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Charlie Kirk Is Dead—But Black America Remembers His Racism (theblackwallsttimes.com)
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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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[–] kevin@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I felt awful after I saw a comment that put him in the same group as Lincoln, JFK, and MLK.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

I don't feel awful. There's only one thing that little prick has in common with the actual historical figures.