00:00:26.000Hey, everybody, I show up to a school board meeting at Chandler Unified School District, and I go piece by piece through exactly what is happening in school boards across the country, and you can do it too.
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00:03:17.000Hello, we are here from Dallas, Texas at the Young Women's Leadership Summit.
00:03:21.000Brought to you by Turning Point USA and our amazing team.
00:03:24.000We'll have 2,500 young conservative women from all across the country here in Dallas, Texas, the largest event of its kind.
00:03:31.000It's been amazing seeing it grow throughout the years.
00:03:33.000It started as, I think it was 75 young conservative women.
00:03:38.000That was in June of 2015, six years ago.
00:03:43.000And now we are here in Dallas at a very big resort with 2,500 attendees.
00:03:49.000Only in America is a story like that possible.
00:03:52.000So last night, I decided to do what I have been telling you to do.
00:03:58.000Last night, I decided to show up to a school board meeting.
00:04:02.000Like you, I have been really upset about the rise of critical race theory in our country.
00:04:07.000Like you, I have been upset there has not been enough dramatic action to call out the administrators, the teachers, and the school boards that have allowed this insidious and racist ideology to be taught to our children.
00:04:20.000And so living basically out of a suitcase, but spending a lot of time in Arizona and paying a lot in Arizona income tax and employing a lot of people in Arizona, I felt a moral obligation to show up to a school board meeting.
00:04:34.000So I did a little bit of research and someone who listens to this podcast or maybe listens to us on AM960 The Patriot sent me some information about how Chandler Unified School District was putting forward equity programs, about how Chandler Unified School District was putting forward these programs that were teaching children to hate themselves and hate the country.
00:05:00.000I'm going to walk through the entire narrative of what happened last evening.
00:05:05.000Because every single person who is out there and is uncertain about what their children are learning that might be angry about what's happening in the education that your tax dollars are going towards, you need to hear what I went through last night.
00:05:21.000Because there's nothing special about what I did last night.
00:05:23.000I'm not doing this as some sort of self-congratulatory exercise.
00:05:28.000I'm doing this to demonstrate a point.
00:05:30.000I'm doing this to demonstrate to you that you can show up at school board meetings and you can make a very significant and serious difference.
00:05:41.000So Chandler Unified School Districts, for those of you that do not know the geography of Phoenix, Chandler is what's called the East Valley.
00:05:49.000It's near Gilbert, near Mesa, in the southeastern part of Phoenix, not far from Tempe as well.
00:05:55.000It's not far from our Turning Point USA headquarters.
00:07:01.000The energy and the enthusiasm amongst the parents that were waiting to try to speak against critical race theory was an energy that was organic that I have not seen since the Tea Party movement in 2010.
00:07:12.000I kid you not, there were 70 and 80 year old grandmothers that were coming with homemade signs that just say no to critical race theory.
00:07:21.000There were people with their own homemade shirts that say, my tax dollars will not fund hate.
00:07:26.000Now, it was very obvious who was trying to argue in favor of the critical race theory racist ideology.
00:07:32.000They were all wearing two masks and they stood at least 35 feet away from everyone.
00:07:38.000They have a right to talk about how awful their ideas are too.
00:07:42.000And so eventually they allowed us in and my friend James T. Harris, who's also a local radio show host on a wonderful station in Phoenix, was also there.
00:07:50.000And they let us in at a very specific time and you had to sit in a specific chair and you walk in and then the school board is sitting all there.
00:07:57.000Now, the dynamics of the room, I think, are intentionally intimidating.
00:08:01.000What they do is they have the school board elevated up about six or eight feet above you.
00:08:07.000No, it's almost as if you're testifying in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:08:11.000And if I were to make one aesthetic difference, aesthetic is not the right word, structural difference to how school boards are laid out.
00:08:18.000No school board member should be sitting above the people that pay their salary.
00:08:22.000You see, very few people would actually notice this, but when you walk into the room, they're sitting, you have to, your eye levels are about at a 45-degree level.
00:08:29.000It's intentionally trying to be as if you're being interrogated.
00:08:32.000I am above you because I am on the school board.
00:08:35.000Now, I noticed this and it didn't phase me, but you could see a lot of the parents that were there to speak were a little bit nervous.
00:08:42.000And I have to say, the parents who spoke yesterday in Chandler were so courageous.
00:08:48.000I was blown away by how phenomenal their arguments were.
00:08:54.000And so then comes the point for public comment.
00:08:57.000And the public comment time comes, and the woman, who seemed like a nice enough person, but she was doing the bidding of the teacher unions and the critical race theorists, she goes on this diatribe.
00:09:07.000And this was so ironically poetic, I couldn't have made it up.
00:09:12.000She says, you know, in this school district, we are not going to be discussing critical race theory tonight, and we aren't teaching critical race theory.
00:09:22.000And I kind of chuckled because I know exactly what they're teaching at Chandler because parents have decided to do the four letters that can break the back of tyranny in America, F-O-I-A, Freedom of Information Act.
00:09:34.000So we had the goods on them despite them lying to the taxpayers of Arizona.
00:09:40.000So this woman goes on there and then a state representative gets invited up to speak and I don't remember her name and she only had a minute and she said, thank you so much to this wonderful school district for all the great work you're doing.
00:09:52.000I am here to just reinforce that we want to continue to have equitable treatment.
00:09:58.000I just smiled and everyone around me smiled because there they are saying that they don't have critical race theory and then they are using one of the words that is embedded in critical race theory, this word equity.
00:10:09.000You see, what they're doing here is no different than money laundering.
00:10:25.000I got to tell you, there is nothing like a ferocious mother who then screams at a school board mother because their child is being taught to hate themselves because of the color of their skin.
00:10:37.000And I want to play you some tape from that public comment throughout this hour.
00:10:40.000And I'm going to play you my speech as well.
00:10:42.000But before I get to that, I just want to reinforce this point.
00:10:46.000These school board members looked intimidated.
00:10:49.000They looked scared, and they should be.
00:10:52.000My favorite part of the evening is when one of the people that had the opening comment after the Pledge of Allegiance, they said, we're not really used to having this many people show up.
00:11:13.000And now you're going to have to do this while we look you in the eye.
00:11:17.000You see, they're used to being able to have their treachery and their deception, their dual-mindedness, their lack of integrity.
00:11:26.000They are not used to the word that the American system allows for, but too often citizens have not allowed, have not used, and that is accountability.
00:11:35.000And they only allowed 25 people into the meeting, and there were hundreds of people outside that wanted to go into the meeting.
00:11:43.000And if we would have turned on the Jets, we could have probably had 1,000 people there.
00:11:47.000At a school board meeting when it's 105 degrees outside in Chandler, Arizona, there's something happening here.
00:11:54.000I'm going to play you some of this tape throughout the hour where parents and citizens and taxpayers are saying, I'm not going to take it anymore.
00:12:00.000The new terrain and the new battleground is in school boards across the country.
00:12:05.000And I could tell you, based on my frontline report yesterday, we got them on defense big time.
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00:13:20.000And as I mentioned, when you look up at the school board, they're seated at least six feet above you.
00:13:25.000So you have to look up to them and they look down to you as if we are their subjects, as if there's some sort of court, as if there's something largely exceptional about their existence or what they do.
00:13:36.000I think that whole model needs to be completely abolished.
00:13:56.000The reason why we showed up, not just because I wanted to learn for myself, not just because I've been telling you guys, our audience, to do this.
00:14:05.000And I never want to tell you guys to do something I'm not willing to do myself.
00:14:08.000One of my biggest critiques and criticisms is talk show hosts that say, oh, all this stuff has to happen.
00:15:56.000Our world, our youth, engaging students in social justice through service learning.
00:16:01.000Now, any of you that know those two words, social justice, you know, those two words are linguistically laundered for the purpose of putting forward equity training.
00:16:10.000We're going to get to equity in the next segment and where this comes from.
00:16:17.000Since when does the school system of the United States, or Chandler, which is a largely used to be conservative area, since when is it the mission statement of a school system to get their children to want to create systemic change?
00:16:32.000This is what the mission statement of Chandler Unified School District should be: We want our children to be able to read, do math, basic arithmetic, and develop people of strong character.
00:17:23.000It is an Orwellian new speak tactic, a friendly enough sounding word designed to deceive and gaslight parents into comfortable complacency.
00:17:35.000And in the next segment, I'm going to play you exactly what was said by myself because I had a chance to speak and from other parents who are now pushing back against this cultural blitzkrieg from people that want to fundamentally transform America.
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00:19:22.000And even though you pay their salaries, does not mean that if you do not follow their arbitrary and particular and specific process, does not mean that they're going to let you in.
00:19:30.000And then once you get an opportunity to speak, once you get an opportunity to let your voice be heard, let it rip.
00:19:39.000Now they only gave every single person a minute, and I tried to fit as much as I possibly could into my minute.
00:19:48.000So let me just play you some of the other clips that were happening throughout the evening.
00:19:52.000Parent after parent, including students, came up and spoke against equity and critical race theory.
00:19:57.000And if you're listening to this, maybe you're on WABC in New York City and you're driving right now on Fifth Avenue, or maybe you're in Long Island, or maybe your child goes to Jericho High School.
00:20:06.000And you say, man, I want to be able to do that.
00:20:11.000For all of you tyrants out there that are on school boards, I'm going to start randomly popping up at school boards all across the country.
00:20:17.000Maybe you are at District 214 in the suburbs of Chicago and you think you can pay teachers $144,000 a year, which they pay them, by the way, and keep schools closed and mandatory vaccines and masks on and push forward equity.
00:20:30.000And I used to go to District 214 when kids didn't talk about race and people got along rather well together.
00:20:36.000Maybe I might show up at that school district.
00:20:38.000Maybe I might show up in Carmel, Indiana.
00:20:40.000Maybe I might show up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
00:20:43.000Maybe I might show up in Fort Collins.
00:20:50.000There is nothing magical or special about what I'm doing.
00:20:53.000I just happen to look up online where it is, and I blocked off my calendar and I had to basically take a red eye to be here today in Dallas.
00:21:02.000And I want to just play you a little bit of the flavor and the spice and the energy, the enthusiasm, the organic, robust momentum that I am seeing on the ground floor of parents that are rising up and they are saying, I will not have my child learn these insidious ideas.
00:21:22.000Let's play Cut 66 of a parent speaking against critical race theory at the Chandler School Board, saying, Quote, We do not want people to succeed by taking from one to give to another.
00:21:31.000And that in the real world, you do not get a raise just because you earn it.
00:21:34.000Now, this parent, God bless this parent, because it's so intimidating to speak there because you have these, quite honestly, narcissists that are literally six feet above you and they just stare at you, right, Connor?
00:22:19.000While you talk about how critical race theory is not being discussed or implemented in the schools, you can call it critical race theory, deep equity, social-emotional learning.
00:23:39.000You abused that trust because you thought that you knew better than us, that you could bring in these ideas without alarming, not alarming, alerting us.
00:23:59.000My name is Hiram Wilkins, and you just saw my mom talk.
00:24:05.000I think that going to school is, I'm supposed to be learning English, writing, math, like to help me for my future, and learning gender and sex, and all that stuff is up to my mom.
00:24:19.000And I think that I doubt, I don't think that the CRT is correct.
00:24:29.000I don't think that should be taught in schools.
00:24:31.000I have cousins who are black and white, and that doesn't change who they are or like it doesn't make them worse or better.
00:24:51.000They are not racist just because of the color of their skin they were born with.
00:24:54.000It is racist in itself to even make that accusation.
00:24:58.000Why would we accuse them all of cruelty to children of another color and make them go through training when a majority of them never spent a day in their life looking at others as anything different than themselves?
00:25:09.000We should also go through, should we also go through nerd training?
00:25:13.000I know plenty of kids who are bullied and harassed every day for not conforming to the social norm.
00:25:18.000Should we go through band geek training for the kid who gets made fun of for carrying his tuba across class or the campus?
00:25:28.000You can tell people to be kind, but you can't control everyone's thoughts and actions.
00:25:32.000As a whole, our kids are resilient, smart, kind, and accepting.
00:25:35.000Equity training and critical race theory are teaching them to hate one another.
00:25:39.000Just as the board hates certain members of the group that attend their meetings, the board is teaching hate and divisiveness, calling parents words such as homophobe and transphobe and racist.
00:26:06.000And I got to tell you, doing radio with you guys and having Mr. Gordon in the ear, one minute, 30 seconds, it was very helpful for the one minute of testimony that I had at the Champion Unified School District yesterday.
00:26:17.000So I got to say, being able to say a lot in a short period of time and land the plane, as we say, it's almost as if I've been practicing for the last nine months for this.
00:26:26.000So it was, I was able to say a lot in a short period of time.
00:27:06.000If you're listening on WABC, we just got an email from a listener from WABC, freedom at charliekirk.com, or maybe you're listening in Spokane, Washington, or in Vegas, or you're listening in Dallas or Atlanta, maybe in Riverside, AM560 or AM960.
00:27:24.000I'm an Arizona taxpayer and employer of over 100 people in this state.
00:27:27.000I'm disgusted that you are lying to the citizens of this state and the people that pay your salaries.
00:27:33.000You say critical race theory is not in the school district, and then moments later, you have someone come up and use that word, equity.
00:27:40.000Just last week, the CUSD Summer Equity Symposium was held, and it was, quote, to create systemic change, change your leadership thinking.
00:27:49.000How about addressing implicit bias for student excellence?
00:27:52.000If you know anything, just a little bit about where these ideas and these phrases come from, you know that this school is stomping on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:28:01.000This is a racist, vile, and evil ideology that has infected this once great school district.
00:28:07.000I implore every single member of the school board to actually learn what you are supporting.
00:28:25.000So I tried to fit the most I could into one minute, and there's a lot there that I want to continue to build out and explore to you, and that is that word equity.
00:28:31.000We get a lot of questions about what is equity?
00:28:36.000We are winning, and we're in kind of a metaphorical war against the racists, the Nicole Hannah-Jones, the Nathan Bedford Forrest, the John C. Calhouns, the KKK types that are educating your children.
00:28:48.000And so then they decide that they're going to change their words.
00:28:52.000So they went from critical race theory and racial sensitivity trading, and they linguistically laundered it no different than Marty Bird in the show Ozark.
00:29:00.000And all of a sudden it comes out as equity.
00:29:28.000I knew a lot about equity and where it came from, but he just blew my mind with just five or six levels deeper of that.
00:29:33.000And I want to tell you where that is because it's very important.
00:29:36.000Because what I saw last night is what's going to happen next.
00:29:42.000So trust is one of my favorite words in the English language.
00:29:46.000It's something that we use quite a lot.
00:29:50.000So the word trust originally comes from an old Norse word, which means troust, which means strong when you fall.
00:30:01.000Basically, it comes from this idea that to make one strong and safe or to rely on.
00:30:07.000We have trusted our school boards and our education system to people we thought had our best intentions at heart.
00:30:16.000But similar to a virus that was in our country before we realized it, these school boards were infected by parasites who wished to teach your children a series of ideologies that are so harmful to who we are as Americans.
00:30:31.000Ronald Reagan famously said, trust, but verify.
00:30:35.000William Shakespeare probably had the best quote on trust.
00:30:39.000Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
00:30:43.000Well, that's exactly what's happened with these school boards.
00:30:45.000And the common through line is these parents that are testifying and they're rising up is it's that parents trusted these administrators and school board members were teaching and doing the ethical and moral right thing.
00:30:58.000And this real energy and enthusiasm that I have not seen since the Tea Party movement and parts of the Trump movement, but this is different.
00:31:05.000This is just so organic and it's so focused.
00:31:08.000It's focused on very specific action is something that I think must be harnessed for the better.
00:31:15.000One of the parents last night at Chandler Unified School District said, Chandler Unified School District has lost 2,000 students in the last year.
00:31:33.000These parents that have pulled their kids out of these schools were still showing up to speak.
00:31:37.000Because they said, as long as I exist and I pay taxes, even though my kids are no longer in the school district, I care about the well-being of the other kids and I care about the well-being of our nation.
00:31:45.000And so even if you do not have kids in the school system, even if you do not have kids currently in Chandler Unified or Peoria or in Scottsdale, you should still show up.
00:31:55.000Now they try to find a reason on process to try to discontinue these meetings.
00:32:00.000But I can tell you that when these tyrants and these autocrats and these sociopathic, unimpressive, hyper-aggressive administrators who sit on these boards actually have to look at the white in your eyes and not just read some angry email, things will change.
00:32:18.000There was an unmistakable message sent to Chandler yesterday, which is, if you keep this up, we are not going to stay off your case.
00:32:25.000If you keep this up, we are not going to stop showing up.
00:33:15.000Democracy dies in darkness, as some paper would say.
00:33:18.000What is done under the cover of night and treachery and what serpents do will not survive and thrive as long as there are people that believe in truth and bring those things to light.
00:33:29.000And that's why this summer, the summer of victory, as we push back against mandatory vaccines and push for transparency in our elections and push for transparency and action in our school boards, real action, I'm telling you right now, they are worried.
00:33:42.000They are worried that real people that never have been involved in this sort of thing called politics before are starting to have energy and enthusiasm.
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