The Charlie Kirk Show - April 15, 2021


The Bloody 20s — How We're Headed for a Violent Decade


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We are heading into the most dangerous decade to be alive since 1995. What does that mean? We go into that, including the problem of guilt in our society, and so much more. We also give a flash update from the Floyd trial happening in Minneapolis.

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00:00:27.000 Hey everybody, the bloody 20s is here.
00:00:30.000 What does that mean?
00:00:30.000 We go into that, including the problem of guilt in our society and so much more.
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00:01:37.000 It's the bloody 20s.
00:01:38.000 Buckle up, everybody. 0.54
00:01:39.000 Here we go.
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00:02:02.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:03:00.000 I want to take a step back and tell you a trend that's happening here that's really important.
00:03:05.000 I'm going to get to a couple things here, but it's a phrase that I have coined, the bloody 20s.
00:03:12.000 Not the roaring 20s, but the bloody 20s.
00:03:15.000 We are heading for the most violent decade, probably in recent history, if not American history.
00:03:23.000 And I'm seeing it happen for a variety of different reasons.
00:03:27.000 And I don't think we always talk about what actually drives violence and crime.
00:03:33.000 Most importantly, the lack of a family structure, the lack of a belief in a creator, and the lack of understanding right from wrong.
00:03:41.000 But we are heading into the most dangerous decade to be alive.
00:03:46.000 Why?
00:03:47.000 Well, believe it or not, post-1995, America became remarkably safe.
00:03:55.000 When I was growing up, America had violent crime decreasing year over year.
00:04:02.000 But now we are seeing an increase in crime, the likes of which is unprecedented.
00:04:08.000 The increase.
00:04:09.000 We're not yet at levels that are late 80s or early 90s levels, but the increase.
00:04:15.000 In 29 of 34 major American cities, criminologists observed an increase in homicide rates last year.
00:04:23.000 These cities saw a 30% average increase in homicide, the highest single-year percentage change on record.
00:04:30.000 For most cities, these rates are just over half of what they were in 1995.
00:04:35.000 So again, they're not as bad as they were in the 90s, but we're on pace, and the increase is dramatic.
00:04:42.000 Now, this corresponds to an additional 1,268 homicides in the city studies in 2020 versus 2009 in 2019 in just those 34 cities.
00:04:55.000 Now, if you take just the largest 60 cities in the country, that's right, the largest 60, police agencies from those cities show a 36% increase in murders over the last year.
00:05:10.000 This is new from the New York Police Department.
00:05:14.000 In a 28-day period, from March 8th to April 4th of this year, there has been a 95% jump in shootings compared to the same time period last year.
00:05:28.000 And homicides have gone up 60%.
00:05:30.000 Now, that might be partially because we were locked down that time of year and people were more afraid of getting the Chinese coronavirus than getting shot.
00:05:38.000 I kid you not, that was actually a thing in Chicago, that people were more afraid of getting the virus than getting shot.
00:05:43.000 That's why gangbanging went down for 30 days, but they made up for lost time over the summer.
00:05:49.000 Richard B. Rosenfeld, a criminologist from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, said the data shows the first half of 2020 was more or less in line with past years, but there was a major change around the middle of last year.
00:06:03.000 This is from the Washington Post.
00:06:05.000 Now, what happened the middle of last year?
00:06:08.000 That's right.
00:06:09.000 A drug addict by the name of George Floyd died when a police officer engaged with him.
00:06:16.000 He might have died from a drug overdose.
00:06:19.000 He might have died from Derek Chauvin.
00:06:23.000 We don't know.
00:06:23.000 But I do want to play tape here.
00:06:25.000 Listen to this.
00:06:25.000 This is a use of force expert who has just testified in the George Floyd hearing.
00:06:30.000 Now, remember, after George Floyd, we decided to abolish police departments, defund police departments, reallocate money.
00:06:39.000 We had billions of dollars go to BLM Incorporated to contribute to Patrice Con Culler's real estate empire portfolio.
00:06:47.000 We decided to unravel basically everything we know when it comes to crime and safety.
00:06:52.000 But listen to this testimony from a use of force expert who says Derek Chauvin was completely justified in his use of force.
00:07:01.000 Wait do you hear the language here?
00:07:02.000 Play tape.
00:07:03.000 So just to kind of wrap up, could you summarize the final opinions that you have made in this case?
00:07:11.000 I felt that Officer Chauvin's interactions with Mr. Floyd were following his training, following current practices in policing, and were objectively reasonable.
00:07:24.000 Thank you.
00:07:24.000 I have no further questions.
00:07:30.000 Sure.
00:07:32.000 That's a bombshell piece of testimony following current trainings and procedures and was objectively reasonable.
00:07:41.000 If I was a member of the jury, that's enough to make me think that's enough to instill what we call a seed of doubt.
00:07:49.000 Now, this defense attorney for Chauvin, I think he's doing a pretty good job.
00:07:52.000 He's a doofus a little bit the way he kind of walks around the courtroom, a little bit aloof, and he has a beard.
00:07:58.000 Big mistake. 0.96
00:07:59.000 You never have a beard when you're trying to get people.
00:08:01.000 No, it's true.
00:08:02.000 There's tons of stories on that.
00:08:03.000 I'm not against people that have beards.
00:08:04.000 I'm not.
00:08:05.000 The point, there's tons of studies on this, that if you're actually trying to persuade people and make them trust you, people are less likely to trust people with beards.
00:08:12.000 There's a lot of studies on this that if you run for political office with a beard, you're less likely to win.
00:08:18.000 I'm not kidding.
00:08:18.000 I'm not against people with beards.
00:08:20.000 Tyler has a beard.
00:08:21.000 He walks around with a beard all the time.
00:08:22.000 I'm just saying that if you're a lawyer defending the most hated man in America and the facts are more complicated than it seems, probably don't have a beard.
00:08:30.000 Anyway, that's a complete side note. 0.62
00:08:31.000 I can't wait to get all the emails from all the beard people.
00:08:34.000 I love you guys.
00:08:34.000 It's fine.
00:08:35.000 It's not about that.
00:08:36.000 I'm just saying this guy, in his own particular instance, should have shaved.
00:08:40.000 Okay.
00:08:41.000 So middle of last year, we saw this massive increase in violent crime.
00:08:46.000 Rosenfeld says, quote, the increase tends to occur in nearly every single city at the end of May and the first days of June.
00:08:54.000 That's why I connect to the George Floyd news because the George Floyd news, where we don't know if he died of a drug overdose or not, but that guy's testimony, not my words, his words, to Derek Chauvin's use of force was, quote, objectively reasonable.
00:09:10.000 Rosenfeld continues by saying, the size and abruptness of the increase are unprecedented.
00:09:17.000 Washington Post says that was the timeframe in which the country was convulsed, it's a weird word to use, by protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
00:09:28.000 We all remember what happened.
00:09:29.000 Crime went up dramatically because it was all of a sudden justified to go loot, riot, steal, and burn because of what they believed happened to George Floyd.
00:09:41.000 Now, in Washington, D.C., there have been 200 homicides to date, a 20% increase that is in line with national FBI figures.
00:09:50.000 Again, Washington Post.
00:09:51.000 Now, why the Washington Post is the authority figure on crime in our country? 0.89
00:09:54.000 I asked this question of Heather McDonald, and she didn't really have an answer to it.
00:09:58.000 I think she agreed with my question, but can we have some other institution of the country please do some crime analysis other than the Washington Post?
00:10:05.000 Because I just don't trust anything they publish.
00:10:08.000 I'd be happy to talk to anyone about it.
00:10:09.000 If someone needs funding for that, I'm happy to raise them money for it.
00:10:12.000 This is really important.
00:10:14.000 And I don't understand why the Washington Post is the only place that publishes this stuff.
00:10:17.000 I don't get it.
00:10:18.000 No one's been able to explain that to me.
00:10:20.000 Anyway, it's a side note.
00:10:22.000 Now, in New York, killings are up about 40% and shootings have doubled from the previous year.
00:10:30.000 Now, this is all since the death of George Floyd.
00:10:37.000 Now, crime is still below the levels of the 90s, but we are entering a murderous decade.
00:10:44.000 When New York logged more than 2,000 killings in a single year, compared to 437 it recorded shortly before Christmas of 2020.
00:10:51.000 Now, why did New York crime go down?
00:10:55.000 More police.
00:10:57.000 As the war on cops continues, violent crime is going to go up, and it's coming to a neighborhood near you.
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00:11:21.000 Go buy a gun.
00:11:22.000 Seriously, crime is up.
00:11:24.000 Jim Pascoe, the executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, said that during the long-term trend of falling crime rates, which began in the mid-90s, is now showing signs of faltering.
00:11:37.000 So now that we have these mass, well-funded movements to attack police officers and justify widespread criminality, we're seeing crime rates go back up.
00:11:49.000 It's exactly what happened with Dante Wright.
00:11:51.000 The rap songs that Dante Wright listens to, the video games that he was likely exposed to, the movies that he watched, and the culture around him glamorized and glorified resisting arrest.
00:12:02.000 And that's not a racial thing.
00:12:04.000 It's just true.
00:12:05.000 It's true that resisting arrest is something that is glorified and glamorized in our country.
00:12:12.000 And so then Dante Wright felt compelled to go commit another crime.
00:12:16.000 By the way, it's against the law to resist arrest.
00:12:18.000 So he died in the process of committing a crime.
00:12:23.000 Not saying he deserved to die.
00:12:25.000 There's some nuance there.
00:12:26.000 The cop, obviously, based on the video, acted improperly.
00:12:31.000 But that piece of information is very important.
00:12:33.000 Now, we're going to keep on unpacking the bloody 20s and where this is headed and why this is happening because it's actually deeper than just the war on police and the cultural issue that I mentioned.
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00:13:40.000 Unfortunately, we're entering a very troubling decade, and how we're able to navigate it remains to be seen.
00:13:48.000 I do believe that we are going to have another opportunity, we being reasonable people that actually love our nation and love our home.
00:13:56.000 We're about to enter a very violent decade.
00:13:59.000 And one of the reasons why is because we have a crisis of purpose.
00:14:05.000 A lot of people commit crimes because they're actually looking for purpose.
00:14:13.000 I actually think that it's more about purpose and less about material.
00:14:18.000 This is a fundamental disagreement that I have with leftists.
00:14:23.000 They think it's all material.
00:14:25.000 At least partially material.
00:14:29.000 But I actually think it's insulting to poor people that don't commit crimes to say that just because you're poor, you commit crimes.
00:14:37.000 People of all socioeconomic levels commit crimes.
00:14:42.000 It's about values, not stuff.
00:14:48.000 So, what gives people purpose?
00:14:52.000 Well, having a family gives you purpose.
00:14:55.000 Having direction gives you purpose.
00:15:00.000 But when you don't have those things, you don't have a job, you do not have camaraderie, you don't have friendship, then people are going to search for purpose in unconventional, unusual, and yes, illegal ways.
00:15:12.000 You want to be important in downtown Brooklyn Center, pull out a gun and point it at someone.
00:15:19.000 All of a sudden, you're the most important person in the area.
00:15:22.000 You went from unimportant to important like that.
00:15:26.000 Purpose comes from a Greek word telos.
00:15:31.000 Telos is where we get the word telescope, which means out in the distance, your aim, the end result.
00:15:37.000 Where are you going?
00:15:39.000 This is one of the reasons why violent crime is going up and social activism is also going up.
00:15:45.000 Social activism gives a lot of people purpose.
00:15:49.000 Looting and rioting and arson, as grotesque as it might seem to us, gives a lot of people a reason to keep going.
00:16:00.000 There's a reason why we are seeing mental health issues and suicide increase and looting and rioting and arson increase.
00:16:06.000 They're directly related.
00:16:07.000 They're different ways to deal with the same problem.
00:16:17.000 So let me just tell you how bad the violent crime increase is in our country.
00:16:23.000 It is the largest recorded one-year rise in murders in history.
00:16:33.000 Homicide rates began increasing in most places in the mid-1960s.
00:16:39.000 And 68 up to this point was the largest increase.
00:16:41.000 Now, in 2015, homicide rate went up 11% because of the Ferguson effect.
00:16:47.000 This is worse than ever before.
00:16:51.000 To give you an idea, after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed, the homicide rate went up.
00:16:57.000 It went up even worse this last year.
00:17:00.000 Every major city is seeing an increase in crime, every major city.
00:17:05.000 So while we have to be lectured by BLM Incorporated about Dante Wright, a criminal, there have been 162 people shot and killed in Chicago, 735 people shot and wounded, and 897 people total shot with 170 total homicides.
00:17:28.000 We just saw the murder rate and the homicide rate go up 34% in major cities, where the previous high was 12%.
00:17:35.000 That's what I meant to say earlier.
00:17:36.000 I didn't interpret that correctly.
00:17:41.000 So why is this happening?
00:17:44.000 Lack of purpose, lack of direction, people seeking pleasure over truth, people seeing immediate gratification instead of delayed gratification, which is a Western value.
00:17:58.000 Heather McDonald talked about that brilliantly on our program.
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00:18:11.000 And so what can we actually do about this besides arming yourselves?
00:18:16.000 Well, it's a values debate.
00:18:19.000 It's less about the mechanics and more about whether or not we share the values of one another.
00:18:29.000 Being able to differentiate right from wrong, to seek truth, to have restraint. 0.99
00:18:36.000 Why is it that millions of young black men are finding meaning in crime? 0.99
00:18:46.000 Well, it's because they don't have a father figure in their life. 0.97
00:18:49.000 They don't have someone to emulate, to look after them, and to strive to be.
00:18:57.000 So they go find someone who has power.
00:19:00.000 Well, the person who has power is the guy on the side of the street with a firearm who drives the flashy cars.
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00:20:25.000 There's a lot of different stories I want to connect to.
00:20:28.000 I got a note from a friend asking me, Do you think we have a self-esteem crisis?
00:20:33.000 I said, No, I think we have a self-control crisis, and you get self-esteem from self-control.
00:20:39.000 That we have an entire country that is about immediate pleasure and seeking pleasure over earned success and delayed gratification.
00:20:49.000 That creates miserable people and people that then go engage in crime to either find purpose, self-esteem, or to be able to gratify themselves so they can get resources or material, whether it be looting a store or holding up a store, so they don't have to actually work or earn the success.
00:21:07.000 They'll just take it.
00:21:11.000 There's a lot of different themes there that I want to unpack.
00:21:14.000 I want to get to a couple kind of news of the day and kind of force, kind of go more into what's happening in Minnesota right now. 0.90
00:21:23.000 And so the Democrat mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, completely caved the BLM Incorporated.
00:21:29.000 BLM Incorporated will be historically known as an organization that said they were for black lives, but their policies and their ideas and their values will directly contribute to tens of thousands more black people being killed. 0.65
00:21:45.000 That will be their legacy. 0.96
00:21:46.000 And also, building a pretty impressive real estate empire for the people that run it.
00:21:50.000 Cut 57, Democrat mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mike Elliott, Playtape.
00:21:57.000 And so with people coming to the department expressing their anger and seeing the flag, you know, we don't want the flag to be a flashpoint that, you know, angers people and does that in a way that they're going to come to the department.
00:22:22.000 And so we've asked the flag to be removed.
00:22:24.000 Has the flag been removed?
00:22:26.000 Yeah, so it's a back the blue flag.
00:22:28.000 Again, this guy looks like he's in high school.
00:22:29.000 I somewhat feel bad for him because he didn't sign up to be a national spokesperson for this stuff.
00:22:33.000 But just resign or have a little bit of courage before you start pandering to BLM Incorporated.
00:22:38.000 I sort of, my heart sort of goes out to him because you could see he has no idea what he's doing.
00:22:42.000 He's being controlled.
00:22:44.000 He's just completely being manipulated. 0.98
00:22:47.000 And then he says something really foolish, which makes me feel less sorry for him. 0.95
00:22:51.000 Cut 54, he says, why do cops need weapons? 0.63
00:22:54.000 Cut 54.
00:22:56.000 I don't believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons, you know, every time they're making a traffic stop or engaged in situations that don't necessarily call for weapons.
00:23:18.000 So do police officers need firearms or weapons at a traffic stop?
00:23:23.000 I'm not going to show the video on the live stream, but if you watched the recent video out of New Mexico of the guy that got pulled over at the AR-15 and he just turns around and murders the cop with an AR-15, yes, police officers need to be armed when they do traffic stops.
00:23:39.000 This is not about this whole situation was preventable if Dante Wright decided not to be a criminal.
00:23:45.000 It's that simple.
00:23:47.000 Once a situation of chaos is created, then unpredictable, less than desirable outcomes that are almost guaranteed.
00:24:01.000 Let's go to a cut here. 0.68
00:24:02.000 BLM Incorporated, they are now using white people as human shields.
00:24:10.000 Cut 55. 0.98
00:24:13.000 No, get the white people on the front, bro. 0.93
00:24:16.000 White people on the front.
00:24:18.000 White allies on the front.
00:24:21.000 What's hilarious is that the white liberals were willingly doing that. 0.97
00:24:25.000 Is that the white liberals were okay being in the front of the police to go guard the black people.
00:24:31.000 And this segues to something I've been wanting to talk about for the last couple of days, and I've been waiting for the right opportunity, which is this idea of guilt.
00:24:39.000 I believe that guilt is one of the strongest beliefs that is driving human behavior in our country.
00:24:47.000 Whether we realize it or not, the left is dominated by guilt, or at least the people that follow the left.
00:24:55.000 What do I mean by guilt?
00:24:57.000 Well, guilt is a feeling, somewhat mostly irrational, that what you have or where you are is not something you earned.
00:25:05.000 Now, that might be the case.
00:25:08.000 But to all of a sudden feel a need to repatriate or redistribute your position or your resources because of that, and then with it society's resources, is immoral.
00:25:21.000 Why not open the borders? 0.99
00:25:22.000 Well, if you feel that your position in life is not worthy or not earned, then why wouldn't you want to open the borders to the entire third world? 0.97
00:25:34.000 Now, mind you, that disregards that your position is probably largely in part because of a sacrifice somebody else made in some other generation so that you might be able to live quiet and peaceable lives. 0.50
00:25:50.000 I truly believe that our inability to explain the wealth that we have, the position that we have in our country, our inability to communicate our values is this constant guilt-ridden campaign to try to pay penance and assuage ourselves of a knot in the stomach that many upper-middle-class white liberals feel every single day.
00:26:16.000 Maybe they didn't sacrifice to be where they are.
00:26:19.000 Maybe they didn't actually have to work to go drive around in Range Rovers in Paradise Valley and be able to lecture other people about how good of people they are.
00:26:32.000 And we see this in this recent ridiculous advertisement in the New York Times.
00:26:37.000 Remember, I read the New York Times, so you don't have to. 0.56
00:26:41.000 This advertisement in the New York Times says we stand for democracy.
00:26:48.000 And it is this double page, full page ad of corporations, people, and even nonprofits that say that they are opposing Georgia's voter law.
00:27:03.000 This is a mixture of power-hungry zealots and self-righteous activists, but most importantly, guilt-ridden wealthy people.
00:27:15.000 One thing I love about the Christian ethic, and one of the few things I love about Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy is its de-emphasis on guilt.
00:27:28.000 I think that if you take the Randian ethic too far, obviously you get to a place of just materialism and self-indulgence.
00:27:36.000 However, I do appreciate some of her literature.
00:27:37.000 I think it's very interesting.
00:27:38.000 I think the fountain head and atlas shrugged as far as an individual challenging a power structure and what it means to be daring and take risk.
00:27:46.000 I really enjoy it from a narrative standpoint.
00:27:48.000 I don't endorse it as a worldview, obviously.
00:27:50.000 I'm a Christian.
00:27:51.000 But one thing that Christianity and objectivism has in common, which again, this is a nuanced view that very few people will ever tell you, is that they say, why would you feel guilty for what you have?
00:28:04.000 Did you steal it?
00:28:05.000 Did you do something immoral to get it?
00:28:08.000 If you did not do something immoral to get what you have, then why would you feel guilty?
00:28:12.000 Well, it was given to me.
00:28:14.000 Well, if it was given to you, did that person sacrifice for it?
00:28:17.000 Did that person wake up at 5 a.m. and go to bed at midnight so that you might be able to live a good life?
00:28:21.000 And what are you, maybe you are lacking purpose and you're trying to take away other people's purpose so you can feel good.
00:28:27.000 So this two-page advertisement in the New York Times is a list of corporations, CEOs, and celebrities that are deciding to say, look how good of a person I am.
00:28:41.000 This says, we stand for democracy, a government of the people by the people.
00:28:46.000 This is an Alinsky tactic.
00:28:48.000 Use the language of the enemy against them. 0.72
00:28:52.000 Use the symbology.
00:28:55.000 That's not the right word.
00:28:56.000 Use the symbols.
00:28:57.000 That's all I have to say, right?
00:28:57.000 Use the symbols or the themes of us against us.
00:29:01.000 Now, we've talked about this many times.
00:29:04.000 We are not a democracy.
00:29:06.000 And that's the one piece of, that's the one edit I give towards Tucker Carlson every time he says that because we're not a democracy.
00:29:14.000 So here's what they only say democracy 19 times here.
00:29:17.000 We stand for democracy.
00:29:21.000 It says here in the New York Times.
00:29:23.000 However, regardless of our political affiliations, we believe the foundation of our electoral process rests upon the ability for each of us to cast our ballots for the candidate of our choice.
00:29:34.000 How is that not something we believe?
00:29:36.000 What kind of strange posturing gaslighting do the people who have signed this garbage think that we actually believe?
00:29:45.000 You see, we believe in the right to vote so much.
00:29:47.000 We want to make sure that our votes are not being shredded, that illegals are not voting, and that our votes are not being diluted by a broken process, which is why we support the Georgia election law.
00:29:58.000 So in case you need a refresher of the companies you shouldn't buy products from, and by the way, we're working on our Buycot page on CharlieKirk.com, so you'll be able to find the products that you should actually support.
00:30:08.000 Here's who signs it: Accenture, AIG, Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, big surprise.
00:30:13.000 American Airlines, American Express, Apple, Bain Company, Bank of America, Berkshire Partners, Best Buy, Biogen, BlackRock, BMC Software, Boston Consulting Group, Cambridge Associates, Cisco, Civic Entertainment Group, Clime Credit, Cowboy Ventures, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, of course.
00:30:29.000 Deloitte has done more damage shipping jobs overseas and making tons of money than any of their company in the last couple decades.
00:30:36.000 Dropbox, SD Lauder, Eventbrite, Ernst Young, Facebook, of course, Ferrara, First Mark Capital, Ford Motor Company, General Catalyst, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Harry's Inc., Hess, IBM, Insight Partners, Leadership, Instacart, JJ, JetBlue, Levi Strauss, which is an anti-American denim import company that makes Wuhan rich and America poor.
00:30:58.000 Never buy Levi jeans.
00:30:59.000 I can get in that later.
00:31:01.000 Lyft, MT Bank, MasterCard, McKinsey Company, Merck, Microsoft Corporation, Netflix, Nordstrom's, Papersource, PayPal, Peloton, Pinterest, Plaid, PwC, Reddit, bizarre cosigner, REI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Smith Company, Sodexo, Sonos, no longer buying Sonos speakers, that's for sure.
00:31:23.000 Square, Starbucks, SurveyMonkey, T-Roe Prize Target, Torrey Birch, TripAdvisor, Twilio, Twitter, Under Armour, United Airlines, UTA, Vanguard, Viacom, CBS, Wells Fargo, Zendesk, and Zolo.
00:31:38.000 And then there's an entire list of celebrities from Queen Latifah, who's a talentless hack, and Gwyneth Paltrow and many others.
00:31:48.000 Amy Schumer.
00:31:49.000 Yeah, Amy Schumer is the Plato of our time, right?
00:31:52.000 You must understand, Plato's Republic pales in comparison to the wisdom of Amy Schumer.
00:31:58.000 Aristotle trembles in the shadows of Amy Schumer.
00:32:03.000 I hope you all understand that.
00:32:05.000 I read this list.
00:32:06.000 I left.
00:32:06.000 Demi Lovato.
00:32:08.000 George Lucas.
00:32:09.000 What a fall from grace that guy has had.
00:32:12.000 This is a two-page, a multi-million dollar advertisement.
00:32:15.000 And who is it written?
00:32:17.000 Who is it paid for?
00:32:19.000 This two-page advertisement in the New York Times, which is, we feel guilty, follow us, we're a good person.
00:32:25.000 It's actually paid for by my least favorite type of person in public commentary right now.
00:32:32.000 Paid by a bunch of people, but the first name is someone that I actually wrote glowingly about for years because I thought this person actually believed in the American system because she was such a beneficiary of it.
00:32:45.000 Her name is Ursula Burns.
00:32:46.000 You might not know that name.
00:32:47.000 I've known this name for years. 0.52
00:32:49.000 She's a black woman who was raised by a single mother in a New York City housing project.
00:32:55.000 Her parents were Panamanian immigrants and she was born in poverty of poverty.
00:33:02.000 I used this example for years as someone who grew up in rags, started as an intern at Xerox and went all the way up to the CEO of Xerox.
00:33:12.000 She's a black woman. 0.75
00:33:14.000 That's someone who grew up with nothing, but the American system afforded this black daughter of immigrants of a single mother a life of luxury because she earned it. 1.00
00:33:25.000 So now Ursula Burns is taking out double-page ads in the New York Times, intentionally gaslighting and attacking a very vanilla Georgia law. 1.00
00:33:37.000 Ursula Burns also says, quote, when it comes to police brutality, this is a woman who has actually done it. 0.97
00:33:43.000 So now we have to be lectured by people like Oprah, Tahanisi Coates, Patrice Cullers-Khan, all of which have tens of millions of dollars of net worth, Oprah billions of dollars, that you can't succeed in the country. 0.99
00:33:54.000 Black America, you don't understand. 1.00
00:33:57.000 Focus on your circumstances more than on yourself. 0.98
00:34:00.000 We're all victims. 0.76
00:34:01.000 Meanwhile, Ursula Burns and Oprah Winfrey, two black women, can fly around the planet on their global expresses and their Gulfstream jets. 0.96
00:34:09.000 Spare me the swan song. 1.00
00:34:11.000 Here's what she says.
00:34:13.000 Ursula Byrne, the New York Times, of course, writes this.
00:34:15.000 Ursula Burns says, despite being a successful black CEO, she says, quote, I dress like the 1%.
00:34:22.000 I drive like the 1%.
00:34:23.000 I wear watches and jewelry like the 1%.
00:34:25.000 She says, but quote, I worry every day if a policeman is near me, they look at me as first and foremost a threat to their place in society.
00:34:35.000 How do you know that, Ursula Burns?
00:34:37.000 And by the way, if police officers were the problem, how are you able to succeed in America? 0.94
00:34:41.000 How is a black woman who grew up in a housing project, a daughter of an immigrant single mother, how are you able to become the CEO of Xerox, you ungrateful activist? 0.66
00:34:53.000 Only in America could you do that, Ursula Burns? 0.96
00:34:55.000 Why don't you go move to the highly racist country of Germany and go try to become CEO of Mercedes-Benz? 0.80
00:35:01.000 Please, Ursula Burns, tell me how that works out. 0.89
00:35:04.000 Why don't you go to France and go try to become the CEO of Louis Vuitton? 0.99
00:35:09.000 Go tell me how that one works out. 1.00
00:35:10.000 You think a black woman could become CEO of Louis Vuitton in France? 1.00
00:35:14.000 Go try another country. 1.00
00:35:17.000 Only in America could someone as ungrateful as Ursula Burns take out a double page, afford to take out a $400,000 ad in the New York Times and then go lecture the rest of us.
00:35:26.000 And here's what bothers me the most. 0.60
00:35:27.000 I don't care that she's lecturing us because I don't listen to her. 0.88
00:35:30.000 What I care is that other black people are seeing what she has to say and they're playing into this victimhood narrative. 0.96
00:35:36.000 Tahanisi Coates has a pessimistic view of black society. 0.87
00:35:40.000 You know what she said?
00:35:42.000 Ursula Burns says, police cracking down violently on protesters.
00:35:46.000 I'm sorry.
00:35:47.000 You mean rioters and terrorists attacking police officers?
00:35:50.000 She said, quote, it is the scariest moment I've ever been in my entire life.
00:35:53.000 Okay, Ursula Burns, why don't you go back to where you were raised in Brooklyn?
00:35:58.000 Go back.
00:35:59.000 Go spend a year in downtown New York without police presence.
00:36:03.000 Tell me how that one works and go wear your watches.
00:36:05.000 No, no, no.
00:36:06.000 You're probably live in Greenwich, Connecticut, or Malibu, or on the 70th floor of some apartment complex in downtown Manhattan.
00:36:16.000 And so now Ursula Burns is part of what I call a victimhood industrial complex in our country.
00:36:24.000 And it bothers me because her message should be the opposite.
00:36:27.000 Her message should be: you know what?
00:36:28.000 I became CEO of Xerox because I had delayed gratification.
00:36:32.000 I learned how to read.
00:36:33.000 I had a wonderful mother.
00:36:35.000 I believe in education and opportunity.
00:36:37.000 You know what now her big push is now?
00:36:38.000 She says, quote, corporate America have generally not distinguished themselves as moral leaders.
00:36:43.000 Quote, they generally have gone along with the flow.
00:36:45.000 And for a time, that's all we expected them to do.
00:36:48.000 Their responsibility to their shareholders.
00:36:49.000 Then, how did you become CEO, Ursula Burns? 1.00
00:36:51.000 If Xerox was so racist, how did you become, by the way, she was a terrible CEO. 1.00
00:36:55.000 She screwed up the company. 0.85
00:36:57.000 But if, how did you become CEO of Xerox?
00:37:02.000 How did you become a leader in corporate America?
00:37:04.000 If America was so systemically racist, how did you, as a daughter of immigrants, become worth tens of millions of dollars? 0.98
00:37:11.000 Same for Oprah. 0.95
00:37:12.000 Same for Patrice Cullers.
00:37:13.000 You know what the moral of the story is? 0.89
00:37:15.000 Only in America could race-baiting grifters like these people actually become somewhat of a success.
00:37:22.000 In America, there's a marketplace for everyone, including self-righteous activists like Ursula Burns. 0.97
00:37:29.000 We're a bad example to black Americans and a bad example to the rest of us.
00:37:34.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com. 0.97
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00:37:40.000 God bless you.
00:37:41.000 Speak to you soon.