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by Nehemiah Frank and Ezekiel J. Walker
Sep 11, 2025He 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.”
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
Charlie Kirk was political the same way the Ku Klux Klan is political.
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