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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because
of affirmative action. Yeah, we know you do not have
the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.
You had to go steal a white person slot to
go be taken somewhat seriously.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, many pastors across the nation
rushed not just to grieve but to glorify, painting him
as a martyr of free speech and simply having a
difference of opinion without naming the harm that he did.
And when they spoke, they did not speak from the
lens of the wounded, the people who were attacked by
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his words, his word and the policies he advocated for.
But they did so from the seat of power, some
out of ignorance, simply not knowing what Charlie Kirk actually
stood in.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
No, Black America really needs to get its act together
and stop sleeping around all the time, and it needs
to actually have the.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Enough Why would you, because that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What percentage of young blacks have both a mom and
a dad raising them. Of course we panned the blacks
they're in every TV commercial.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But other pastors did so from complicity in agreement with
the very policies, politics, and prayers that put so many
people in peril.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to
have a cost of unfortunately some gun debts every single
year so that we can have the Second Amendment to
protect our other God given rights.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That is a prudent deal.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
This is not a rebuttal to their grief, but it
is a refusal to allow flattering eulogies to become erasure
and to enshrine a mindset and a belief system that
is directly detrimental to millions of people across this country.
Because the truth is this, just because someone cries Lord
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Lord does not mean they are doing the work of the.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Lord gratitude because you're right, you are not in Africa,
and you should be thankful you're not in Africa. Certain
skin colored now gets their own summertime celebration. It has
now become a racial complaining day BLM. And remember what
BLM stands for, burn, loot and murder.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It brings me no joy to say what nonetheless must
be said about the life, the words, the work, and
the legacy of Charlie Kirk. I am so sorry, Charlie
Kirk for what happened to you. It is every good
father's worst nightmare to be taken from this world before
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he has the chainants to see his children grow up,
and for that, I am genuinely sorry for you and
for your children. I'm also sorry for our democracy, which
was already under sustained and coordinated assault, and now, because
of the actions of a deranged and angry white man
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from Utah, raised notably by a conservative family, our democracy
edges ever closer to its final demise.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful
Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass
murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible
for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today,
and it must stop right now. My administration will find
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each and every one of those who contributed to this
atrocity and to other political violence.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We begin with a very simple and direct baseline against
which we compare Charlie Kirk's words and his work.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
What would Jesus do.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The Way of Christ is liberation for the oppressed, welcome
for the stranger, and healing for the wounded, dignity for
those the world counts out. And every public project, prayer,
or proclamation that borrows the name of Jesus must be
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compared to that baseline.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I want to watch that execution. That'll make my day better.
I want to see him on a public block and
get him be publicly executed. And I think that would
be justice. You think children should have? You should see it.
What is the age? What age should you start to
see public execution?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Sixteen? I think I think you could do it earlier.
I think you maybe a age twelve.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Woe.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now, to make sense of this, we use a seven
part framework to trace the spiritual shape of his influence. First,
is the root, the founding grievance or desire. Charlie Kirk's
root was not love for justice, but the loss of
dominance and supremacy masked as moral urgency.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now the southern border is, of course the great replacement.
They're trying to replace us demographically. They're trying to make
the country less white, They're trying to make the country
more like the Third World the dumping ground of the
planet is the United States southern border, and the secret
is out.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Number two invocation, the language of power or holiness called upon.
Charlie Kirk wrapped his ideology in Christ's name. His events
were considered to be church services invoking the divine to
bless political domination.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They're not yet believers. It's very simple. You're gonna have
a court date. We all die, and you're all going
to meet the supreme judge of the universe. Justice is
getting what you deserve, which is going to a not
so good place. It's not a profiling when it comes
to that. Blacks are far more likely to commit crimes
than any other group. See a black pilot, You wonder, boy,
is that person there because they earned it or because
they were placed?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Number three his words, through podcast, speeches and memes, he
mass produced language that dehumanize black people, queer people, immigrants,
and believers of other faiths.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Let's just take a step back here. Imagine from the
thirty five thousand foot view, if you are trying to
continually have Muhammedism take over the West, wouldn't they love
to have both London and New York the two prior
Anglo centers of financial markets and cultural influence. Now under
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Muhammadan rule. We've been warning about the rise of Islam
on the show, too great amount of backlash.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
We don't care. That's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We said that Islam is not compatible Western civilization. Let
me say it again, Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Number four Community. Charlie Kirk helped raise a new generation
and a community of young white conservatives shaped by grievance
who in him found permission to mock, exclude, and suppress others,
calling it free speech. Number five power Charlie Kirk's ideas
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shaped school boards, voter suppression bills, attacks on diversity, and
the demonization of people who were not like him.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
One is like a lush tropical resort, and the other
is a complete wasteland filled with catibal gangs. And it
is it's important to note that Haiti is legitimately infested
with demonic voodoo. You talk about this blake, okay, everybody.
A lot of people are gonna be saying Happy Juneteenth.
It should not be a federal holiday. And I'm on
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my way to work.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Number six shepherds. These are the pastors the pundits and
the parents who blessed his project, calling it a revival,
while ignoring those who were targeted by his actions, his policies,
and his words.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Here's what's upsetting to me, Heather, is if I'm dealing
with somebody in customer service who's a moronic black woman,
I don't I wonder is she there because of her
excellence or is she there? Because affirmative action almost creates
thought patterns that are not necessarily wholesome. It creates resentment,
doesn't it, Heather, This is not a way to design society.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah, we have to stop being scared by the race hustle.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We have to stop yes, all the races, and finally legacy,
what's left behind and what comes next. Charlie Kirk's assassination,
tragic though it was, has been weaponized by his movement
to justify a more explicit and violent moral panic.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Mister President, I implore you call for a civil war.
Call for a civil war, and led us do our thing.
Let us go door to door, street by street and
clean this country.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
There's a tax being citizen of this country who has
spent years being attacked by the vile left. We want
true justice. So give us the green light or handle
it yourself with the military, each and every one of them,
all of them. We want public executions because you see,
it hasn't been freedom for all in this country. Over
the last five plus years, this country has been ran
through by the left. We have been forced into silence
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or threats of our lives being taken from.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Us just because the one prize, Lord, Lord does not
much doing the.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Word damage of the Lord.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I can't stand the word empathy. Actually, I think empathy
is a made up new age term that does a
lot of damage.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But let me give you two different prayers for your consideration.
The first go something like this, God bless us to
live in peace and for all humans to be free
and to live with dignity. Versus, God bless us with
the power to rule and to dominate and free us
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from those people. Now, most will never say that second
prayer out loud, but they will reveal it in their policies,
their politics, and their pulpits. And such was the case
with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We note in our piece that Kirk describes King as
quote a bad guy. It's true and Kirk's self described
very very radical view that the country made a mistake
when it passed the Civil Rights Act. Also true, As
we note in the piece, Kirk has previously described Kirk
as a hero and a civil rights icon. It's true,
I used to be wrong. What inspired Kirk to shift
his view on MLK? Why does Kirk think that MLK
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is a bad guy? When Kirk says that MLK says
quote one good thing he didn't believe, what does he
mean by that? Why does Kirk believe passing the Civil
Rights Act was a mistake? Now again, apparently they don't
listen to the show, because we do that at least
once a week, right, once a week we talked about
why the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Don't talk to us about celebrating the death of people
when you have been celebrating the death of Palestinians, laughing
about it, mocking it.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
You have no moral high ground. Maga.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Have you thought about the fact that this week in Utah,
a white Christian got healed by a white Christian and
then the next day HBCUs were under threat.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
How'd we get in it?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was the voice of doctor Freddie Haynes, the third
pastor of Friendship West in Houston, Texas. We're gonna get
into all of what he said. But isn't it funny?
Isn't it funny that when white owned white violence occurs,
white people turn their rage towards black people. We didn't
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have anything to do with that person killing Charlie Kirk,
and yet here we are the recipients of that backlash,
of their desire for revenge and reciprocity. And isn't that
just like America? Now this clip from doctor Haynes is
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a little bit long, It's like five minutes long, So
if you don't mind, I'm going to play a portion
and respond to what he says. Because what he says
is so rich that we have to dig deep into it.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Listen in pology.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Together because the sad thing is we live in a
nation where twisted, toxic theology is poisoning the politics of
this nation. Have you thought about the fact that this
week in Utah, a white Christian got killed by a
white Christian and then the next day HBCUs were under threat.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Now how did we get in it?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I mean that, Oh that's called white on white crime.
You came the wrong Sunday if you thought you, I'm sorry,
I see y'all. Y'all are real sophisticated, and you.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Look really good. I hope they warned.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
You about me, Okay, because on this Sunday we're gonna
keep it one hundred. On this Sunday we go tell
the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And so
here they are. Here, they are in Utah. It's more
of us in church than in Utah.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
We ain't got nothing to do but what they just did.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Seriously, folks, we have black folks in particular, and I
will extend that even further. Tyler Robinson is responsible for
Tyler Robinson. And if there are any conspirators, co conspirators,
they are the ones that are responsible for it. Republicans
are trying to move this into collective punishment for something
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an individual has done. Now, I want you to think
about this logically, both as it applies to the black
community as well as to the broader progressive, leftist, liberal democrat,
anybody who's not maga essentially even never trumpers. If you
slow down and think about what they're trying to do.
They are trying to ensure that any single thing done
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by anybody against any of them in this country of
three hundred and thirty million people. Everybody who is not
them has to pay the price. Can I say that again? MAGA,
Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, JD. Vance and all the rest
of them are trying to ensure that anything done by
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anybody in this country of three hundred and thirty million
people against MAGA will trigger collective punishment, which is a
war crime in terms of war, but it is also
immoral and illogical. But it is absolutely what they want
to do. They want to be able to penalize and
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punish people who had nothing to do with it, simply
because well, that's what they want to do anyway. They're
not just so angry about the murder of Charlie Kirk.
They want to harm us anyway. They won't to constrict
our rights, our freedoms, our ability to vote, our ability
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to be free, and even some are calling for our
lives to be taken, calling for public executions.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
We took the same oath to defend our country against
all enemies, foreign and domestic. These leftists are our enemies.
Give or take three years left. If you call for
a civil war, the conservative veterans in this country will
take our country back from the evil left. We use
words they use bullets. Mister President, I implore you call for
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a civil war, call for a civil war, and let
us do our thing. Let us go door to door,
street by street and clean this country murder.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
So here's my message to the President of the United States.
I'm not going to say that I speak for everybody
else or anybody else. As a tax paying citizen of
this kind who has spent years being attacked by the
vile left, we want true justice. So give us the
green light or handle it yourself with the military, each
and every one of them, all of them. We want
public executions because you see, it hasn't been freedom for
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all in this country over the last five plus years.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
They want to harm us anyway. They want to constrict
our rights, our freedoms, our ability to vote, our ability
to be free, and even some are calling for our
lives to be taken, calling for public executions. Let's listen
to more from doctor Freddie Haynes third.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
A white Christian gets killed, murder, not assassinated. We're gonna
tell the whole truth today. Martin King got assassinated, Malcolm
X got assassinated. Let Dirrects got assassinated.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Don't compare our Kirk to King. I ain't no such comparison.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Now, No, there is no comparison of Charlie Kirk to
doctor King, that's for sure. In fact, Charlie Kirk despised
Doctor King, and later in his life he made it
his life's purpose to dethrone Doctor King from his hollowed
position in the moral pantheon, not only of the United
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States of America, but across the globe.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We note in our piece that Kirk describes King as
quote a bad guy. It's true. And Kirk's self described
very very radical view that the country made a mistake
when it passed the Civil Rights Act also true. As
we note in the piece, Kirk has previously described Kirk
as a hero and a civil rights icon. It's true,
I used to be wrong. What inspired Kirk to shift
his view on MLK? Why does Kirk think that MLK
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is a bad guy? When Kirk says that MLK says
quote one good thing, he didn't believe, what does he
mean by that? Why does Kirk believe passing the Civil
Rights Act was a mistake?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Now?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Again, apparently they don't listen to the show, because we
do that at least once a week. Once a week,
we talk about why the Civil Rights Actor was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And the moral pantheon not only of the United States
of America, but across the globe. That is the position
that doctor King's assassination placed him, not only his assassination.
Let me correct myself, doctor King's life's work. Doctor King
received the Nobel Peace Prize during his lifetime because he
worked for peace. Charlie Kirk worked to divide this nation
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along the lines of them versus us powerful versus powerless.
And so there is no comparison between Charlie Kirk and
doctor King, that is for sure. But if you would
allow me to disagree with my esteemed colleague in the faith,
doctor Freddie Haynes. Third, and with many of you who
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have already left comments who don't like that we call
it an assassination. But by the definition the glossary term
of assassination, it is the killing, the sudden killing or
planned killing of a political figure for political reasons. That's
an assassination. And I understand that a lot of people
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don't want to apply that to it because the word
in the term itself assassination gives a veneer of legitimacy
or validation or modern number, but that's not necessarily required.
The word itself is a structural word. It captures an act,
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a political act of violence. It does not itself. See
what it is is We're so used to the good
people in our country and on our planet being assassinated.
I think that's what it is. Ultimately, we are so
used to the quote unquote good people being assassinated that
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we have own I only ever associated it with the
deaths of actually good people fighting for good causes. That
was not Charlie Kirk. And that's why so many people
do not want to apply that word to Charlie Kirk.
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But it was an assassination, by the definitional sense of
the word, a politically targeted killing of a public figure.
But unlike the assassinations of Gandhi or doctor King or
Malcolm X, it does not canonize Charlie Kirk's cause with
modernom It doesn't sanctify him, or it does not give
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him historical legitimacy. It just simply marks the violence of
the act, and it does not retroactively sanctify his life.
As the preacher said, how you die does not redeem
how you live.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Let me hasten to say, let me hasten to say
I'm anti political violence.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Kirk should still be alive.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
I don't agree with the time, with anything Kirk said.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
What Kirk said was dangerous, What Kirk said was racist,
rooted in white supremacy, nasty and hate feels.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
But he still should be alive.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
He still should be playing with this kids, He should
still should be experiencing the love with this wife. He
still should be experiencing life as he saw it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I don't want.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Anybody, please hear me, well, anybody to be victimized by
political violence.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, I'm gonna keep it abuve.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, that part, and we must be able to hold
that dichotomy again. I'm not going to moralize or grandstand
or lecture people who have been celebrating I said in
my last video, and I mean it. Your moraleity is
your choice. As for me and my house, we would
never celebrate the assassination or the murder of anyone, not
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just out of a sense of morality. The thing I
will say again that I said in the last video,
as a matter of strategy, when you're dealing with people
who are rapidly desirous of harm, It's like October seventh,
one of my biggest issues was that whoever planned October
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seventh from the Hamas equation literally handed into the hands
of the most evil regime on the face of the planet,
the moral high ground that they needed to kill almost
seven hundred thousand people as of the last count. And
when you consider how Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and JD.
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Vance have made it clear. We'll play some of their clips.
I'll do another video. It'll be in this episode. They've
made it clear and along with most of MAGA on
social media, they have made it clear that they want
to punish everybody. Now we understand that they are going
to try to do that anyway, but I would simply
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advise everyone on our side of the equation, it's too late. Now,
it's already done. The die is cast, but never put
into the hands of your rivals the moral high ground,
either through political violence or through the celebration of political violence.
We can do both. We can simultaneously say Charlie Kirk
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should still be alive, abhor the violence. But Charlie Kirk
was not a good man.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Because one of the things it gets me, and we
got some politicians in here.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna come for you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
If you ever say this, if you ever say America
we better than this, lyon, cryon, we ain't better than this.
America was born in political violence. America committed political.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Violence during the slave trade.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
America committed political violence when black bodies hung as strange
fruit in on Southern shrees. America committed political violence against
the Irish, against the Italians before they became white. American
aman created political violence when America passed Jim and Jane
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Crow Laws. What do you think political violence?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Was?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Political violence when they bombed and massacred Black Wall Street,
when they massacred Rosewood, when they massacred whites and blacks
in Wilmington, North Carolina. But what do you think political violence? Is?
Martin being killed? That's political violence. John Kennedy being killed
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political violence, Robert Kennedy being killed political violence. And you
gonna say we better than this. No, you can't fix what.
You won't face until you look in the mirrors and say,
this is a violent country that has done violence to
too many people. We will never get our act together.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's time to repent.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Because if my people called by my name, umbo themselves
and pray, turn from their wicked ways, Nina, will I
hear from heaven forgive their sinner and heal the land.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You preaching, come out. We're better than this.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
No, we were better than this.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
We ain't better than this.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
But to get better you got to acknowledge what's wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
God Almighty. I'm going to get to what doctor Haynes
said in a minute. But Second Chronicles is what he
was quoting. If my people, this is God speaking through
the book of Second Chronicles, if my people, who are
called by my name, would humble themselves in pray, not atheists,
not agnostics, not.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Believers of other faiths.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
But if God's people, the Christians and everyone who believes
in God, who are called by God's Okay, I'm sorry,
I'll preach on Sunday. Let me get to this political
violence thing, because he's absolutely right. The United States of
America was born in violence, and the record of its birth,
the birthing of this nation is written not in myth,
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but in blood, in the lives, in the lives that
were taken and stolen, in the lives that were genocided,
in the lives that were enslaved. This nation was born
in political violence, and political violence has been the case
ever since so no where not better than this. To
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say that we are better than this is to deny
that lynching trees once carried and bore what we call
strange fruit, and that those roots still run underneath the
streets of every city in this country. Assassinations of prophets,
Doctor King Malcolm X, and Presidents John F. Kennedy and
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his brother Robert Kennedy, not Junior, That man's a mess.
His daddy reminding us that this is not the exception.
But this is the rule. This is the recurring refrain,
This is the hook, This is the course on repeat
in this nation's hymn of bloodshed, every single massacre that
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doctor Haynes just mentioned. America wants to forget Tulsa. America
wants to forget Rosewood. America wants to forget Wilmington. But
it repeats. It echoes the exact pattern of denial, because
forget is the very mechanisms by which white supremacy protects
its fragile ego and sense of false innocence. White supremacy
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in this country must pretend as if it is completely innocent.
Everyone has to make Charlie Kirk completely innocent. He never
did anything wrong. He was a perfect saint. He was
a perfect Christian. Meanwhile, the bile, the bigotry that was
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coming out of his mouth, you have to one hundred
percent ignore the people who were hurt the most by
Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
And this is what America does. This is what supremacy does.
This is what Zionism does. They can't even see the
world through the lens of the eyes of a child
in Gaza. They're don't get it wrong, Neither could America.
There's been plenty of children killed by the United States
of America. Ask to Mirror Rice, ask Emmit Till. But
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over in Israel, they can't even see the world through
the eyes of a child.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
They would look at the emaciated bodies of children and
not even care.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Not only do they not care, but they laugh.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Don't talk to us about celebrating the death of people
when you have been celebrating the death of Palestinians, laughing
about it, mocking it.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You have no moral high ground. Maga supremacists.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
America cannot allow itself to see through the eyes of
those who they seek to dominate, because if they ever did,
it would collapse their myth, their belief, the stories that
they tell themselves that they are good, and they would
have to look at the very long historical record of
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the political violence that this nation has wielded against everybody
that's not a white, conservative rich. Then there's a lot
of people who don't realize they've been oppressed, a lot
of white folks who don't realize that they have been
oppressed by this system because even though they're so poor
they can't even get their teeth fixed, But so long
as they are white, and so long now that they
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are maga, they don't realize that they are oppressed. But
that's their problem, not ours. The truth of the matter
is is that this nation was born in political violence.
The truth of the matter is is that this country
has long ignored the ramifications of their actions because if
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they ever allowed empathy. This is why Charlie Kirk doesn't
believe didn't believe in empathy, because if you ever allow
empathy into your heart, what is empathy to see the
world through the eyes of someone else, And if you
ever allow yourself to see the world through the eyes
of someone else, especially someone that you have been hurting,
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and something triggers on the inside of you, whether it
be guilt, whether it be acknowledgment, whether it be just
simply admitting that you did something wrong. If empathy ever
comes in, then the entire kingdom of evil and bigotry
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and cruelty begins to crumble. And so they need a
hermetically sealed bubble from empathy so that they can continue
to carry out their historic and consistent, encyclical political violence
that they are now gearing up again to commit against
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everybody that's not maga. I need you to hit that
chair that like in that subscribe button. We are warming up.
We are gearing up, and we're getting ready to do
exactly what the Lord has called us to do, both
in politics as well as in the pulpit. And if
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you stay with me long enough, we're gonna show you
what we're gonna do in technology.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
And how you.
Speaker 11 (33:11):
Die does not redeem how you lived.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I was wondering which preacher would tell the truth about
Charlie Kirk and their sermon yesterday. Here is one that
you absolutely have to hear and will discuss on the
other side.
Speaker 11 (33:25):
Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
But I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
Seeing the flags of the United States of America at
half staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a
man who was an unapologetic.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Racist and spent all of his life.
Speaker 11 (33:51):
Sowing sees of division and hate into this land. And
hearing people with selective rage who were mad about Charlie
Kirk but didn't give a damn about Melissa Hortman and
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her husband when they were.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Shot down in their home. Tell me how to.
Speaker 11 (34:18):
Have compassion for the death of a man who had
no respect for my own life. I am sorry, but
there's nowhere in Bible where we are taught.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
To honor evil.
Speaker 11 (34:38):
And how you die does not redeem how you lived.
You do not become a hero in your death when
you were a weapon of the enemy in your life.
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I I can abhor the violence that took.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you
chose to live.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I overwhelmed. These are the facts, folks. We are not
required to celebrate someone just because of how they died.
Charlie Kirk was an unapologetic bigot. He made a fortune
and his entire reputation off of being a bigot, but
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not just a regular bigot, a truly sophisticated one, one
who was able to manipulate data and leave out context,
remove nuance, just so that he can push a specific
narrative about black people in particular. But he didn't stop
with black people. He did it to women, he did
it to Muslims, he did it to the LGBTQIA community.
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Everything that he did, he used the same technique, which
was to remove context, to remove new ones, to cherry
pick data so that he can give an intellectual veneer
for his racism and for his bigotry. And that's one
of the greatest gifts that he could have possibly left
to MAGA, that he could have left to white supremacy
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to wrap all of centuries of hatred and bigotry in
the veneer of intellectualism. Charlie Kirk was a smart dude,
but he was a smart bigot and this is the
role that he facilitated better than anyone else, and this
is why he was so popular. I absolutely loved the
line that this pastor spoke. And by the way, I'm
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not sharing the pastor's name or the name of his
church because I'm quite sure that he is receiving death
threats already, but I really appreciate what this pastor said.
We do not celebrate evil. We do not celebrate bigotry.
No matter how an individual dies, it does not absolve
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them from the evil of their life. I'm certain Charlie
Kirk was a good father. I'm certain Charlie Kirk was
a good husband. But I'm also certain that Charlie Kirk
was not a good man because he was executing a
very evil agenda. We have to hold the line here.
We have to simultaneously be able to recognize that number one,
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Charlie Kirk should not have been killed. Number Two, we
must condemn violence because we cannot perform violence like they can.
They are the masters of violence, and that is not
a game that we want to get into. This is
not a statement of fear. Nobody is afraid. Everybody's got guns,
everybody has bravado. But we're dealing with people who have
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mastered the art of violence, the science of violence, and
they lust after it, they crave it, and violence begets violence. Now,
don't get me wrong. As a matter of self defense,
I believe every single American, especially Black Americans, should be
prepared to defend themselves with their Second Amendment rights. That's
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not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the type
of violence that killed Charlie Kirk. We do not engage
in that type of violence. And to everyone who's celebrating,
everyone who's celebrating, I'm not going to lecture you in
terms of morality, but I will say something in terms
of strategy. Never give the moral high ground to people
who are already seeking to hurt you, seeking to destroy you.
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You give them the veneer and the justification to say, Look,
I told you those people were bad over here. Look
I told you those black people were no good. Look
I told you those leftists were no good. As a
matter of morality, for me and my house, we would
not ever celebrate the assassination of anyone. But I'm not
lecturing anybody about that. If that's what you do, that's
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between you and your set of values. But as far
as strategy goes, celebrating the day death of Charlie Kirk
puts ammunition into the hands of people who already wanted
to harm us. I'll say it just like I saw
someone else say it online. I don't celebrate Charlie Kirk's death,
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but I will not participate in his morning.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
And how you die does not redeem how you lived.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Karin Tia was the last black woman opinion columnist at
the Washington Post, and she just posted on her substack
that she was fired. She was fired for quoting Charlie
Kirk's own words. I repeat, she was fired for quoting
Charlie Kirk's own words. That should tell you everything that
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you need to know, not only about who Charlie Kirk was,
but the world that we live in right now today.
Quoting Charlie Kirk, she posted the following on Blue side
quote Black women do not have the brain processing power
to be taken seriously. You have to go and still
a white person slot. That's Charlie Kirk in his own words.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I'm only here because of affirmative action. We know you
do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be
taken really seriously, you had to go steal a white
person slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Karen quoted him, and for that the Post said she
was unacceptable and guilty of quote gross misconduct and somehow
quote endangering the safety of colleagues. Then they fired her
without even so much as a conversation. But now let's
zoom out a little bit further so that you can
see that this didn't happen in a vacuum. The Washington
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Post is in the middle of a top down reset.
They have a new publisher, Will Lewis, new opinions editor
Adam O'Neil, and they have a new mandate, less racial
reckoning and more quote unquote free markets and personal liberty.
That is coded language for conservatism. The staff was told
that the changes would be ambitious, and if you weren't
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on board, that you probably should take a buyout. Karen
didn't take the buyout, and when her post drew heat,
leadership had the excuse they needed to finally get rid
of her. This is the playbook across US media right now.
In fact, it's not just media, it is all across
business and industry. Billionaires buying legacy papers, outlets are leaning
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further to the right underneath the banner of balance. Take
a look at the Baltimore Sun, they were just sold
to Sinclair Media. Take a look at Paramount and CBS.
It's the same pattern. Free speech for them, but not
for us. But you need to see just how transparent
this moment is. There's no ambiguity here, folks. They are
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absolutely targeting everyone that is black and everyone that is
not a conservative. Here's what the Washington Post told Karen,
as she reported in her own substack. They said that
her posts were unacceptable. But in the context of Charlie Kirk,
she did own two things. Number One, she quoted him directly,
and everything else that she said was a condemnation of
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gun violence in this country. So when they said that
her posts were unacceptable, what she actually said was, quote,
political violence has no place in this country, but we
will do nothing to curb the guns used to carry
it out. America is sick and there is no cure
in sight. Imagine calling this unacceptable when the reality is
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every word that she said is true. Charlie Kirk died
because of gun violence. She did not say anything about
Charlie Kirk except quoting his own words. But this statement
is absolutely true. The next thing they charged her with
was saying that she was guilty of gross misconduct. Here's
what she actually said. She quoted Charlie Kirk's racist remarks
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and then she condemned violence. She didn't even condemn his words.
She only quoted his words. What she condemned was violence
and named hypocrisy. Gross misconduct in journalism means plagiarism or
fabrication or harassment, not quoting a public figure, not saying
that America worships guns and worships violence. Then they said
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that she was endangering her colleagues houseway, what she actually
said was quote part of what keeps America so violent
is the insistence on absolution for white men who espouse
hatred and violence. This is absolutely true. The man who
killed Charlie Kirk was a white man, and if namy
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white male violence endangers colleagues, then any journalist covering extremism
is at risk of being fired. This is not only illogical,
but it empowers the very people that she is warning against.
It does not protect the staff to fire her over
her words condemning violence and identifying how America absolves white
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men of their violence. They said that it was done
in poor taste. What part is done in poor taste
using Charlie Kirk's own words? Is that poor taste? Because
I agree Charlie Kirk's words were always in poor taste,
always in poor form, and always highly bigoted. But that's
his words, not hers. What part was in poor taste?
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Washington Post? The fact that she refused to perform over
the top grief for someone who has demeaned black women.
Is that what you wanted her to do, to say,
we're so sad about Charlie Kirk, even though he spent
the entirety of his career. In fact, his career was
built on the backs of black women and how he
demeaned them. Tone policing is not journalistic integrity, its management
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branding dissent as misconduct. And this is the nature of
the world in which we currently live. And the hypocrisy,
my friends, is glaring. When Barry Wise quit The New
York Times claiming she was silenced, she landed book deals,
substack riches, her own media startup, and now she's being
considered to head up CBS. Institutions bent over backward to
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frame her as a free speech martyr. But Karen Atiya,
she condemned violence, she quoted Charlie Kirk's own words, and
then she was fired. No golden parachute, no institutional protection,
no promotion, and I guarantee you that we will not
get any glowing profiles about her bravery at these mainstream institutions.
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The difference. Barry Weiss fits the acceptable profile. Karen Atiya
is a black woman and the last one left in
the Washington Post opinion section, and she was pushed out
in the middle of a national trend black women losing
their jobs at a staggering rate, more than three hundred
thousand just since Donald Trump returned into office. That is
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not a coincidence. That is intentional, and that is structural.
Here's what the Washington Post is essentially telling Karen that
she's fired because she refused to perform care for white
male victims. She refused to perform empathy for someone who
didn't believe in empathy. They wanted her to stay polite
or for her to stay quiet. They did not want
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Karen to tell the truth. They did not want her
to name the violence, and especially they did not want
her to point out racial double standards at a time
where white conservatives and MAGA are performing their greatest feat
of racial solidarity. And because of that, the Washington Post
said that her behavior represented gross misconduct. Folks, Karen Attilla's
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firing wasn't about misconduct. It was about power and control
over black voices, particularly the voice of a black woman,
especially at the time when white supremacy is performing their
greatest feat of racial solidarity. Her posts were factual. They
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were precise, and they were morally urgent. They exposed America's
racial double standards, and by firing her, the Washington Post
reinforced those very racial double standards, showing that if you
have the nerve to bluntly call out white male violence,
that they will fire you. They will label it as unacceptable,
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they will label it as a threat to your colleagues,
they will label it as gross misconduct, all while protecting
the reputation of white conservatives. That is the message. If
you're not willing to perform empathy and compassion for those
who have none for you, you can't work in the
United States of America. You can't work at the Washington Post.
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That is not journalism, That is censorship. No, we're not surprised,
but we need everyone to realize what time it really is.
This is the shift, a great shift in the United
States of America, and you must absolutely be prepared pared
for this new phase. We'll talk about how we do
that in the next few videos. But now I need
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because
of affirmative action. Yeah, we know you do not have
the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.
You had to go steal a white person slot to
go be taken somewhat seriously.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, many pastors across the nation
rushed not just to grieve but to glorify, painting him
as a martyr of free speech and simply having a
difference of opinion without naming the harm that he did.
And when they spoke, they did not speak from the
lens of the wounded, the people who were attacked by
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his words, his word and the policies he advocated for.
But they did so from the seat of power, some
out of ignorance, simply not knowing what Charlie Kirk actually
stood in.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
No, Black America really needs to get its act together
and stop sleeping around all the time, and it needs
to actually have the.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Enough Why would you, because that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What percentage of young blacks have both a mom and
a dad raising them. Of course we panned the blacks
they're in every TV commercial.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But other pastors did so from complicity in agreement with
the very policies, politics, and prayers that put so many
people in peril.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to
have a cost of unfortunately some gun debts every single
year so that we can have the Second Amendment to
protect our other God given rights.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That is a prudent deal.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
This is not a rebuttal to their grief, but it
is a refusal to allow flattering eulogies to become erasure
and to enshrine a mindset and a belief system that
is directly detrimental to millions of people across this country.
Because the truth is this, just because someone cries Lord
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Lord does not mean they are doing the work of the.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Lord gratitude because you're right, you are not in Africa,
and you should be thankful you're not in Africa. Certain
skin colored now gets their own summertime celebration. It has
now become a racial complaining day BLM. And remember what
BLM stands for, burn, loot and murder.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It brings me no joy to say what nonetheless must
be said about the life, the words, the work, and
the legacy of Charlie Kirk. I am so sorry, Charlie
Kirk for what happened to you. It is every good
father's worst nightmare to be taken from this world before
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he has the chainants to see his children grow up,
and for that, I am genuinely sorry for you and
for your children. I'm also sorry for our democracy, which
was already under sustained and coordinated assault, and now, because
of the actions of a deranged and angry white man
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from Utah, raised notably by a conservative family, our democracy
edges ever closer to its final demise.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful
Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass
murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible
for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today,
and it must stop right now. My administration will find
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each and every one of those who contributed to this
atrocity and to other political violence.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We begin with a very simple and direct baseline against
which we compare Charlie Kirk's words and his work.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
What would Jesus do.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The Way of Christ is liberation for the oppressed, welcome
for the stranger, and healing for the wounded, dignity for
those the world counts out. And every public project, prayer,
or proclamation that borrows the name of Jesus must be
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compared to that baseline.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I want to watch that execution. That'll make my day better.
I want to see him on a public block and
get him be publicly executed. And I think that would
be justice. You think children should have? You should see it.
What is the age? What age should you start to
see public execution?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Sixteen? I think I think you could do it earlier.
I think you maybe a age twelve.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Woe.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now, to make sense of this, we use a seven
part framework to trace the spiritual shape of his influence. First,
is the root, the founding grievance or desire. Charlie Kirk's
root was not love for justice, but the loss of
dominance and supremacy masked as moral urgency.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now the southern border is, of course the great replacement.
They're trying to replace us demographically. They're trying to make
the country less white, They're trying to make the country
more like the Third World the dumping ground of the
planet is the United States southern border, and the secret
is out.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Number two invocation, the language of power or holiness called upon.
Charlie Kirk wrapped his ideology in Christ's name. His events
were considered to be church services invoking the divine to
bless political domination.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They're not yet believers. It's very simple. You're gonna have
a court date. We all die, and you're all going
to meet the supreme judge of the universe. Justice is
getting what you deserve, which is going to a not
so good place. It's not a profiling when it comes
to that. Blacks are far more likely to commit crimes
than any other group. See a black pilot, You wonder, boy,
is that person there because they earned it or because
they were placed?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Number three his words, through podcast, speeches and memes, he
mass produced language that dehumanize black people, queer people, immigrants,
and believers of other faiths.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Let's just take a step back here. Imagine from the
thirty five thousand foot view, if you are trying to
continually have Muhammedism take over the West, wouldn't they love
to have both London and New York the two prior
Anglo centers of financial markets and cultural influence. Now under
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Muhammadan rule. We've been warning about the rise of Islam
on the show, too great amount of backlash.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
We don't care. That's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We said that Islam is not compatible Western civilization. Let
me say it again, Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Number four Community. Charlie Kirk helped raise a new generation
and a community of young white conservatives shaped by grievance
who in him found permission to mock, exclude, and suppress others,
calling it free speech. Number five power Charlie Kirk's ideas
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shaped school boards, voter suppression bills, attacks on diversity, and
the demonization of people who were not like him.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
One is like a lush tropical resort, and the other
is a complete wasteland filled with catibal gangs. And it
is it's important to note that Haiti is legitimately infested
with demonic voodoo. You talk about this blake, okay, everybody.
A lot of people are gonna be saying Happy Juneteenth.
It should not be a federal holiday. And I'm on
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my way to work.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Number six shepherds. These are the pastors the pundits and
the parents who blessed his project, calling it a revival,
while ignoring those who were targeted by his actions, his policies,
and his words.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Here's what's upsetting to me, Heather, is if I'm dealing
with somebody in customer service who's a moronic black woman,
I don't I wonder is she there because of her
excellence or is she there? Because affirmative action almost creates
thought patterns that are not necessarily wholesome. It creates resentment,
doesn't it, Heather, This is not a way to design society.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah, we have to stop being scared by the race hustle.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We have to stop yes, all the races, and finally legacy,
what's left behind and what comes next. Charlie Kirk's assassination,
tragic though it was, has been weaponized by his movement
to justify a more explicit and violent moral panic.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Mister President, I implore you call for a civil war.
Call for a civil war, and led us do our thing.
Let us go door to door, street by street and
clean this country.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
There's a tax being citizen of this country who has
spent years being attacked by the vile left. We want
true justice. So give us the green light or handle
it yourself with the military, each and every one of them,
all of them. We want public executions because you see,
it hasn't been freedom for all in this country. Over
the last five plus years, this country has been ran
through by the left. We have been forced into silence
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or threats of our lives being taken from.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Us just because the one prize, Lord, Lord does not
much doing the.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Word damage of the Lord.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I can't stand the word empathy. Actually, I think empathy
is a made up new age term that does a
lot of damage.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But let me give you two different prayers for your consideration.
The first go something like this, God bless us to
live in peace and for all humans to be free
and to live with dignity. Versus, God bless us with
the power to rule and to dominate and free us
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from those people. Now, most will never say that second
prayer out loud, but they will reveal it in their policies,
their politics, and their pulpits. And such was the case
with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We note in our piece that Kirk describes King as
quote a bad guy. It's true and Kirk's self described
very very radical view that the country made a mistake
when it passed the Civil Rights Act. Also true, As
we note in the piece, Kirk has previously described Kirk
as a hero and a civil rights icon. It's true,
I used to be wrong. What inspired Kirk to shift
his view on MLK? Why does Kirk think that MLK
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is a bad guy? When Kirk says that MLK says
quote one good thing he didn't believe, what does he
mean by that? Why does Kirk believe passing the Civil
Rights Act was a mistake? Now again, apparently they don't
listen to the show, because we do that at least
once a week, right, once a week we talked about
why the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Don't talk to us about celebrating the death of people
when you have been celebrating the death of Palestinians, laughing
about it, mocking it.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
You have no moral high ground. Maga.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Have you thought about the fact that this week in Utah,
a white Christian got healed by a white Christian and
then the next day HBCUs were under threat.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
How'd we get in it?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was the voice of doctor Freddie Haynes, the third
pastor of Friendship West in Houston, Texas. We're gonna get
into all of what he said. But isn't it funny?
Isn't it funny that when white owned white violence occurs,
white people turn their rage towards black people. We didn't
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have anything to do with that person killing Charlie Kirk,
and yet here we are the recipients of that backlash,
of their desire for revenge and reciprocity. And isn't that
just like America? Now this clip from doctor Haynes is
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a little bit long, It's like five minutes long, So
if you don't mind, I'm going to play a portion
and respond to what he says. Because what he says
is so rich that we have to dig deep into it.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Listen in pology.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Together because the sad thing is we live in a
nation where twisted, toxic theology is poisoning the politics of
this nation. Have you thought about the fact that this
week in Utah, a white Christian got killed by a
white Christian and then the next day HBCUs were under threat.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Now how did we get in it?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I mean that, Oh that's called white on white crime.
You came the wrong Sunday if you thought you, I'm sorry,
I see y'all. Y'all are real sophisticated, and you.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Look really good. I hope they warned.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
You about me, Okay, because on this Sunday we're gonna
keep it one hundred. On this Sunday we go tell
the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And so
here they are. Here, they are in Utah. It's more
of us in church than in Utah.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
We ain't got nothing to do but what they just did.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Seriously, folks, we have black folks in particular, and I
will extend that even further. Tyler Robinson is responsible for
Tyler Robinson. And if there are any conspirators, co conspirators,
they are the ones that are responsible for it. Republicans
are trying to move this into collective punishment for something
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an individual has done. Now, I want you to think
about this logically, both as it applies to the black
community as well as to the broader progressive, leftist, liberal democrat,
anybody who's not maga essentially even never trumpers. If you
slow down and think about what they're trying to do.
They are trying to ensure that any single thing done
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by anybody against any of them in this country of
three hundred and thirty million people. Everybody who is not
them has to pay the price. Can I say that again? MAGA,
Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, JD. Vance and all the rest
of them are trying to ensure that anything done by
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anybody in this country of three hundred and thirty million
people against MAGA will trigger collective punishment, which is a
war crime in terms of war, but it is also
immoral and illogical. But it is absolutely what they want
to do. They want to be able to penalize and
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punish people who had nothing to do with it, simply
because well, that's what they want to do anyway. They're
not just so angry about the murder of Charlie Kirk.
They want to harm us anyway. They won't to constrict
our rights, our freedoms, our ability to vote, our ability
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to be free, and even some are calling for our
lives to be taken, calling for public executions.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
We took the same oath to defend our country against
all enemies, foreign and domestic. These leftists are our enemies.
Give or take three years left. If you call for
a civil war, the conservative veterans in this country will
take our country back from the evil left. We use
words they use bullets. Mister President, I implore you call for
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a civil war, call for a civil war, and let
us do our thing. Let us go door to door,
street by street and clean this country murder.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
So here's my message to the President of the United States.
I'm not going to say that I speak for everybody
else or anybody else. As a tax paying citizen of
this kind who has spent years being attacked by the
vile left, we want true justice. So give us the
green light or handle it yourself with the military, each
and every one of them, all of them. We want
public executions because you see, it hasn't been freedom for
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all in this country over the last five plus years.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
They want to harm us anyway. They want to constrict
our rights, our freedoms, our ability to vote, our ability
to be free, and even some are calling for our
lives to be taken, calling for public executions. Let's listen
to more from doctor Freddie Haynes third.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
A white Christian gets killed, murder, not assassinated. We're gonna
tell the whole truth today. Martin King got assassinated, Malcolm
X got assassinated. Let Dirrects got assassinated.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Don't compare our Kirk to King. I ain't no such comparison.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Now, No, there is no comparison of Charlie Kirk to
doctor King, that's for sure. In fact, Charlie Kirk despised
Doctor King, and later in his life he made it
his life's purpose to dethrone Doctor King from his hollowed
position in the moral pantheon, not only of the United
(18:25):
States of America, but across the globe.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We note in our piece that Kirk describes King as
quote a bad guy. It's true. And Kirk's self described
very very radical view that the country made a mistake
when it passed the Civil Rights Act also true. As
we note in the piece, Kirk has previously described Kirk
as a hero and a civil rights icon. It's true,
I used to be wrong. What inspired Kirk to shift
his view on MLK? Why does Kirk think that MLK
(18:49):
is a bad guy? When Kirk says that MLK says
quote one good thing, he didn't believe, what does he
mean by that? Why does Kirk believe passing the Civil
Rights Act was a mistake?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Now?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Again, apparently they don't listen to the show, because we
do that at least once a week. Once a week,
we talk about why the Civil Rights Actor was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And the moral pantheon not only of the United States
of America, but across the globe. That is the position
that doctor King's assassination placed him, not only his assassination.
Let me correct myself, doctor King's life's work. Doctor King
received the Nobel Peace Prize during his lifetime because he
worked for peace. Charlie Kirk worked to divide this nation
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along the lines of them versus us powerful versus powerless.
And so there is no comparison between Charlie Kirk and
doctor King, that is for sure. But if you would
allow me to disagree with my esteemed colleague in the faith,
doctor Freddie Haynes. Third, and with many of you who
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have already left comments who don't like that we call
it an assassination. But by the definition the glossary term
of assassination, it is the killing, the sudden killing or
planned killing of a political figure for political reasons. That's
an assassination. And I understand that a lot of people
(20:14):
don't want to apply that to it because the word
in the term itself assassination gives a veneer of legitimacy
or validation or modern number, but that's not necessarily required.
The word itself is a structural word. It captures an act,
(20:35):
a political act of violence. It does not itself. See
what it is is We're so used to the good
people in our country and on our planet being assassinated.
I think that's what it is. Ultimately, we are so
used to the quote unquote good people being assassinated that
(20:59):
we have own I only ever associated it with the
deaths of actually good people fighting for good causes. That
was not Charlie Kirk. And that's why so many people
do not want to apply that word to Charlie Kirk.
(21:19):
But it was an assassination, by the definitional sense of
the word, a politically targeted killing of a public figure.
But unlike the assassinations of Gandhi or doctor King or
Malcolm X, it does not canonize Charlie Kirk's cause with
modernom It doesn't sanctify him, or it does not give
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him historical legitimacy. It just simply marks the violence of
the act, and it does not retroactively sanctify his life.
As the preacher said, how you die does not redeem
how you live.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Let me hasten to say, let me hasten to say
I'm anti political violence.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Kirk should still be alive.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
I don't agree with the time, with anything Kirk said.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
What Kirk said was dangerous, What Kirk said was racist,
rooted in white supremacy, nasty and hate feels.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
But he still should be alive.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
He still should be playing with this kids, He should
still should be experiencing the love with this wife. He
still should be experiencing life as he saw it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I don't want.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Anybody, please hear me, well, anybody to be victimized by
political violence.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, I'm gonna keep it abuve.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, that part, and we must be able to hold
that dichotomy again. I'm not going to moralize or grandstand
or lecture people who have been celebrating I said in
my last video, and I mean it. Your moraleity is
your choice. As for me and my house, we would
never celebrate the assassination or the murder of anyone, not
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just out of a sense of morality. The thing I
will say again that I said in the last video,
as a matter of strategy, when you're dealing with people
who are rapidly desirous of harm, It's like October seventh,
one of my biggest issues was that whoever planned October
(23:30):
seventh from the Hamas equation literally handed into the hands
of the most evil regime on the face of the planet,
the moral high ground that they needed to kill almost
seven hundred thousand people as of the last count. And
when you consider how Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and JD.
(23:54):
Vance have made it clear. We'll play some of their clips.
I'll do another video. It'll be in this episode. They've
made it clear and along with most of MAGA on
social media, they have made it clear that they want
to punish everybody. Now we understand that they are going
to try to do that anyway, but I would simply
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advise everyone on our side of the equation, it's too late. Now,
it's already done. The die is cast, but never put
into the hands of your rivals the moral high ground,
either through political violence or through the celebration of political violence.
We can do both. We can simultaneously say Charlie Kirk
(24:40):
should still be alive, abhor the violence. But Charlie Kirk
was not a good man.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Because one of the things it gets me, and we
got some politicians in here.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna come for you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
If you ever say this, if you ever say America
we better than this, lyon, cryon, we ain't better than this.
America was born in political violence. America committed political.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Violence during the slave trade.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
America committed political violence when black bodies hung as strange
fruit in on Southern shrees. America committed political violence against
the Irish, against the Italians before they became white. American
aman created political violence when America passed Jim and Jane
(25:37):
Crow Laws. What do you think political violence?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Was?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Political violence when they bombed and massacred Black Wall Street,
when they massacred Rosewood, when they massacred whites and blacks
in Wilmington, North Carolina. But what do you think political violence? Is?
Martin being killed? That's political violence. John Kennedy being killed
(26:02):
political violence, Robert Kennedy being killed political violence. And you
gonna say we better than this. No, you can't fix what.
You won't face until you look in the mirrors and say,
this is a violent country that has done violence to
too many people. We will never get our act together.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's time to repent.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Because if my people called by my name, umbo themselves
and pray, turn from their wicked ways, Nina, will I
hear from heaven forgive their sinner and heal the land.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You preaching, come out. We're better than this.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
No, we were better than this.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
We ain't better than this.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
But to get better you got to acknowledge what's wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
God Almighty. I'm going to get to what doctor Haynes
said in a minute. But Second Chronicles is what he
was quoting. If my people, this is God speaking through
the book of Second Chronicles, if my people, who are
called by my name, would humble themselves in pray, not atheists,
not agnostics, not.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Believers of other faiths.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
But if God's people, the Christians and everyone who believes
in God, who are called by God's Okay, I'm sorry,
I'll preach on Sunday. Let me get to this political
violence thing, because he's absolutely right. The United States of
America was born in violence, and the record of its birth,
the birthing of this nation is written not in myth,
(27:42):
but in blood, in the lives, in the lives that
were taken and stolen, in the lives that were genocided,
in the lives that were enslaved. This nation was born
in political violence, and political violence has been the case
ever since so no where not better than this. To
(28:02):
say that we are better than this is to deny
that lynching trees once carried and bore what we call
strange fruit, and that those roots still run underneath the
streets of every city in this country. Assassinations of prophets,
Doctor King Malcolm X, and Presidents John F. Kennedy and
(28:24):
his brother Robert Kennedy, not Junior, That man's a mess.
His daddy reminding us that this is not the exception.
But this is the rule. This is the recurring refrain,
This is the hook, This is the course on repeat
in this nation's hymn of bloodshed, every single massacre that
(28:45):
doctor Haynes just mentioned. America wants to forget Tulsa. America
wants to forget Rosewood. America wants to forget Wilmington. But
it repeats. It echoes the exact pattern of denial, because
forget is the very mechanisms by which white supremacy protects
its fragile ego and sense of false innocence. White supremacy
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in this country must pretend as if it is completely innocent.
Everyone has to make Charlie Kirk completely innocent. He never
did anything wrong. He was a perfect saint. He was
a perfect Christian. Meanwhile, the bile, the bigotry that was
(29:33):
coming out of his mouth, you have to one hundred
percent ignore the people who were hurt the most by
Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
And this is what America does. This is what supremacy does.
This is what Zionism does. They can't even see the
world through the lens of the eyes of a child
in Gaza. They're don't get it wrong, Neither could America.
There's been plenty of children killed by the United States
of America. Ask to Mirror Rice, ask Emmit Till. But
(30:06):
over in Israel, they can't even see the world through
the eyes of a child.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
They would look at the emaciated bodies of children and
not even care.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Not only do they not care, but they laugh.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Don't talk to us about celebrating the death of people
when you have been celebrating the death of Palestinians, laughing
about it, mocking it.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You have no moral high ground. Maga supremacists.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
America cannot allow itself to see through the eyes of
those who they seek to dominate, because if they ever did,
it would collapse their myth, their belief, the stories that
they tell themselves that they are good, and they would
have to look at the very long historical record of
(30:52):
the political violence that this nation has wielded against everybody
that's not a white, conservative rich. Then there's a lot
of people who don't realize they've been oppressed, a lot
of white folks who don't realize that they have been
oppressed by this system because even though they're so poor
they can't even get their teeth fixed, But so long
as they are white, and so long now that they
(31:14):
are maga, they don't realize that they are oppressed. But
that's their problem, not ours. The truth of the matter
is is that this nation was born in political violence.
The truth of the matter is is that this country
has long ignored the ramifications of their actions because if
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they ever allowed empathy. This is why Charlie Kirk doesn't
believe didn't believe in empathy, because if you ever allow
empathy into your heart, what is empathy to see the
world through the eyes of someone else, And if you
ever allow yourself to see the world through the eyes
of someone else, especially someone that you have been hurting,
(32:00):
and something triggers on the inside of you, whether it
be guilt, whether it be acknowledgment, whether it be just
simply admitting that you did something wrong. If empathy ever
comes in, then the entire kingdom of evil and bigotry
(32:20):
and cruelty begins to crumble. And so they need a
hermetically sealed bubble from empathy so that they can continue
to carry out their historic and consistent, encyclical political violence
that they are now gearing up again to commit against
(32:41):
everybody that's not maga. I need you to hit that
chair that like in that subscribe button. We are warming up.
We are gearing up, and we're getting ready to do
exactly what the Lord has called us to do, both
in politics as well as in the pulpit. And if
(33:05):
you stay with me long enough, we're gonna show you
what we're gonna do in technology.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
And how you.
Speaker 11 (33:11):
Die does not redeem how you lived.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I was wondering which preacher would tell the truth about
Charlie Kirk and their sermon yesterday. Here is one that
you absolutely have to hear and will discuss on the
other side.
Speaker 11 (33:25):
Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
But I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
Seeing the flags of the United States of America at
half staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a
man who was an unapologetic.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Racist and spent all of his life.
Speaker 11 (33:51):
Sowing sees of division and hate into this land. And
hearing people with selective rage who were mad about Charlie
Kirk but didn't give a damn about Melissa Hortman and
(34:12):
her husband when they were.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Shot down in their home. Tell me how to.
Speaker 11 (34:18):
Have compassion for the death of a man who had
no respect for my own life. I am sorry, but
there's nowhere in Bible where we are taught.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
To honor evil.
Speaker 11 (34:38):
And how you die does not redeem how you lived.
You do not become a hero in your death when
you were a weapon of the enemy in your life.
(34:58):
I I can abhor the violence that took.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you
chose to live.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I overwhelmed. These are the facts, folks. We are not
required to celebrate someone just because of how they died.
Charlie Kirk was an unapologetic bigot. He made a fortune
and his entire reputation off of being a bigot, but
(35:33):
not just a regular bigot, a truly sophisticated one, one
who was able to manipulate data and leave out context,
remove nuance, just so that he can push a specific
narrative about black people in particular. But he didn't stop
with black people. He did it to women, he did
it to Muslims, he did it to the LGBTQIA community.
(35:56):
Everything that he did, he used the same technique, which
was to remove context, to remove new ones, to cherry
pick data so that he can give an intellectual veneer
for his racism and for his bigotry. And that's one
of the greatest gifts that he could have possibly left
to MAGA, that he could have left to white supremacy
(36:18):
to wrap all of centuries of hatred and bigotry in
the veneer of intellectualism. Charlie Kirk was a smart dude,
but he was a smart bigot and this is the
role that he facilitated better than anyone else, and this
is why he was so popular. I absolutely loved the
line that this pastor spoke. And by the way, I'm
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not sharing the pastor's name or the name of his
church because I'm quite sure that he is receiving death
threats already, but I really appreciate what this pastor said.
We do not celebrate evil. We do not celebrate bigotry.
No matter how an individual dies, it does not absolve
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them from the evil of their life. I'm certain Charlie
Kirk was a good father. I'm certain Charlie Kirk was
a good husband. But I'm also certain that Charlie Kirk
was not a good man because he was executing a
very evil agenda. We have to hold the line here.
We have to simultaneously be able to recognize that number one,
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Charlie Kirk should not have been killed. Number Two, we
must condemn violence because we cannot perform violence like they can.
They are the masters of violence, and that is not
a game that we want to get into. This is
not a statement of fear. Nobody is afraid. Everybody's got guns,
everybody has bravado. But we're dealing with people who have
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mastered the art of violence, the science of violence, and
they lust after it, they crave it, and violence begets violence. Now,
don't get me wrong. As a matter of self defense,
I believe every single American, especially Black Americans, should be
prepared to defend themselves with their Second Amendment rights. That's
(38:08):
not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the type
of violence that killed Charlie Kirk. We do not engage
in that type of violence. And to everyone who's celebrating,
everyone who's celebrating, I'm not going to lecture you in
terms of morality, but I will say something in terms
of strategy. Never give the moral high ground to people
who are already seeking to hurt you, seeking to destroy you.
(38:31):
You give them the veneer and the justification to say, Look,
I told you those people were bad over here. Look
I told you those black people were no good. Look
I told you those leftists were no good. As a
matter of morality, for me and my house, we would
not ever celebrate the assassination of anyone. But I'm not
lecturing anybody about that. If that's what you do, that's
(38:53):
between you and your set of values. But as far
as strategy goes, celebrating the day death of Charlie Kirk
puts ammunition into the hands of people who already wanted
to harm us. I'll say it just like I saw
someone else say it online. I don't celebrate Charlie Kirk's death,
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but I will not participate in his morning.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
And how you die does not redeem how you lived.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Karin Tia was the last black woman opinion columnist at
the Washington Post, and she just posted on her substack
that she was fired. She was fired for quoting Charlie
Kirk's own words. I repeat, she was fired for quoting
Charlie Kirk's own words. That should tell you everything that
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you need to know, not only about who Charlie Kirk was,
but the world that we live in right now today.
Quoting Charlie Kirk, she posted the following on Blue side
quote Black women do not have the brain processing power
to be taken seriously. You have to go and still
a white person slot. That's Charlie Kirk in his own words.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I'm only here because of affirmative action. We know you
do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be
taken really seriously, you had to go steal a white
person slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Karen quoted him, and for that the Post said she
was unacceptable and guilty of quote gross misconduct and somehow
quote endangering the safety of colleagues. Then they fired her
without even so much as a conversation. But now let's
zoom out a little bit further so that you can
see that this didn't happen in a vacuum. The Washington
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Post is in the middle of a top down reset.
They have a new publisher, Will Lewis, new opinions editor
Adam O'Neil, and they have a new mandate, less racial
reckoning and more quote unquote free markets and personal liberty.
That is coded language for conservatism. The staff was told
that the changes would be ambitious, and if you weren't
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on board, that you probably should take a buyout. Karen
didn't take the buyout, and when her post drew heat,
leadership had the excuse they needed to finally get rid
of her. This is the playbook across US media right now.
In fact, it's not just media, it is all across
business and industry. Billionaires buying legacy papers, outlets are leaning
(41:23):
further to the right underneath the banner of balance. Take
a look at the Baltimore Sun, they were just sold
to Sinclair Media. Take a look at Paramount and CBS.
It's the same pattern. Free speech for them, but not
for us. But you need to see just how transparent
this moment is. There's no ambiguity here, folks. They are
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absolutely targeting everyone that is black and everyone that is
not a conservative. Here's what the Washington Post told Karen,
as she reported in her own substack. They said that
her posts were unacceptable. But in the context of Charlie Kirk,
she did own two things. Number One, she quoted him directly,
and everything else that she said was a condemnation of
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gun violence in this country. So when they said that
her posts were unacceptable, what she actually said was, quote,
political violence has no place in this country, but we
will do nothing to curb the guns used to carry
it out. America is sick and there is no cure
in sight. Imagine calling this unacceptable when the reality is
(42:28):
every word that she said is true. Charlie Kirk died
because of gun violence. She did not say anything about
Charlie Kirk except quoting his own words. But this statement
is absolutely true. The next thing they charged her with
was saying that she was guilty of gross misconduct. Here's
what she actually said. She quoted Charlie Kirk's racist remarks
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and then she condemned violence. She didn't even condemn his words.
She only quoted his words. What she condemned was violence
and named hypocrisy. Gross misconduct in journalism means plagiarism or
fabrication or harassment, not quoting a public figure, not saying
that America worships guns and worships violence. Then they said
(43:12):
that she was endangering her colleagues houseway, what she actually
said was quote part of what keeps America so violent
is the insistence on absolution for white men who espouse
hatred and violence. This is absolutely true. The man who
killed Charlie Kirk was a white man, and if namy
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white male violence endangers colleagues, then any journalist covering extremism
is at risk of being fired. This is not only illogical,
but it empowers the very people that she is warning against.
It does not protect the staff to fire her over
her words condemning violence and identifying how America absolves white
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men of their violence. They said that it was done
in poor taste. What part is done in poor taste
using Charlie Kirk's own words? Is that poor taste? Because
I agree Charlie Kirk's words were always in poor taste,
always in poor form, and always highly bigoted. But that's
his words, not hers. What part was in poor taste?
(44:19):
Washington Post? The fact that she refused to perform over
the top grief for someone who has demeaned black women.
Is that what you wanted her to do, to say,
we're so sad about Charlie Kirk, even though he spent
the entirety of his career. In fact, his career was
built on the backs of black women and how he
demeaned them. Tone policing is not journalistic integrity, its management
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branding dissent as misconduct. And this is the nature of
the world in which we currently live. And the hypocrisy,
my friends, is glaring. When Barry Wise quit The New
York Times claiming she was silenced, she landed book deals,
substack riches, her own media startup, and now she's being
considered to head up CBS. Institutions bent over backward to
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frame her as a free speech martyr. But Karen Atiya,
she condemned violence, she quoted Charlie Kirk's own words, and
then she was fired. No golden parachute, no institutional protection,
no promotion, and I guarantee you that we will not
get any glowing profiles about her bravery at these mainstream institutions.
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The difference. Barry Weiss fits the acceptable profile. Karen Atiya
is a black woman and the last one left in
the Washington Post opinion section, and she was pushed out
in the middle of a national trend black women losing
their jobs at a staggering rate, more than three hundred
thousand just since Donald Trump returned into office. That is
(45:52):
not a coincidence. That is intentional, and that is structural.
Here's what the Washington Post is essentially telling Karen that
she's fired because she refused to perform care for white
male victims. She refused to perform empathy for someone who
didn't believe in empathy. They wanted her to stay polite
or for her to stay quiet. They did not want
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Karen to tell the truth. They did not want her
to name the violence, and especially they did not want
her to point out racial double standards at a time
where white conservatives and MAGA are performing their greatest feat
of racial solidarity. And because of that, the Washington Post
said that her behavior represented gross misconduct. Folks, Karen Attilla's
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firing wasn't about misconduct. It was about power and control
over black voices, particularly the voice of a black woman,
especially at the time when white supremacy is performing their
greatest feat of racial solidarity. Her posts were factual. They
(46:58):
were precise, and they were morally urgent. They exposed America's
racial double standards, and by firing her, the Washington Post
reinforced those very racial double standards, showing that if you
have the nerve to bluntly call out white male violence,
that they will fire you. They will label it as unacceptable,
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they will label it as a threat to your colleagues,
they will label it as gross misconduct, all while protecting
the reputation of white conservatives. That is the message. If
you're not willing to perform empathy and compassion for those
who have none for you, you can't work in the
United States of America. You can't work at the Washington Post.
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That is not journalism, That is censorship. No, we're not surprised,
but we need everyone to realize what time it really is.
This is the shift, a great shift in the United
States of America, and you must absolutely be prepared pared
for this new phase. We'll talk about how we do
that in the next few videos. But now I need
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