In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the radical left is trying to paint him as a racist and a white supremacist, and it's only getting worse. The New York Times' own Opinions editor, Nicole Hannah-Jones, joins the fray.
00:07:46.180It's very obvious to us that you were not smart enough to be able to get in on your own.
00:07:52.440I couldn't make it on my own, so I needed to take opportunities from someone more deserving.
00:07:56.760You know, this is how arrogant Joy Reid and Ketanji Brown Jackson and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee are.
00:08:01.780They're so narcissistic, they think this is persuasive.
00:08:06.700Well, it turns out Charlie was making a point here, not about his beliefs about black women, but about the admission by these black women about their own capabilities.
00:08:15.580He was reacting to their disclosure that they could not get into their Ivy League schools based on their own brain power.
00:08:23.720That standards had to be lowered for them, which was done through affirmative action, a program that admits otherwise unqualified minority candidates to a school that would have rejected them.
00:08:39.860Ketanji Brown Jackson, at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, could not even answer the question, what is a woman, explaining I'm not a biologist.
00:08:48.680It was only last year that Sheila Jackson Lee was telling children the moon is a planet and that it's made of gases.
00:08:56.920Okay, not a planet, and it's made mostly of rock and metals.
00:09:00.580Charlie then says these women stole a white person's spot, which Jones does not appreciate.
00:09:09.700I mean, technically, it was either a white person's slot or an Asian person's, the two groups who lose spots to black and brown people advancing on affirmative action.
00:09:17.880This is not a figment of Charlie's imagination.
00:09:21.360There's a whole Supreme Court case about it, decided in 2023, brought by Asian and white students.
00:09:28.060The high court finally banned the practice as discriminatory.
00:09:31.540You'd think Jones, a college professor, might have heard about it.
00:09:35.040Next up, Nicole Hannah-Jones' objection to Charlie's statement that, quote, black America is poorer, more murderous, and more dangerous than when black people were living under Jim Crow.
00:09:49.540He did not mutter this quietly, drunk in some dark bar.
00:11:16.360Now, what if Dominic's daughter actually did see that exchange?
00:11:19.060Well, she might actually learn something about respectful debate and U.S. history.
00:11:23.740Because this was not a Charlie Kirk idea.
00:11:26.260This is a mainstream conservative take on the damage done to the black community by Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society social engineering programs.
00:11:35.220Black intellectuals from Thomas Sowell to Shelby Steele to once Harvard and now brown economist Glenn Lowry have made this same point for decades.
00:11:43.700But they don't teach Thomas Sowell in schools because he does not buy the oppression narratives of the New York Times.
00:11:51.420Let's start with the piece of Charlie's statement suggesting blacks were hurt economically by the Great Society programs.
00:11:57.860Jason Reilly, who happens to be black, author of the must-read book, Please Stop Helping Us, in which he argues government interventions have harmed black Americans, set the scene in the Wall Street Journal in 2021.
00:12:10.320Quote, between 1940 and 1960, the percentage of black families living in poverty declined by 40 points as blacks increased their years of education and migrated from poorer rural areas to more prosperous urban ones in the South and the North.
00:12:29.000Then came the Great Society programs, which kicked off decades in which, Reilly explains, black saw, quote, slower progress or outright retrogression.
00:13:22.680Here's Senator Tim Scott talking about it at a presidential debate a couple years ago.
00:13:26.660So often we think that all the issues, you talk about crime and education and health care, we always think that those issues go back to slavery.
00:13:39.920We survive poll taxes and literacy tests.
00:13:43.500We survive discrimination being woven into the laws of our country.
00:13:47.500What was hard to survive was Johnson's Great Society, where they decided to put money, where they decided to take the black father out of the household to get a check in the mail.
00:14:01.920And you can now measure that in unemployment, in crime, in devastation.
00:14:07.060If you want to restore hope, you've got to restore the family, restore capitalism, and put Americans back at work together as one American family.
00:14:16.800As for Charlie's assertion that blacks have become more murderous and dangerous since Jim Crow or the 1960s, that's true, too.
00:14:25.140And it's related to the absence of fathers.
00:14:27.900From the 1960s forward, crime by black Americans escalated dramatically.
00:14:32.280As Riley explains in the journal, quote, antisocial behavior is closely associated with family breakdown.
00:14:38.940So it's no surprise that more fatherless homes led to higher violent crime rates, pointing out that black male homicide rates had been falling in the 1940s and 1950s.
00:14:49.340But starting in the 1960s, this trend began to reverse itself and continued to worsen for the next three decades.
00:15:01.240Nicole Hannah-Jones then attacks Charlie for saying nowadays, quote, prowling blacks go around for fun to target white people.
00:15:08.980Not phrased in the most PC way, I'll grant you.
00:15:12.000But Charlie was actually quite brave in saying what we have all seen on our ex-feeds but are generally too polite to say.
00:15:18.740He was seeing videos like this one, showing a mob of black people beating the hell out of a white victim.
00:15:23.980These videos are commonplace online, but they don't make the news virtually ever.
00:15:30.540As scholar and author Heather McDonald put it in City Journal in 2023, quote,
00:15:35.160well-meaning Americans turn their eyes away from black crime in deference to racial etiquette.
00:15:40.920Such etiquette, however understandable, is costing lives.
00:15:44.800It will continue to do so until the next administration tells the truth about law enforcement and crime.
00:15:49.760Only then will the police be able to protect public safety without the false stigma of racism.
00:15:56.620Charlie's specific commentary here was part of his general reaction to a video that went viral a while back of young black men appearing to harass a crying white six months pregnant woman over her rented city bike in New York,
00:16:11.900which they claimed was theirs, but she produced a receipt.
00:16:15.440The media was quick to label the woman a racist for not giving up the bike and for having the nerve to cry during the exchange.
00:16:23.140We covered the story on this show and read an excerpt from The Griot in which they quoted one black woman saying,
00:16:30.200you put a white woman in a situation and a Karen will come out.
00:16:34.420Where was Nicole Hannah-Jones calling out that racism?
00:16:36.780The reaction against this particular white woman on the city bike was so hasty and unfair,
00:16:43.660even race-hustling lawyer Benjamin Crump had to delete a tweet piling on her once it was proven she was in the right.
00:16:51.760Charlie, in discussing the incident, was not commenting on all black people,
00:16:56.100but about those who seemed to take joy in harassing or hurting others, especially whites.
00:17:00.860It's a troubling dynamic that should be discussed and addressed.
00:17:05.660But at present, we cannot even get the media to report on the race of a criminal suspect if he happens to be black.
00:17:11.860In fact, in New York City, where that city bike incident happened, there was another crime right around this same time
00:17:18.200in which three teens on city bikes seriously assaulted two white women for fun out of nowhere.
00:17:24.580In the initial reporting of the incident, while the perpetrators were still at large
00:17:28.940and cops were asking for the public's help in finding them,
00:17:32.640the media would only call them teenagers.
00:18:48.760Read Thomas Sowell's own book on how black culture allows single motherhood to continue into a nanny state type practice.
00:18:55.580So we've covered the issue of fatherlessness and what it does to black families.
00:19:02.960As for whether blacks commit more crime than whites, that is also true on a per capita basis.
00:19:09.080Back to Heather McDonald, a Manhattan Institute fellow and graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and Stanford Law, who reports that, quote, the national rate of homicides committed by blacks is eight times that of whites and Hispanics combined.
00:19:21.660If you take Hispanics out of the equation, she writes, the black-white homicide differential is about 11 to one.
00:19:30.160Black males, she goes on, between the ages of 14 and 17, commit homicide at 10 times the rate of white and Hispanic teens combined.
00:19:39.800In New York City, McDonald reports blacks are 23% of the population, but commit 75% of all shootings, 70% of all robberies, 66% of all violent crime.
00:19:49.620Whites are 33% of the city's population, but commit less than 2% of all shootings, 4% of robberies, and 5% of violent crime.
00:20:00.420Chicago, Heather remarked when she was promoting her book, The War on Cops, is the same.
00:20:05.900Blacks and whites each make up just under one-third of the city's population.
00:20:10.400Blacks commit 80% of all homicides there and 80% of all shootings.
00:20:15.920Whites commit about 1% of Chicago's shootings and homicides.
00:20:21.980Here, again, Charlie was right, and it was courageous of him to offer these facts unapologetically and very publicly.
00:20:30.540Covering them up is exactly what allowed the Black Lives Matter lies about racist cops hunting unarmed black men to fester,
00:20:38.100which led directly to the loss of more black lives as police pulled back and minority communities suffered.
00:20:44.460Nicole Hannah-Jones and the Times should be ashamed of themselves for letting her cast this assertion as racist without telling their audience it's true.
00:20:55.020Before we leave this subject, let's do what Nicole Hannah-Jones would never do.
00:21:01.280Look at how Charlie actually engaged with black Americans.
00:21:05.100He had plenty of interactions with them.
00:21:07.660He was radically honest in a way too few ever are,
00:21:11.780because he felt that the truth was what God commanded and what respect for others required.
00:21:18.300And respect was what he showed the black Americans he met.
00:22:17.080And so what I want, and you seem, you know, very passionate about a lot of things, and you obviously have skills.
00:22:23.220For your life, I want you always to be judged on the content of your character, not the color of your skin.
00:22:28.340Where DEI says, no, we're actually going to care more about skin color than competency.
00:22:32.160And so what we want is an America based on merit, America based on how hard you work,
00:22:36.160an America based on what you bring to the table, not just what you look like.
00:22:41.640That's what Dominic's little girl is going to see on Charlie's YouTube feed.
00:22:45.960That's what was real and true and beautiful about Charlie Kirk.
00:22:51.760Jones's objections to Charlie go beyond race.
00:22:55.040She claims his version of Christianity, quote, condemned and disparaged people who are gay and transgender.
00:23:00.240Her evidence is that Charlie once posted, quote, the pride and trans movements have always been about grooming kids.
00:23:08.340Also that he once raised a passage in the Bible, she says, that men who lay with other men shall be stoned to death.
00:23:16.240First, LGBTQ activist groups have been disturbingly focused on getting their messaging in front of children, including young children.
00:23:26.820We regularly feature stories about inappropriate books and materials being introduced in schools with information about a young child's sexuality or fluid gender, about masturbation, about homosexual sex or sex with a much older person, all to very young kids.
00:23:45.960Books for elementary school kids suggesting girls can have penises, that children may have been born in the wrong body and that they might want to talk about it with their teachers, but not their parents.
00:23:56.820Where do the schools get these books often from recommended reading lists pushed on them by LGBTQ groups like the human rights campaign, GLAAD or GLSEN, which describes its mission as, quote, championing LGBTQ issues in K through 12 education.
00:24:14.680Some of these books published in partnership with GLAAD were at the center of a Supreme Court case called Mahmoud versus Taylor, which the high court decided just last term.
00:24:25.560They concluded that these materials are being taught to elementary age children in a way that seeks to, these are the Supreme Court's words, quote, normalize these behaviors, posing, quote, a very real threat of undermining the parents' role.
00:24:42.740LGBTQ groups opposed parental rights in that case.
00:24:50.660As for Jones's suggestion that Charlie was somehow in favor of stoning gays to death, that's been debunked as a lie, even by Snopes and many, many others, to the point where even the rabidly left-wing Stephen King has now apologized repeatedly for making this same baseless accusation.
00:25:11.360Guess the New York Times didn't get the memo.
00:25:14.120Finally, on the trans issue, Jones attacks Charlie for referring to a trans athlete, she writes, as, quote, an abomination, and for calling a trans person, quote, a throbbing middle finger to God.
00:25:29.580The one issue, I think, that is so against our senses, so against the natural law, and dare I say, a throbbing middle finger to God is the transgender thing happening in America right now.
00:25:44.280We are in a church, and so it's important to remember, Deuteronomy 22, 5, a woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak.
00:25:54.520For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
00:26:07.840Charlie was talking about Leah Thomas, formerly William, who swam with the UPenn's men's team one season and with the women's the next, going from the mid-500s in rank to number one in the United States.
00:26:22.480Six-foot-two Leah Thomas, who paraded around the women's locker room, a fully intact male, wearing a tight little women's bathing suit, making the female swimmers visibly uncomfortable.
00:26:35.460Not to mention the times he was naked parading through.
00:26:38.380Listen to Riley Gaines, who competed against Thomas at the NCAA championships, describe the scene.
00:26:44.700The first time that we became aware we would be undressing next to this six-foot-four, 22-year-old man, fully intact, fully exposing himself, was when we were inches away from said man.
00:26:57.280These suits that you put on, I mean, they're skin-tight, they're paper-thin.
00:27:01.120It takes about 15, 20 minutes, your racing suit, to really poke and prod yourself into these suits, 20 minutes of which you're fully exposed.
00:27:09.200You have your back turned, again, putting on your suit, and all of a sudden, you hear a man's voice in that locker room.
00:27:17.580You turn around, you look up, because he's so tall, and there's a six-foot-four man undressing, taking off his women's swimsuit and putting on his street clothes.
00:27:31.840It was innate, inherent for every girl in that changing space to, to cover themselves, whether it was with their hand, or their clothes, or their towels, and to get out as quickly as they could.
00:27:44.180But I, I think the best way to describe how he felt was, I mean, it was an utter violation.
00:27:50.800It felt like betrayal, and really it was traumatic.
00:27:53.480Psh, that's Leah, formerly Will Thomas.
00:27:59.980That's what he put her and other girls through.
00:28:02.820Leah Thomas, who bragged about stealing women's medals and stood by as his university, University of Pennsylvania, told the women who complained on the swim team that they needed to get therapy if they didn't like it.
00:28:15.340Leah Thomas, whose social media posts, as unearthed by the Daily Wire, show cartoon figures of a girl in a dress with an erect penis, of a girl with breasts and an erect penis hugging another figure with an erection.
00:28:29.780That show Leah pushing for money for a trans surgery on what appears to be Leah's boyfriend, a male posing as a female seeking a breast augmentation.
00:28:39.780And which also show Leah depicted as a demonic, complete with devil horns, dominatrix.
00:28:48.060What about this exactly is not an abomination to God?
00:28:53.100Once again, though, while Leah Thomas had earned Charlie's well-founded scorn, Charlie's treatment of trans and gay people he interacted with was uniformly kind.
00:29:44.960So I'm going to have an opinion that very few people will ever tell you, which is I want you to be very cautious putting drugs into your system in the pursuit of changing your body.
00:29:55.720I instead encourage you to work on what's going on in your brain first.
00:30:00.700I think what you need first and foremost is just a diagnosis, just someone that is going to listen to what you've gone through, listen to what else is going on.
00:30:09.260My prayer for you, I actually want to see you be comfortable in how you were born.
00:30:13.840I think that is something that you can achieve.
00:30:15.720I think that with the right team and the right people, you don't have to wage war on your body.
00:31:54.140But if you say there's something inherently wrong with communicating or associating just because they make different personal decisions than you,
00:32:01.920then you, sir, are not a conservative.
00:32:05.000You won't see any of this mentioned in the New York Times.
00:32:13.020Nicole Hannah-Jones' goal was not honesty.
00:32:15.760It was to make you hate Charlie and render toxic the Turning Point brand.
00:32:20.680Jones offers a litany of snippets from Charlie's conversations, grabbing without context a random sample of his thoughts.
00:32:27.920Putting aside how unfair this is, to anyone who speaks on the radio for two or three hours a day in free form, loose, think-out-loud discussions,
00:32:35.620the intentionality of Jones' deception is apparent over and over again.
00:32:40.180Two things she attacks him for that actually do have legs, but in which Charlie was expressing legitimate concerns that we should consider are as follows.
00:32:51.200One was to suggest that Charlie believed in the great replacement theory, which she says argues that white Americans are being systematically replaced by multiculturalism and by black and brown immigrants.
00:33:04.360Now, look, here's what Charlie actually said.
00:33:08.140The southern border is, of course, the great replacement.
00:33:11.720They're trying to replace us demographically.
00:33:13.820They're trying to make the country less white.
00:33:35.060In Soviet Russia, Kulak was a label the Soviets gave to their designated class enemies.
00:33:40.060If you were a small business owner or a successful peasant or really any kind of ordinary person who criticized or opposed the Soviet regime,
00:36:03.800Lots of promotion on these left-wing channels.
00:36:07.100While the left was attacking rural whites as the problem, Joe Biden was letting in some 10 to 20 million illegals from predominantly black and brown countries,
00:36:17.600effectively diluting the votes of those rageful white rural voters.
00:36:22.660Listen to this Democrat from New York say the quiet part out loud.
00:36:25.440Brooklyn, New York, we have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants.
00:36:33.600And, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the inn being closed, no room in the inn,
00:36:43.060I'm saying, you know, I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes.
00:36:48.320And those members could clearly fit here.
00:36:52.240Another bone Ms. Jones has to pick with Charlie has to do with his take on Islam,
00:36:57.700his opinion that it is, quote, not compatible with Western civilization.
00:37:01.400Again, a mainstream belief about what former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
00:37:06.460who had her genitals mutilated in the name of Islam,
00:37:10.040calls activist Muslims here in America with a subversion agenda.
00:37:15.260Da'wah means literally to call or to invite non-Muslims to Islam,
00:37:22.880to get existing Muslims and turn them from just being people who identify as Muslim and worship Allah
00:37:32.000and turn them into activists, change institutions, convert institutions to become Islamic and apply Sharia law.
00:37:40.560In short, it is a very ambitious project to bring the world under Muslim dominion.
00:37:50.900It is happening under the United States.
00:37:52.780And one willing alliance has been with the far left.
00:37:57.000And so if you want to have a young generation programmed on the one hand with woke ideas
00:38:04.000and on the other hand with Islamist ideas and their fusion,
00:38:08.080and that becomes your elite for the future,
00:38:11.200an elite that is going to be in charge of our universities, our schools, our corporations.
00:38:19.640Ayaan, in that interview, as in many others,
00:38:22.900speaks to what's happening in American cities already, like Dearborn, Michigan.
00:38:27.300Now dominated by Muslims who seek not to live and let live,
00:38:31.220working side by side with their fellow Americans, but to Islamicize America.