The Charlie Kirk Show - From the Archive: "Defending Small Town America" — Charlie's 2021 Minnesota State University Speech

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00:01:18.000 Thank you.

00:01:19.000 It's great to be here.

00:01:22.000 Thank you, everybody.

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00:01:27.000 We are continuing our tour here, and I'm glad to be here in Minnesota.

00:01:31.000 Unlike some people who run for president, I actually get the states' rights as we travel.

00:01:35.000 We were in Michigan yesterday, and I've been looking forward to this one for a variety of different reasons.

00:01:40.000 First of all, I just love Minnesota.

00:01:42.000 It's a really nice place.

00:01:43.000 Please don't.

00:01:45.000 Here's just some advice.

00:01:47.000 Just don't totally mess up this state.

00:01:49.000 It was built by wonderful Scandinavians, and it seems as if it's just being destroyed now.

00:01:54.000 Rather intentionally.

00:01:54.000 We're actually going to talk about that because my whole family's actually from Austin, Minnesota.

00:02:00.000 Many generations back, I was from Austin, Minnesota.

00:02:01.000 Yeah.

00:02:04.000 And also, Marshallton, Iowa, so not too far from here.

00:02:06.000 I grew up in Chicago, but many generations passed.

00:02:09.000 So we have a lot of Minnesota ties here.

00:02:11.000 And I was looking forward to coming to this specific stop, like Little House on the Prairie, this kind of idea of small town America, which feels as if we're now intentionally destroying that.

00:02:22.000 And so I grew up listening to someone who I fundamentally disagree with on many issues, but I don't think he ever was characterized correctly.

00:02:29.000 And many people not in college will know this name.

00:02:31.000 Maybe you guys will know Garrison Keillor.

00:02:33.000 And Garrison Keillor obviously wasn't Little House on the Prairie, it was Prairie Home Companion.

00:02:39.000 And he was always kind of this national public radio voice for Minnesota.

00:02:44.000 800 radio stations across the country, and he got me to'd in like 2017 or whatever.

00:02:49.000 And but I think that in some ways, the Garrison Keeler wing of the American left is gone and dead.

00:02:57.000 Where his whole approach was that there's something profoundly beautiful about small town America and that there's something special about the family.

00:03:06.000 And what was that?

00:03:07.000 How he opened up every broadcast or closed it?

00:03:08.000 He said, We're like the men are above, like children above average, and the women are you know super strong, whatever it was.

00:03:14.000 Kind of this like sign off that was like really kind of quaint and romantic and made you chuckle.

00:03:18.000 But the whole idea of kind of the Garrison Keeler, you know, Prairie Home Companion was that maybe we shouldn't hyper corporatize our entire lifestyle and I'll move to cities and become childless and godless, that maybe there's something worth preserving and conserving.

00:03:34.000 And he would call himself a left winger.

00:03:36.000 I never actually thought that.

00:03:38.000 He might have had really socially liberal policies, but the idea that all of a sudden towns like Mankato and he called it Lake Wobegone, which was the famous lake that he used to talk about, is we've seen this massive trend in the last couple years, especially.

00:03:53.000 Of rural America being destroyed and allowing, just like all moving to kind of these urban centers of madness, Minneapolis being one of them.

00:04:02.000 We're going to talk about Minneapolis.

00:04:03.000 Minneapolis, where the founding fathers warned us about this, where they said, if you become too concentrated in these urban areas, urban areas are prone to rumor with a spice of madness.

00:04:14.000 I just kind of love that.

00:04:14.000 That's what James Madison said, where it's going to be these kind of combustible centers of activism, where if you're a farmer and you're actually in touch with the land and you know the person who educates your children, you know the pastor, that's the truest form of local government.

00:04:30.000 And this country was founded on Thousands and tens of thousands of fictitious but actual cities like Lake Wobegon that Garrison Keillor once talked about.

00:04:40.000 And so, kind of coming to a place like this that doesn't quite honestly get as much attention, usually people just go to Minneapolis or wherever, was something that we really wanted to do for a variety of different reasons.

00:04:49.000 But also, I think it's profoundly important that we as conservatives don't overindulge in this idea of everyone move to the cities and stop having families and stop owning property.

00:04:59.000 I think the trend should be the opposite, actually.

00:05:02.000 I think that we should defend small town America and say that there's something profoundly beautiful about it.

00:05:06.000 And so, We'll talk about that, and you could tell me why I was wrong about Garrison Keillor.

00:05:12.000 I'm sure he has plenty of shortcomings and failures.

00:05:14.000 He was kind of a sarcastic snob in a lot of different ways, but I think he was onto something, and I think the American left has just dismissed that entire view.

00:05:22.000 In fact, they have nothing but contempt for this part of the world.

00:05:25.000 And so, but what I want to open up with, in addition to that, is kind of why we named our tour what it is, and some people have been very opinionated about what they think we're talking about here, but CRT is now everywhere.

00:05:38.000 Whether we like it or not, it's in our schools, it's in our military, it's in our corporations, it's in our political process.

00:05:43.000 Critical race theory, wokeism, whatever you want to call it, it's a very simple ideology.

00:05:47.000 We don't have to overthink it.

00:05:48.000 If you guys want to ask questions about it, we can go into the actual intellectual roots of it.

00:05:53.000 But it's this idea that somehow the systems we have in front of us in our country are systemically unjust, they're actually racist, that if you're a white person, whether you realize it or not, you're participating in this racist experiment, that you must now endlessly apologize for things you didn't do.

00:06:10.000 But simply what you look like.

00:06:12.000 And I could go through example through example, and some, for example, let's just use Atlanta Public Schools, where they're segregating white kids in one classroom and black kids in another classroom in a second grade classroom in Atlanta Public Schools.

00:06:26.000 United Airlines has come out and they said they want 50% of all the new pilots that they hire to be black pilots. 0.63

00:06:32.000 Now, I have no problem with black pilots, obviously, but are they now going to be prioritizing competent pilots or pilots with a certain Melanin content in their skin color.

00:06:43.000 Now, I know for you, I want to make sure the pilot that's hired in the plane I'm riding in actually knows what they're doing, not like check some sort of diversity quota box.

00:06:51.000 I mean, you go to your doctor, you're like, hey, okay, it's not that I want to see the best doctor if I have a tumor or I have cancer.

00:06:57.000 You know what?

00:06:57.000 I want a diverse doctor.

00:06:59.000 I mean, what's really happening here is the deterioration of competency and the elevation of diversity. 0.99

00:07:06.000 So, this is where it all comes home here is that just 70 miles down the street and an hour 20 minutes north. 0.90

00:07:15.000 Our country profoundly changed.

00:07:17.000 And this is the other reason why I wanted to come to Minnesota, because we're going to participate in all sorts of thought crimes here tonight, so buckle up, it's going to be a lot of fun.

00:07:24.000 Which is, thank you, which is, on May 25th, 2020, up in Minneapolis, a cell phone video changed the trajectory of our entire nation in this state.

00:07:40.000 The reason why our tour is called the CRT Tour is because of George Floyd's death.

00:07:47.000 And the misinterpretation of that.

00:07:49.000 And I'm not going to go on this endless soapbox defending Derek Chauvin.

00:07:53.000 I think he's kind of not a great person. 0.99

00:07:55.000 But I am also going to offer some context and some nuance about the death of George Floyd that no one dares to say out loud, which is that this guy was a scumbag. 0.99

00:08:03.000 Now, does that mean it deserves to die? 0.99

00:08:05.000 That's two totally different things. 0.93

00:08:06.000 Of course not.

00:08:07.000 But the idea that someone who had 10 times the legal limit of fentanyl was illegally counterfeiting, like trading counterfeit currencies, was resisting arrest, and previously put a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach, who then dies, according to the first medical examination for the Hennepin County Examiner, said he died due to asphyxiation.

00:08:29.000 Or a drug overdose, the second the medical examination said it was due to suffocation or due to the knee on the neck.

00:08:36.000 That somehow we must say, you know what?

00:08:38.000 Let's profoundly restructure society.

00:08:40.000 And that's what happened.

00:08:42.000 Is that one video in one moment of highly emotional footage that was a lot more complicated and nuanced than anyone ever wanted to admit at the moment did what?

00:08:51.000 All of a sudden says, yeah, you know what?

00:08:52.000 This American project's been going really well. 0.92

00:08:54.000 Instead, let's put white people in one classroom, black people in another classroom. 0.87

00:08:58.000 Western Washington University has come out and they have black only dormitories. 0.90

00:09:03.000 Columbia University has come out and they have black only graduation ceremonies and Hispanic only graduation ceremonies.

00:09:09.000 Why?

00:09:10.000 Because of one cell phone footage that happened on May 25th, 2020, right down the street.

00:09:15.000 And here's why is that we as conservatives, and what do you want to call yourself, pro American, pro freedom, whatever, there's this old quote that if you label me, you negate me, I'm happy to say I'm a conservative, I'll tell you why, but it's like not a woke person.

00:09:28.000 I guess that's a fair categorization for most people nowadays, hopefully, is that we look at One of the mistakes we've made is that we underemphasize the power of visual and video medium.

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00:12:00.000 So, you had a white man and a black man, literal knee on the neck, which before that incident even happened was kind of this incantation that they would say that white America has a knee on black America's neck.

00:12:11.000 And then, in addition to that, you had someone that just wasn't a random white person, you had a police officer.

00:12:17.000 And the police officer, which many of us know, Is represents the administration of the law.

00:12:23.000 So, so many activists could say, See, that right there is what we've been talking over the last 30 to 40 years.

00:12:28.000 And immediately, instead of acting patiently and prudently and slowing down and saying, Hold on a second, is this an isolated incident?

00:12:36.000 Is this happening on a daily basis?

00:12:39.000 We then allowed, quite honestly, the most corrupt and disingenuous voices that any human being could possibly find around anything to completely and totally reorganize society.

00:12:50.000 This then, of course, happened with the entire summer of what they call the racial reckoning of last summer, otherwise known as Floyd a Palooza, when we decided just to destroy our entire nation.

00:13:00.000 And where it's as if, like, I'm so angry about systemic racism, I'm going to go burn down a Wendy's.

00:13:07.000 Like, yeah, just like robbing Adidas sneakers from all of America is not going to bring George Floyd back, right?

00:13:13.000 That's a very obvious thing.

00:13:15.000 But if you dare say that, they call you a bad name, which, again, couldn't really care less.

00:13:18.000 We're going to say things that are true.

00:13:20.000 And so, What ended up happening throughout June and July of last year, $2 billion in damages, by the way, after that specific incident, America's actually become a less pleasant and more dangerous place to live.

00:13:34.000 Murders are up 30% since May of last year of what happened here in Minneapolis.

00:13:40.000 I'm not sure really the status quo of like what, not status quo, but like the state of affairs of what's happening in Minneapolis, but they tried to defund the police, they slowed private security.

00:13:48.000 What is kind of the latest there?

00:13:49.000 I guess they're sort of half funding the police.

00:13:51.000 It's a more dangerous place to live.

00:13:53.000 All of you know that.

00:13:54.000 If you've gone down to Minneapolis, it's not the town it used to be.

00:13:57.000 And so, right on that corner of Chicago Street and 38th Street, where George Floyd died, all of a sudden, we as a civilization said, you know what?

00:14:06.000 Our entire history of the rule of law, of the administration of such, separation of powers, checks and balances, independent judiciary, presumption of innocence, you know, trying to put criminals off the streets, let's throw that all out.

00:14:19.000 Instead, we need to reconsider and recalibrate society as we know it.

00:14:23.000 And the damage is real, is what I'm here to tell you tonight.

00:14:26.000 And tonight, as we do this tour, we need to stop and realize how severe and real of a mistake we have made as a country to allow it to go as far as we have for this long.

00:14:37.000 That here we are in October of 2021, and every single metric you can imagine of violent crime is going up. 0.80

00:14:43.000 Now, it's not necessarily going up in rural America, it's actually the very communities that they say they want to help and serve, black and Hispanic communities, where their communities are actually becoming more dangerous, more violent, and a less safe place to live.

00:14:56.000 But, kind of embedded into this entire narrative is, and that's why this one video was so powerful in some ways, was that this is a caricature of what's happening every single day. 0.87

00:15:08.000 That black people are being gunned down simply because of the color of their skin.

00:15:13.000 Now, this is also why the nuance around the Floyd incident was so incredibly misleading Derek Chauvin actually had multiple interactions with other black people throughout that day and did not single out George Floyd because he was black.

00:15:30.000 Did you know that George Floyd actually asked to be put on the ground?

00:15:33.000 That he was the one that is actually resisting arrest? 0.95

00:15:37.000 And now, again, people conflate that with say, Charlie, do you think he deserves to die?

00:15:40.000 Of course, that's not what I'm saying.

00:15:41.000 Obviously, what I'm saying is, you watch the video, the actual police cam video, there's back and forth going there, where he says, I can't breathe seven times before he actually goes down onto the ground because he was actually probably already experiencing a drug overdose well before that incident actually happened.

00:15:58.000 But when you actually look at the statistics, not only have we been lied to, but it's an Orwellian trick.

00:16:03.000 It's the opposite of the truth. 0.73

00:16:05.000 Not only are black people not being gunned down because of the color of their skin, the opposite is indeed true. 0.84

00:16:11.000 That in community after community, police officers are restraining themselves to actually police many of these communities of color. 0.88

00:16:18.000 I'll go through some of these numbers.

00:16:19.000 Which is, you look at, so they say that they're being gunned, unarmed blacks are being gunned down at a massive rate in America.

00:16:26.000 Well, the police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019.

00:16:33.000 More unarmed whites were gunned down and shot by police in 2019.

00:16:37.000 In just the last two years, 19 and 20, 30 total unarmed blacks were killed in two years.

00:16:42.000 With 600 million police interactions.

00:16:46.000 So you have 600 million police interactions, and you have 30 blacks that are killed that are unarmed.

00:16:52.000 Now, if you actually go into those numbers, many of them are like they were reaching for the weapon, they were in a car trying to run over a police officer, very, very nuanced.

00:17:01.000 And so you're trying to tell me that we should completely restructure civil society for maybe 10 or 12 incidents in a country of 335 million people with 600 million police interactions.

00:17:12.000 So in 2018, there were 7,407 black homicide victims.

00:17:17.000 Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all blacks killed in 2019.

00:17:26.000 Yeah, that's the emphasis of the entire conversation in that question.

00:17:30.000 And in 2018, you actually look at crime statistics, blacks made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the United States and commit 60% of robberies, even though blacks are 13% of the population. 0.66

00:17:42.000 So, committing far more crimes than the percentage of the population are. 0.96

00:17:46.000 Now, if you dare say these things, You will lose your job, you get kicked out of class.

00:17:49.000 Guess what?

00:17:50.000 I couldn't care less.

00:17:51.000 Because things that are true need to be said.

00:17:54.000 That if you are afraid to read off crime statistics as they are.

00:18:00.000 And there's a big conflation that sometimes happens. 0.57

00:18:03.000 The major reason why the black community unfortunately gets into a cycle of crime and violence is because they're missing the most important ingredient that BLM refuses to talk about strong men in the household, putting fathers back into the household.

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00:19:47.000 And so you have in Chicago today, Kim Fox today. 0.97

00:19:51.000 Kim Fox, who is a kind of a like the perfect example of what happens when critical race theory gets implemented into law, she released five gang bangers just back onto the streets, even though there's cell phone footage of a gunfire back and forth of two gangs shooting at each other.

00:20:08.000 One person was killed, and she says there was insufficient evidence, even though you could very well see, and they all but admitted to it.

00:20:16.000 Even Lori Lightfoot, who I'm not a fan of at all, has come out and said that this is going to make Chicago a much more dangerous place.

00:20:23.000 But Kim Fox says that you don't understand communities of color, you don't understand these dynamics.

00:20:27.000 So, at first, over the summer, we had to be told you can't break up night fights.

00:20:31.000 Remember that whole thing?

00:20:32.000 Now we can't break up gang fights, even though there's people that are being killed in the collateral damage.

00:20:39.000 There are about 1,000 fatal police shootings every single year out of 385 million police interactions.

00:20:46.000 Being a police officer is a hard job.

00:20:48.000 There are bad cops.

00:20:49.000 Of course, there are bad cops.

00:20:50.000 There are also bad teachers.

00:20:51.000 It's bad of everything.

00:20:53.000 Is the general police officer waking up trying to oppress people?

00:20:56.000 Absolutely not.

00:20:57.000 In fact, a general police officer wants to keep their community safe, wants to look after their fellow citizen and their fellow countryman, and the assault on police officers is intentional because police officers are what stands within this.

00:21:11.000 Fixation on destroying the rule of law as we know it in America.

00:21:15.000 We're seeing this happen, where we have now had 400,000 people that have illegally crossed from the southern border in the last 60 days.

00:21:22.000 Where the people that burned down Minneapolis, a majority of the people that did that actual violence, that destroyed the small businesses in the black community, many of whom will never be tried for the crimes that they committed in Minneapolis during last summer.

00:21:36.000 But if you dare walk into the U.S. Capitol building and take a selfie, they'll put you in solitary confinement and lock you away indefinitely.

00:21:43.000 So, it's not that we have the destruction of the rule of law, it's anarcho tyranny.

00:21:48.000 It's anarchy.

00:21:50.000 If you do something that fits a certain subset of the regime, you can do whatever you want.

00:21:54.000 But if you cross the line, then all of a sudden, what?

00:21:57.000 Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, came out yesterday and said that we are going to use the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, to identify the threats, the harassment, and the violence, of which I've seen none, happening at school board meetings across the country.

00:22:15.000 This is now a priority of the federal government of the United States, saying that if you're a mom showing up worrying about pornographic content being taught to your kids or worrying about critical race theory being taught to your eight year old, now the federal government says not so fast.

00:22:29.000 We might monitor your communications, we might track your social media activity.

00:22:33.000 And so make no mistake, there is a clampdown on certain behavior if you dare disagree with a certain subset of ideas.

00:22:41.000 And this whole kind of idea of critical race theory is a betrayal of the Western idea of the rule of law.

00:22:48.000 Which is this a very simple idea.

00:22:51.000 We used to teach this in our schools, which is that all human beings deserve dignity, regardless of their skin color, regardless what they look like.

00:23:01.000 All human beings are made in the image of God, that all human beings deserve dignity and equal application of the law.

00:23:10.000 And so, what we've seen is that entire premise being challenged.

00:23:17.000 And so, if you believe, That all human beings have dignity, then you must ask yourself the question what is more important?

00:23:24.000 Things you can change or things you can't change?

00:23:28.000 Now, America at its best was always prioritizing human agency and action.

00:23:35.000 And at our best, we are de emphasizing things you cannot change. 0.80

00:23:40.000 For example, you cannot change your racial complexion. 0.52

00:23:43.000 You cannot change your biological parents.

00:23:46.000 You cannot change the type of world you were born into at that very moment.

00:23:50.000 You know what you can change?

00:23:51.000 How hard you work, the type of character you have, the type of spirit and soul you want to develop.

00:23:56.000 Those things take a lot of work.

00:23:58.000 So America, at its best, would prioritize your own human action, not what tribe you're from.

00:24:05.000 Not who your parents were.

00:24:07.000 Not what sort of ethnic group you might be part of.

00:24:10.000 Now, this is very obvious stuff, right? 0.97

00:24:12.000 This is, all of you are saying, yeah, of course, that's true.

00:24:15.000 Everything that CRT stands for woke industrial complex, diversity, equity, inclusion, all this stuff stands against that.

00:24:21.000 Instead, it says, hey, what tribe are you a member of?

00:24:25.000 Because what they say is white silence as violence.

00:24:27.000 That if you have white skin color, you are instantaneously or automatically, I should say, privileged.

00:24:34.000 That without you even realizing it, Without you even knowing it, the society was built for you and by you and because of you, and you must sit down and shut up and take a knee so other people can advance ahead in front of you. 0.69

00:24:44.000 That is then de emphasizing your own human action, how hard you can work, the type of person you can be, the development of your soul, the improvement of your relationship with your Creator.

00:24:54.000 Very basic Western ideas.

00:24:57.000 And instead, it's elevating tribal politics and saying, you know what's the most important thing?

00:25:02.000 Not human agency, not choice, not whether or not you make good decisions or not, not praxeology, which is A Greek that comes from the word praxis, where we get the word practice from, which means the repetition of good choices that improve one's soul towards the good.

00:25:16.000 No, no, no.

00:25:16.000 Instead, it's let's just be super sloppy and lazy.

00:25:20.000 Let's put the people that look like this over here, the people that look like that over there, to try to right the wrong of generations and societies past. 0.98

00:25:27.000 And what's so disappointing about this entire thing is how many people that I thought would stand against it are going for it.

00:25:34.000 Now, let me be very clear this ideology, albeit sinister, albeit all these different things that I've gone through, I do not think a majority of Americans deep down agree with this.

00:25:44.000 I don't.

00:25:44.000 I think that there is a majority consensus that organizing people by skin color, by prioritizing not your actions, not your choices, not your deeds, but your ancestry and your tribe, I think most Americans generally reject that.

00:25:58.000 What I do think, though, is most Americans don't know how to push back against this. 0.97

00:26:03.000 They're afraid of the cost associated with it, which is, you're a racist, sit down and shut up, which is a real thing, by the way. 0.92

00:26:08.000 You could lose your job, you could lose your friends, and CNN might say bad things about you. 0.98

00:26:12.000 It's true.

00:26:14.000 But also, I think that people are petrified and paralyzed to have a conversation on race in this country.

00:26:21.000 And so, as we were trying to plan this entire tour, we said to ourselves, Well, if we're not willing to go into the issue that is dominating the number one thing that all of you are living through, then what good are we at Turning Point USA?

00:26:35.000 And so, here's the other question is that when we used to do these tours, and I'm happy to talk about immigration, abortion, socialism, whatever you guys want to, by the way, in the question and answer, but I wanted to make sure that the remarks that we have here are framed around this idea that we're no longer in like an economics debate.

00:26:49.000 High taxes, low taxes, more regulation, less regulation.

00:26:52.000 I obviously have my preferences.

00:26:54.000 No, this is civilization defining stuff.

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00:27:59.000 This is whether or not the mission statement of the American project is true or untrue.

00:28:05.000 Are all men created equal? 0.90

00:28:06.000 True or untrue?

00:28:07.000 That's the question in front of us.

00:28:08.000 Are all people made in the image of God?

00:28:10.000 Is skin color a necessary prerequisite to organize society?

00:28:14.000 So here's three questions that every person needs to ask when it comes to CRT, whatever you want to call it diversity, equity, inclusion, wokeism, whatever.

00:28:20.000 Number one, is race a characteristic that you care about in judging a human being's worth or value?

00:28:28.000 The answer should be absolutely not.

00:28:30.000 Why?

00:28:31.000 Because they can't change it. 0.97

00:28:32.000 Because that is racism, which is exactly why we put that word in.

00:28:36.000 And let me be very clear for everyone that's watching at home, just to reiterate it. 0.97

00:28:39.000 If you care about people's skin color, You are a bigot and a racist for believing that.

00:28:45.000 That is racism by caring about people's skin color and focusing on it.

00:28:53.000 And you have like the kind of the Pope of CRT, you have this whole kind of like Mount Rushmore of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo and Taha Nisi Coates.

00:29:04.000 I'll focus on Henry Rogers, or Harry Rogers, Henry Rogers, whatever his name is, who's Ibram X. Kendi, who's come out and he says, okay, we now need segregation and discrimination today.

00:29:15.000 To right the wrong of segregation and discrimination yesterday.

00:29:18.000 And so, this is a really important point.

00:29:21.000 I'm a Christian, and Christianity heavily influenced English common law, William Blackstone, the idea of presumption of innocence, due process, that you must be held accountable for you.

00:29:34.000 That your salvation with your Creator, you must get that right.

00:29:38.000 You've got to get in a relationship with your Creator.

00:29:41.000 You might have to accept Jesus into your life.

00:29:44.000 That's a Christian idea.

00:29:46.000 And I'm happy to go into that if people are, you know.

00:29:48.000 Want to ask about it.

00:29:49.000 That's not the main point of this thing, but it is true.

00:29:52.000 Which is this no matter how hard your parents try, they can't save you for you.

00:29:58.000 That you must be accountable for your own actions.

00:30:01.000 Why is this important?

00:30:02.000 Because Ibram X. Kendi believes that we must now hold you accountable because you look like people that did something wrong 150 years ago.

00:30:11.000 Because you are related to them.

00:30:13.000 Because you come from that bloodline.

00:30:15.000 It is a breakdown of the Western promise, which is this it doesn't matter where you come from.

00:30:21.000 Show me what you got.

00:30:23.000 That's why we are always the envy of the world.

00:30:24.000 You want to go live in a caste system?

00:30:26.000 Go to India.

00:30:27.000 It matters a lot who your parents are. 1.00

00:30:29.000 Good luck escaping that caste.

00:30:30.000 What CRT does is it implements a racial caste system into this country where all of a sudden people are paralyzed.

00:30:37.000 They say, well, maybe I've been a racist my entire life without realizing it.

00:30:41.000 Maybe I've been this terrible and awful human being.

00:30:44.000 Now, if that is true, and I always have to say this because not everyone listens to everything I say, repetition of the soul of memory.

00:30:50.000 We have a supply and demand problem with racism in America.

00:30:53.000 There's an incredibly low, little supply, and an incredible big demand to find it.

00:30:57.000 If you happen to be in the very small percentage of a racist in the country, then you got work to do.

00:31:04.000 Go get in contact with your creator quickly, read the Bible, ask for forgiveness to the people that you know.

00:31:11.000 With that being said, just because you're of a certain skin color does not automatically make you a racist.

00:31:19.000 Just because you're a white person does not mean you have to begin apologizing simply for how God made you. 0.56

00:31:25.000 And so, The second question, of course, is black only dormitories, which is the resegregation. 0.68

00:31:29.000 Ibram X. Kendi says, okay, the way we're gonna fix inequity is now go back to segregation because this kind of idea of a multiracial, multicultural society, it's actually a false promise.

00:31:41.000 And then the third thing I've kind of got into this is should people be punished by group?

00:31:46.000 Should you be held accountable for not your own actions, but instead what jersey you're wearing?

00:31:50.000 Is that the country we wanna live in? 0.99

00:31:51.000 I think it's really disgusting, actually, if all of a sudden we're gonna be a country where your jersey is your skin color, where all of a sudden we feel as if the values we share is because of the melanin content in your skin.

00:32:01.000 I honestly think that is a disservice to how incredibly unique, complex, and special every single human being is created. 0.50

00:32:11.000 And if we want to go back to tribes, which is literally a 5,000, 6,000 year regression, then with it we will throw away the centuries of interpretation of the Bible and the Constitution that says neither slave nor Greek nor Jew.

00:32:25.000 We are all one in Jesus Christ.

00:32:27.000 We are all one in the image of God.

00:32:30.000 Where does this lead?

00:32:32.000 Countries that tend to organize themselves based on race go into civil conflict very quickly.

00:32:38.000 South Africa, Brazil.

00:32:40.000 This idea of this many different people from this many backgrounds coexisting for as long as we have is actually remarkable. 0.93

00:32:47.000 As I watched the race riots last summer, I couldn't believe that it was happening and we tolerated it.

00:32:54.000 But when I really thought about it and I kind of viewed the racial demographics in our country, which again, race means nothing to me, I think it's an unnecessary talking point.

00:33:02.000 But if you look at the racial demographics in most countries, They'll have those race riots every month.

00:33:08.000 Why?

00:33:09.000 It's because if absent the American trinity, in God we trust, liberty, and e pluribus unum, then all of a sudden you are going to get into tribes really quickly.

00:33:19.000 That if all of a sudden you remove the core promises of America, what are you going to replace it with?

00:33:24.000 There's not that many other things you can think of.

00:33:26.000 We've basically experimented with every type of governmental model you can imagine.

00:33:30.000 And I hate to be too binary about this, but there's only two ways you can organize every single government in the history of the planet.

00:33:35.000 Do you emphasize speech in how you set up the government, or force?

00:33:40.000 It's that simple. 0.85

00:33:41.000 Soviet Union, force. 0.74

00:33:42.000 Communist China, force. 0.67

00:33:44.000 Venezuela, force. 0.90

00:33:45.000 America was supposed to be speech, meaning tell me your idea and then I'll give you power. 0.88

00:33:51.000 You got to run for office, you got to give a speech, you got to tell people what you're going to do.

00:33:57.000 The capacity to speak and to reason is what makes us human beings.

00:34:02.000 Aristotle said we are the speaking beings, which means that without speech, then we're nothing more than just warring conflict and tribes.

00:34:10.000 And this idea of reason.

00:34:13.000 Is a uniquely Western idea.

00:34:14.000 And so, why are we all here?

00:34:15.000 And to kind of summarize it before we get to questions, is 70 miles down the street, all of that changed.

00:34:22.000 And it changed for a variety of different reasons.

00:34:24.000 Number one, the other side was ready, they were prepared to push all of these ideas.

00:34:28.000 CRT did not start with George Floyd, it's been in the school system for a long time, and they went all in with the full kind of push at the moment that they saw fit.

00:34:36.000 But more importantly, we were afraid as conservatives and unequipped to be able to launch a counter move by what we saw happening in front of us.

00:34:45.000 I think that's changing.

00:34:47.000 I think one of the reasons why so many people are here tonight and engaging and understanding is they say, Whoa, okay, I might not like what I saw in the video, but all of a sudden you're now saying I have to totally change the way I view this issue altogether, that I have to read this book, How to Be an Anti Racist, and I'm white fragile, according to Robin D'Angelo, the multi million dollar white author that tells you that you're a fragile white person.

00:35:09.000 Like, that's like the new standard for philosophical exploration in our country, and we shouldn't put up with it.

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00:37:35.000 What I'm telling you tonight is that when bigotry enters the American discourse, we should not tolerate it.

00:37:42.000 We should say, you know what?

00:37:43.000 No. 0.65

00:37:44.000 CRT is nothing more than a new manifestation of what leads us to eugenics, leads us to categorizing people based on skin color, and there is no good way this ends.

00:37:53.000 Period.

00:37:54.000 That I remember the America that I grew up in 10 years ago, that when people focused on this stuff, They would be called bigots and they'd be called racists.

00:38:05.000 And because we've sent so many wonderful people to college, excluding everyone in these wonderful yellow shirts in high school, is that a major part of our population have been propagandized and indoctrinated to believe that maybe we are systemically racist.

00:38:19.000 Maybe we are racist to the bone.

00:38:20.000 Maybe the founding of our country was wrong since the very beginning.

00:38:25.000 Happy to go into that if that interests anybody tonight.

00:38:27.000 I did an extensive overview on that yesterday.

00:38:30.000 Human equality is a fundamental.

00:38:34.000 Value an American idea.

00:38:36.000 Now, human equality does not mean we all have the same skills.

00:38:40.000 It does not mean we have all the same outcomes.

00:38:43.000 Some people are going to be smarter, some people are going to be faster, some people are going to be taller.

00:38:47.000 What is human equality?

00:38:49.000 That we're all the same sort of thing.

00:38:51.000 That we're all speaking beings.

00:38:53.000 We're mind, body, spirit, and soul.

00:38:56.000 Pick word, whatever word you want.

00:38:57.000 I prefer soul.

00:38:58.000 Mind, body, and soul.

00:39:00.000 That we deserve dignity and due process, the rule of law, and if you want to organize society, let's just say you get to a blank canvas.

00:39:07.000 Do you want to all of a sudden say, hey, I want to try to design society in a way that empowers people and tries to make them better human beings, or disempowers them and keeps them in quarters endlessly apologizing by the time they're 18 years old, saying, I'm actually a terrible, bigoted, awful, racist, colonialist, imperialist, misogynistic, bigoted person, not because of something I did, but because of how my parents looked?

00:39:28.000 That's where we're going.

00:39:29.000 Where kids have to needlessly apologize, not because they did something wrong, but because they were born into a certain caste and tribe.

00:39:35.000 We're not going to stand for that anymore.

00:39:37.000 And so I believe, regardless of your political affiliation, regardless of your political affiliation, I really don't care.

00:39:46.000 I'm sure there's people of all different political stripes here.

00:39:48.000 This actually needs to be something where we look back in our history and there might have been like a short gasp of this ideology and it was repudiated by people of all different political stripes and colors.

00:39:58.000 Obviously, I'm conservative.

00:39:59.000 Obviously, I believe in the Constitution and American exceptionalism and all this.

00:40:03.000 But if you even have like a remnant of admiration for America, then this should disgust you.

00:40:10.000 Don't try to all of a sudden get in your right left side and be like, oh, this is too much of a right wing critique of CRT.

00:40:16.000 Like, what did I exactly say in the last 20 minutes besides like all human beings are made of the image of God, human equality, speech is good, and we should treat people based on what they do, not what they look like, is exactly a right wing critique of American society.

00:40:29.000 The fact that anyone might even think that all of a sudden goes to show the exact reason why this is being implemented, which is this power is most effectively.

00:40:42.000 Is most effectively assumed when tribes are at war.

00:40:47.000 If we're getting along and we're living in harmony, but I mean, there'll obviously always be some form of conflict.

00:40:53.000 We're not trying to look at each other's skin color, what's your white privilege card, and do a privilege walk and all this.

00:40:58.000 All of a sudden, the people in charge, they actually aren't given as big of a license to dominate and control your life.

00:41:06.000 A country that respects each other, understanding the mind, body, and soul relationship, and kids, that is a preference, all of a sudden makes tyrants.

00:41:16.000 Far less powerful.

00:41:18.000 Aristotle had this beautiful thing in the fifth book of the Politics where he said, Tyrants aim to make citizens unfamiliar to one another.

00:41:26.000 They try to create distance between neighbors, they try to make countrymen distrustful of the people near them.

00:41:33.000 Tyrants try to sow discord, chaos, and confusion.

00:41:38.000 And when that happens, they're able to sweep into total control of a nation.

00:41:43.000 And that was 2,500 years ago that he wrote that.

00:41:46.000 It's just as true as it is today.

00:41:49.000 People say, how do we stop tyranny?

00:41:50.000 How do we stop the power grab?

00:41:52.000 Happy to go through all of that. 0.88

00:41:53.000 But their gateway to making you live in a Huxleyan or Orwellian nightmare is to have every single person screaming about skin color all day long, worrying as if that thing actually matters, while they plunder our society, destroy the American middle class, lie to us on television, force vaccines on our children, keep us masked up and obedient. 0.98

00:42:17.000 They keep our borders wide open. 0.94

00:42:19.000 But they want you distracted with this smokescreen grenade that they've thrown at us, as if the most important thing is something you can't change.

00:42:26.000 Don't take the bait.

00:42:28.000 We're here tonight to say, okay, we can have our differences on every sort of issue.

00:42:31.000 You know where I stand on all of them.

00:42:32.000 Happy to go through it.

00:42:33.000 But if we want this American civilization to continue, which is a gift from God, it is a gift from God that we get to live in this country, then we must reject and repudiate this insidious ideology.

00:42:47.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 21, 2026

From the Archive: "Defending Small Town America" — Charlie's 2021 Minnesota State University Speech

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