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American lawyer and politician (1950–2024)
Multiple outlets and public records document specific racist statements attributed to Charlie Kirk between 2022 and 2024, including comments about Black women, Black pilots, and “prowling Blacks,” as ...
Available reporting documents multiple high-profile, racially charged statements by Charlie Kirk — including calling George Floyd a “scumbag,” saying “prowling Blacks” target white people, and suggest...
Charlie Kirk said in 2023 that Michelle Obama, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joy Reid and the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really serious...
Charlie Kirk said in a July 13, 2023 episode of his show that specific Black public figures — Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson — were “affirmative-action picks” a...
Charlie Kirk is reported to have made multiple derogatory remarks about Black people and prominent Black women in September 2025; fact-checking articles and compiled excerpts record him saying that an...
A handful of Charlie Kirk’s most inflammatory remarks about women and gender have been independently verified by fact‑checking and reporting: notably his July 13, 2023 on‑air line singling out specifi...
Charlie Kirk has been widely cited for multiple public remarks and social posts that critics call racist; reporting and compilations point to recurring themes — disparaging Black people, questioning B...
Charlie Kirk did make publicly reported comments that questioned the intellectual qualifications of four prominent Black women — Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, and Justice Ketanji ...
Charlie Kirk’s widely cited “original comment” was not about a Black pilot; it targeted affirmative-action policies and specific Black women, asserting they lacked the “brain processing power” to be t...
Charlie Kirk publicly made several derogatory claims about prominent Black women, asserting they lacked “brain processing power” and suggesting affirmative action explained their success; multiple fac...
Charlie Kirk repeatedly made public remarks that demeaned Black women, asserting that prominent Black female figures had insufficient “brain processing power” and suggesting their positions were produ...
Charlie Kirk did not use the exact phrase "moronic black woman" to single out one individual; instead, his recorded comments targeted both a hypothetical customer-service representative and several na...
said in a July 2023 episode of that several high-profile Black women — specifically , , and — lacked “the to otherwise be taken really seriously,” a line documented by from the archived program . That...
Republicans controlled a *narrow House majority* and the Senate was *nearly evenly split* at the start of 2025, but published counts in the provided analyses differ by a few seats depending on updates...
Charlie Kirk has repeatedly made overtly racist and racially disparaging remarks on public platforms, including calling prominent Black women “affirmative action picks” who “do not have the brain proc...
Critics in multiple news reports have cited a set of explicit Charlie Kirk quotes that they describe as racist, notably: “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like ‘boy, I hope he is qualified’” (repo...
Charlie Kirk’s remark about a “moronic Black woman” appears in multiple contemporaneous reports as part of a broader on-air critique of affirmative action, not an isolated offhand insult; he questione...
Charlie Kirk publicly made multiple disparaging remarks about Black people and prominent Black women that have been documented by fact-checkers and media monitors, including calling Black people “prow...
Charlie Kirk publicly stated that several prominent Black women, including Michelle Obama, lacked “brain processing power” and therefore could not be taken seriously; that claim is verified by a and w...
The line attributed to about —“ to otherwise be taken really seriously” (often circulated in abridged or paraphrased form)—was spoken on a July 13, 2023 episode of , where Kirk named Michelle Obama al...