Nashville students ‘TRAUMATIZED’ after tie tribute controversey, says Savannah Chrisley

[00:06] >> Will: THIS WEEK CHARLIE

[00:07] KIRK RECEIVED THE PRESIDENTIAL

[00:09] MEDAL OF FREEDOM.

[00:10] AFTER HIS DEATH, STUDENTS ACROSS

[00:11] THE COUNTRY WANTED TO HONOR HIM

[00:12] BUT AT A SCHOOL IN NASHVILLE,

[00:14] TENNESSEE, THERE WAS SOME

[00:15] BACKLASH TO HOW THEY HANDLE

[00:17] THAT.

[00:19] SPOKESPERSON AT LIPSCOMB ACADEMY

[00:20] SAYS "A SMALL GROUP OF ACADEMY

[00:23] STUDENTS WORE RED TIES TO HONOR

[00:24] HER CHARLIE KIRK.

[00:25] WHILE THIS WAS OUT OF DRESS

[00:27] CODE, THEY WERE NOT DISCIPLINED

[00:27] FOR THEY WERE ASKED TO REMOVE

[00:31] THE TIES."

[00:32] SINCE THEN THE SCHOOL REPORTEDLY

[00:33] ISSUED AN APOLOGY AND SAYS IT

[00:35] WORK WITH STUDENTS TO PLAN A

[00:37] FUTURE CHAPEL FOCUSED ON BEING

[00:39] BOLD AND IMPACTFUL IN THEIR

[00:40] FAITH.

[00:41] THAT SERVICE WAS HELD LAST

[00:44] TUESDAY.

[00:45] TV PERSONALITY AND ENTREPRENEUR

[00:46] SAVANNAH CHRISLEY HAS BEEN

[00:47] OUTSPOKEN ABOUT THIS ISSUE WHICH

[00:50] EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF

[00:51] STANDING UP TO CRITICS DURING A

[00:53] TURNING POINT EVENT AT THE

[00:55] UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA LAST

[00:57] NIGHT.

[00:58] >> SO, TO EVERY STUDENT WHO

[00:59] HATED THAT I CAME HERE TONIGHT,

[01:02] THANK YOU.

[01:02] YOUR REJECTION IS MY

[01:04] CONFIRMATION.

[01:06] YOUR OPPOSITION PROVES THAT THIS

[01:06] MISSION STILL MATTERS.

[01:09] IF CHARLIE WERE HERE, HE WOULD

[01:12] HAVE SMILED TOO BECAUSE HE KNEW

[01:15] THE MOMENT THEY TRY TO SILENCE

[01:16] YOU IS THE MOMENT YOU KNOW THAT

[01:18] YOU'RE SPEAKING THE TRUTH.

[01:20] I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THAT

[01:23] CHARLIE WOULD TELL US "LET THEM

[01:27] THROW AWAY THE SCIENCE.

[01:28] JUST DON'T YOU DARE THROW AWAY

[01:30] YOUR COURAGE."

[01:33] STU AND I SPOKE WITH SAVANAH

[01:34] ABOUT HER PUSH FOR HONEST

[01:36] DIALOGUE BETWEEN PARENTS, STUDED

[01:37] FAITH-BASED SCHOOLS.

[01:38] HERE'S OUR CONVERSATION.

[01:40] THANKS FOR BEING WITH US.

[01:44] LIPSCOMB ACADEMY IN NASHVILLE,

[01:46] FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND MEN THERE

[01:47] FOR WELL OVER A HUNDRED YEARS.

[01:50] SUPPOSED TO BE FAITH-BASED.

[01:51] AND YET HERE WE ARE TODAY IN A

[01:53] PLACE THAT MANY PARENTS I KNOW

[01:54] I'M NOT JUST YOURSELF ARE VERY,

[01:56] VERY DISAPPOINTED IN LIPSCOMB.

[02:01] >> WITHOUT A DOUBT.

[02:02] LIPSCOMB IS A CHURCH OF CHRIST

[02:03] SCHOOL.

[02:04] TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON THERE IS

[02:06] JUST HEARTBREAKING TO SAY THE

[02:08] LEAST.

[02:09] I MEAN, YOU HAVE ALL THESE

[02:10] RADICAL LEFTISTS WHO HAVE COME

[02:11] IN WITH THEIR PROPAGANDA THAT

[02:14] ARE TEACHERS AND HOW THEY

[02:16] HANDLED THE SITUATION INVOLVING

[02:17] CHARLIE KIRK WAS HEARTBREAKING.

[02:21] STUDENTS HAVE BEEN TRAUMATIZED.

[02:22] I HAVE THEM COMING TO ME BEGGING

[02:24] ME TO SPEAK OUT.

[02:25] EVEN WENT TO THE HEAD OF THE

[02:27] SCHOOL AND ASKED FOR A MEETING

[02:29] AND FINALLY AFTER A FEW DAYS,

[02:30] THEY AGREED TO HAVE A MEETING

[02:32] THAT MET ME WITH THEIR

[02:33] GENERAL COUNSEL AND TRIED TO GET

[02:36] ME TO SIGN AN NDA.

[02:38] >> Will: INCREDIBLE.

[02:38] HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS?

[02:39] I WAS CURIOUS SO I LOOKED INTO

[02:42] THIS BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT

[02:44] WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING AT

[02:45] LIPSCOMB IS NOT AN ISOLATED

[02:47] INCIDENT.

[02:47] YOU ARE SEEING IT ACROSS THE

[02:49] COUNTRY THAT A LOT OF SCHOOLS

[02:50] AND HOW THEY HANDLED SCHOOLS

[02:51] LOOKING TO REMEMBER CHARLIE KIRK

[02:53] SO I WAS CURIOUS, HOW DO THEY

[02:54] HANDLE GEORGE FLOYD?

[02:57] WE DID SEE THIS POST.

[02:59] THEY WROTE "I WRITE TO YOU THIS

[03:00] EVENING WITH A SENSE OF DEEP

[03:02] SADNESS AS WE RESPOND TO THE

[03:03] TRAGIC AND INEXCUSABLE TO DEATHS

[03:07] OF GEORGE FLOYD, AHMAUD ARBERY,

[03:08] BREONNA TAYLOR.

[03:09] INSTANCES WHEN THE LIVES OF

[03:10] BLACK AMERICANS HAVE BEEN

[03:12] WRONGFULLY TAKEN.

[03:15] REVEALING INJUSTICE AND

[03:15] INEQUALITY IN OUR NATION AND THE

[03:17] LIPSCOMB COMMUNITY STANDS ON THE

[03:18] SIDE OF RESPECT AND LOVE.

[03:20] WE ARE INTOLERANT OF RACIAL

[03:22] VIEWS."

[03:23] I HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MY

[03:25] WORLD ASKING ME WHERE ARE THE

[03:27] EMAILS AFTER CHARLIE KIRK WAS

[03:28] ASSASSINATED?

[03:30] HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE

[03:31] DIFFERENCE?

[03:34] >> SO, AS A --

[03:36] MY SISTER GO TO THIS SCHOOL AND

[03:37] I RECEIVE ALL THE EMAILS.

[03:38] WE DID NOT RECEIVE AN EMAIL

[03:40] UNTIL MAYBE TWO WEEKS AFTER

[03:42] CHARLIE'S DEATH AND THEY WERE

[03:43] STILL BEATING AROUND THE BUSH.

[03:45] NEVER ONE TIME DID THEY CONDEMN

[03:47] VIOLENCE AGAINST CHARLIE KIRK.

[03:49] NEVER ONE TIME DID THEY SAY THEY

[03:50] WERE STANDING WITH THE STUDENTS

[03:53] AND THAT'S FOR MY ISSUE CAME

[03:55] FROM.

[03:55] IF YOU'RE GOING SAY ALL LIVES

[03:58] MATTER THEN CHARLIE'S LIFE

[03:59] MATTERS JUST AS MUCH AS

[04:01] GEORGE FLOYD STATED WHEN THEY

[04:02] SENT OUT ALL THESE RESOURCES FOR

[04:04] THESE CHILDREN.

[04:05] LAST NIGHT LIPSCOMB DECIDED THEY

[04:06] WERE GOING TO HAVE AN EVENT TO

[04:10] HONOR CHARLIE AND IT WAS JUST

[04:12] COMPLETE --

[04:12] THEY BUTCHERED IT.

[04:13] IT ONLY LASTED 23 MINUTES.

[04:17] SO IN LIPSCOMB ACADEMY SIZE,

[04:18] CHARLIE KIRK'S LIFE WAS ONLY

[04:21] WORTH 23 MINUTES.

[04:21] >> Will: IT'S HARD TO IGNORE

[04:23] WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING AND

[04:25] REVEALING ABOUT THE WAY SCHOOLS

[04:26] AND IN THIS CASE LIPSCOMB

[04:29] RESPOND VERY DIFFERENTLY TO

[04:30] THESE SITUATIONS.

[04:31] IT DOES TAKE YOU BACK TO WHY.

[04:33] MOST OF THESE PRIVATE SCHOOLS

[04:35] ARE CHRISTIAN-BASED.

[04:36] LIPSCOMB IS CHURCH OF CHRIST.

[04:38] THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST PLACES

[04:41] WE ARE SURPRISED BY THESE

[04:43] RESPONSES.

[04:44] >> YES.

[04:44] THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST PLACE.

[04:46] BUT WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE SUCH AS

[04:49] DR. CANDACE McQUEEN AND BRAD

[04:51] SCHOLZ RUNNING THIS SCHOOL,

[04:53] BLACK-SCHOLES WROTE HIS COLLEGE

[04:56] DISSERTATION ON THE EIN PRIVATE

[04:59] CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS AND HOW HE WAS

[05:01] SUPPOSED TO --

[05:02] SUPPOSEDLY ALLEGEDLY A CANDIDATE

[05:04] FOR THAT, HOW HE SUPPORTED IT

[05:05] AND THAT'S WHAT HE WANTED SO FOR

[05:07] ME THAT'S AN ISSUE.

[05:08] THIS IS A CHURCH OF CHRIST

[05:13] SCHOOL.

[05:13] WE SHOULD BE TEACHING THEM TO

[05:14] HAVE VOICE AND THEY SHOULDN'T BE

[05:17] AFRAID TO SHOW UP TO SCHOOL AND

[05:18] UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S WHERE KIDS

[05:20] ARE NOW.

[05:20] THEY ARE AFRAID OF SHOWING UP.

[05:22] YOU HAVE DR. SAVAGE WHO THESE

[05:24] KIDS FEEL INTIMIDATED BY IT AND

[05:26] THEN HEAD TEACHER SHOWING UP

[05:26] WEARING ALL BLACK IN PROTEST AND

[05:29] THERE WAS A PROTEST HELD AT THE

[05:32] SCHOOL.

[05:33] A SINGLE PARENT WASN'T NOTIFIED

[05:34] AND THERE WAS A TEACHER INVITING

[05:35] CHILDREN TO THIS PROTEST BECAUSE

[05:38] DR. SAVAGE GOT DEMOTED WHICH IN

[05:41] REALITY HE DIDN'T, HE GOT

[05:43] PROMOTED OVER THE ACADEMICS OF

[05:43] THE ENTIRE SCHOOL.

[05:46] >> Will: REALLY QUICK,

[05:48] SAVANAH, IS THIS WHAT PARENTS

[05:49] WANT?

[05:50] IS THIS WHAT DONORS WANT?

[05:52] >> THIS IS NOT WHAT PARENTS

[05:53] WANT.

[05:53] THIS IS NOT WHAT DONORS WANT.

[05:55] WE WANTED CHARLIE'S LIFE TO BE

[05:57] HONORED FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.

[05:58] HE STOOD FOR FAMILY, FAITH, AND

[06:02] FREEDOM.

[06:03] LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY RECEIVES

[06:04] FEDERAL FUNDING.

[06:06] $4.8 MILLION IN 2023.

[06:08] LINDA McMAHON NEEDS TO LOOK

[06:10] INTO EXACTLY WHAT LIPSCOMB

[06:11] UNIVERSITY IN LIPSCOMB ACADEMY

[06:14] IS TEACHING.

[06:15] BECAUSE THEY ARE HAVING THEIR

[06:16] STAFF MEMBERS READ BOOKS ON HOW

[06:18] TO BE AN ANTIRACIST AND HOW

[06:20] WHITE SUPREMACY STILL EXISTS.

[06:21] >> Will: IF YOU ARE NOT

[06:23] SERVING THE STUDENTS, THE

[06:24] INTERESTS OF PARENTS, THE

[06:26] INTERESTS OF DONORS, WHOSE

[06:27] INTERESTS ARE YOU SERVING?

[06:29] SOME OF THESE PRIVATE SCHOOLS,

[06:30] MOST NOTABLY LIPSCOMB HERE

[06:31] BEFORE YOU GO, YOU SAID A COUPLE

[06:33] MONTHS AGO NOW ISN'T THE RIGHT

[06:35] TIME TO RUN FOR CONGRESS.

[06:36] YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS

[06:38] GOING ON OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE.

[06:40] HAS ANYTHING CHANGED?

[06:43] >> AS OF NOW, IT HAS NOT.

[06:44] I HAVE DEFINITELY SPOKEN WITH

[06:45] SOME FRIENDS IN THE POLITICAL

[06:47] WORLD AND THAT'S A GOAL OF MINE,

[06:52] DREAM OF MINE.

[06:53] WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME?

[06:55] WHEN MARSHA BLACKBURN RUNS FOR

[06:57] GOVERNOR?

[06:58] OR IS IT A DIFFERENT TIME.

[06:59] WHO KNOWS.

[07:00] I BELIEVE GOD HAS GOT A PLAN FOR

[07:02] EVERYTHING.

[07:03] CHARLIE HAS INSPIRED ME TO

[07:04] CONTINUE TO STAND UP, STAND

[07:05] STRONG IN MY FAITH, STAND STRONG

[07:08] IN MY BELIEFS.

[07:09] WHO KNOWS.

[07:10] >> Will: OKAY.

[07:11] HOPEFU