White Nationalist Charlie Kirk Shot & Killed

Charlie Kirk, a Christian white nationalist recruiter of young people has died from a gun shot wound at event on a college campus in Utah. Kirk, a close associate to Donald Trump, did not have an official political office; so I found it interesting that some of the major media outlets such as ABC news and others are using the term "assassination". The shooting occurred yesterday at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Once Kirk was shot, the crowd panicked and started out running for safety. At this point, there remains conflicting information if the actual suspect is in custody.

Ironically, the question being posed to Kirk at the time of the shooting was one about guns and the Second Amendment. 

Kirk was one of the co-founders of a extreme right conservative organization called "The Turning Point" and was quite a controversial figure. One his biggest objectives was to target young students of voting age on college campuses in an effort to expand his white nationalist ideology. Kirk was not a believer of separation of church and state, and would often advise our white supremacist president on a variety of matters, going so far to help devise specific strategies. He would often be seen in the West Wing of the White House.

Charlie Kirk was a blatant openly racist man, publicly asserting whites were the most intelligent race, and purporting blacks were intellectually inferior. Kirk referred George Floyd to being a "scumbag" after Floyd's murder by Derek Chauvin which occurred in 2020. Kirk was also a speaker at the Republican National Convention in 2016 and 2020.

The House of Representatives held a moment of silence after Kirk died, and congressional members called out a plea to turn down the rhetoric.

What kind of rhetoric? Alligator Alcatraz rhetoric? Or the kind which says D.E.I. causes plane crashes, even if the pilots are white. What kind of rhetoric? The kind where a 34 count felon president says blacks are destined to be criminals. Or perhaps the kind where U.S, senators such as Joni Ernst say "we are all going to die" when questioned about people losing Medicaid. 

And how about the kind of rhetoric recently uttered by advocate of Project 2025 white supremacist Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri:

"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants. They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us.

America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. 

If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true...."

Yep. Maybe that kind of rhetoric.