Charlie Kirk on Fighting CRT in College While Pursuing Addiction Recovery Career and Faith

[00:00] hi so i recently decided to go back to

[00:02] school after eight years to obtain a

[00:04] career in alcohol and drug recovery

[00:07] since it is a big issue here and i also

[00:09] had similar issues

[00:10] with the grace of god his word in this

[00:12] church i was able to seek my sobriety

[00:15] but now that i am in college courses

[00:18] thank you

[00:19] now that i'm taking college courses i'm

[00:22] really being fed a lot of crt and they

[00:24] basically blame all these issues on

[00:27] racial oppression

[00:28] since my goal is to reach people with

[00:30] the word of god

[00:32] and to impact their lives with the word

[00:34] of god how do you suggest i do this with

[00:37] the college system that removes god's

[00:38] glory and basically makes us a victim to

[00:41] anti-american society well first of all

[00:44] i just want to encourage you

[00:45] congratulations on your sobriety that's

[00:46] a big deal and

[00:51] i i use the example of alcoholism to

[00:54] young people a lot because young people

[00:56] say charlie liberty is being able to do

[00:59] whatever i want to do whenever i want to

[01:00] do it i say go meet an alcoholic and

[01:02] tell me if they're free or not

[01:04] they become free when they stop doing

[01:06] what they want to do when they want to

[01:08] do it right it's a message we must

[01:10] communicate to our children let me just

[01:12] make one side comment um just to kind of

[01:14] debunk your professors if they think

[01:17] that alcohol and drug addiction is

[01:19] solely something that impacts native

[01:21] american or hispanic communities i

[01:23] encourage them to get in the car and

[01:24] drive through kansas or oklahoma

[01:26] missouri iowa um it impacts every

[01:28] community in fact there is there are

[01:30] some statistics that the opioid epidemic

[01:32] disproportionately hurts white

[01:33] working-class communities only because

[01:36] of manual labor that happens in the

[01:38] northeast especially lobstermen you know

[01:40] all these sorts of different um

[01:42] positions that they get back injuries

[01:44] and it really impacts them so it's it's

[01:47] racist to imply otherwise the drug

[01:49] epidemic fentanyl impacts all

[01:51] communities right it is colorblind

[01:53] through and through but how do you fight

[01:54] back against it this is going to be a

[01:55] real challenging of your faith and a

[01:58] challenging of your walk you will become

[01:59] stronger if you remain close to god's

[02:02] word and god's promises throughout this

[02:04] but

[02:05] this is this is important because you're

[02:07] going to be in classes where they're

[02:08] spewing all this nonsense right and

[02:10] you'll have to make a decision like do i

[02:12] contest for what i know to be true

[02:14] or do i kind of just say nothing maybe

[02:16] saying nothing's the right choice

[02:18] because maybe you're like i got to get

[02:20] good grades because i want to go get a

[02:21] job and maybe that maybe you'll be able

[02:22] to minister there but i think that if

[02:25] you pray deeply about it god will open

[02:27] up an opportunity for a topic that you

[02:29] know really well

[02:30] for something that they're saying that's

[02:32] untrue for you at that perfect time to

[02:34] insert yourself with truth and you might

[02:36] say charlie how do i do that the best

[02:38] way to communicate in hostile

[02:39] environments is to ask questions

[02:42] don't tell people things ask questions

[02:45] so you as a student can say hey you know

[02:48] why is it that the opioid epidemic is

[02:50] also in a lot of white dominant states

[02:52] as well

[02:53] like the white estate in the country

[02:55] vermont or new hampshire and montana

[02:57] they all have huge opioid problems too

[02:59] why is that the case if it's all about

[03:00] structural racism that's a good question

[03:02] they won't know how to answer right and

[03:05] so look i deal in hostile environments

[03:07] all the time i visit college campuses so

[03:09] you don't have to asking questions

[03:12] and by the way you might say charlie

[03:13] where'd you get that from jesus

[03:15] when jesus went in to go talk to the

[03:18] sadducees and the pharisees it was

[03:20] always the dialectic of questioning

[03:22] it's asking questions asking questions

[03:24] and so i just want to encourage you

[03:26] you're going to have some difficult

[03:27] moments there but you'll be your your

[03:29] spiritual muscles will grow stronger the

[03:32] more that you push back against all that

[03:34] darkness