cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36023983

by Nehemiah Frank and Ezekiel J. Walker
Sep 11, 2025

He also attacked civil rights leaders and the laws that reshaped the nation. “Clarence Thomas was a far better black role model to celebrate than Martin Luther King. Period. End of story. This guy is not worthy of a national holiday,” Kirk said.

At Turning Point USA’s America Fest in 2023, he went further: “MLK was awful. … We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

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      22 hours ago

      I’ve said that several times over the last 2 days, and it’s just not hitting

      But this guy called for political violence, he invited it

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          10 hours ago

          The Ku Klux Klan is absolutely a political group…

          When you do things in an effort to change society, that’s political. It doesn’t need to be coherent