What recent comments has Charlie Kirk made about Black people and when were they said?

Executive summary (1.)

Charlie Kirk repeatedly made public comments over 2022–2025 that singled out Black people and Black culture, including a December 2022 remark about “WNBA, pot‑smoking, Black lesbian[s],” a 2023 podcast claim that “prowling Blacks” target white people, and a 2024/2025 on‑air line, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified,” all of which have been documented and circulated by news outlets and trackers such as Media Matters ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.

2. Key quoted remarks and when they were said

The most frequently cited comments appear in reporting as follows: in December 2022 Kirk asked on his show, “If you’re a WNBA, pot‑smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?” (reported as December 2022) ^{[1] [2]}; in 2023 he said on his podcast that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people,” a line described repeatedly in autumn 2025 retrospectives ^{[2] [4]}; and in 2024 (and repeated in later summaries) he said on The Charlie Kirk Show, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified,” which outlets quote when cataloguing his statements ^{[1] [4]}.

3. Platforms and documentation: where the remarks appeared

These comments were made across Kirk’s platforms — live shows, The Charlie Kirk Show podcast, social posts and campus events — and have been collected in posthumous roundups and investigations; several outlets explicitly note that many of the clips were compiled by Media Matters for America before being republished by The Guardian, The Irish Times, BBC and others ^{[3] [2] [4]}. Reporting cites specific podcast episodes and spoken appearances but often republishes the quotations rather than hosting the full original audio in their stories ^{[3] [2]}.

4. Public reaction and defenses of context

Responses were sharply divided: Black faith leaders and civil‑rights commentators condemned the remarks as part of a pattern of denigrating people of color and questioned memorialization that overlooks those statements ^[5], while supporters and some entertainers defended Kirk or disputed labels of “racist,” with comedian Terrence K. Williams publicly insisting Kirk “was not a racist” and citing Kirk’s outreach to some Black students ^[1]. News organizations note the role of ideological trackers and advocacy groups in collating his statements, which affects how the quotes are amplified and framed ^{[3] [2]}.

5. What the reporting shows — and what it does not

Available reporting consistently reproduces the same set of controversial lines and situates them between 2022 and 2024, but a caveat is that many articles rely on compiled excerpts rather than linking every original episode or timestamp, so independent verification of the precise date, full context and surrounding exchange for each quote may require reviewing primary audio/video archives or Media Matters’ original compilation referenced by outlets ^{[3] [2]}. Some secondary sources extend the catalogue of remarks (e.g., social posts and later comments on Juneteenth and crime statistics), but those summaries vary in detail and attribution, signaling that while the pattern of statements is well‑documented in major outlets, exact sourcing for every line is not always included in the reporting reproduced here ^{[6] [4]}.