The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 55: Why Joe Biden's Fall is Fair Game, the Truth About American Slavery, Vaccine Liberty, and Was the Atlanta Shooter Racially Motivated?

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00:02:32.000 One question here from Cynthia from South Carolina.

00:02:36.000 The essence of her question is, Charlie, you were mentioning slavery the other day and the legacy of slavery.

00:02:41.000 Can you expound on that? 0.60

00:02:42.000 And that's true.

00:02:43.000 I do want to build that out a little bit more and just so we're clear.

00:02:47.000 Everything i'm going to say is basically not allowed to be said on most programs or channels.

00:02:54.000 Not because there's anything wrong with it.

00:02:56.000 It's just everyone, for whatever reason, so afraid to talk about this issue of Blm, Incorporated and critical race theory and race, and the reason why I feel so compelled to speak out against this topic is.

00:03:08.000 I saw America dramatically change on this topic Topic in political discourse in the last decade.

00:03:14.000 And I grew up in a set of circumstances being an upper-middle-class lifestyle in Wheeling, Illinois, around people of different backgrounds, beliefs, culture, and language.

00:03:25.000 Yet there was a very promising unity that I experienced.

00:03:30.000 And now I see that crumbling all around me.

00:03:34.000 And I've already been called all the worst names a human being can be called.

00:03:38.000 So I'm just kind of unafraid to weigh in on these issues.

00:03:41.000 And so I see some conservatives, and I don't mean you listening, but I mean conservatives that are authors or conservatives that are on television, and Candace Owens obviously being an exception to this, that are just really afraid to call out this nonsense for what it is.

00:04:00.000 Critical race theory, the bigoted ideas behind the abolition of whiteness.

00:04:06.000 And really, where does this come from and where is this leading us?

00:04:10.000 It was three and a half years ago, I was on campuses talking about how white privilege is a racist myth designed to divide people and care more about skin color than character.

00:04:25.000 In fact, we could play tape after tape, and many of you have seen them on Facebook and Instagram, especially the one where I went to Colorado State University and I had the clip that was viewed well over 55 million times where I said that white privilege was racist and it went phenomenally viral.

00:04:43.000 And so the overemphasis on the discussion of race in our country is intentional.

00:04:50.000 As long as we're talking about something as inconsequential as the color of people's skin, we'll never actually be able to address the true plunder, the theft that is happening in our country, which is the wealthiest people in our country want to continue to add to their 11-figure net worth while we lose our manufacturing base, we bring in opioids from across the world,

00:05:16.000 and we lose our sense of culture, purpose, which comes from a Greek word telos, which means out in the distance, the place that we want to aim for.

00:05:24.000 What is the purpose?

00:05:25.000 What is the promise of America?

00:05:27.000 Most politicians can't answer that.

00:05:29.000 Instead, the sales pitch that was made to Republican voters in Georgia was something I agree with, but it wasn't compelling enough to be able to defeat Warnock and Ossoff, who had no business whatsoever winning, which is help elect Warner, help elect Purdue and Letfler, because we are going to defeat socialism.

00:05:48.000 Okay, that is not what the American conversation is about right now.

00:05:53.000 It's not.

00:05:54.000 There was a moment where socialism was the number one issue, where people were really worried about a socialist takeover.

00:06:00.000 And you should be.

00:06:01.000 But I think people are also equally as worried about a fundamental destruction of the American way of life, the American promise, and just decent dialogue.

00:06:12.000 So I love that word dialogue.

00:06:14.000 Dialogue comes from two Greek words, dia, which means through, and logos, which means truth, reason, or thinking.

00:06:23.000 Logos is a very interchangeable word.

00:06:26.000 The point is that through reason, we can find truth.

00:06:29.000 That's what dialogue is supposed to be.

00:06:31.000 That is why they hate dialogue.

00:06:33.000 They actually don't want to have the process that you're able to explore truth and explore ultimate purpose.

00:06:40.000 And so I talked about slavery the other day, and Thomas Sowell makes this argument, and so I'm not alone on an island saying this: is that most slavery around the world had nothing to do with race.

00:06:51.000 Most slavery was just powerful people using their power to own other human beings.

00:06:57.000 For example, slavery still exists in North America.

00:07:01.000 There's a form of slavery that happens on our border.

00:07:03.000 It happens in a lot of our cities with sex trafficking.

00:07:07.000 Most times that that slavery occurs, it is not a white person that is owning a black person or Hispanic person. 0.96

00:07:16.000 It's people of the same race that are engaging in that horrific, awful, and evil practice. 0.95

00:07:22.000 The same can be said for the Horn of Africa in Somalia, where slavery is alive and well. 1.00

00:07:28.000 To insert automatic racial undertones into the entire broader conversation of the history of slavery around the world is factually incorrect.

00:07:39.000 And Abraham Lincoln said this, and I love this quote: which is: if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

00:07:48.000 So, Nicole Hanna-Jones and the people that are teaching your children, what's his name?

00:07:53.000 Tahanisi Coates.

00:07:56.000 They make the argument that America was founded on slavery, not on freedom.

00:08:04.000 Now, first of all, that ignores that the human norm going back to pre-biblical times was slavery.

00:08:11.000 There was almost no country that did not have slaves.

00:08:14.000 The Israelites themselves were slaves in Egypt.

00:08:17.000 Greece had slaves.

00:08:19.000 Rome had slaves.

00:08:21.000 So the idea of human beings owning human beings was widespread.

00:08:28.000 The first question should be: why did slavery end?

00:08:31.000 What ethic, what idea actually broke the pattern of the sin of slavery?

00:08:38.000 That's a really important question that most people in college and most people in the academy never dare ask.

00:08:45.000 And I understand why people are afraid.

00:08:47.000 They don't want to be called the R-word.

00:08:50.000 They do not want to lose their job or lose their friends.

00:08:52.000 And that's what this program right here is unafraid to talk about.

00:08:56.000 And here's another politically incorrect truth: that white slaves were sold all throughout Africa, and white people and black people were slaves in America. 0.93

00:09:05.000 It's true. 0.84

00:09:06.000 Read discrimination and disparities in Thomas Sowell, and he has some phenomenal scholarship done on this topic.

00:09:14.000 Thomas Sowell also argues that slavery was actually really bad also for Southern whites.

00:09:22.000 Less economic production, less creativity, less entrepreneurship, less development, and relying upon an evil, sinful practice actually made the South much poorer than the industrial North.

00:09:36.000 Who would have ever thought that not only is slavery evil, but it actually prevents all of societal human progress?

00:09:45.000 That one of the reasons that we were able to break through the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s was because we were able to win the argument and, yes, the war against slavery.

00:09:55.000 What's really going on here is that the intelligentsia, the people in charge, the people that write your children's textbooks, the people that host the television shows like Joy Reed, they never want to miss an opportunity to make themselves seem as if they're on the side of the angels.

00:10:11.000 That they are better people than you are.

00:10:13.000 That's a quote straight from Thomas Sowell.

00:10:16.000 The ending of slavery was a remarkable breakthrough for human beings.

00:10:23.000 Why did it happen? 0.78

00:10:25.000 What largely happened in the West because of activist Christians taking the scripture seriously, creating a moonshot document that all men are created equal, and then actually having to live up to that document. 0.54

00:10:38.000 Of course, there was contradiction in writing that document when some of the people that signed onto that document owned slaves themselves. 0.54

00:10:45.000 Of course there was.

00:10:46.000 But the ideal was put into writing as a central organizing principle.

00:10:53.000 And the moment that that central organizing principle then became permanent, then all of a sudden all human action had to be compared to that.

00:11:01.000 That is why George Washington said no slaves at all, no slavery in the Northwest Territories called the Northwest Ordinance.

00:11:09.000 Very well, slavery could have spread into the Northwest Territories.

00:11:11.000 George Washington said no.

00:11:12.000 Thomas Jefferson signed a moratorium of new slaves coming into the United States very early on into his presidency, 20 years after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

00:11:21.000 That was in the Constitution.

00:11:22.000 Vermont abolished slavery in 1777.

00:11:25.000 John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, was a fierce abolitionist, son of founding father John Adams.

00:11:34.000 The founding fathers never wrote extensively.

00:11:38.000 And there's a sentence here, a sentence there that can find in private journals, but they never wrote publicly extensively defending the sin of slavery.

00:11:46.000 That's a really important point.

00:11:49.000 I remember being in an America where we used to be able to laugh and make fun of ourselves.

00:11:56.000 I just got an email about someone who says they have to take mandated racial diversity seminar training or whatever it is.

00:12:04.000 And all I have to say is that there is a piece of art, and I don't use that word lightly, that is so perfect, so funny, so politically incorrect that hits this perfectly.

00:12:16.000 It's from the legendary show The Office.

00:12:18.000 Now, The Office started as an unbelievably politically incorrect show, and then it got into this kind of like quasi-woke thing later on.

00:12:27.000 But the episode Diversity Day, it's so politically incorrect, especially in today's time.

00:12:35.000 I'm just going to tell you something right now.

00:12:37.000 If I dared repeat some of the lines here, it wouldn't even be an advertiser boycott.

00:12:44.000 I'd be an advertiser invasion.

00:12:47.000 One of my favorite lines is Steve Corral looks into the, actually, this might be the pilot episode.

00:12:52.000 You see, I am, I'm not an expert in a lot of things, but I am an expert in the central canon of the first season of The Office because it all went downhill from there.

00:13:01.000 I watched the later.

00:13:02.000 The first season of The Office is so well written as if they don't care about, they just said, we are going to swing for the fences.

00:13:13.000 Bottom of the ninth, we want this show to catch on that they just took huge risks.

00:13:19.000 Steve Corral famously said, as Abraham Lincoln said, if you are a racist, I will attack you from the north.

00:13:27.000 I highly encourage you to check it out because we need to laugh about this stuff a little bit because people are emailing me, Charlie, what do I do about this diversity seminar?

00:13:34.000 If you think you have it bad, check out Michael Scott, who had to take the diversity class seminar from Mr. Brown, as Michael Scott would say in quotes.

00:13:45.000 He's like, okay, I won't call you that.

00:13:46.000 That's the first test.

00:13:48.000 Now, someone asked me, Charlie, how do I push back against this stuff at work?

00:13:53.000 How do I respond to this idea that America is systemically racist?

00:14:01.000 And this is a question that Larry from Massachusetts also has.

00:14:05.000 He emailed us freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:14:08.000 And also another question of this that Ann asked us.

00:14:12.000 She just emailed us.

00:14:12.000 She said, hey, Charlie, they like to call white people racist, but what percentage of slaves are currently owned by whites in the world?

00:14:18.000 Who are the real racists?

00:14:20.000 Almost none.

00:14:22.000 Slavery still exists in the world. 1.00

00:14:24.000 And it's mostly in the Islamic world and in the black world. 0.88

00:14:29.000 Almost in zero parts of the quote-unquote white world is slavery allowed. 0.96

00:14:34.000 And where slavery is existent, it's in the shadows where it happens in child sex trafficking.

00:14:41.000 And the open border coalition of Joe Biden basically is indifferent about the fact that 11,000 women are sex trafficked across the southern border every single year.

00:14:54.000 We had Tom Homan, who is the former director of ICE, Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement.

00:14:59.000 And he said something on our podcast.

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00:15:06.000 He said something so stunning.

00:15:08.000 He said, oh, yeah, people rent children all the time on the southern border.

00:15:13.000 And I said, what do you mean?

00:15:14.000 Rent children?

00:15:15.000 What is that? 0.90

00:15:16.000 A VHS cassette tape?

00:15:17.000 What are you talking about?

00:15:18.000 Renting children.

00:15:19.000 He said, oh, yeah.

00:15:20.000 On the southern border, children are rented for the purpose of crossing the southern border. 0.99

00:15:27.000 That's slavery. 0.71

00:15:28.000 And that happens right on our border. 0.76

00:15:31.000 So before the BLM Incorporated virtue signaling white guilt coalition lectures you, why don't we secure our southern borders that children are no longer rented coming into our country? 0.71

00:15:46.000 So there is one book and one service that I want to recommend to all of you that hits this perfectly. 0.83

00:15:51.000 It's called Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Soule.

00:15:54.000 And you guys can check it out by going to thinker.org.

00:15:57.000 It's T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie.

00:16:01.000 They do an amazing job at thinker.org slash Charlie.

00:16:05.000 You're able to summarize these books and these big ideas in bite-sized form easier than ever before.

00:16:12.000 So maybe there are some big ideas that you want to wrestle with, but especially in discrimination and disparities, Thomas Soule makes the argument that disparities are actually the human norm, that we should not be surprised when there are differences of groups.

00:16:24.000 In fact, if everything was the same, we would be in some form of, quite honestly, hellish egalitarianism. 0.75

00:16:31.000 He makes the argument that employers were actually more likely to hire young black males when they were allowed to do background checks, that some types of discrimination are actually ideal.

00:16:41.000 That's Thomas Sowell's argument. 0.99

00:16:42.000 You want to check it out?

00:16:43.000 Go to thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie.

00:16:49.000 Check it out.

00:16:49.000 You're able to get these ideas summarized in bite-sized form.

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00:17:10.000 Andrew from Michigan.

00:17:11.000 Charlie, I heard you talking about Joe Biden stumbling to get into the airplane.

00:17:16.000 What are your thoughts?

00:17:17.000 What are your deeper thoughts on this essentially or his question?

00:17:19.000 Thanks so much, Andrew.

00:17:20.000 Congratulations, Andrew.

00:17:21.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:17:23.000 Do you remember how the media treated Donald Trump when he had to walk down a ramp a little bit slower than usual?

00:17:32.000 New York Times, Trump's halting walk down ramp raises new health questions.

00:17:37.000 The president also appeared to have trouble raising a glass of water to his mouth during a speech at West Point a day before he turned 74, the oldest president has been in his first term.

00:17:46.000 Of course, the narrative they were trying to put forward is that Donald Trump was unfit for office.

00:17:52.000 Chris Salizza from CNN, why the Donald Trump West Point ramp story actually matters.

00:17:59.000 And Joe Biden trying to get into an airplane just falls literally three times.

00:18:06.000 And the activist media doing whatever they possibly can to try to say you're a bad person if you dare even mention it.

00:18:14.000 Again, I had a little bit of fun with it only because they were so terrible towards Donald Trump and terrible towards every single Republican that might have anything they've ever done wrong.

00:18:28.000 And so, yeah, I'm going to have a little bit of fun if Joe Biden collapses three times going into an airplane.

00:18:35.000 Question here.

00:18:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:18:38.000 I'm a huge supporter and thank you for everything you are fighting for.

00:18:40.000 What do you predict the future of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine will be?

00:18:44.000 I'm 17 and do not plan on taking it.

00:18:46.000 However, I do fear it will be mandatory for travel and large events.

00:18:49.000 I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether you think the country is headed with this.

00:18:52.000 Thank you, Cameron Gray.

00:18:53.000 I am not going to take it either.

00:18:56.000 So that's everyone's liberty and their own decision to do it.

00:19:00.000 Just do your research.

00:19:01.000 Make your own decision.

00:19:02.000 Use your liberty.

00:19:04.000 Don't be forced into doing anything.

00:19:06.000 And so if you think it's the right thing for you, then make that decision.

00:19:09.000 But I've made a decision that is not that one.

00:19:11.000 And I encourage you to do your research.

00:19:13.000 And if you think I'm wrong, then email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:19:17.000 But I'm not really big into forcing you to do something, especially something that was that rushed to market.

00:19:25.000 So I encourage you guys to get into the weeds and read, read, read, read.

00:19:30.000 Here's one.

00:19:31.000 Brianna or Brianna, single mom wanting to do more.

00:19:35.000 First of all, I will keep this anonymous, as you asked.

00:19:39.000 So I won't say your last name.

00:19:41.000 Hey, Charlie, I'm a single mom and I work full-time.

00:19:44.000 God bless you.

00:19:45.000 I live with my parents and they are helping me with my two young school-age kids.

00:19:48.000 Awesome.

00:19:49.000 Because of this, I'm very limited in time and finances.

00:19:51.000 You are very concerned with what our children are being taught.

00:19:54.000 I wish I could homeschool, but I don't see how I could manage that right now.

00:19:57.000 Aside from prayer, how can I make a difference in the direction our country is going?

00:20:01.000 I want to be more courageous, but in the midst of custody discussions, I'm concerned about speaking out lest I lose my children.

00:20:06.000 Well, first of all, God bless you for having your head in the right place.

00:20:10.000 The best thing you could do is raise good children.

00:20:13.000 That is the best thing you can do.

00:20:14.000 Spend time with them, read with them, explore big ideas with them.

00:20:19.000 But I just want to say something for Christian Incorporated out there, for the big churches that all they care about is bigger buildings and higher budgets. 0.65

00:20:29.000 Why is there not an organization out there that makes it financially easier for women like you to homeschool their children?

00:20:36.000 That would be a pretty amazing ministry. 1.00

00:20:39.000 Instead, we're worried about building $100 million structures so you can have a rock show concert.

00:20:48.000 And I'm all for that.

00:20:49.000 I think it's powerful at times.

00:20:52.000 But that's more of a challenge to the billions of dollars that get spent on, I'm not really sure what, every single year in American Christianity.

00:21:02.000 But Brianna or Brianna, the best thing you can do is to take the education and the nurturing and the upbringing of your children seriously.

00:21:10.000 Education comes from a Latin word to lead forth.

00:21:15.000 Lead forth your children correctly.

00:21:17.000 It's a proverb that says, teach the children in the ways you wish them to go.

00:21:22.000 I'm paraphrasing, I'm butchering the proverb.

00:21:24.000 We'll get the exact verse.

00:21:25.000 And that is the way that they will go.

00:21:27.000 Essentially, lead them up in the ways that you desire, and that is the way they will go.

00:21:30.000 I think it's Proverbs 18.

00:21:31.000 I'm totally butchering it, but I'm just drawing from recollection there.

00:21:34.000 God bless you, and thank you for that question.

00:21:38.000 Let's get to some more questions here.

00:21:39.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:21:41.000 We have so many good ones here, which let's get to this one here, Oklahoma.

00:21:46.000 Okay.

00:21:47.000 From Sarah, congratulations.

00:21:48.000 You get a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:21:50.000 Will you be recording your event in Edmond, Oklahoma on Tuesday, March 23rd, either podcast and/or YouTube?

00:21:56.000 Yes, we will be live streaming it.

00:21:58.000 And I encourage all of you, if you want to come to our upcoming live events, Proverbs 22, 6.

00:22:04.000 Got it.

00:22:04.000 Our live events, go to tpusa.com/slash genfree, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Nashville with Candace Owens.

00:22:12.000 That's right.

00:22:12.000 We will be in Nashville with Candace Owens.

00:22:15.000 Then Vegas, San Jose.

00:22:16.000 Check it out at tpusa.com/slash genfree.

00:22:22.000 Here is one right here.

00:22:23.000 Hey, Charlie, can you break down LBJ's great society?

00:22:27.000 What about it led to the economic oppression of the black community?

00:22:30.000 Asking from a survivor of the Chicago suburb school system regards Vince.

00:22:35.000 Congratulations, Vince.

00:22:36.000 You get a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:22:38.000 And please keep on emailing us your questions, everybody.

00:22:40.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:22:42.000 Okay, Vince.

00:22:43.000 The Great Society program was the largest welfare program in American history.

00:22:47.000 The only thing that came close in comparison was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

00:22:53.000 The Great Society started welfare as we know it.

00:22:57.000 It started many of the massive social welfare programs of today and that we know today, such as single motherhood assistance, food stamps, almost all of it came out of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

00:23:09.000 And so what happened was that the Civil Rights Act was moving through Congress.

00:23:13.000 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot.

00:23:16.000 Lyndon Baines Johnson became president. 0.93

00:23:18.000 And then they signed the Civil Rights Act reluctantly into law because Lyndon Baines Johnson was a racist, bigot Southern Democrat.

00:23:26.000 But in exchange, he wanted some way to make sure that black people with their newfound freedom would vote Democrat for the rest of their life.

00:23:35.000 So Lyndon Baines Johnson decided to do something Machiavellian.

00:23:39.000 And if you ever heard that term Machiavellian, you're not sure what that means.

00:23:42.000 It literally comes from an author by the name of Niccolio Machiavelli.

00:23:46.000 And he wrote the famous book, The Prince, which basically, if you know the background of Niccolio Machiavelli, he was, he wrote it in Italy, I think in the 1500s during a time when there were a lot of warring factions in Italy.

00:24:01.000 Basically, the original crime families were ruling Italy.

00:24:04.000 And he wrote it based on what he learned.

00:24:07.000 And it was written more in a fiction prose.

00:24:09.000 1532.

00:24:10.000 Yes, haha, I was right.

00:24:11.000 During a time in Italy where a lot of these warring factions were basically employing tactics to be able to rule.

00:24:21.000 And so that's where we get the phrase the ends justify the means, the question of would you rather be loved or hated as a ruler?

00:24:26.000 All of these are discussed in an exploratory fashion in Machiavelli's book, The Prince.

00:24:31.000 So anyway, if you hear that term Machiavellian, just need to make sure I say that because some people hear that and this kind of goes over same with Orwellian and Marxist.

00:24:40.000 These were people, literally.

00:24:42.000 Okay.

00:24:43.000 So Lyndon Baines Johnson decided to do something very Machiavellian where the ends justified the means, where he used brutal power to be able to do something bad for his own political purpose.

00:24:54.000 And so here, there's a great chart by the United States Census Bureau.

00:24:58.000 The citation here is the United States Decennial Census from 1890 to 2000, the American Community Survey, and you guys can check it out yourself. 0.66

00:25:07.000 So black women were more likely to be married than white women up until 1970. 0.92

00:25:12.000 And then single motherhood skyrocketed in the black community.

00:25:16.000 So there was the black Harlem Renaissance.

00:25:18.000 There was the black entrepreneurial trend that was happening in Chicago. 0.57

00:25:24.000 And then Lyndon Baines Johnson came in and started to create government taxpayer subsidized housing units, specifically in Chicago, Atlanta, and Detroit, came in and started to subsidize single motherhood and basically started to reward bad decisions.

00:25:40.000 And the black community, which was the target of this social welfare scheme, but by the way, they weren't the only population that was negatively impacted by the great society.

00:25:50.000 Most of the white Appalachia as well found themselves on welfare because of this.

00:25:56.000 So it was really racially agnostic, but it was, in some sense, the black community was impacted more.

00:26:02.000 They started to see all of the negative trends start to accelerate.

00:26:06.000 In fact, Thomas Sowell writes, and I quote, black poverty was plummeting far before the welfare state was implemented, but Lyndon Baines Johnson, being a bigot, a southern racist bigot, saw worry in the fact that blacks actually were Republicans.

00:26:23.000 So how do you make blacks Democrats? 0.87

00:26:26.000 You keep down their economic success. 1.00

00:26:28.000 You addict them to government programs.

00:26:30.000 And you say the only way that you'll be able to keep on getting this small amount of government assistance is by voting Democrat.

00:26:37.000 It was one of the most evil acts of public policy that was ever done.

00:26:44.000 And Lyndon Baines Johnson did it intentionally as a way to simply and solely preserve power in the Democrat Party.

00:26:51.000 We know this.

00:26:52.000 When you subsidize something, you're going to get more of that something.

00:26:56.000 So when you subsidize out of wedlock birth, you get more of that.

00:27:01.000 When you decide to penalize and punish entrepreneurship, you get less of that.

00:27:05.000 And that is precisely what the welfare state started to do in the 1960s.

00:27:09.000 You can see an upward curve directly when that began.

00:27:12.000 As Shelby Steele said, and Shelby Steele is a black economist and a black scholar who's been on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:27:19.000 Just another reason to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:27:23.000 And by the way, I encourage those of you that are already subscribed, go back a month or two or three months.

00:27:27.000 There is some phenomenal evergreen content.

00:27:30.000 In fact, that reminds me, what we should do on CharlieKirk.com, we should have a best of page of just some of the evergreen interviews that never get old, right?

00:27:38.000 It's a great idea.

00:27:39.000 Shelby, we've had some unbelievable guests.

00:27:41.000 Seriously, Shelby Steele, Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay.

00:27:48.000 You guys can find these amazing conversations.

00:27:50.000 And my only reason for mentioning that is sometimes they get buried in our feed because we post so much.

00:27:56.000 We do two episodes a day, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.

00:27:59.000 And the Candace one is literally as relevant today as it was back when we did that interview back in July.

00:28:05.000 And so Shelby Steele said, the greatest issue that blacks have today is an issue of how to deal with freedom, not an issue of how to deal with slavery.

00:28:16.000 That's Shelby Steele's words.

00:28:17.000 So you got a problem with that.

00:28:18.000 You can contact him.

00:28:19.000 And it's exactly true.

00:28:20.000 Plus, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the public sector teacher unions have gone on a diabolical, self-dealing scheme to have crumbling public schools with declining literacy rates that we've seen in Baltimore and other places all across the country.

00:28:37.000 It's been an absolute travesty to America.

00:28:41.000 You combine all of that together. 1.00

00:28:43.000 That is one of the reasons why black America is not doing as well as other communities. 0.97

00:28:49.000 However, did you know that the richest immigrant group to America is Nigerian Americans?

00:28:55.000 If Nigerian Americans are able to succeed in America, is America really so racist?

00:28:59.000 Asian Americans are actually wealthier than white Americans in America.

00:29:03.000 Indian American immigrants are wealthier than white Americans.

00:29:07.000 If this was a white supremacist country, there's no data at all to support it.

00:29:13.000 Instead, it's a lie.

00:29:15.000 It's a lie fabricated to try to have white people atone for something they didn't do so that they give away stuff that they have to give Democrats power.

00:29:26.000 Look, we all know that conservatives are getting kicked off of social media.

00:29:29.000 So why are we choosing to give all these tech companies all of our data?

00:29:33.000 Now is the time to take a stand.

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00:30:31.000 Charlie, I'm a Crown High School student in Las Vegas.

00:30:34.000 I've been a friend of your show for almost a year now.

00:30:36.000 Question is, what are your thoughts to the motive of the Atlanta shooting since the left claims that it was a white supremacist committing a hate crime?

00:30:42.000 When there's no evidence related to that, all the information I found on Ben Shapiro's podcast states the evidence pointing it to be a related extradiction he had.

00:30:50.000 That is correct.

00:30:51.000 And Ben's a good friend.

00:30:53.000 So I'm glad you listened to both of us.

00:30:54.000 So, first of all, let's just, you mentioned you're from Vegas and you mentioned motive.

00:31:00.000 Do you know motive that we never found out that was quietly swept under the rug?

00:31:05.000 What was the motive of the Las Vegas shooter at Mandalay Bay?

00:31:08.000 Why did we never find that out?

00:31:11.000 How do you not have a motive declared?

00:31:14.000 It's beyond me.

00:31:15.000 Not to mention the question surrounding how did he get into that room with no security.

00:31:22.000 It seems totally impossible that we have no answers around that.

00:31:27.000 Okay, anyway, that's just the activist media just was told to stop caring from the most powerful interests.

00:31:32.000 They're basically like, just stop it, which just begs the question, is there more to that?

00:31:37.000 How do we just forget about that?

00:31:38.000 That's a really important thing.

00:31:40.000 How did a guy kill 61 people?

00:31:42.000 We don't know why.

00:31:43.000 Anyway, and he injured 867 people, 411 by gunfire.

00:31:49.000 Not an insignificant event in Vegas.

00:31:52.000 That was not your question, but since you said you were from Vegas and you asked about the motive of a shooter, I just have to ask that question.

00:31:58.000 Okay, there is zero evidence whatsoever to support that this guy in Atlanta was racially motivated.

00:32:06.000 But let me ask you a question.

00:32:08.000 Why does that matter?

00:32:10.000 Why does his motive in that case actually matter?

00:32:13.000 Because obviously the Las Vegas motive was completely irrelevant to the media.

00:32:18.000 It's so irrelevant that we just stop talking about it.

00:32:21.000 The reason is this: if they can potentially connect any act of violence to their broader narrative that will give them ultimate control, that America's racist, and because of that, we need to get rid of private property, we need to get rid of churches, we need to get rid of school choice, we need to get rid of families.

00:32:37.000 If they can't confirm an event to that narrative, then they just lose interest.

00:32:41.000 It's that simple.

00:32:42.000 But if they can confirm an event to that narrative, then they will be relentless.

00:32:47.000 And there's one thing that I want to keep on repeating.

00:32:50.000 You are being manipulated.

00:32:53.000 You must have this self-awareness.

00:32:55.000 I implore you.

00:32:56.000 Every piece of information you read, every podcast you listen to, that might not be ours.

00:33:01.000 Ben does a great job.

00:33:02.000 All the Daily Wire does a great job.

00:33:04.000 Bongino does a great job.

00:33:05.000 Levin does a great job.

00:33:07.000 But almost every mainstream outlet is manipulating you. 0.96

00:33:11.000 So they are trying to convince you through psychological manipulation to care so much about the motive of the scumbag that kills eight people because then it will justify further aggressive action towards their desired objective. 0.97

00:33:29.000 You see, remember, they have been testing this out over the last decade. 0.97

00:33:32.000 Do you notice how they have not made this an issue about gun control? 0.97

00:33:36.000 This was a perfect issue.

00:33:38.000 Typically, if you have a guy that purchases a gun on the same day, we'd have Michael Bloomberg already on CNN.

00:33:45.000 Where's the CNN town hall on gun control?

00:33:48.000 Usually CNN would have some sort of town hall by now where they have all the victims' families.

00:33:53.000 Instead, it's all about race.

00:33:55.000 Because CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times, they actually have realized that the gun control argument is not actually a big mover.

00:34:04.000 That most of the country actually wants their weapons.

00:34:07.000 They understand the price of liberty.

00:34:09.000 And they know that there are negative externalities that we're going to try to limit, but it's not worth mass gun confiscation.

00:34:14.000 Instead, they try to cherry pick certain events, even though the mass narrative around anti-Asian hate is actually more about black people and Asian people than anything to do with white supremacy.

00:34:26.000 And so the reason that they are focusing on it, despite it being no evidence around it, is that it confirms what they see as a successful narrative to permanently occupy and control our country.

00:34:38.000 You are being manipulated.

00:34:40.000 Free yourself of that narrative.

00:34:42.000 That's what this program is all about.

00:34:44.000 That's what we do every single day.

00:34:46.000 When you free yourself of the manipulation, you're actually a much happier person.

00:34:49.000 You really are.

00:34:51.000 Seek wisdom, not anger.

00:34:53.000 Seek facts, not narrative.

00:34:56.000 That's something the media fears the most.

00:35:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:01.000 Make sure to listen to our episodes over the weekend.

00:35:04.000 I think you'll really enjoy them.

00:35:05.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:09.000 God bless you.

00:35:10.000 Speak to you soon.

00:35:13.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 22, 2021

Ask Charlie Anything 55: Why Joe Biden's Fall is Fair Game, the Truth About American Slavery, Vaccine Liberty, and Was the Atlanta Shooter Racially Motivated?

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