.000I'll be honest, though, in a school that was majority Hispanic, about 8 to 10% black, and a lot of Eastern European, I didn't see the racism that I was supposed to see based on the left's ivory tower theories.
00:28:51.000And again, I can speak from personal experience on this, going and being raised in a multiracial community, despite it being in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:29:01.000Because now young white people and young white kids are going to be told there's something inherently wrong with your existence.
00:29:09.000And do you know what also is most telling?
00:29:12.000When I grew up and where I grew up, some of the poorest kids, some of the kids that were the most disadvantaged, some of the kids that had the most abusive parents that would come into school with bruises because they'd be getting beat by their parents were white kids.
00:29:32.000That's why I push back so hard against this sinister lie of white privilege.
00:29:36.000Because where I grew up, it wasn't a guarantee just if you were the white kid in my high school at Wheeling High School, that you were the rich kid.
00:30:35.000And I wonder myself, for him and for the other individuals in high school, and for now 10 years down the road, the kids that are just getting raised up, that are growing up in these trailer parks, mostly white trail parks in Wheeling, Illinois, they're going to have to walk through these ivory tower elites telling them that they have privilege just because of the color of their skin.
00:31:00.000The kids that I went to high school with, that I played football with, where we had to be on the line at 7 a.m. and I'd say, how was your night last night?
00:31:07.000And they said, well, my dad was really drunk and he came home and he abused us and we didn't really sleep much.
00:31:18.000Do you see how dangerous and how pernicious this is to just label an entire group of American society to be inherently privileged?
00:31:25.000And so to close the point, I worry, deeply worry about kids being raised today.
00:31:32.000This is going to create more racial conflict, not less.
00:31:35.000I grew up in a multiracial high school, and I could say right here, right now, there were no racial, big racial problems in our high school.
00:31:43.000Were there kids that made silly jokes?
00:33:40.000So look, there are specific policies that can blame.
00:33:46.000Blaming all of our problems on systemic racism is incorrect, it is wrong, it is fallacious, and it is not rooted in truth.
00:33:53.000But before we blame politicians and bureaucrats, I first want to just talk about what makes the Christian ethic the most important ethic in the world ever.
00:34:06.000Not just because of the salvation of Jesus Christ and the divinity of the word of God, but no, first and foremost, the Christian ethic was the first ethical system that judged each person individually absent of group identity.
00:34:58.000It's because instead of overly generalizing, the black community, well, the black community is made up of individual human beings that all individually made their own choices.
00:35:10.000And so before we get into policies that impacted those choices, we need to first hold people accountable and say individuals made bad choices.
00:35:21.000I do believe that big public policy and politicians betraying the middle class have played a huge role.
00:35:27.000But even greater than that, I will never, on the hierarchy of placing blame, if you will, I will never put anything higher than individual responsibility than people that decided to do something that was not in their best interest.
00:35:44.000And so a broken culture was more to blame than any sort of systemic racism.
00:35:52.000So if I were to point, though, to a piece of policy, or to a set of policies that impacted those choices, it would be the 1965 Great Society.
00:36:04.000They were not systemically racist because they actually impacted every community.
00:36:09.000They impacted the black community more because they were hyper-targeted towards specific areas of where black individuals lived, saying that we need to help those communities because of everything that we've done to the black community.
00:36:23.000So because of those good intentions, they resulted in bad public policy.
00:36:27.000So the 1965 Great Society, passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, subsidized something and get more of that something.
00:37:16.000And so when the Seattle terrorists took over six city blocks in Seattle with no police, with no private property, and they run their own streets, why are people still raping, stealing, and committing crimes?
00:37:33.000I thought it was our society that was the problem.
00:37:36.000Why are you guys still doing bad things despite you being able to create your own six city blocks?
00:37:42.000It's because the left tries to sell you utopia, but it's never going to exist.
00:37:47.000The more they sell us utopia and the more that we buy that lie, the more young people are going to hate America because it's not perfect.
00:38:07.000If you've traveled the world like I have, you realize this is the best the planet has to offer.
00:38:14.000You realize this is the best place in the entire world.
00:38:17.000And the more races we have integrated, our system has made tremendous progress on practically every front.
00:38:23.000But the more we tear down a system that has been so good and so prone to self-correction, the more we weaken our ability to grow and to become better in the future.
00:38:32.000The more we tear down the moral and civil institutions that form the bedrock of this nation for so long, demonizing them as the problem when we really have been the source of all that is good, the less bright the future will be.
00:38:46.000So Joshua from Massachusetts says, growing up, who was the conservative voice or show that you listened to or watched most, or did you have one?
00:38:57.000But the person who really turned the corner for me, the person that just made it all click, was Milton Friedman.
00:39:04.000And with Milton Friedman was Thomas Sowell, who if you do not know who Thomas Sowell is and you're in American politics or you're interested, you got to know.
00:39:10.000Thomas Sowell is a black intellectual who is the most articulate, who is the most incredible black economist, I think, in the entire country.
00:39:20.000And Walter Williams is awesome, and so is Shelby Steele.
00:39:22.000I want to play you a clip right now of Thomas Sowell, who is so incredible on the issue of race in America.
00:39:40.000New York Times writer Nicholas Kristoff, I'm quoting you, asserts that there is overwhelming, you're quoting him, overwhelming evidence that centuries of racial subjugation still shape inequity in the 21st century, quote, closing quote, and he mentions, open quote, the lingering effects of slavery, close quote.
00:40:00.000If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood 100 years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state.
00:41:00.000Stuyvesant High School in New York, as you know, you get into only by passing a very tough exam.
00:41:06.000In 2012, the percentage of black students who had gotten into Stuyvesant High School was less than one-tenth of the percentage of black students who had gotten into Stuyvesant High School 33 years earlier.
00:41:23.000Dunbar High School in Washington, which was an elite black high school for a very long time.
00:41:28.000In 1993, the number of kids out of Dunbar High School who went on to college was less than it was 60 years earlier, which would have been in the depth of the Great Depression.
00:41:43.000And so you can run through a whole bunch of other things like that.
00:41:49.000The housing projects in the first half of the 20th century, during that first hundred years after slavery, did not have the high crime rates, the murder rates, the graffiti, all the rest of it that we associate.
00:42:09.000People, like the New York Times, I should Christoph should read his own old papers, pointed out that on Saturday mornings, it was common in the housing project of this earlier era for parents to leave their doors unlocked because some of the parents could afford television, some couldn't.
00:42:29.000So the ones who had television would leave their doors unlocked, and the kids from the other families could come down there and watch television with them.
00:42:36.000Well, now the latest figures show that most people below the poverty line have two television sets and cable, but they wouldn't dare leave their doors unlocked in a public housing project.
00:44:24.000But I, for one, am able to work 18, 19, 20-hour days because I'm so precise on what I eat and how I eat.
00:44:33.000And I think that people need to take what they eat more seriously.
00:44:36.000And I talked about this in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show with Chris Buzkirk last weekend, which is I think most of the problems in America, almost all of the health-related issues in America, can be traced back to diet.
00:47:03.000There's one team that really was a personal experience for me.
00:47:07.000All of you that grew up loving sports like I did, and I just miss sports so much, you know exactly what I talk about, that sometimes there's just that magical team that you follow every pitch or every game, every second of that team.
00:47:20.000It's like the 85 Bears for my parents' generation.
00:47:24.000In Chicago, it's a team that everyone forgets about.
00:47:27.000It's a team that literally, when ESPN talked about Chicago championships, they have forgotten to list this team three times now.