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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.
Charlie Kirk Dismantles Critical Race Theory Advocate Who Defends Segregated Dormitories at College Campus
Charlie Kirk confronts a student defending critical race theory at a college campus, exposing the contradictions in modern progressive ideology. When the student claims race means nothing biologically but defends black-only dormitories as community building, Kirk challenges him on why America fought to end segregation only to see it return under new terminology. The exchange reveals how critical race theory, despite claims it's only taught in higher academia, has infiltrated K-12 education through teacher union training and is being implemented on playgrounds and college campuses across America. Kirk methodically walks the student through the logical inconsistencies of simultaneously claiming racial differences are irrelevant while supporting race-based segregation in housing and graduation ceremonies.
A heated exchange unfolded when a student challenged the assertion that race means nothing and claimed critical race theory is not being taught in elementary and secondary schools. The student argued that critical race theory is an academic theory delegated only to higher academia and that explanations of it are often oversimplified without addressing its real historical foundations.
The student posed a direct question: if race means nothing, why does it affect American history, citing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as an example of evil history tied to something supposedly meaningless.
Evidence of Critical Race Theory in Elementary Education
Charlie Kirk responded by directly challenging the claim that critical race theory isn't being taught in elementary schools. He provided specific examples to support his position. In Denver, he cited a playground where white families were reportedly not allowed, asking if the student would support such a policy. When the student dismissed this as a ridiculous edge case, Kirk offered another example.
Kirk pointed to the National Education Association's training manual, noting that the NEA is the largest teacher union in the country. According to Kirk, they held a seminar specifically on how to teach critical race theory to children. He emphasized that this demonstrates the ideology is indeed present in schools, not just confined to university settings.
The student responded by characterizing this as common sense teaching of real history about what has happened in the past.
The Question of Segregated Dormitories
Kirk then shifted the conversation to a practical application of critical race theory principles by asking whether black-only dormitories are wrong. The student responded that such arrangements create a sense of community and saw no problem with them, comparing the situation to sororities and male-only dorms.
Kirk challenged this comparison by pointing out that racial differences are being claimed as irrelevant and immaterial, while chromosomal differences actually do matter. He then asked directly: are there differences between races?
The student answered that there are no biological differences between races, only cultural ones. This led Kirk to question why there would be different dormitories for races if there are no biological differences. The student accused Kirk of creating a distraction from the original argument.
Exposing the Contradiction in Progressive Ideology
Kirk invoked Ibram X. Kendi, identifying him as one of the leading thinkers of critical race theory. According to Kirk, Kendi argues for discrimination today to atone for discrimination of yesterday. Kirk cited specific examples of this ideology in practice:
Black-only graduation ceremonies at Columbia University
Black-only dormitories across the country, including at Western Washington University
Kirk asked the student to join him in saying that black-only dormitories are evil and wrong. He also pressed the student to answer why history simultaneously means nothing if race is irrelevant.
The student insisted he was arguing against segregation, but Kirk noted the contradiction: the student had just said black-only dormitories create community. When confronted with this inconsistency, the student clarified that he was not advocating for critical race theory itself, but rather saying that such arrangements should be a matter of choice and option.
The Choice to Segregate
Kirk seized on the idea that people could choose to segregate. He asked what the student thought of white-only dormitories and whether he would support them. The student responded that everybody has a choice, suggesting he would support both white-only and black-only arrangements based on individual choice.
Kirk then made his position clear: he believes white-only and black-only anything is evil and wrong. This is precisely why he opposes critical theory and critical race theory, because when these ideologies are put into practice, they lead to discriminating against people based on race.
The Historical Fight Against Segregation
Kirk reminded the student that they were in North Carolina, south of the Mason-Dixon line, and that a lot of work was done to get rid of segregation in this country. He questioned why the student was trying to bring segregation back.
When asked what work was done, the student initially seemed uncertain before mentioning the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kirk pressed further, asking if there are black-only bathrooms or white-only bathrooms in North Carolina. The student confirmed there are not.
Kirk emphasized that substantial work was done in North Carolina and across the nation to end such segregation. As the exchange concluded, the student resorted to a personal insult about Kirk's face being small. Kirk thanked him for being present and noted that people always go to insults when they lose an argument, ending with "God bless you my friend."
