cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36023983
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 love that he immediately started putting qualifiers on it, “you know, that’s not who I am” and then trying to blame DEI for making him racist lmao