Charlie answers the questions YOU email him at Freedom@CharlieKirk.Com—beginning with debunking the narrative that’s spreading across social media right now that Trump has a history of racism starting in the 70s. He also tackles the no...
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Why We Don't Cancel Culture
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| Hey, everybody. | |
| Welcome to another Ask Me Anything at the Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| The questions that we select here on the Charlie Kirk show, Ask Me Anything. | |
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| Let's get to the first question from Finn in Los Angeles. | |
| Hey, Charlie, I live in California, and I keep seeing people post things about Trump being a racist, going back from 1973 and things with his casinos and comments. | |
| Can you answer this, Finn from Los Angeles? | |
| In fact, I'm going to do a video debunking this because it seems like it's going viral lately, where there's all these alleged incidents of the president being racist in years past. | |
| Here's just the most simple way to debunk all of that. | |
| Was President Trump racist when he was being given awards by the black community, when he was in hundreds of rap songs, when he was being embraced by people like even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? | |
| Was he a racist when he owned the New Jersey Generals, a football team? | |
| Was he a racist when he allowed Herschel Walker, the running back for the New Jersey generals, to literally babysit Donald Trump Jr.? | |
| This is all nonsense. | |
| This is selective cherry-picking history. | |
| Donald Trump, being in business in Manhattan for over 45 years, of course, encountered circumstances of subordinates or some of his affiliate companies that did things that would not make people proud of how they acted. | |
| Not him, but just in his orbit. | |
| And so you have to understand a lot of these lists and a lot of these propaganda campaigns against the president say, well, the Trump companies, the Trump companies, Donald Trump has never and will never be a racist, but that doesn't satisfy the radical left. | |
| That doesn't satisfy their own insatiable urge to destroy and deplatform this president at any and all costs. | |
| Unfortunately, here's what happens when you call everything a racist. | |
| Here's what happens when you go around and you say, that's racist and that's racist, when maybe it isn't. | |
| It cheapens real racism. | |
| It cheapens and dilutes real racism in America. | |
| Bitter, identitarian racists love when racism gets totally and completely diluted, because then everything becomes a racist. | |
| And then you're not able to spot and identify the real racists in society. | |
| And we also don't have a conversation around the racism of the left. | |
| The left's entire political movement right now is built on racism. | |
| Black Lives Matter, white privilege. | |
| That is judging people based on the color of their skin, not on the content of their character. | |
| We have talked about four years building an America around where people's soul, their spirit, their decisions, their character mean more than their immutable characteristics. | |
| And so Donald Trump being revered by the black community, Donald Trump being embraced by the black community, Donald Trump being a magnanimous New York City businessman with some of the top grossing, top performing television programs is evidence that he is anything but a racist. | |
| When I first really started to realize that Donald Trump was something different and special when he was running for the presidency, is when Telemundo and all these different stations and shows started to cancel Donald Trump. | |
| This is a great lesson for today's time. | |
| When all of the left-wing mob tried to cancel Donald Trump back in the summer of 2015, they went for all of his businesses. | |
| They said, you can't host your golf tournaments here. | |
| You can't run Miss USA. | |
| You can't do any of these things. | |
| We're canceling you, canceling you. | |
| Donald Trump doubled down. | |
| Donald Trump tripled down. | |
| Donald Trump said, I'm not going to stop running for the presidency because my country means more than just these contracts and these business deals that I have. | |
| This is such an important lesson. | |
| It's an important lesson for a variety of ways because Republicans right now are not fighting hard enough. | |
| Republicans are not taking a hard enough stand against the militant cancel deletion culture of the left. | |
| And I know that term cancel culture is used a lot. | |
| I don't love that term, to be honest with you, because I think it's overused and it has, it's kind of missing the spice. | |
| It's missing the zap that I think it needs. | |
| I call these digital assassinations or character assassinations. | |
| I think that's probably a better term. | |
| But they believe that they can make you evaporate, disappear. | |
| For example, a lawmaker recently asked me, well, Charlie, what are we supposed to do? | |
| Here's a great idea. | |
| Why don't you stream Gone with the Wind nonstop for 24 hours a day on the side of the Capitol building? | |
| Why don't you have a public airing of Gone with the Wind outside of Capitol Hill about how it's this beautiful, amazing American film that, yes, did talk about some of the evils of American society, but still it was well acted and is an American treasure. | |
| But oh, do we have to cancel that because it's not part of what the group humiliation mob wants you to have. | |
| Republicans say, well, how do we fight? | |
| Well, the answer is in the question. | |
| It's operative to start fighting. | |
| It's operative to take a stand, to have a spine, to look the opposition in the eye and say, no more. | |
| You're not going to destroy our history. | |
| You're not going to take down another monument. | |
| And as I mentioned in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show, the taking down of the statues and the monuments is not even the highest issue for me. | |
| It's probably like 127 on the list of issues. | |
| Instead, I know that the radical left is using this as a tool. | |
| They're using this as an opportunity to try to achieve fundamental deconstruction and transformation of the United States of America. | |
| So, Finn, thanks so much for the question and congratulations. | |
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| So Brian from Arkansas says this, hey, Charlie, I just read that epic film, Gone with the Wind, is being pulled from HBO Max. | |
| Similar to the previous question, due to its depiction of slavery and glorification of the Confederacy, should we be concerned about the gradual erasing of American history that's happening in order to make leftists feel more comfortable? | |
| When do conservatives step in and say enough is enough? | |
| Thanks, Brian. | |
| Do you know what the most amazing thing about Gone with the Wind is? | |
| Do you guys know? | |
| You want to take any guess? | |
| You don't have to watch it. | |
| What's so incredible about Gone with the Wind is that it is not required viewing. | |
| If you find Gone with the Wind to be objectionable, you don't have to watch it. | |
| I remember as a young kid, my parents tried to make me watch Gone with the Wind about eight times. | |
| They said it's a beautiful piece of film. | |
| Film is very important in my family where I grew up. | |
| We collected movies. | |
| I grew up watching the great stories. | |
| It's why the archetypes that built Western society are so important to me. | |
| I've probably watched over a thousand movies and not trashy movies, really good types of movies. | |
| Not all of them were good, but cinema was a very important part of my upbringing. | |
| And Gone with the Wind was one that my parents really wanted me to get to know. | |
| And I fell asleep as a young guy a lot in Gone with the Wind, and I found it to be slow. | |
| And then eventually I was like, I don't want to watch Gone with the Wind again. | |
| Now that I'm older and watching it, it's a beautiful film. | |
| However, once I said I didn't want to watch it, my parents said, that's fine. | |
| We're not going to force you to watch it anymore. | |
| You don't have to watch something that you might find objectionable. | |
| So why is it being pulled down from platforms? | |
| Why are we allowing an outrage mob? | |
| And I do not believe that the people that are pushing for this massive eradication of our history, this massive destabilization of our culture, I do not believe that they are a majority. | |
| I don't believe that they're a plurality. | |
| I believe they are an ever-increasing, angry, loud minority of a minority. | |
| I believe that the people that are arguing for these films and for these pieces of literature to be totally deleted from society, they are better at organizing than us conservatives. | |
| They're also less decent. | |
| So for example, when we conservatives find something that we find to be somewhat troubling, like a movie that depicts Trump supporters being murdered or pieces of literature that are just so beyond the pale, we don't necessarily call for it to be canceled or deleted or erased. | |
| Might say, huh, that's not really my style. | |
| Maybe we shouldn't have that be viewable to children. | |
| What's so amazing to me is the contradiction within the American left. | |
| So the American left is more worried about gone with the wind being shown to young children than Planned Parenthood going into our schools to kids as young as 10 years old, as young as eight years old, and teaching them the most egregious sexual education you can imagine. | |
| There was a piece in the Washington Examiner that was an opinion piece back in September 5th of 2019. | |
| I was a sex educator trained by Planned Parenthood. | |
| Here's what I taught your kids. | |
| And you go through this. | |
| It is unbelievable. | |
| Teaching kids as young as 10 years old how to use contraception, about how sexual activity can be liberating for a young teenager. | |
| And you read this article, it just takes your breath away. | |
| And so the left has no concern about the erosion or the disappearance of innocence for children. | |
| However, they're worried about Gone with the Wind, a piece of cinema that depicts a chapter in American history. | |
| Government and secular humanism is the God of the left. | |
| The right actually tends to worship God. | |
| Not all conservatives, but most do. | |
| All of the devotion and energy that we put into worshiping God or building churches, they put into destabilizing our culture from within. | |
| So as we worry about advancing the kingdom and bringing people to Christ, they're simultaneously trying to destroy the country. | |
| That's why they're better at this than us. | |
| That's why I do what I do at Turning Point USA, as conservatives do not automatically engage in the culture war. | |
| Conservatives are not necessarily inclined to engage in these very consequential cultural fights. | |
| In fact, it's the exact opposite. | |
| Conservatives are more likely to build a family, go to work, protect their kids, whereas leftists are pathologically driven to a destabilization of our entire country. | |
| And we've been talking about this for quite some time here on this podcast. | |
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Preserve Your Family History
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| And I've been getting emails from our listeners at freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| And months ago, people said, Charlie, I think that you might be a little bit ahead of yourself saying that the left wants full destabilization of America. | |
| Those very same people are now emailing me saying, Charlie, I take that back. | |
| I see why you are saying this. | |
| I see how they're going about it. | |
| I see the tactics. | |
| I see the strategy. | |
| I see the lack of values, the lack of God that the left embodies and is trying to push down every single segment of American society. | |
| I have a ton of pictures from my family from generations ago that I want to catalog, videos as well. | |
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| With Father's Day approaching, wouldn't it be awesome to be able to give him a thumb drive, DVD, or on the cloud, of all those memories that are scattered in boxes all across your house or in your attic? | |
| I loved being able to go through my family history and putting it on Legacy Box. | |
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| All that history is now on a thumb drive, DVD, or cloud, anytime I need it. | |
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The Danger of Unconscious Bias
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| Here's the next question. | |
| Earl from Des Moines says, Hi, Charlie. | |
| I'm a big fan of your show. | |
| I've gotten into some debates with liberals about white privilege, and they provide some statistics I do not know how to respond to. | |
| For example, white-sounding names are 50% more likely to be called back than black-sounding names on resumes with the same experiences. | |
| End quote. | |
| What's your opinion of this? | |
| Is there a way to debunk it? | |
| Does it prove white privilege or systemic racism? | |
| In addition to this, many studies show that, quote, white people are more likely to be accepted to college than blacks despite that they have the same education status. | |
| What's your opinion on this? | |
| Lastly, wow, Earl, got a lot of questions. | |
| Another statistic shows that 64% of people that work in medical fields have an unconscious racial bias. | |
| What is your opinion on this as well? | |
| Thanks so much for your time. | |
| I really appreciate it. | |
| Okay. | |
| So first of all, there is an article in the Chicago Tribune a couple years ago that says that there was no racial bias whatsoever based on skin color. | |
| Chicago Tribune, May 4th, 2016. | |
| Hiring bias study. | |
| Resumes with black, white, Hispanic names treated the same by Alexia Alade Ruiz. | |
| It says this, new research on hiring bias found resumes bearing names traditionally held by blacks and Hispanics are just as likely to call backs and job interviews as those bearing white sounding names. | |
| The findings announced last week by the University of Missouri diverge from the results of a famous study more than a decade ago, found that Lakeishas and Jamal's were far less likely to get job interviews than Emily's and Greg's. | |
| So this has just been debunked. | |
| And this is the Chicago Tribune, which is now a radical left newspaper. | |
| And what it has found more than anything else is that this is a pernicious lie pushed by the American left. | |
| They are trying to demonstrate something that is completely and totally untrue. | |
| Hiring bias study, Chicago Tribune, May 4th, 2016. | |
| And so Earl also asks this. | |
| He says, quote, white people are more likely to be accepted to college than blacks despite that they have the same education status. | |
| And quote, there is no evidence of this whatsoever. | |
| In fact, the opposite is true. | |
| There is evidence that because of affirmative action policies, that black individuals are more likely to get into higher-end colleges with lower scores on standardized tests than white individuals. | |
| And then finally, Earl asks, another statistic says that 64% of people that work in the medical field have an unconscious racial bias. | |
| And quote, unconscious racial bias has never been proven because we don't even understand the unconscious mind. | |
| So to say that we know unconscious racial bias is some sort of incredibly cocky statement. | |
| And anyone that is serious about social psychology will tell you that we are just beginning to map the deepest levels of the American conscious. | |
| And the unconscious is something that we are still barely being able to touch. | |
| And this was originally theorized by Sigmund Freud, who gets too bad of a rap in nowadays because everything that he discovered, we just take as true. | |
| We do not even understand the unconscious, let alone do we understand unconscious racial bias. | |
| So to say that we know that 64% of people do something that they don't even know that they're doing and we're able to prove it is total and complete nonsense. | |
| And so, look, the left wants everything to be blamed on racism. | |
| And yes, racism is absolutely a sin, but it is not a blanket-all indictment of everything that is wrong with the world. | |
| You cannot blame every single structural problem on a singular sin. | |
| There are other issues that need to be dealt with besides racism. | |
| In fact, there are other sins such as gluttony, sloth, self-righteousness, pride, lack of openness. | |
| There's so many other sins besides racism. | |
| And racism is a sin. | |
| So listen very carefully to what I'm saying. | |
| I'm not disqualifying or undermining the sin of racism. | |
| In fact, I'm doing the exact opposite. | |
| I'm saying that racism is a sin. | |
| But do I think that racism is the largest contributing factor to this type of inequality that we see in America? | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| And by the way, blacks make more than whites, 111% higher if they have advanced degrees. | |
| And I put all these links on CharlieKirk.com. | |
| And if America was a racist country, why do Asians and Indian Americans make more than white Americans on average? | |
| Now, here's a very important conversation that we need to have: because the left cannot figure out their own terms. | |
| In higher education, they have a turn that they are now pushing forward that is not racism. | |
| It is called colorism. | |
| You can go to tolerance.org, which is teaching tolerance, by a guy named David Knight. | |
| This is being taught in schools all across the country called colorism. | |
| They have all these ridiculous studies saying that skin color bias affects perceptions, that it's not about black or white individuals. | |
| No, no, no, it's the color of their skin. | |
| And it says, quote, the false colorblind premise that underpins the rhetoric of equality is not lost on many young people, end quote. | |
| And so it's all throughout this website. | |
| They're talking about how they are going to teach young people about colorism. | |
| There's something really wrong. | |
| In fact, this actually is them way overplaying their hand. | |
| The richest group in America, and if you just talk about colorism, you're basically just talking about melanin content in your skin. | |
| The richest group in America have melanin contents in their skin far closer to black Americans than white Americans. | |
| Indian Americans. | |
| Indian Americans are the richest per capita group in America per income per year. | |
| So if America was colorist, which now is the new standard, it's not enough to just say you have to be against racism. | |
| You have to be against colorism. | |
| Why is it that Indian Americans who based just on the color of their skin, and by the way, I hate even talking about this because it's so unbelievably tribal. | |
| It just gets into the worst parts of human analysis, but this is where the left has brought us, so we have to talk about this. | |
| But wouldn't Indian American skin color be closer to a black American skin color than a white American skin color? | |
| So how is it that Indian Americans succeed at such a high rate if we are a colorist, racist society? | |
| Now, mind you, the left has now demanded that it's not enough just to not to be a racist. | |
| You have to be anti-racist. | |
| This is why you see videos of white people getting down on their knees, paying penance to the group humiliation gods of the left, begging for forgiveness for white privilege. | |
| This is also why Hollywood celebrities are making videos saying, I take responsibility for my hidden privilege. | |
| Now, mind you, they're not going to give up their Beverly Hills mansions or their chauffeur cars or their private jets. | |
| Instead, they're doing this because it makes them feel good. | |
| It does not do good. | |
| And this is why you see people getting canceled for their silence. | |
| So now the reason why the left is coming after our podcast on this program, so please support this program any way you can at charliekirk.com, is because we're not not stitch, it's not that we're staying silent. | |
| We're pushing back against it. | |
| We're doing the absolute highest sin of the group humiliation religion. | |
| At the Charlie Kirk show, we're saying that you're the racists. | |
| We're calling the left. | |
| We are calling the corporate anti-American elite. | |
| We are calling the weak Republicans out for going along with this narrative. | |
| It's not only what you do, it's what you don't do. | |
| This is such an incredibly dangerous road to be on. | |
| It's why you now see companies like Gushers and Fruit Roll-Ups coming out in support of Black Lives Matter. | |
| It's all nonsense, but they're afraid their silence is too damaging. | |
| They don't want the mob to come after them. | |
| If you're raising young children right now, it's such an incredibly awful time to have kids go through maturity. | |
| It really is. | |
| I'm hopeful we can turn this back. | |
| But in some ways, I'm cynical that kids are now going to be raised just looking at skin color more than any other time. | |
| Now, mind you, I was born in 1993. | |
| I went to kindergarten around the year 2000, 2001. | |
| I went to school with black kids, Hispanic kids. | |
| The high school I went to was 53% English as a second language. | |
| I went to high school with mostly kids that were Hispanic. | |
| I went to high school with illegal foreign nationals that were in the country illegally. | |
| And at the later end of my high school career, the white privilege nonsense started to get taught. | |
| But playing sports and playing track and field and football and basketball, we looked at each other truly as human beings with dignity. | |
| And of course, there were teenagers that at the time would act foolish, but at the end of all conversations, we looked at each other as humans, as friends. | |
| I'll never forget, when you walked into the lunchroom at Wheeling High School where I went to high school, it wasn't like the black kids sat all in one corner or the Hispanic kids sat in one corner. | |
| It was perfectly intermixed. | |
| And to be honest with you, it was because the administration and the principal at the time, I had lots of disagreements with him on plenty of stuff that was happening. | |
| And I don't want to say his name because to be honest with you, if I say his name, he's probably going to get fired from wherever he is right now and they're going to run him out. | |
| That's the level that we're at right now, that if Charlie Kirk says something positive about a high school principal that he once had, about how he handled racial issues, this guy will probably lose his job. | |
| But what he, he made a point by always saying, we are not going to over focus on our differences. | |
| Just get to know each other, act decent, and build good character. | |
| Never forget that. | |
| And by the way, this used to be something that was uncontroversial. | |
| This used to be something that was agreeable. | |
| This used to be something that was widely accepted. | |
| Instead, now, if you were to say that, you'd be run out of the building. | |
| So when I went to high school and I grew up, I will thank God on my knees. | |
| I grew up in America. | |
| That might have been the last post-racial moment in America when I grew up. | |
| Was there still racism? | |
| Of course there was. | |
| Of course. | |
| I'll be honest, though, in a school that was majority Hispanic, about 8 to 10% black, and a lot of Eastern European, I didn't see the racism that I was supposed to see based on the left's ivory tower theories. | |
| And again, I can speak from personal experience on this, going and being raised in a multiracial community, despite it being in the suburbs of Chicago. | |
| And so now I fear for kids. | |
| I really do. | |
| Because now young white people and young white kids are going to be told there's something inherently wrong with your existence. | |
| And do you know what also is most telling? | |
| When I grew up and where I grew up, some of the poorest kids, some of the kids that were the most disadvantaged, some of the kids that had the most abusive parents that would come into school with bruises because they'd be getting beat by their parents were white kids. | |
| That's why I push back so hard against this sinister lie of white privilege. | |
| Because where I grew up, it wasn't a guarantee just if you were the white kid in my high school at Wheeling High School, that you were the rich kid. | |
| No guarantee at all. | |
| In fact, the richest kids in our school with the parents that were the most well off were Asians and Indian Americans. | |
| Interesting, the data actually reflected what was happening, macro in the micro. | |
| But I push back against it because in Wheeling, Illinois, there's a specific community that are affordable housing units. | |
| And it's a mostly white community. | |
| And a lot of the kids that grew up in that area were heavy into drug use, most likely to commit suicide. | |
| In fact, I lost a friend, a white friend, to suicide a couple years after high school. | |
| And I played sports with him. | |
| He was a dear friend of mine, and I still miss him to this day. | |
| White kid. | |
| And I wonder myself, for him and for the other individuals in high school, and for now 10 years down the road, the kids that are just getting raised up, that are growing up in these trailer parks, mostly white trail parks in Wheeling, Illinois, they're going to have to walk through these ivory tower elites telling them that they have privilege just because of the color of their skin. | |
| The kids that I went to high school with, that I played football with, where we had to be on the line at 7 a.m. and I'd say, how was your night last night? | |
| And they said, well, my dad was really drunk and he came home and he abused us and we didn't really sleep much. | |
| And he was, he was a white kid. | |
| Do you see how dangerous and how pernicious this is to just label an entire group of American society to be inherently privileged? | |
| And so to close the point, I worry, deeply worry about kids being raised today. | |
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America's Universal Problems
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| This is going to create more racial conflict, not less. | |
| I grew up in a multiracial high school, and I could say right here, right now, there were no racial, big racial problems in our high school. | |
| Were there kids that made silly jokes? | |
| But guess what? | |
| When those jokes were made, they were shut down quickly. | |
| We'd say, that's not cool. | |
| Stop saying that. | |
| But now there's going to be more unrest and more divisions. | |
| And that's exactly what the left wants. | |
| They do not want a post-racial society. | |
| They want a hyper-racial society. | |
| So if you're raising young kids right now, that America is dead. | |
| And I'm happy and thankful I was able to live through it. | |
| An accepting, loving, compassionate, magnanimous America that wanted to judge people on character, not skin color. | |
| But now we're entering a tribalistic, hyper-racialized America. | |
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| This is Matt from Wisconsin. | |
| Hey, Charlie, my question is: if systemic racism isn't to blame for our problems, then what is? | |
| Can we point to any time, one event, or moment in history that has led to riots consuming our country? | |
| Thanks, Matt. | |
| So look, there are specific policies that can blame. | |
| Blaming all of our problems on systemic racism is incorrect, it is wrong, it is fallacious, and it is not rooted in truth. | |
| But before we blame politicians and bureaucrats, I first want to just talk about what makes the Christian ethic the most important ethic in the world ever. | |
| Not just because of the salvation of Jesus Christ and the divinity of the word of God, but no, first and foremost, the Christian ethic was the first ethical system that judged each person individually absent of group identity. | |
| That your salvation matters. | |
| That your salvation is independent of what your father or your mother or your grandfather might have done. | |
| We see this in the testimony of Paul. | |
| We see this all throughout the New Testament. | |
| We see this in Jesus Christ accepting another individual who is next to him on the cross. | |
| That redemption and forgiveness is necessary for all people. | |
| So why do I mention this? | |
| It's because instead of overly generalizing, the black community, well, the black community is made up of individual human beings that all individually made their own choices. | |
| And so before we get into policies that impacted those choices, we need to first hold people accountable and say individuals made bad choices. | |
| I do believe that big public policy and politicians betraying the middle class have played a huge role. | |
| But even greater than that, I will never, on the hierarchy of placing blame, if you will, I will never put anything higher than individual responsibility than people that decided to do something that was not in their best interest. | |
| And so a broken culture was more to blame than any sort of systemic racism. | |
| So if I were to point, though, to a piece of policy, or to a set of policies that impacted those choices, it would be the 1965 Great Society. | |
| Awful policies. | |
| They were not systemically racist because they actually impacted every community. | |
| They impacted the black community more because they were hyper-targeted towards specific areas of where black individuals lived, saying that we need to help those communities because of everything that we've done to the black community. | |
| So because of those good intentions, they resulted in bad public policy. | |
| So the 1965 Great Society, passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, subsidized something and get more of that something. | |
| We subsidized fatherlessness. | |
| We subsidized drug use. | |
| We got more single-parent homes. | |
| And we've talked about this a lot on the Charlie Kirk show. | |
| I encourage you to go back in the previous episodes. | |
| But understand that America's problems are universal. | |
| Our virtues are unique. | |
| One of the keys is your ideological starting point. | |
| The truth is that life is full of suffering. | |
| This is one thing that the Buddhists got correctly. | |
| Life is suffering. | |
| This is also a Christian biblical truth, but it's universally empirical. | |
| The left tries to sell you utopia. | |
| Utopia means nowhere. | |
| It actually literally means nowhere. | |
| And so when the Seattle terrorists took over six city blocks in Seattle with no police, with no private property, and they run their own streets, why are people still raping, stealing, and committing crimes? | |
| I thought it was our society that was the problem. | |
| Why are you guys still doing bad things despite you being able to create your own six city blocks? | |
| It's because the left tries to sell you utopia, but it's never going to exist. | |
| The more they sell us utopia and the more that we buy that lie, the more young people are going to hate America because it's not perfect. | |
| And then they try to elect them more. | |
| It's this self-reinforcing power-grabbing loop until they have absolute, total authoritarian control over America. | |
| But guess what? | |
| If you've traveled the world like I have, you realize this is the best the planet has to offer. | |
| You realize this is the best place in the entire world. | |
| And the more races we have integrated, our system has made tremendous progress on practically every front. | |
| But the more we tear down a system that has been so good and so prone to self-correction, the more we weaken our ability to grow and to become better in the future. | |
| The more we tear down the moral and civil institutions that form the bedrock of this nation for so long, demonizing them as the problem when we really have been the source of all that is good, the less bright the future will be. | |
| So Joshua from Massachusetts says, growing up, who was the conservative voice or show that you listened to or watched most, or did you have one? | |
| Rush Limbaugh was so instructive. | |
| Glenn Beck was awesome. | |
| Mark Levin. | |
| But the person who really turned the corner for me, the person that just made it all click, was Milton Friedman. | |
| And with Milton Friedman was Thomas Sowell, who if you do not know who Thomas Sowell is and you're in American politics or you're interested, you got to know. | |
| Thomas Sowell is a black intellectual who is the most articulate, who is the most incredible black economist, I think, in the entire country. | |
| And Walter Williams is awesome, and so is Shelby Steele. | |
| I want to play you a clip right now of Thomas Sowell, who is so incredible on the issue of race in America. | |
| Listen carefully. | |
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Thomas Sowell Is A Hero
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| Play tape. | |
| Nicholas Christoph, columnist for the New York Times, got under your skin, and not for the first time. | |
| Readers of your column will know. | |
| New York Times writer Nicholas Kristoff, I'm quoting you, asserts that there is overwhelming, you're quoting him, overwhelming evidence that centuries of racial subjugation still shape inequity in the 21st century, quote, closing quote, and he mentions, open quote, the lingering effects of slavery, close quote. | |
| And now this is Tom Sowell. | |
| If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood 100 years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. | |
| Yes. | |
| Explain that. | |
| Well, in 1960, which would be almost 100 years after the end of slavery, 22% of black kids grew up in homes with only one parent. | |
| Just 22%. | |
| Yes. | |
| Four out of five were in homes with both parents. | |
| Yes. | |
| 30 years later, after the liberal welfare state, that number had more than tripled. | |
| And so I say, let us compare, if we can speculate on how much that 22% was due to the legacy of slavery. | |
| But we know that that tripling was not due to the legacy of slavery. | |
| It was due to the legacy of a whole different set of policies. | |
| And you can look at it so many other ways. | |
| Education. | |
| Stuyvesant High School in New York, as you know, you get into only by passing a very tough exam. | |
| In 2012, the percentage of black students who had gotten into Stuyvesant High School was less than one-tenth of the percentage of black students who had gotten into Stuyvesant High School 33 years earlier. | |
| I didn't know that. | |
| Dunbar High School in Washington, which was an elite black high school for a very long time. | |
| In 1993, the number of kids out of Dunbar High School who went on to college was less than it was 60 years earlier, which would have been in the depth of the Great Depression. | |
| And so you can run through a whole bunch of other things like that. | |
| Look at the housing projects. | |
| The housing projects in the first half of the 20th century, during that first hundred years after slavery, did not have the high crime rates, the murder rates, the graffiti, all the rest of it that we associate. | |
| None of that was there. | |
| People, like the New York Times, I should Christoph should read his own old papers, pointed out that on Saturday mornings, it was common in the housing project of this earlier era for parents to leave their doors unlocked because some of the parents could afford television, some couldn't. | |
| So the ones who had television would leave their doors unlocked, and the kids from the other families could come down there and watch television with them. | |
| Well, now the latest figures show that most people below the poverty line have two television sets and cable, but they wouldn't dare leave their doors unlocked in a public housing project. | |
| Thomas Sowell is an American hero. | |
| Thomas Sowell's ignored by the American left because he dare not subscribe to the groupthink mob agenda. | |
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My Simple Diet Rules
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| Phil from Louisiana says, what are your top five favorite foods, assuming you ever had the time to eat? | |
| So I have celiac, which means I am allergic to gluten. | |
| I'm not one of those trendy, gluten-free people. | |
| I actually, if I eat gluten, I get very sick. | |
| I put hot sauce on almost everything. | |
| I eat very basic. | |
| I love to, I love steak, mostly chicken, though, chicken wings, probably hot wings. | |
| I really don't eat that many different types of food, to be honest. | |
| I like sushi every once in a while. | |
| I mean, I kind of joke around with people. | |
| I eat like a liberal because partly because of my diet, to be honest. | |
| But I'm kind of a sucker for like a really, really good kale salad. | |
| I know that probably invalidates me from many conservative circles, but I'm not anti-meat. | |
| I do love meat, and it actually really helps me think clearly. | |
| And so everyone's diet is different. | |
| But people say, Charlie, where do you get all the energy from? | |
| I am a hawk over what I eat, okay? | |
| I never eat candy ever. | |
| I never drink any sort of calories unless it's coffee or celery juice or a turmeric shot or a ginger shot. | |
| Again, I'm not one of those people that judges what other people eat. | |
| Everyone has their own diet and their own wants and needs. | |
| I am not on the anti-meat movement. | |
| In fact, the opposite. | |
| I do love meat. | |
| But I, for one, am able to work 18, 19, 20-hour days because I'm so precise on what I eat and how I eat. | |
| And I think that people need to take what they eat more seriously. | |
| And I talked about this in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show with Chris Buzkirk last weekend, which is I think most of the problems in America, almost all of the health-related issues in America, can be traced back to diet. | |
| We eat like garbage in our country. | |
| We eat processed food. | |
| We eat deep-fried food. | |
| Again, I'm all for that every once in a while. | |
| Don't get me wrong. | |
| I think it's fine. | |
| I think you should have the freedom to do it. | |
| But generally, I think America eats like garbage. | |
| I think it's not good and it is not good for you. | |
| And I think that we need to have a food revolution, a nutrition revolution in our country. | |
| And I take it very seriously. | |
| It's why I'm able to do what I do and why I'm able to do two podcasts a day. | |
| But when I don't eat well, I feel sluggish. | |
| I feel slow. | |
| And so I'm able to produce higher and better because of it. | |
| I have one cup of coffee a day. | |
| If I had any more than one cup of coffee a day, I'd probably be doing four podcasts a day and my entire team would quit. | |
| But I have one cup of coffee, then I switch to tea. | |
| And my whole thing is overhydration. | |
| I'm always drinking water. | |
| I'm always drinking something. | |
| And yes, my favorite thing in the entire world is sparkling water, specifically Topo Chico. | |
| I know what you're going to say. | |
| Mexican mineral water, America first. | |
| I totally agree. | |
| But we got to respect our neighbors when they produce a good product. | |
| And Topo Chico is exceptional. | |
| It's very, very good. | |
| It is exceptional and it is terrific. | |
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Memories Of The White Sox
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| Tina from Tupelo says, Charlie, do you know any good jokes? | |
| And if so, could you tell us your favorite? | |
| I know plenty of jokes. | |
| Let me think of a good one. | |
| Tupelo, Mississippi. | |
| Tupelo. | |
| I love Tupelo, Mississippi. | |
| It is not far from Oxford, Mississippi. | |
| I've been to Tupelo, Mississippi. | |
| I love you guys. | |
| Good people. | |
| The American South and your whole history is being torn apart. | |
| Let me think of a good joke. | |
| So I'll tell you my favorite political joke, and it's very simple. | |
| In Illinois, we have term limits, not like most states. | |
| One term in office, one term in jail. | |
| Try my best. | |
| So anyway, the other one is I tried having fun once and I hated it. | |
| So that's my other go-to. | |
| I got like five or six that I kind of pull at a moment's notice. | |
| So anyway, thanks, Tina. | |
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| Last question is Larry from Columbus, Ohio. | |
| Charlie, who's your favorite sports team ever assembled? | |
| Who were they? | |
| And tell us about them. | |
| There's one team that really was a personal experience for me. | |
| All of you that grew up loving sports like I did, and I just miss sports so much, you know exactly what I talk about, that sometimes there's just that magical team that you follow every pitch or every game, every second of that team. | |
| It's like the 85 Bears for my parents' generation. | |
| In Chicago, it's a team that everyone forgets about. | |
| It's a team that literally, when ESPN talked about Chicago championships, they have forgotten to list this team three times now. | |
| I kid you not. | |
| Three times. | |
| The 05 White Sox. | |
| The 05 White Sox might have been the most dominant baseball team in playoff history that everyone forgets about. | |
| The 05 White Sox only lost one playoff game. | |
| They were the only team in ALCS history, I think in all of the championship series history, to have every pitcher pitch a complete game. | |
| They swept the defending champion, 2004 Red Sox. | |
| They beat the Angels by only losing one game, and they swept the Astros in the World Series before they started to steal signs. | |
| Thank goodness they didn't do it against the White Sox. | |
| It was such a great team because it was a team without any sort of massive franchise tag. | |
| It was the ultimate small ball team. | |
| The manager was Ozzie Guillen. | |
| First base was Paul Canerco, and sometimes got switched out for designated hitter. | |
| The pitchers, Freddie Garcia, John Garland, Jose Contreras, the closer, Bobby Jenks. | |
| At second base, Juan Uribe. | |
| Third base, Joe Creedy. | |
| And outfield, Scott Pesednik. | |
| The other outfielder who won World Series MVP, Jermaine Dye. | |
| A.J. Piersynski was the catcher, and he was phenomenal. | |
| Frank Thomas actually didn't play that year, but he got a ring, Hall of Fame player, of course. | |
| It was a team of gritty, hungry, Chicago-style Midwesterners who won the World Series. | |
| And they will always be forgotten in history for whatever reason, because it just didn't fit the narrative. | |
| Didn't fit the narrative of the type of team that the media liked to praise because they didn't really have a superstar. | |
| They didn't really have the right types of players that fit the archetype. | |
| But they were phenomenal. | |
| And I'll never forget it. | |
| I was in sixth grade. | |
| I'm still a Cubs fan to this day, but I was cheered for them so much because I was so hungry as a Chicagoan. | |
| And I've never been like an anti-Sox guy, despite being a pro-Cubs guy. | |
| I've always think it's so silly growing up, the Cubs versus Sox rivalry. | |
| I've never entertained it. | |
| But I, for one, wanted a championship so badly for our city, I went all in for the White Sox. | |
| And that victory, I'll never forget. | |
| It was so special. | |
| It was so amazing. | |
| It set the city on fire when we really needed it. | |
| The 2005 Chicago White Sox will always have a special place in my heart. | |
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