Charlie Kirk Was A Racist Bigot

Let me make it plain: Charlie Kirk was a racist bigot.

Too many people need to hear this. Most of the mainstream media, the entire Republican Party, and the MAGA echo chamber need to hear it—so I’m making it plain.

Charlie Kirk was a racist bigot.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a racist bigot. His office doesn’t preclude him from being one.

Charlie Kirk’s being a victim of the gun violence he denied does not erase the fact that he was a racist bigot.

Charlie Kirk Was a Racist — *Charlie Kirk (right), and a convicted felon residing in tax-subsidized public housing.*

“Oh, no,” you may say, “Charlie Kirk and Trump aren’t bigots.” But bigots defend bigots—and if you’re making excuses for them, you’re probably a bigot too.

They are white supremacists seeking to marginalize minorities in the United States: people of different colors, sexual orientations, religions, and languages. People who are simply different.

Kirk was a Christian nationalist—one who claimed Christianity but did the opposite of what Jesus taught. Christian nationalists are not Christian.

They are bigots and racists, cloaking prejudice in scripture. The fruits of the Spirit are completely absent in their lives, because they are filled with self-delusion, not the Spirit of the Lord.

Kirk said horrible, offensive things about millions of Americans, encouraging and condoning violence and division.

He was no Christian, because that’s not how Christians behave.

Christians don’t attack and marginalize minorities. Christians protect minorities.

We don’t kick gay people out of our churches. We don’t kick trans people out of our libraries.

Christians are called to protect the helpless, the little guys. Christians protect the weak—not victimize and attack them.

“The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “even if they do not belong to the Christian community.”

Christians do what Jesus says to do in Matthew 25. Kirk did the exact opposite.

A college dropout, Kirk built an empire spewing racist, inflammatory, hateful things about people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, Spanish speakers, and pretty much anyone who wasn’t like him: a white man.

He attracted a massive following of fellow racists. In the wake of Trump’s failed reelection bid, Kirk dedicated himself to lying about election results and undermining the foundation of our democratic, representative form of government.

The U.S. was founded on a principle of freedom for white supremacists, not for women, enslaved people, Indigenous people, or the vast majority too poor to own land.

White supremacists were the founders of this country, and they are in power now. They will lie, cheat, and break the law to maintain power—just as they always have.

On Sept. 15, 1963, white supremacists murdered Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Denise McNair (11), and wounded more than 20 others—mostly children and women—when they bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

White supremacists like Kirk are dedicated to whitewashing American history and denying the lived experience of tens of millions of Americans, making it easier to maintain and benefit from racist systems.

American children were blown up by white supremacists in Birmingham and in Oklahoma City.

Unarmed Black Americans are still lynched. George Floyd was publicly murdered in 2020, just as dozens of Black Americans were murdered by racists in 1920, and thousands were murdered by white supremacists in 1820.

Kirk approved of Floyd’s death, by the way.

The evening of Kirk’s murder—while the killer and a motive remain elusive—Trump scapegoated the majority of Americans who oppose his racist vision for the nation.

Racists have run the nation for much of our history. It’s imperative that we recognize our founding fathers for who they were. Some were white supremacist slavers, yes—but others saw beyond the status quo to imagine a better nation.

All of the men who created our Constitution were idealists, creating a form of government dedicated to freedom and equality. Pragmatists as well, they knew we as a nation could be better in the future than we were then.

We must not let Kirk’s defenders hold our nation back. We must not allow their racism to go unchallenged.

Speak up, speak out, and claim our democracy for all the people—not just the few like Kirk.