The Charlie Kirk Show - The End of Affirmative Action as We Know it?

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, affirmative action is not gone, but it's been weakened by the Supreme Court.

00:00:06.000 We go through the history of affirmative action, and we give you, I think, the most comprehensive, deep analysis.

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00:01:12.000 The Supreme Court of the United States have officially no, I don't want to say they've repealed.

00:01:19.000 That's too far.

00:01:20.000 6-3 Supreme Court of the United States decision, authored by John Roberts.

00:01:25.000 And this is all about affirmative action.

00:01:27.000 They've definitely struck a blow against affirmative action, but it goes too far to say that this is conclusive.

00:01:33.000 This is not the blow that we wanted, but it is a good one.

00:01:35.000 We're going to talk about really what's missing in this because there's one line in particular that the DEI folks, the race hustlers, are going to use to try to continue the regime of anti-racism.

00:01:50.000 But all things being equal, this is a good one.

00:01:52.000 And by the way, just we're going to unpack from this from every angle.

00:01:56.000 Reading Katanji Brown Jackson and Sodomayor's and Kagan's dissent, you look at it, you say, oh my goodness, like this is these people are so off the rails that how they were ever confirmed as Supreme Court justices is beyond us.

00:02:13.000 So let's go through the facts here.

00:02:14.000 Going back in time, and most people don't know the history of affirmative action.

00:02:18.000 I think it's really helpful to go through.

00:02:20.000 So today's ruling strikes a blow, a serious blow against the regime of affirmative action.

00:02:26.000 So what is affirmative action?

00:02:28.000 Well, affirmative action is a decades-long project by the race hustlers. 0.87

00:02:33.000 This was critical race theory before it was ever, let's say, a well-known concept.

00:02:42.000 CRT is super unpopular. 1.00

00:02:44.000 Moms showing up to school board meetings. 1.00

00:02:46.000 No one likes CRT.

00:02:47.000 Why is CRT deeply unpopular?

00:02:50.000 Because we would judge people based on their skin color, not on the content of their character.

00:02:54.000 We find that repulsive, and you should find that repulsive.

00:02:57.000 You should not judge somebody, grade somebody.

00:03:01.000 You should not take action against somebody based on how they look. 0.94

00:03:04.000 It's disgusting.

00:03:05.000 It's against who we are as Americans.

00:03:06.000 So you don't have to overthink that.

00:03:09.000 If somebody's coming to you in a meeting and they're a certain skin color and you automatically put a label on them, yes, we call that racism, stereotyping. 0.51

00:03:18.000 You should not engage in that.

00:03:21.000 Now, critical race theory brought that to the forefront where we heard these con artists, Ibrahim X. Kendi and Robin D'Angelo talk about this.

00:03:28.000 But most Americans, even during the CRT fights, we had CRT right in front of us the whole time in our federal hiring practices and yes, in college admissions and especially in college admissions.

00:03:41.000 Now, affirmative action is, believe it or not, a very unpopular thing.

00:03:46.000 Every time affirmative action goes to a ballot referendum, the race hustlers lose.

00:03:51.000 Every time affirmative action goes to some sort of a vote, those of us that stand for meritocracy, we actually win.

00:03:59.000 We say, hey, let's have some sort of colorblind country.

00:04:02.000 We want to strive towards that.

00:04:04.000 Even California, when it was on the ballot in California, voted on it in 2020, and affirmative action lost decisively.

00:04:12.000 Think about that.

00:04:13.000 In the blue of blue, California, affirmative action lost decisively in 2020.

00:04:18.000 So it's deeply unpopular.

00:04:20.000 And so the question behind, let's go back in time: 45 years ago, in Regents v. Baki, the Supreme Court said that the race-based quotas were unconstitutional, but that schools could give racial preferences for the sake of diversity.

00:04:35.000 That's a bunch of psycho-babble to basically say, well, you can't outwardly use affirmative action, but you could use racial preferences.

00:04:43.000 So you could use affirmative action.

00:04:44.000 And what's so interesting is that affirmative action has been this quiet, deliberate, concentrated campaign and infrastructure, and more importantly, a bureaucracy that has been directly at odds with American values as you and I have always seen them.

00:05:04.000 Affirmative action is inconsistent with the country that you and I believe in.

00:05:09.000 Affirmative action undermines the American dream.

00:05:12.000 So here we are always telling our kids about the MLK dream, which hilariously, one of the Supreme Court justices, I think it was Katangi Brown Jackson or Sodomayor, quoted MLK.

00:05:23.000 MLK's line is what I was raised in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade and seventh grade.

00:05:28.000 I remember we saw the speech that you shout, I dream of a country.

00:05:32.000 I have a dream that one day we will be judged by the contents of our character, not the color of our skin.

00:05:36.000 Boom.

00:05:37.000 That is inconsistent with affirmative action.

00:05:39.000 You have to choose.

00:05:40.000 Is it we want to judge people based on character and choices and their values, or are we going to judge people based on their skin color?

00:05:49.000 Don't have to overthink it.

00:05:50.000 By the way, if you judge people based on their skin color, you will become a third world country. 0.96

00:05:55.000 You will.

00:05:56.000 You'll have a very, very wealthy, rich oligarchy, but this idea of people being able to break out of their socioeconomic conditions, they will stay perpetually poor and perpetually in whatever their socioeconomic circumstances.

00:06:08.000 I don't want to live in that country.

00:06:09.000 This is a good step forward.

00:06:10.000 So anyway, the schools could give racial preference for the sake of diversity.

00:06:14.000 So in response to that specific decision, we got the DEI industrial complex with flagrant discrimination dressed up as diversity.

00:06:24.000 Now, in 2003, the court revisited affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger.

00:06:29.000 This time it declared that giving explicit bonus points, again, all these goofy, creative ways to just be racist, be racist against Asians, racist against white people.

00:06:40.000 It's another example of the war on white people that we've talked about before.

00:06:45.000 So in this Grutter v. Bollinger, it declared that giving explicit bonus points for admission based on race was unconstitutional, but allowed schools to consider race as part of a holistic process.

00:06:58.000 It also suggested that in 25 years, such discrimination would no longer be needed.

00:07:03.000 And we're just about on that window right now.

00:07:05.000 We're right in that window.

00:07:06.000 Now, that's a good question that I have as I was kind of preparing for this.

00:07:13.000 If you were to ask the race hustlers like Katanji Brown Jackson, all these people, hey, when would be a sunset date for your affirmative action policies?

00:07:20.000 When do you think you would be done?

00:07:22.000 They will never be done with this, ever.

00:07:25.000 They will never achieve equity.

00:07:27.000 It is a false promise to allow a relentless revolution to destroy your country.

00:07:34.000 Say, hey, if you have five more years, would that be satisfactory?

00:07:37.000 They've had 50 years of affirmative action.

00:07:40.000 What has it gotten the country?

00:07:42.000 Has it healed the nation and sorted out our differences?

00:07:46.000 Of course not.

00:07:46.000 What it's done is it's created hyper-racist acceptance policies that discriminate against Asians, Jews, white people.

00:07:54.000 Okay, so you can guess what happened next.

00:07:56.000 Colleges built huge, massive, leviathan-like, opaque admissions bureaucracies to practice flagrant discrimination.

00:08:04.000 But they dressed it up as a holistic process.

00:08:06.000 At Harvard admissions, counselors systematically rated Asians as deficient in personality to justify denying them admission.

00:08:15.000 Until today, Harvard was allowed to get away with it and to get away with the system where it explicitly rewarded people based on the color of their skin.

00:08:24.000 This should not have been a hard decision.

00:08:26.000 And quite honestly, we're going to get into the details.

00:08:29.000 This should have been a 9-0 decision.

00:08:35.000 The three left-wingers on the court that were defending it, they want a hyper-racist country because it makes them more powerful.

00:08:43.000 Remember, it's not just Harvard, it's UNC as well.

00:08:46.000 UNC Chapel Hill has an unbelievably racist process, and it's a state school in a red state.

00:08:51.000 Why has the red state put up with it?

00:08:53.000 Because this is an important lesson.

00:08:55.000 Remember, Republicans have been afraid to go after affirmative action, CRT, and all these things because they do not want to be called racist.

00:09:03.000 So this is a good win for us.

00:09:05.000 I'm not here to overly dramatize this, but let's be honest, it's not enough.

00:09:11.000 We're going to go into the details here because this decision could have been way better.

00:09:15.000 It's largely weak.

00:09:17.000 Now, this is important.

00:09:18.000 Red states now have a mandate right now from the Supreme Court to ban affirmative action.

00:09:24.000 Every red state across the country, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, the Dakotas, you need to convene a special session and pass a bill into law and saying affirmative action is dead on arrival at the University of Alabama, at the University of Georgia, or at South Dakota State University.

00:09:45.000 We're done.

00:09:46.000 Will they do that?

00:09:48.000 Well, the ball is in their court.

00:09:49.000 Today is a good day.

00:09:50.000 It's not a great day.

00:09:51.000 It's a good day.

00:09:52.000 It bloodies the nose of Harvard and it moves us in the right direction of challenging and weakening the diversity, equity, inclusion regime.

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00:10:44.000 This is about the American dream.

00:10:45.000 The American dream is not about skin color.

00:10:48.000 It's not.

00:10:50.000 That's Juneteenth. 0.53

00:10:52.000 It's one of the reasons why we sit against Juneteenth.

00:10:54.000 That's 1619 stuff.

00:10:56.000 Hyper emphasis on how people look.

00:10:59.000 You see, the left thinks that they can tell a lot about a person based on the color of their skin.

00:11:04.000 I can't tell anything based on somebody's skin, skin color, nothing.

00:11:08.000 When I sit down with somebody and a word has not yet been spoken, and it's somebody that's white or they're Asian or black, I know nothing about them.

00:11:20.000 The left thinks they have them all figured out.

00:11:23.000 We call that prejudice.

00:11:24.000 We call that stereotyping, but now we call that progress.

00:11:29.000 We believe in meritocracy, period.

00:11:32.000 But what is at the core of affirmative action?

00:11:35.000 At the core of affirmative action is a lie.

00:11:39.000 Like all major left-wing programs, there is a lie that then grows into massive public policy.

00:11:46.000 So remember, lockdowns, what was the lie of the lockdowns?

00:11:50.000 That 20% of the population was going to die if we don't have lockdowns.

00:11:54.000 Vaccine, what was the lie of the mandatory vaccine that this thing was going to protect us?

00:11:57.000 It was safe, it was effective, all that.

00:11:59.000 So, if you are able to pinpoint the root lie, then you're far more likely then to be able to make positive progress in disassembling whatever leviathan or diversity, equity, inclusion structure that they have built.

00:12:17.000 So, what is the lie?

00:12:19.000 The lie is so simple.

00:12:21.000 And Thomas Sowell wrote an entire book on it, which is one of the most powerful and honestly based pieces of literature on race and meritocracy.

00:12:32.000 It's very simple.

00:12:33.000 And I guarantee you, some people in this audience, some of you have probably fallen trap to this because I used to when I was in high school before I read my soul and I realized that it's this simple.

00:12:46.000 If you see disparate outcomes, is discrimination only to blame?

00:12:55.000 So, for example, if you see that blacks are not earning as much money as whites, is it because of racism, or could other factors, bigger factors, possibly be playing a role?

00:13:11.000 You see, the left tries to synthesize 60,000 different inputs, literally.

00:13:19.000 Is there a father around?

00:13:20.000 What are the cultural dynamics?

00:13:22.000 What's the city like that they grew up in?

00:13:24.000 What's the local public school?

00:13:26.000 Did they have a positive male figure?

00:13:28.000 Things that we know that actually helped. 0.67

00:13:30.000 Instead of trying to have a serious conversation or a comprehensive public policy agenda to address those things, they say, Look, blacks are not where we want them to be. 1.00

00:13:41.000 So, we're just going to then actively discriminate against white people to help them. 0.74

00:13:45.000 And by the way, it doesn't help anybody, it doesn't help the act, it doesn't help black Americans, and it doesn't help the college.

00:13:52.000 Well, it somewhat helps the colleges, it doesn't help anybody.

00:13:56.000 It's classic left-wing policy, it's just pure brute force.

00:14:01.000 It hurts basically everyone except the administrators of the actual policy.

00:14:06.000 Just like their pro-crime policies don't actually help blacks, they ruin their communities.

00:14:12.000 And there's so many different angles to this. 0.98

00:14:15.000 Thomas Sowell famously made the argument that you then get blacks with lower test scores.

00:14:22.000 And by the way, this is not some sort of conspiracy theory.

00:14:25.000 The dynamics are right here.

00:14:27.000 So, for example, how insane were Harvard's affirmative action policies?

00:14:31.000 Well, a black student in the 40th percentile of their academic index is more likely to get in than an Asian student in the 100th percentile.

00:14:41.000 So, a black in the 40th percentile of their academic index and an Asian in the 100th percent percentile. 0.95

00:14:52.000 And we're supposed to give preference to the black kid because he looks different than the Asian kid. 0.99

00:14:58.000 It's ridiculous, it's indefensible. 0.98

00:15:01.000 That's why the Supreme Court ruled the way they did. 0.95

00:15:03.000 There is no defense of this, regardless of how much white guilt or racial weight that you put on this, that's indefensible when you actually get to the documents.

00:15:13.000 There are five decades of active discrimination here.

00:15:17.000 Black students who do not have as high test scores end up getting admitted into colleges that, quite honestly, they might not be qualified for. 0.76

00:15:29.000 And it results in dropouts, it results in black students not feeling as if they're fit in place. 0.57

00:15:37.000 And this is not some sort of radical argument.

00:15:40.000 This is Thomas Sowell who made this argument.

00:15:42.000 He said it leads to resentment, it leads to the black-only dormitory trend, it leads to the black-only graduation trend. 0.79

00:15:49.000 It's bad.

00:15:50.000 When you get discrimination, then you get nothing but negativity from there.

00:15:55.000 And it's an insult, by the way, to highly qualified blacks, an insult to everybody. 0.99

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00:17:05.000 The Supreme Court decision did not go far enough.

00:17:07.000 Let's just be very clear.

00:17:08.000 It did not go far enough.

00:17:11.000 But I'm also, I'm not going to be a black pill guy and say, oh, it's nothing but negative.

00:17:15.000 It's not nothing but negative.

00:17:16.000 It's probably a six out of 10.

00:17:18.000 Probably a D.

00:17:19.000 Okay, well, producer Andrews says C minus on the decision.

00:17:23.000 What's your grade, Blake?

00:17:24.000 B minus?

00:17:26.000 Wow.

00:17:27.000 For Black Pill Blake, that's a big deal.

00:17:30.000 B minus.

00:17:31.000 Okay, I'll take it.

00:17:32.000 So I'll grade there.

00:17:34.000 Let's just say it's a C or a B.

00:17:35.000 It's a move in the right direction, though.

00:17:38.000 And that's still a passing grade.

00:17:39.000 I said a D.

00:17:40.000 And let me tell you why.

00:17:41.000 Why am I saying that it's a D?

00:17:46.000 Why am I saying it's not as good as it could be?

00:17:48.000 Well, because John Roberts, who, yes, did vote correctly, he matched and he pulled rank, as you could probably imagine, around that nine-person table and said, I want to write the opinion.

00:18:02.000 So John Roberts did what John Roberts does.

00:18:05.000 Rights, rights, And there's this one part of the opinion that gives a little bit of a little bit of hope to the bad guys, a little bit of life to the CRT regime. 0.81

00:18:24.000 There's this one line in there where John Roberts effectively says that, well, if you do it differently, then it could be perfect.

00:18:35.000 Okay, there's nothing in the Constitution that doesn't allow accommodations to try to get rid of racism.

00:18:41.000 We're going to find the exact wording here.

00:18:43.000 Now, remember, this well could have gone beyond college.

00:18:47.000 He could have said that racial discrimination is wrong in federal hiring.

00:18:51.000 It could have been a real sweeping attack on racial bias.

00:18:54.000 Now, that is going to be the next challenge.

00:18:57.000 The next challenge will be getting rid of affirmative action and hiring practices.

00:19:01.000 Now, this could have imposed tougher rules to really crack the whip on affirmative action.

00:19:07.000 It could say that, quote, schools will always twist race to impose racial discrimination, so they just can't collect racial information at all.

00:19:16.000 By the way, that's what every red state needs to do right now.

00:19:19.000 Kansas, Texas, they need to pass rules that we're not collecting any racial information at all, period.

00:19:27.000 It's the same as when you make a dinner reservation.

00:19:30.000 Could you imagine when you make an let's just say you're booking an airline ticket or you're making a dinner reservation and it says while you're making an airline ticket reservation for American Airlines, as you're checking out, it says, What's your race?

00:19:46.000 What?

00:19:46.000 I'm just flying from Chicago to Los Angeles.

00:19:49.000 Why do you need my race?

00:19:50.000 No, what's your race?

00:19:52.000 We're going to collect that information.

00:19:54.000 We're not going to do anything with it.

00:19:56.000 And then you board the airplane, and suspiciously, all the white people are kind of not, they're like in the back or in the middle. 0.91

00:20:04.000 You're like, what's going on?

00:20:04.000 Are you just collecting information for your own purposes?

00:20:08.000 No.

00:20:09.000 American airlines or airlines work as meritocracies.

00:20:13.000 Somebody emailed us, Charlie, what is a meritocracy?

00:20:15.000 Okay, well, it's a system that has preference on work, ethic, also has an emphasis on how much effort you put into something, not on connections, not on immutable characteristics.

00:20:35.000 It's a pursuit of excellence, on quality and ability.

00:20:39.000 Now, here's the other thought crime that is necessary to say, and we're going to talk about this tonight on our thought crime program, which is when you pursue excellence, there will be people that are left behind.

00:20:53.000 That is the price of excellence.

00:20:55.000 Therefore, the people who achieve some form of success have a moral obligation to look out for those people and to provide charity or to try to provide some sort of system so that they can have a better life.

00:21:06.000 But life isn't fair.

00:21:08.000 You cannot have an excellent institution while simultaneously admitting people who do not have the same test scores or meet the standards to be there whatsoever. 0.99

00:21:19.000 And I'll say it again: an Asian in the 100th percentile was being graded at the same level as a black student in the 40th percentile. 0.74

00:21:29.000 No, that is not fair.

00:21:31.000 That is active discrimination, was less likely to get in based on nothing of their own choosing.

00:21:38.000 And that is the other thing that the left hates about this.

00:21:42.000 You know, the more I live and the more I talk to the left, the more I realize how many of them do not believe in free will.

00:21:51.000 This is a big belief.

00:21:53.000 They believe in ultimate cause and effect, meaning everything is just a process that is unfolding.

00:21:59.000 You really don't have consciousness.

00:22:00.000 It's a trick that's being played on you.

00:22:03.000 All of your actions, all of your reactions, it's all just like a massive clock.

00:22:08.000 Now, there is a lot of nuance to that on the left, but that is generally the way they look at crime.

00:22:16.000 They look at crime as, well, look, it's not that he broke into the bank or that he raped the girl.

00:22:22.000 What was done to him 20 years ago that sowed the seeds to bring him on the path to do that?

00:22:28.000 What was the cause set in motion?

00:22:32.000 Why is it that it's an American value to believe that we do not want somebody's skin color to factor into whether or not they'll get into college, whether or not they'll get a job, whether or not the answer is that you and I believe that every human being has the agency, has the ability to choose morally,

00:22:57.000 that we can decide to work really hard in high school to get better grades, to go to a better school.

00:23:04.000 And that if you're Asian and you do that, which they tend to work very, very hard in school and do very well in school, why should they be punished for that? 0.96

00:23:14.000 If there's a black kid that decides not to do homework and he's in the 40th percentile, why should he be given a preference? 0.99

00:23:22.000 Why should he be given a group quota preference as a preferential group?

00:23:28.000 And then, not to mention the incentives that are created by affirmative action.

00:23:34.000 And the incentives are then you have this massive DEI machinery that is very, very difficult to disentangle.

00:23:43.000 Clarence Thomas blasted Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's argument in his concurrence.

00:23:49.000 He said, quote, KBJ locks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste.

00:23:58.000 Such a view is irrational.

00:24:00.000 It is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood. 0.97

00:24:11.000 Katanji Brown Jackson's a repulsive person. 0.67

00:24:13.000 We've said it a while. 1.00

00:24:14.000 She's also very stupid. 1.00

00:24:15.000 She can't tell you what a woman is. 1.00

00:24:17.000 Katanji Brown Jackson writes this dissent where she believes blacks are given a death sentence. 0.93

00:24:24.000 That you might as well not even try. 0.96

00:24:26.000 Everything's so rigged against you.

00:24:28.000 There's so much racism.

00:24:29.000 There's so much overwhelming.

00:24:31.000 Why even try? 0.98

00:24:32.000 It is disempowering for blacks to hear that message. 1.00

00:24:37.000 And I always ask, you know, black activists when I go to these campuses, they say, oh, racism is what's preventing. 0.86

00:24:43.000 I say, okay, first of all, you go to Brown, Stanford.

00:24:47.000 What racism other than anti-white affirmative action, anti-Asian affirmative action is actually getting in your way.

00:24:54.000 And that's a good question to ask a black person. 1.00

00:24:57.000 Give me five examples. 0.96

00:25:00.000 Give me one example of racism in your life.

00:25:05.000 Not that the police pulled me over.

00:25:07.000 No, no, no.

00:25:08.000 What's an example of racism in your life?

00:25:10.000 Because guess what? 0.91

00:25:10.000 Police pull over white people, too. 0.91

00:25:13.000 I know it's like this crazy thing.

00:25:16.000 You don't want to be killed by the police?

00:25:18.000 Don't commit crimes.

00:25:19.000 Katanji Brown Jackson writes, oh, is this written by Katanji Brown Jackson that you just sent?

00:25:24.000 I want to make sure I get this right.

00:25:26.000 Okay.

00:25:27.000 She said, with let them eat cake obliviousness, today the majority pulled the rip cord and announces, quote, colorblindness for all by legal fiat.

00:25:36.000 But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.

00:25:41.000 Well, this is so rich. 0.57

00:25:42.000 She's an affirmative action hire. 0.61

00:25:44.000 She's only on the Supreme Court because of affirmative action.

00:25:47.000 Katanji Brown Jackson was not chosen for her brilliance. 0.85

00:25:50.000 Let's pick a brilliant person. 1.00

00:25:52.000 No, they picked her because she's a black woman. 1.00

00:25:54.000 So she's super bitter.

00:25:56.000 And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC, the crucial work, Katanji Brown Jackson is saying, why?

00:26:09.000 Do you know how many other young blacks that won't be able to be promoted like me for jobs they're not qualified for like me?

00:26:17.000 No one benefits from ignorance.

00:26:18.000 What ignorance exactly, Katanji Brown Jackson?

00:26:21.000 Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways.

00:26:28.000 And today's ruling makes things worse, not better.

00:26:31.000 The best that can be said of the majority's perspective is that it proceeds ostrich-like from the hopes that preventing consideration of race will end racism.

00:26:42.000 Biden explicitly said he would only pick a black woman for the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:26:47.000 Biden himself was an administer of affirmative action.

00:26:51.000 Katanji Brown Jackson is a recipient of affirmative action, and she's trying to continue this. 0.95

00:26:56.000 Disgusting and repulsive practice, and it's a great example. 0.88

00:27:00.000 This is largely incoherent legalese that she has published that writes more like a race activist from Brooklyn than a Supreme Court justice.

00:27:14.000 How do you end racism?

00:27:16.000 Well, first you have to define it, Katanji Brown Jackson.

00:27:19.000 Explain it.

00:27:19.000 I asked the question, what is racism?

00:27:21.000 What is it?

00:27:22.000 Is it institutional?

00:27:23.000 Is it systemic?

00:27:24.000 Is it individual?

00:27:26.000 First, you must define that which you must end.

00:27:29.000 But I can define it.

00:27:30.000 Affirmative action is racism.

00:27:32.000 And today, we took a step forward in ending that.

00:27:39.000 The hyper emphasis on race is so destructive to the nation.

00:27:43.000 This is a great decision, but just reading this Katangi Brown Jackson opinion is unbelievable.

00:27:50.000 Soda Mayor one is equally as where she starts says the moral arc of history or something bends towards justice.

00:28:00.000 The more you read the left, the more you see that they have the same seven to eight one-liners.

00:28:07.000 Democracy dies in darkness.

00:28:10.000 The arc of history bends towards justice.

00:28:13.000 It's the same.

00:28:14.000 Obama used to say this all the time.

00:28:19.000 The arc of history bends towards justice.

00:28:23.000 So Sodomayor writes this in this just strange, seething paragraph.

00:28:28.000 Let me read this to you.

00:28:29.000 This is a Supreme Court opinion.

00:28:31.000 As has been the case before in American, in the history of American democracy, pause, we are not a democracy or a republic, but she wouldn't know that. 0.98

00:28:39.000 She's a dummy.

00:28:40.000 The arc of the moral universe will bend towards racial justice despite the court's efforts today to impede its progress. 0.56

00:28:49.000 Martin Luther King, quote, our God is marching on speech.

00:28:53.000 What are you a deranged college professor at Portland State University, or are you a sober and prudent judge?

00:29:01.000 And that's a really important thing.

00:29:03.000 Obviously, not a sober or prudent judge.

00:29:05.000 They look at their job as activists, not as jurists of the Constitution.

00:29:12.000 Sodomayor hates the U.S. Constitution. 0.96

00:29:15.000 So does Katangi Brown Jackson. 1.00

00:29:17.000 And by the way, these people are such hypocrites. 0.93

00:29:20.000 Does Katangi Brown Jackson, the next time she boards an airplane, this would be a great test, the next time Katangi Brown Jackson boards an airplane? 0.98

00:29:27.000 She boards an airplane, she sits down.

00:29:29.000 Excuse me, Miss Jackson.

00:29:30.000 I know that you're flying to Miami today for a speech.

00:29:33.000 Just so you know, the two pilots, they were in the 40th percentile on the safety flight simulator, but they're black.

00:29:40.000 Have a great flight, Ms. Jackson.

00:29:43.000 Or Sotomayor goes in for heart surgery.

00:29:46.000 Ms. Sotomayor, I know that today you're going under for heart surgery and very serious.

00:29:52.000 We have a new surgeon for you.

00:29:54.000 And in this hospital, we put diversity first.

00:29:57.000 I am proud to tell you that the surgeon that you previously had, Dr. Schwatz, we know that he really doesn't align with your values.

00:30:04.000 Yeah, you know, he won a bunch of awards and was the best, but he's white. 1.00

00:30:09.000 So Dr. Schwartz is not going to be operating you on you today.

00:30:13.000 Instead, we have Ramon over here.

00:30:15.000 It's first time ever, but he was in the 40th percentile.

00:30:20.000 How does that make you feel, Dr. Miss Sotomayor?

00:30:24.000 Oh, and by the way, the anesthesiologist is a C student, but he's black.

00:30:28.000 She'll start screaming, bring in the Asian. 1.00

00:30:32.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:30:33.000 Everyone's for affirmative action until you're in a foxhole. 0.94

00:30:35.000 It's like that old expression.

00:30:37.000 There are no atheists in foxholes. 0.99

00:30:41.000 As Blake just said, C student, man, you guys have no idea how extreme actual affirmative action is.

00:30:46.000 No, that's a good point.

00:30:47.000 The question is: can the anesthesiologist read at that point?

00:30:51.000 Who knows?

00:30:52.000 All right, I want to just wrap up with a short thought here.

00:30:54.000 Andrew's like begging me, Charlie, what happened with Trump?

00:30:56.000 What happened with Trump?

00:30:58.000 I had dinner with President Trump, last many hours last night.

00:31:01.000 Number one, he was actually in the best spirits I've seen him ever.

00:31:05.000 It's almost as if the odds against him, the indictments and stuff, I think it, my analysis, it brought him back to a period of life similar to the 80s or 90s where he felt like the whole world was against him.

00:31:17.000 I actually think he operates better under these conditions.

00:31:20.000 He looked great.

00:31:22.000 He was very clear thinking.

00:31:24.000 He knows that he's in the driver's seat of the primary.

00:31:26.000 But the other takeaway, and we'll talk more about this, is he's not taking it for granted.

00:31:31.000 There is zero entitlement on Donald Trump's behalf for the primary.

00:31:38.000 He plans to work his tail off, do every rally, every roundtable, and he wants it.

00:31:44.000 I can see why the Democrats fear him.

00:31:46.000 Anyone that would spend five minutes with him, he's going to give it everything he has.

00:31:50.000 No one will outwork him from now till November 24th.

00:31:55.000 Is he going to be ultimately successful?

00:31:56.000 I sure hope so.

00:31:58.000 But I'll tell you, he wants to win badly.

00:32:02.000 It's not going to be a Mitt Romney campaign.

00:32:03.000 He's going to go for the kill.

00:32:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:10.000 Email us your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:13.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:32:15.000 And also, if you want a giveaway opportunity for a free book of the college scam, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 29, 2023

The End of Affirmative Action as We Know it?

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