00:00:26.000Hey, everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, a great man, and we have a conversation about BLM, critical race theory, Texas, and more as we are here from NRB.
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00:01:59.000I want to start with this story, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this, Alan.
00:02:03.000We have talked a lot about critical race theory here on this program and how critical race theory is a scheme devised to try to teach our children to hate themselves and hate their country.
00:02:14.000And for far too long, parents have put up with these government schools imposing these sort of ideas on their children.
00:02:23.000Parents are now rising up in record numbers in an organic and authentic and a way that I've never seen before in politics against critical race theory.
00:02:32.000And this kind of reached a boiling point last evening in Loudoun County Schools, right outside of Virginia, right outside of Washington, D.C. You know that area quite well.
00:02:45.000In fact, parents showed up to go oppose critical race theory.
00:02:48.000And if you see what's being taught at Loudoun County schools, that is just the beginning of the garbage and the filth that these children are being taught.
00:02:56.000This is one of the wealthiest counties in America, obviously, because of their proximity to Washington, D.C. Lobbyists and trial lawyers and kind of people that have access to Washington, to the Washington machine are able to make a lot of money.
00:04:40.000Not a shock that they want to cut off parents from being able to challenge them for what they're teaching or what they're doing.
00:04:45.000And it ended in a contentious outburst where one parent was arrested last evening at the Loudoun County School Board meeting for showing up and challenging critical race theory.
00:04:55.000So today in America, you can shoplift in San Francisco $500, $600, and $700, and you will not be arrested or prosecuted.
00:05:02.000But if you go to your local school board meeting and dare say that you do not want your children to learn these pernicious and these evil ideas, they will use the police against you.
00:05:12.000Cut 55 of a parent getting arrested at the Loudoun County School Board.
00:05:16.000This is an unlawful arrest by a first commandment.
00:05:25.000That is a parent, a taxpayer, who has a child in the Loudoun County schools who is arrested for, I'm not really sure what they arrested him for, but he was speaking out of term.
00:05:36.000Now, of course, if that actually applied to every single one of the campus activists that try to interrupt all of my speeches at Turning Point USA, there would be a prison of Alcatraz of people that would be arrested.
00:05:47.000But parents, they're trying to send a message to all of you.
00:05:50.000We just got an email from one of our friends in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where they said, hey, this is North Dakota, everybody.
00:05:56.000North Dakota, they are teaching critical race theory.
00:05:59.000In North Dakota, they are teaching children that America is a terrible country, that we should care about skin color, and that we should divide amongst ourselves based on things you cannot control.
00:06:10.000And one of these parents says, Charlie, what do I do?
00:06:13.000They are trying to send a message at Loudoun County schools that if you stand up to this, you might actually be arrested.
00:06:19.000Alan, what are your thoughts on all of this?
00:06:20.000Well, first and foremost, when you think about the basis of critical race theory, it is saying that you sitting here with me, that you are my oppressor and I am oppressed.
00:06:37.000But the important thing you have to come to realize is that this undermines everything that I grew up knowing and studying because I was born in the same neighborhood that produced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
00:06:48.000He talked about a country where we would not look at people based upon the color of their skin, but the content of their character.
00:06:55.000And really, before we got to critical race theory, here in South Lake, Texas, not too far from where we are in Grapevine, we had the precursor to critical race theory called the Cultural Competency Action Plan.
00:07:06.000And the parents there in South Lake stood up.
00:07:08.000They formed this thing called the South Lake Families Pact.
00:07:11.000And they understood the important thing was to win back the school board.
00:07:38.000The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
00:07:45.000They come to be accepted by degrees by dent of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.
00:07:59.000And that's exactly what is happening here in the United States of America, where we have this new Marxism that is not based upon socioeconomic division.
00:08:07.000It is based upon racial division, but it still has the same purpose is to divide this nation.
00:08:12.000And they're trying to do it upon this racial perspective.
00:08:15.000And so here we are about to celebrate the 245th anniversary of the United States of America.
00:08:20.000There are people that are teaching our children that America was not founded by the Declaration of Independence on July the 4th of 1776.
00:08:26.000It was founded in 1619 when a slave ship arrived.
00:08:29.000This is not just a revision of history.
00:08:32.000This is an elimination of history because if you don't know from whence you came, you don't know where you are.
00:08:37.000And someone's going to dictate where you're going.
00:08:39.000And this is an effort to control the minds of the young people.
00:08:52.000Hey, guys, you guys have heard me talk with my friend Kelly Shackelford before.
00:08:56.000Kelly Shackelford from First Liberty is a good person.
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00:09:01.000It's the tool of left-wing authoritarians.
00:09:03.000Hugo Chavez packed Venezuela's Supreme Court with his socialist cronies and paved the way for his tyrannical regime.
00:09:10.000But now Joe Biden and American socialist radicals want to pack our Supreme Court with four new liberal justices.
00:09:16.000Court packing isn't some policy idea to improve our courts.
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00:10:12.000So, Alan, we were talking about wokeness, critical race theory, and now generals and lieutenants, if I'm not mistaken, are being required to read Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and then Iber Max Kendi's How to Be an Anti-Racist.
00:10:39.000When I came into the United States military back in 1983, I was told I had to read Carl von Clausewitz's On War.
00:10:47.000I had to read The Sun Tzu's The Art of War, all those different type of things.
00:10:50.000Those were the mandatory reading that I had to look at.
00:10:52.000But now today, we are telling officers, we're telling our senior enlisted that they have to read these books that go counter to the oath that they take to support and defend the Constitution, to the point where now we have a military officer that was in the Space Force that was relieved of command because he spoke out against Marxism.
00:11:10.000Now, last time I checked, Marxism is antithetical to the Constitution of the United States of America, which we take an oath to support and defend.
00:11:17.000Or you even have a chaplain down in Fort Hood, Texas, who on his own personal social media account was speaking out against transgenderism in the military, but he was brought up under investigation.
00:11:28.000These things are very disconcerting to me because we're undermining the core foundation and fabric of the United States military, which is that we take an oath to a constitution, not a political party, not an ideology, not a person.
00:11:40.000But yet it seems that now they're trying to force the military to take an allegiance test to a certain ideology, which resembles the old Soviet army.
00:11:49.000So, Alan, why are we putting up with this?
00:11:55.000This is the military that we are now treating as if they are social justice activists.
00:12:00.000Well, they're doing that because the military falls under the civilian control.
00:12:03.000And so, therefore, the president of the United States of America also carries the title of commander-in-chief.
00:12:08.000And then you also have a secretary of defense who is the person in charge of all of the policies and procedures and operating processes of the military.
00:12:16.000He has his staff, which is above the uniformed members of the military.
00:12:20.000And so you don't have the opportunity for folks to just refuse or to start a coup or something like that.
00:12:27.000And you have to be concerned when you have this countering extremism working group to have individuals that are radical in some of their experiences and their backgrounds now trying to determine what's radical in the military.
00:12:39.000Case in point, when Nadal Hassan, just right down the road here in Florida, Texas, in December of 2009, shot and killed 13 soldiers and Army civilians and wounded another 31, the administration at the time called that workplace violence, even though he said he was a soldier of Allah shouting ahulahu akbar.
00:12:57.000But yet now it seems that if you have an ideology, ideological bent that is different from progressive socialism or this secular humanism or this wokeism, a council culture, the military is going to come after you.
00:13:10.000They're going to surveil you on your own personal platforms, social media platforms.
00:13:14.000Has this ever happened before in American history?
00:13:25.000So you have the people that have the most amount of physical power, literally missiles and the capacity to invade and destroy any nation, the strongest fighting force the world has ever seen, that are now being forced to become the equivalent of Alexandria Casio-Cortez.
00:13:43.000Yeah, basically what is being said is that, you know, we want you to succumb to a certain type of ideological thinking.
00:13:52.000And if you have an ideological thinking that is different from that, we're going to surveil you.
00:13:56.000We're going to look at your social media platforms.
00:13:59.000We're going to force you to read these type of books or what have you.
00:14:02.000You know, even here at the Texas State Guard and the Texas National Guard, they just recently had a briefing about countering extremism in the military.
00:14:10.000And one of the things that they brought up is said you could be considered an extremist if you're a member of the National Rifle Association.
00:14:19.000Seems somehow that that policy has been implemented even here.
00:14:23.000So we've got a big concern for the people in the United States of America to understand that their military is there to support and defend the Constitution.
00:14:31.000And it is not about any type of ideological perspective.
00:14:34.000Are the rank and file of the military putting up with this?
00:14:46.000Your senators and congressmen, and also the people such as myself that are retired.
00:14:50.000And that's why we put out this petition and this letter from the Committee to Support and Defense.
00:14:54.000It's committee to support and defend as former members of the U.S. military who have proudly served our nation.
00:14:58.000We have signed this letter to express our support for constitutional freedom and liberty and our concern for our country as many powerful forces seek to bring socialism and Marxism to our land.
00:15:07.000Please join us and support us in our constitutional values and freedoms we fought to preserve.
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00:15:20.000If they take over the military, that is a that is something that we've never really well if you think about the old Soviet army used to have the political officers, the commissars, and we don't want to see that happen in our military.
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00:16:53.000I want to just respond to one email that we got here at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:16:57.000This is going to be their new tactic to use to try to say that there's nothing to see here.
00:17:02.000So they say critical race theory is not being taught in these schools.
00:17:05.000That is a very difficult to understand legal theory.
00:17:07.000That would be like saying, well, advanced physics is not being taught to fourth graders, but physics is still being taught to fourth graders.
00:17:15.000They've taken the big ideas of critical race theory and they've been able to, let's say, distill them down for third, fourth, and fifth graders.
00:17:23.000Here's how to know if these ideas are being taught.
00:17:25.000Is your third, fourth, and fifth grader being taught at all about race?
00:17:48.000I knew more illegal immigrants than I knew Christians in my high school.
00:17:51.000And that's just the culture I grew up in.
00:17:53.000And I could tell you no one cared about skin color.
00:17:55.000My best friends were black or Hispanic and from Asia.
00:17:58.000And there might have been one or two politically incorrect jokes that some people would say every so often, but it was never, ever in the terms of trying to marginalize people.
00:18:07.000And if anyone ever had hatred in their heart towards another based on race, there was no tolerance for that.
00:18:12.000I'm not trying to say I went to school in utopia, but it was a really healthy way to try to tell people, we don't care how you look.
00:18:17.000We care what's within your spirit or your soul and your character.
00:18:36.000And you think about it in the military, when you go into combat, like where I was 30 years ago in Operation Dale's Shield Desert Storm, you don't care about a guy's skin color.
00:18:51.000But now all of a sudden, if we are bringing in this sense of racial divisiveness that says that, you know, this guy in the foxhole next to me, he's my oppressor.
00:19:19.000We're supposed to train, we're supposed to be ready, and we're supposed to answer the call.
00:19:23.000So in what world does how to be an anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi, who by the way, Ibram X. Kendi is a very bad person.
00:19:31.000He's an evil racist and he hates white people and he wants to create a sort of America where anyone who is white has to atone indefinitely and be punished for something they can't control.
00:19:44.000How does that help the mission of the military?
00:19:45.000It does not help the mission of the military.
00:19:47.000And so in other words, when we have a military that should be out there focused on being trained and equipped and ready to do the nation's business, when you look at the enemies that we face, being it Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or Islamic jihadism, instead of us going in and sitting down and having these sessions where we're supposed to read these books about not being a racist, that's taken away from the training time that you have.
00:20:08.000And I understand that having been a former commander.
00:20:11.000And so one of the quotes from Ibram X. Kendi, I want to make sure I find it here, is that the solution to prior discrimination, here's what it is.
00:20:18.000He says, the defining question is whether discrimination is creating equity or inequity.
00:20:22.000If discrimination is creating equity, then it is anti-racist.
00:20:25.000If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.
00:20:28.000He says the solution to prior discrimination is present discrimination.
00:20:33.000Well, let me explain something to everybody that's out here listening to me talk.
00:20:37.000In 1961, I was born in a blacks-only hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:20:42.000Now, how does a kid born in the South in a blacks-only hospital 60 years ago rise up to become a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, command a battalion of 600 when his dad was only a corporal in the Army that served in a segregated army, rise up to become a member of the United States House of Representatives to represent a congressional district that was 93% white?
00:21:00.000And oh, by the way, there's a little house in the congressional district that I represented down in Florida.
00:21:15.000And now, how is it that a kid born in a blacks-only hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, 60 years later, is now sitting here before you, and I am the chairman of the largest state Republican Party in the United States of America.
00:21:25.000See, it's not about this equity thing.
00:21:27.000Equity means the forced implementation of equality of outcomes.
00:21:32.000America is about equality of opportunity.
00:21:34.000If we continue to allow people to beat our kids down and say that you are relegated to being a victim, relegated to being oppressed, and you're relegated to always being seen as an oppressor, we will never live up to be the true nature of what we were intended to be as these United States.
00:21:50.000And so, Alan, do these people who are implementing it, do they mean well?
00:22:52.000There's a great saying that we say here on the Charlie Kirk show: a wise man loves to be corrected because you always want to replace error with truth.
00:23:30.000You're sitting in the state that is the number one state in the United States of America for human and sex trafficking.
00:23:35.000You're sitting here in a city that is either first or the second.
00:23:40.000It's either Houston or Dallas, top two cities in the United States of America for human and sex trafficking.
00:23:45.000But yet we have allowed the implementation of an open borders policy, which is undermining the sovereignty of this country and the sovereignty of the state of Texas.
00:23:55.000You are witnessing a constitutional crisis because I would have never thought there would be a federal government, an administration that would abdicate, completely disregard their constitutional duty or responsibility to protect these people.
00:24:09.000To the point where we're sitting here in Dallas, Texas, and not too far away, the Kate Bailey-Hutchison Convention Center, there are three to four thousand legal immigrant males that are being brought into that convention center and they're being slowly released.
00:24:49.000Texas is without a doubt the tip of the spear.
00:24:52.000And that's why the Lone Star illuminates the other 49 on the American flag.
00:24:55.000And what you see happening is really the blueprint of what the progressive socialist left has done all across the United States of America, especially when I look at my home state of Georgia.
00:25:05.000You get people that move into certain major urban population centers, and they're controlled by the left.
00:25:09.000And the next thing you know, based upon population, they overtake that entire state.
00:25:13.000And so when you look at Georgia, Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Augusta, and Columbus, those five areas were the reason why now you have two socialists, the senators from the state of Georgia.
00:25:24.000And we cannot allow that to happen here in the state of Texas.
00:25:26.000So I think that Texas is going to stand up on its Judeo-Christian faith heritage.
00:25:30.000Texas is going to stand up and understand its constitutional responsibility based upon Article 10 of the Constitution, 10th Amendment, I'm sorry, of the Constitution, which says that all those powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and to the people.
00:25:44.000And that's so important for our states to realize is that free and independent states created these United States of America.
00:25:51.000And we cannot allow the federal government to usurp the power that the states have.
00:25:56.000Yesterday, you just saw an instance of that, trying to nationalize elections.
00:26:01.000States have the enumerated power to conduct elections in the United States of America, not the federal government.
00:26:06.000The states created the federal government.
00:26:08.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:26:13.000The states should have their ability to govern themselves.
00:26:15.000We say a lot, I know you believe this in Texas, the states have way more power than these governors and these legislators realize.
00:26:23.000And they are intimidated and bullied by the federal government far too often.
00:26:27.000And what is needed, what's been missing, is a coalition of states.
00:26:32.000You have 27 Republican states that come together and all of a sudden they come up with their own name and say, we're the freedom states.
00:26:39.000And if you investigate one of us, you investigate all of us.
00:26:41.000Well, and the interesting thing is that when you had the blue states come up with the national popular vote interstate compact, which is basically them trying to come together, 15, 16 states, to undermine the Electoral College.
00:26:52.000And you heard nothing about people speaking and addressing that.
00:26:56.000So, Alan, I want to ask you about the Hope Center.
00:26:59.000The Hope Center is unlike anything else in the United States of America and like anything else in the world.
00:27:04.000You have 185,000 square foot campus that houses 60 different Christian ministries all working together to spread the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:27:14.000And when you think about how our Judeo-Christian faith heritage is under assault, the fact that one of the first things that people tried to shut down in COVID was our churches.
00:27:22.000We need to bring our Christian ministries together so they can collaboratively work together, not be in stovepipes, so that we can project the strength.
00:27:30.000And I'll give you a great case in point.
00:27:31.000First Liberty is one of our ministries.
00:28:34.000And again, I'll come back to what we just saw happen here in South Lake, Texas, where they had the Cultural Competency Action Plan, and those families came together and it was at a church.
00:28:43.000And that's why I think it's so important that the church gets involved.
00:28:46.000I mean, we hadn't talked about that a lot.
00:28:47.000We've been talking about schools, but the churches and pastors got to stand up.
00:28:52.000They had over 300 people there and they created what's called the South Lake Families Pact.
00:28:57.000And they dedicated themselves to winning back school boards and winning back city council seats and getting Christian constitutional conservatives in these positions so that they can make sure their kids are being educated and not indoctrinated.
00:29:09.000So I think it has to start at a local level.
00:29:11.000And too often we have not focused on the local level like we should, city council school board racing.
00:29:15.000And we're starting to see more and more parents do that.
00:29:28.000Well, I think also it's about informing and educating yourself.
00:29:31.000Inform these smaller groups that can talk about these issues and make sure that when you go to these school board meetings, that you understand your rights, you understand what you're able to do, and stop allowing people to do exactly what we saw there in Loudoun County is to shut down your voice and meet with your police chief and say, hey, you should not be arresting us for our First Amendment rights.
00:29:52.000You have to have that moral sense about you so that you don't enjoy yourself to this.
00:29:57.000So in closing, I want to ask you about something that we were joking about earlier, masculinity and fatherhood.
00:30:14.000Well, again, this is one of the purposeful intents from the progressive socialist left.
00:30:19.000And one of the ministries that we have at the Hope Center is called Abiding Fathers, which tries to get men to step up and do as God would have to abide within the Heavenly Father so they can be strong earthly fathers.
00:30:30.000You know, when I was born in 1961, two-parent household in the black community was 77%.
00:30:39.000Because a president of the United States of America from the state of Texas, Linda Banks Johnson, great society programs, and he rewarded women for having children on the wedlock.
00:30:48.000We got to get fathers back in the homes.
00:30:49.000This is another place where churches can play an important role.
00:30:52.000And that's why we love that ministry, abiding fathers.
00:30:55.000And we've got to show these young men in these inner cities, urban centers especially, that don't have fathers, we've got to get them out of these conditions where they see gangs, they see, you know, looting, they see all the criminality.
00:31:17.000You impregnate a woman and you abandon that woman and you are not there daily and hourly to help raise those children, you should be called out for that.
00:31:24.000You should be condemned and it should be not celebrated.
00:31:52.000It was tragic what happened to him, but to put him up on walls and billboards and all of this and try to make him into this hero, to have a flag draping over his coffin like the flag draped over the coffin of my dad, I took offense to that.
00:32:04.000And so we have got to stop elevating these people that are the failures in masculinity, failures in fatherhood.
00:32:10.000And we got to start looking at the right type of role models.
00:32:12.000A repeat criminal offender who was taking drugs and that might have pointed a handgun at the belly of a pregnant woman.
00:32:22.000And that is who Nancy Pelosi thanks for dying for their power grab.
00:32:26.000You learn about the history of George Floyd, all of a sudden you might take the red pill, not the blue pill, and get closer to truth.
00:32:32.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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