Charlie Kirk Recalls Playing on All-White Serbian Basketball Team Called the White Eagles

[00:00] charlie kirk

[00:01] is talking about sports um

[00:04] but only in the context of vaccine

[00:08] denialism novak djokovic she did an

[00:10] interview the other day where he said

[00:12] that he'd give up being the greatest

[00:14] tennis player ever for his righteous

[00:17] cause of not taking the coven vaccine

[00:19] that's been administered billions of

[00:21] times at this point i mean no offense to

[00:22] tennis but we'll be okay yeah

[00:25] right and uh come on i used to watch a

[00:27] little bit of tennis in my day

[00:30] he's not greater than roger federer or

[00:32] rafael nadal it's like it's like leaders

[00:34] of isis they'll be a new greatest tennis

[00:36] player right um and

[00:38] and perhaps we could also just say

[00:41] serena williams

[00:42] with that said here he is uh

[00:46] with his musings on

[00:49] a all-white basketball team i don't even

[00:51] know how he makes this transition but

[00:52] here we go

[00:54] but in order to push back against much

[00:57] of this a lot of this nonsense

[00:59] it's going to take courageous truth

[01:01] tellers and honestly someone that i have

[01:02] not spent i don't think any time on this

[01:03] program talking about

[01:05] but i have a great deal of respect for

[01:07] the kyrie irvings of the world

[01:09] and the novak choices of the world

[01:12] now i grew up with a lot of serbs in

[01:14] chicago i have a soft spot for serbs

[01:15] they're awesome i know the worst thing

[01:17] you could say in the serbian language

[01:18] and i will not say it on air because the

[01:20] fcc would find some way to still find me

[01:23] i played on the serbian basketball team

[01:24] actually my name was sheva kurkivich

[01:27] i could you not have a

[01:29] jersey that says

[01:31] the name of our basketball team was the

[01:33] illinois white eagles boy you couldn't

[01:35] call it team that anymore we were all

[01:36] white

[01:40] and we meant nothing racial about it of

[01:41] course not because we actually lived in

[01:43] america that was awesome we used to play

[01:44] all black basketball teams and we used

[01:46] to get along i kid you not

[01:48] we were all wow

[01:50] every everyone else was serbian except

[01:51] me but i kind of looked apart a little

[01:52] bit and kind of look a little bit like

[01:54] i'm from the balkan peninsula i could

[01:56] pull off a croatian bosnian-albanian

[01:58] serbian kind of deal and you would

[02:00] basketball aau which is really

[02:02] competitive basketball like waukegan or

[02:04] zion benton and elgin we travel all

[02:07] across the country

[02:09] and we'd play these all black teams and

[02:11] no one cared it was never like this

[02:12] racial thing no it was like we all got

[02:14] along and we all like hung out it would

[02:16] be like all white team versus all black

[02:18] team and we never thought anything of it

[02:20] i could you not there was never a moment

[02:22] ever and this is a little bit of a

[02:24] detour yeah all of a sudden we're going

[02:25] to see them in the locker room yeah we

[02:27] just kind of all know each other and

[02:28] they all know each other from like a

[02:29] serbian community it's kind of cool and

[02:31] who's that so you're okay so so

[02:33] basically his his argument is that they

[02:36] were cordial to one another so i don't

[02:38] know how he got there from saying i

[02:39] admire novak djokovic uh and and which

[02:43] he mispronounced and kyrie irving for

[02:45] their for their vaccine stances and then

[02:47] he goes on some diatribe where he says

[02:49] and i quote i have a soft spot for serbs

[02:52] which is a normal way to view human

[02:54] beings yeah

[02:55] go ahead brother okay it's also just

[02:57] weird because he's like 28 years old and

[02:59] he speaks like he's a 60 year old who

[03:01] was like playing basketball at a

[03:03] segregated high school back in like the

[03:05] 50s or whatever

[03:07] and like it's just like this glory road

[03:09] and he thinks that that's like his life

[03:11] basically

[03:12] he's gonna like he's gonna like recount

[03:13] the plot of the movie pride with uh

[03:16] terence howard yeah

[03:18] well they can't they don't allow like

[03:19] black people to swim

[03:20] so you know but he had an all-white slim

[03:22] team i imagine

[03:23] it's it's just weird that i think this

[03:25] like this level of like under 30 or like

[03:28] millennial like right-wing content

[03:29] creators are very weird because all of

[03:31] their stories just sound incredibly fake

[03:33] because they're just like you know back

[03:34] in my day it's like your day

[03:36] we had a we had an old white basketball

[03:38] team that usually happens in shows like

[03:40] riverdale

[03:41] how are his politics

[03:43] worse than remember the titans yeah it's

[03:46] like

[03:47] yeah it's the opposite message of

[03:48] remember the titans just look at how

[03:50] much happier people are when they have

[03:51] an ethnic based uh sports team and they

[03:54] don't even think about it and that's

[03:55] like the most like you know everybody in

[03:57] that movie thing everybody in today's

[03:59] america is like that is so heartwarming

[04:01] basically unless you're cynical about it

[04:03] like me but that so he's

[04:05] he's his politics are be behind that

[04:08] yeah also just uh the white eagles uh in

[04:11] quotations uh paramilitary this is a

[04:12] wikipedia entry the white eagles also

[04:14] known as the avengers were a serbian

[04:16] paramilitary group associated with the

[04:17] serbian national renewal and the serbian

[04:19] radical party yeah just skipping a

[04:21] little bit head down testimony at the

[04:23] international war crimes tribunal

[04:25] indicates that the white eagles are

[04:26] responsible for a number of atrocities

[04:27] including the croatian about during the

[04:29] croatian bosnian wars including the

[04:31] washing massacre visiguard massage

[04:33] crimes and i don't know how to pronounce

[04:35] all these but focha gecko and others

[04:36] various members of the white eagles were

[04:38] indicted by the tribunal mitar vessel

[04:40] vasiljovich

[04:42] received a 15-year sentence former head

[04:44] milan lukic received a life sentence for

[04:47] his war crimes which include murdering

[04:49] men women and children ah

[04:52] can't name teams like that anymore

[04:53] though yeah

[04:55] back in my day your serbian chicago

[04:57] basketball team after a group that's uh

[05:00] uh on the other side of the world um

[05:02] during war crimes why can't he decide if

[05:04] he's gonna be

[05:06] 19 or if he's going to be 86

[05:10] um that's a it's a weird thing with kirk

[05:12] because he's like canceled sports before

[05:14] like the kaepernick thing

[05:15] basically like

[05:17] he's not he's a guy that doesn't like

[05:18] sports he's like stephen crowder right

[05:20] but that

[05:21] goes against masculinity right yeah

[05:24] you're not supposed to not know anything

[05:25] about like what sport magic johnson

[05:27] played if you're a man and uh and that's

[05:30] the problem kirk has so i think he's

[05:31] like in a rush to sort of like

[05:34] have sports takes um you know he was in

[05:36] that uh supplement commercial throwing a

[05:38] football around uh i do remember that

[05:41] but yeah i don't know i don't think he

[05:42] can name like five athletes

[05:46] i i i'm desperately looking up i'm

[05:48] looking for photos

[05:50] i'm honestly so confused by that clip i

[05:52] mean i don't even with the tangents he

[05:54] went on i still don't understand what

[05:56] his point was uh

[05:58] because it weaved in three different

[06:00] like

[06:01] half of points i don't i i just

[06:05] yeah that's all i have to do

[06:06] i mean it's like a roar

[06:09] just bizarre

[06:11] i love a good tangent but i was going to

[06:12] say i'm desperately searching for a

[06:14] photo of this basketball team

[06:16] i

[06:17] i have got to find this

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