Charlie Kirk Explains Critical Race Theory and Why Republican Victories Signal a Citizenry Awakening in America

[00:01] hello america i'm ron hollyhood 15 year

[00:04] old conservative commentator

[00:05] editor-in-chief of the truth gazette

[00:07] here today back in tuscaloosa alabama

[00:10] here at the home of the university of

[00:11] alabama we're here on campus with a good

[00:14] friend of mine you know some of you who

[00:15] have been here for a while might

[00:16] remember but this is a familiar face to

[00:18] the channel i actually interviewed this

[00:19] guy right here just a few rooms down on

[00:21] this same location oh was it really at

[00:23] this hotel it was the same thing

[00:25] wow and um you know he was one of my

[00:28] first big interviews that broke the

[00:29] internet it was crazy and we're glad to

[00:31] have him back here on the show today

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[00:41] mr chandler himself charlie welcome i'm

[00:42] honored we're all tied we're all sad

[00:44] glad to hear it welcome back to the show

[00:46] we really really appreciate thank you

[00:47] you bet well charlie let's go ahead and

[00:49] kick things off here by talking about

[00:50] some hot button issues across the

[00:51] country right now critical race gear yes

[00:54] actually what you're here tonight on

[00:55] campus to talk about uh so to start off

[00:57] here can you just explain what critical

[00:58] race theory is in a few words and

[01:00] explain why it's being pushed into the

[01:02] minds of our youth across the country by

[01:03] the loves and why we have to stop boy in

[01:05] a few words i don't know if i could do

[01:06] that uh it's racism pure and simple it's

[01:08] judging people based on things that

[01:10] cannot change instead of based on things

[01:12] they can change

[01:14] and it's organizing society completely

[01:17] the opposite way that you know america

[01:19] has always tried to to try to aim for

[01:21] and

[01:22] we kind of saw in the recent elections

[01:24] how americans have a distaste for this

[01:26] we kind of call it wokelash right where

[01:29] americans are kind of saying i i don't

[01:31] know if i'm

[01:32] on board for the idea of all of a sudden

[01:34] hiring airline pilots at united airlines

[01:36] based on skin color or black only

[01:38] dormitories like they have at western

[01:40] washington university or black only

[01:42] graduation ceremonies at columbia

[01:44] university and so yeah a critical race

[01:46] theory i could go into the academic

[01:47] theory of it probably not enough time to

[01:49] do that but it basically comes from a

[01:51] power dynamic view of the world of

[01:53] oppressor versus oppressed and they

[01:55] believe that white people are on top

[01:56] black people are on the bottom and that

[01:58] they're going to try to mount some sort

[02:00] of you know revolution against that

[02:03] absolutely you know across the country

[02:05] we've seen parents speaking out against

[02:06] critical race theory and other liberal

[02:08] influence curriculums being pushed into

[02:10] the minds of our youth um in the past

[02:12] few months have been speaking out at

[02:13] their local school board meetings you

[02:14] know why is it so important that these

[02:16] parents are taking up the responsibility

[02:17] themselves to speak out and what is your

[02:20] advice to them as someone who you know

[02:21] is on the national front line speaking

[02:22] out yourself yeah i mean well first of

[02:24] all i mean my advice is to keep showing

[02:26] up and keep asking questions and don't

[02:28] let the department of justice intimidate

[02:30] you by calling you domestic terrorist

[02:32] that's the very important thing but yeah

[02:34] i mean it's important obviously because

[02:35] they're your children and you're the

[02:36] guardians of their of their future and

[02:40] if you ask someone on the left they'll

[02:41] say oh they have no say whatsoever over

[02:43] the upbringing of your child which is

[02:45] it's just immoral it's evil it's awful

[02:47] and most americans don't agree with that

[02:49] at all and so for moms and dads out

[02:51] there keep on showing up for the school

[02:52] board meetings if you haven't showed up

[02:54] yet make sure you do that um it's it's

[02:57] profoundly important absolutely i

[02:58] completely agree you know in the wake of

[03:00] covet i write some freedoms have been

[03:01] trampled on and infringed across the

[03:03] country by radical liberals and power

[03:05] you know what is your reaction to some

[03:07] of the latest vaccine mandates around

[03:08] the country especially for some people

[03:10] who are at risk of losing their jobs and

[03:12] livelihoods and for some students on

[03:14] college campuses who are at risk of

[03:16] being punished or kicked out of their

[03:17] college for not even taking the vaccine

[03:19] yeah i mean no one should be um no one

[03:21] should be forced to take a vaccine

[03:22] against their will it's happening all

[03:24] across the country at a rapid pace and a

[03:26] disturbing pace um and yeah i mean

[03:29] especially young people that are very

[03:31] minimal and

[03:33] insignificant risk of dying from the

[03:36] fauchi virus why should we have to

[03:38] inoculate them against their will and

[03:40] yeah i mean i'm seeing true courage from

[03:42] people all across the country that are

[03:44] rising up and they're starting to say i

[03:48] am

[03:48] prioritizing

[03:50] you know a moral good over my paycheck

[03:54] that's a profound thing it's a powerful

[03:55] thing too um and

[03:58] i think that those people are heroes and

[04:00] honestly the tyrants that are pushing

[04:02] these mandates they have to be stopped

[04:04] you're exactly right you know we talked

[04:06] about this before we came on air let's

[04:07] talk about it again you know last night

[04:08] was a really good night for the

[04:10] republican party with major victories

[04:11] across the country in multiple races

[04:14] talking about one specifically here you

[04:15] know glenn young can a republican won

[04:17] the governorship in virginia a huge

[04:19] victory for the party and virginia

[04:21] obviously a state that joe biden won by

[04:23] ten points now what is your reaction to

[04:25] last night's major republican victories

[04:27] and what messages do you think this is

[04:28] sending to joe biden and other democrats

[04:30] yeah a lot of it was just kind of an

[04:31] anti-left

[04:34] anti-institutional power

[04:36] push i mean you saw this guy from new

[04:38] jersey was like my new hero

[04:40] edwin derr who's like a truck driver and

[04:43] he spent 153 dollars i don't even think

[04:45] he knew he was running for office like

[04:47] and he probably beat the machine

[04:50] politics second in command of the new

[04:52] jersey state senate that's unbelievable

[04:54] and people and this is the thing is that

[04:56] we're really dissatisfied with our

[04:58] rulers right now and we should be and

[05:00] right now the people that are running

[05:02] the country are totally disconnected

[05:04] from the people who make the country run

[05:06] and at its best a country has that in

[05:08] harmony where the people that make the

[05:10] country run feel as if the people that

[05:11] are running the country are listening to

[05:13] them or at least don't hate them

[05:15] and so here you have this

[05:17] middle class grandfather of six father

[05:20] of three eagles fan harley-davidson

[05:22] writing

[05:24] guy

[05:25] who spent 153.70

[05:28] of it at dunkin donuts

[05:29] his true story and the rest on flyers

[05:32] and yard signs and he displaced the

[05:34] second most powerful politician in one

[05:35] of the most powerful states in the

[05:36] country who does that

[05:38] well the citizenry

[05:40] 32 000 people that voted for him it's 2

[05:42] 000 vote delta between him and the

[05:44] incumbent they're really upset with

[05:46] their rulers and in south jersey these

[05:48] are the people of the truck drivers

[05:50] they're the people that work at the

[05:51] ports they're the people that are

[05:52] teachers and firefighters and police

[05:54] officers and they're fed up with this

[05:55] they're fed up with seeing their friends

[05:57] and their family members get vex and

[05:58] they have to get vaccinated against

[05:59] their will

[06:00] and you don't over complicate that and

[06:02] i've always liked the people of new

[06:04] jersey

[06:05] and i just i've never been in new jersey

[06:06] it's quite an interesting place on the

[06:08] garden state

[06:09] and

[06:10] they're tough people and

[06:12] there is kind of this thing like if we

[06:14] don't you don't you're not doing your

[06:15] job we're gonna hold you accountable

[06:17] like we're gonna take it out to the

[06:18] streets and stop it ourselves we can't

[06:19] do that in politics well it's like let's

[06:21] just go hire the truck driver right

[06:23] and what what that shows me is the same

[06:26] sort of energy that got trump elected in

[06:27] 15 and 16 is still alive

[06:29] which is that people are really upset

[06:32] at the kind of corrupt

[06:35] the baseless

[06:36] the some would say boring i would

[06:38] definitely agree with that um kind of

[06:40] mantra of america's ruling class this

[06:42] guy sweeney was in office since 2004.

[06:46] he

[06:49] there you go i was 11 in 2004 and so

[06:52] in 2004 he got elected and he's been a

[06:54] machine politician who basically runs

[06:56] the whole state

[06:58] and you just have a truck driver spend

[07:00] 153 dollars

[07:02] and beat him it's unbelievable

[07:05] in a deep blue area and so yeah there's

[07:07] something special going on in this

[07:09] country and every commentator is getting

[07:10] it wrong on television everyone except

[07:12] tucker is going to get it right i know

[07:14] it

[07:15] he's texting the tucker today about this

[07:16] which everyone's like oh it's because

[07:18] junkin was a super moderator it has

[07:19] nothing to do with that okay it's that

[07:21] there is this continuation of a

[07:23] awakening of the population to retake

[07:27] its role as a citizen not a subject

[07:30] right and it's a powerful thing that's

[07:32] how you get truck drivers who can win

[07:33] elections by spending 153

[07:35] and guess what for every person in power

[07:37] that should terrify you

[07:39] because the people are common only in

[07:41] america is a story like that austin only

[07:43] in america uh you know there's been a

[07:45] lot of talk about the future of the

[07:46] republican party going on in terms of

[07:48] 2022 and the presidential race obviously

[07:50] in 24. um what do you think republicans

[07:52] need to do to win back the house and

[07:53] senate in 2022 take back the white house

[07:55] in 2010 yes so

[07:57] you know we're on tour here for turning

[07:58] point usa so anything i say is in my

[08:00] personal capacity politically um i can

[08:02] talk about you they shouldn't do some

[08:05] completely unwise person for the house

[08:07] republicans tweeted this picture of

[08:09] terry mcauliffe and they say the

[08:11] election in virginia shows that

[08:12] americans don't want socialism like

[08:14] that's not what the election was about

[08:15] at all okay like no the election was

[08:18] about

[08:19] critical race theory the election was

[08:20] about diversity equity inclusion about

[08:22] representation in schools and here is

[08:24] the thing is that the caste system has

[08:26] come to america and people know it and

[08:28] it makes them super anxious they don't

[08:30] like the fact that there's an oligarchy

[08:31] that's untouchable they don't like the

[08:33] fact that terry mcauliffe gets to wine

[08:34] and dine with the clintons and the

[08:35] obamas and go to a birthday party in

[08:37] martha's vineyard without having to be

[08:38] that you know without the same sort of

[08:40] protocols and their kid has to wear a

[08:41] mask in the local loudoun county school

[08:43] and so if republicans in the senate and

[08:46] the house actually are serious about

[08:47] governing the country they would look at

[08:49] last night correctly not what their

[08:50] consultants want them to look like oh

[08:52] it's a bunch of moderates that's

[08:53] actually not true junkin started to

[08:55] actually get traction when he embraced

[08:57] the same sort of tone and tenor that

[08:59] donald trump had in 2016

[09:01] and this is a multi-racial coalition

[09:03] this is a coalition that christians are

[09:05] finally getting reactivated and retaking

[09:07] their government and so if they want to

[09:09] take back the house they have to they

[09:11] have to be a vessel for the needs wants

[09:13] concerns anxieties of a nation that kind

[09:16] of wants to send a message to the

[09:18] unelected unaccountable bureaucrats to

[09:19] fouchy

[09:20] to you know sweeney we talk about new

[09:22] jersey whoever it is it's like i hate

[09:24] that guy i don't like him because if i

[09:26] did what he did i would be fired that's

[09:28] a normal in fact a healthy process for

[09:31] the american political process to go

[09:32] through but i think i mean look it's

[09:35] republicans to lose at this point like

[09:36] last night basically sets the table

[09:38] republicans should should have an

[09:40] 80-seat majority if they do their job

[09:42] they will have an 80-seat majority

[09:44] coming in to next the next congressional

[09:47] session and the senate should have

[09:48] 55-seat majority we'll see we'll see

[09:51] we'll see it'll be an interesting racing

[09:52] v the momentum is there you know

[09:54] shifting gears here a little bit a few

[09:55] weeks ago president trump announced his

[09:57] up-and-coming launch of a new social

[09:59] media app true social which is supposed

[10:00] to drop some time this month don't have

[10:02] this specific date example is coming you

[10:03] know obviously president trump has been

[10:05] banned from all social media in america

[10:07] and you as well as thousands of

[10:09] conservatives have been censored off of

[10:10] social media platforms what do you think

[10:12] we need to be doing as conservatives to

[10:14] push back against this censorship yeah i

[10:16] mean truth social hopefully will do very

[10:17] well rumble.com is great everyone needs

[10:19] to be using rumble our umble.com they're

[10:21] phenomenal and they are skyrocketing i

[10:24] mean i i don't think we should stop

[10:25] using facebook twitter or youtube um i

[10:27] think we should stay here as long as we

[10:29] can uh lekwalessa had a phenomenal quote

[10:32] when he uh effectively um pushed back

[10:35] against the soviet union in poland he

[10:37] said we've had we have enough martyrs

[10:39] yeah he said we don't need more martyrs

[10:40] like stacking martyrs a mile high has

[10:42] done us no good he said instead we need

[10:44] deliberate small pieces of collectivized

[10:46] action and he was right so what drives

[10:49] me nuts is when people know that and

[10:51] this is there's two different things

[10:52] there's two different types of

[10:53] censorship there's people that get

[10:54] censored because they do nothing wrong

[10:55] these people get censored that know the

[10:57] rules and they intentionally break the

[10:59] rules the rules are dumb okay they're

[11:00] awful we're going to fix it by other

[11:01] platforms but then some people

[11:03] intentionally are like no no i'm going

[11:04] to post this to stick it to zuckerberg

[11:06] and i'm going to be a murderer and they

[11:07] get their 30 minutes of fame and it's

[11:09] like okay well you don't have access to

[11:10] your facebook that's really stupid right

[11:12] and now people say oh charlie what are

[11:13] you going to conform to their tyranny

[11:14] well in the facebook platform

[11:17] that that's one thing i don't think it's

[11:18] a good thing of all of a sudden i don't

[11:19] have access to my 2.4 million people but

[11:22] with that being said i'm going to try to

[11:24] do just as much if not more posting on

[11:26] rumble and try to weaken facebook in

[11:28] that way if that makes sense and some

[11:29] people say well charlie if we all left

[11:31] facebook they'd have no power this is

[11:32] not true it isn't it's like first of all

[11:34] you're not going to get 200 million

[11:36] people to stop using facebook tomorrow

[11:37] it's going to happen over time as you

[11:39] have competitors we should have broken

[11:40] them up and do all these sorts of things

[11:41] and tax them and penalize them but yeah

[11:44] i just i don't think the intentional

[11:46] martyr thing is helping us in any way

[11:49] you know wrapping things up here um you

[11:50] know i have young conservatives reach

[11:52] out to me message out you know every

[11:54] single day sharing how they want to be

[11:56] involved um asking how they can help

[11:58] what is your message to young americans

[11:59] across the country who are interested in

[12:01] getting involved and being part of a

[12:03] movement to stand up and speak out with

[12:04] them get involved with turning point usa

[12:07] tpusa.com and come to america

[12:08] americafest tpusa.com

[12:11] amfest and just be the same person in

[12:13] public that you are in private speak out

[12:15] you know let your mind be heard it's

[12:17] super important and um it's our country

[12:20] now it's going to be it's our generation

[12:22] it's going to be the generation that

[12:23] wasn't born in 2004 which is crazy

[12:25] that's gonna be in charge right

[12:27] and

[12:28] that's that's a new development right

[12:31] where before it was kind of just like

[12:32] one a couple generations ruling

[12:34] everything but americans i think want

[12:36] fresh ideas they want new leadership

[12:38] they want boldness they want courage and

[12:40] i'm not actually i'm not really big into

[12:42] the generation bashing i i think that

[12:43] there's a lot of young people with great

[12:45] ideas i think there's a lot of people

[12:46] that aren't young that have great ideas

[12:47] you know what i mean like whatever it is

[12:49] it matters how courageous and strong you

[12:50] are i don't think just because you're a

[12:51] young person you'll be a better

[12:52] representative or whatever i do think we

[12:54] need more young blood for sure but yeah

[12:56] if you're young just speak out organize

[12:58] and let your voice be heard well thank

[13:00] you so much for doing this charlie

[13:01] really means a lot thank you you know a

[13:03] lot of the huge fan support of you and

[13:04] your work value our friendship and all

[13:06] the projects you've done you do a great

[13:07] job looking forward if you are

[13:09] relentless as relentless as you are at

[13:11] 15 we'll all be working for you i'll

[13:13] tell you that's uh non-stop i i know i

[13:16] know grit when i see it it's good thank

[13:18] you so much really appreciate i'll say

[13:19] this last time we sat down in the same

[13:21] place you were a young single bachelor

[13:22] oh last time you bought your wonderful

[13:24] right there everyone go get married next

[13:26] time maybe you can bring the whole thing

[13:27] there you go so look we're looking

[13:28] forward next time we're in tuscaloosa

[13:31] okay thank you so much make sure to

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