By the strained reasoning of some, one of the largest crowds for a single person in history, plus more than 100 million who watched Charlie Kirk’s memorials on most major television networks and online, must surely be racist, because, after all, Mr. Kirk was a racist.

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He called a Black child “a gift from the Lord”:

 

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And Damani Bryant Felder wants his Black children to “grow up  watching Charlie Kirk.” Here he’s saying, “You will never be the best version of yourself if you allow other people to convince you that you can’t be better because of your skin color…”

Mr. Kirk told Voddie Bacham (best-selling author and educator who died on September 25 and spoke against Marxism and for the godly advancement of Black people), “We need you in front of millions and millions of more people…”:

Dr. Ben Carson broke down weeping over the assassination:

The Honorable Michelle Bachmann put her finger on what’s really going on here… years ago:

When Barack Obama was president, Republican congressional leaders often pushed members to support him with their votes to avoid appearing “racist.” Bachmann remembers one particular closed-door meeting: “I looked around the room at all my Republican colleagues, and I said, ‘Are you a racist? I’m not a racist. This isn’t about the color of anybody’s skin. This is about issues.”

Pastor Rick Brown served alongside Pastor Rob McCoy, who spoke at Mr. Kirk’s Arizona memorial. Rev. Brown was brought onto the Turning Point USA team, at first as a bodyguard for Mr. Kirk. Rev. Brown said, “Charlie Kirk absolutely was not a racist.” Rev. Brown called this a “smear and fear campaign.” He said:

That’s the way the Left works. They smear and discredit you: You’re a xenophobe, you’re a transphobe, you’re a homophobe, you’re a whatever-phobe, you are a Christofascist psycho, and most people it shuts down. They’re like, “Oh, okay, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.” And Charlie’s like, “I’m none of those things, and I’m willing to talk with anybody about that.” And being with Charlie on a number of college campuses, he’s like, “Whoever disagrees with me, come to the front of the line.” And they are calling him a racist, and he just has a calm, logical, reasonable conversation with them. He’s patient with them, he’s kind with them.

Rev. Brown recommends a book Manning Johnson wrote in 1958, Color, Communism, and Common Sense, saying:

Manning Johnson was a black activist who was recruited by the Communist Party. He was trained for 10 years in how to infiltrate the Church of the South, to convert it to communism. But after 10 years, he finally woke up and said, “Oh, the communists don’t care about the Black folks.” He gives all these examples of fear and smear back from 1958, so nothing changes. The Communist Party has an agenda, and these people are socialists, communists. They all have the same playbook. The people who rejoice the most about Charlie Kirk’s assassination were teachers and professors, and that’s what’s going on in our universities, and that’s what Charlie was standing up against. And he went right into the lion’s den: literally thousands of kids. There’s no more hostile place for Christians or conservatives than a college campus. And he just went right there.

Hear Rev. Brown’s whole interview:

Lee Habeeb confirmed how campuses have been shutting down conservative voices over the years. He is the creator and host of Our American Stories and Vice President of Content for Salem Media Group, which has carried The Charlie Kirk Show for nearly a decade. Mr. Habeeb told IFA:

The cultural Marxists had purged conservatives from campuses. It’s down to, like, 6% of college professors in the liberal arts voted for Trump. Six percent: That’s a purge. That’s not an accident. That was a deliberate purge.

Mr. Habeeb’s name means “beloved” in Arabic, and he said:

Charlie loved everybody. And you could see it. I just tell people, watch an hour of him, eight minutes at a time. Charlie was deconstructing Cultural Marxism. That’s all he was doing. He was always bringing Black people to the front of the line, and he always treated them with dignity.

Hear Mr. Habeeb’s whole interview:

Many statements Mr. Kirk made are being circulated without context, such as, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ’Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” His next words were, “That’s not who I am. That’s not what I believe,” and here’s his explanation, picked up by Nigerian YouTuber Merit Ifeanyi Onyedum:

Dr. Carol Swain, who has spoken at Turning Point USA events, is a retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and a frequent television analyst and author. She told IFA she knew Mr. Kirk “since he first came on the scene, as a teenager with a vision.” She said,

Charlie Kirk was by no means a racist. He was a young man who was interested in ideas as well as faith. And the statement that’s been blasted across the world, that he was a racist, and he said that Black women were stupid, was taken out of context. He was referring to specific Black women… some of the clearly DEI appointees. They went after Charlie, and so in a heated debate, he was referring to specific individuals, and he certainly wasn’t referring to me, and people like me. The ones he was referring to: They know who they are, and I’ve called them the same thing.

Hear her whole interview:

Was Mr. Kirk a Saint?

Mr. Kirk, who was in his 20s when he said many of the things being held against him, was no more perfect than anyone but Jesus Christ. Mr. Habeeb mentioned how Mr. Kirk criticized the sinful behaviors of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting:

I don’t think Charlie handled that completely correctly. I mean, everybody’s a bad guy. I’m a bad guy. We’re bad guys. And if Satan wanted to go after one person in America in the middle of the 1960s, it was Martin Luther King. So yes, he watched women get abused in front of him. He actually watched it, and it was terrible. But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a great man.

Despite Mr. Kirk’s imperfect references to Dr. King, his niece, Dr. Alveda King, said, “Now is not the time to attack Charlie. It’s the time to lift up the banner of Christ. As a member of the one blood human race, Charlie Kirk did.”

Let’s pray this wicked lie will be quenched and that the revival will continue to rise!

Rich Swingle has presented in 42 nations on six continents, mostly with his own one-man plays, including I Dreamed I Was Free, about John Woolman, who spoke against slavery (as Mr. Kirk did) a century before the Civil War. Rich and his bride Joyce Swingle have 41 screen children. They have developed a “singing play” about the Welsh and Asbury Revivals. The Swingles live in New York City. www.RichDrama.com. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Charlie Kirk, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=174850134.