Posted on 09/12/2025 6:07:57 PM PDT by lasereye
Claim:
Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk once said some prominent Black women did not have "the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously."
Rating:
True
Context:
Kirk was speaking on his show, "The Charlie Kirk Show," on July 13, 2023. He was talking specifically about television presenter Joy Reid; former first lady Michelle Obama; then-U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas; and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
After the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk, a conservative commentator and ally to U.S. President Donald Trump, a rumor spread that he had once said Black women like television presenter Joy Reid; former first lady Michelle Obama; former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas; and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did "not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously."
For example, a Sept. 11, 2025, post on X included a video clip of Kirk saying, "You have to go steal a white person's slot"
The claim was true and the video clip of Kirk saying this was authentic. Snopes identified an episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" (archived) from July 13, 2023, in which Kirk named these four Black women and said these words, adding that the admission that they had benefited from affirmative action amounted to a confession that they were not bright enough to reach prominence on their merits (the segment begins at 53:45):
If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us! They're coming out and they're saying, "I'm only here because of affirmative action."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously.
#CharlieKirk:
"Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot." pic.twitter.com/j6PKQec2gn— Elizabeth (@alluring_nyc) September 11, 2025
If you're not reading the article carefully you will think that Charlie said that.
The title of the MSN article is also phrased in a misleading way. IMO the text of the article accurately states what he said in the video (aside from embedding the lying tweet).
Then toward the end of the article it says Snopes also has confirmed Kirk...called empathy a "made-up, new age term." That is a partial quote that distorts what he was saying.
The video where Charlie made his remarks is embedded in the @alluring_nyc tweet. He was very funny.
Well, we know Biden made DIE appointments to SCOTUS and the Vice Presidency.
so he said it, then gave examples of it....he won, the criminal liberal media lost- again...
I think when the context is known as to whom he was referencing, he was 100% spot on.
He had a pretty good list.
He’s right.
Where’s the problem?
Joy Reid own network cut the cord. The ratio’s exposed on social media were just to embarrassing.
They left an important word in that title!
Charlie Kirk once said SOME prominent Black women didn’t have ‘brain processing power’ to be taken seriously.
Ie DEI
These writers are evil manipulators.
SOME does not equal ALL.
They thrive creating stories where the truth is taken out of context.
MSN.......dishonest....
Gee, there’s news.
That [not Davy] Crockett woman seems to be devolving from her initial intellect and learning.
She’s now a cartoon character.
He was right...at least not those following and supporting the RAT party.
Michelle Obama was not nominated for anything either, so I don't know what's she's talking about. Unless she means her lawyer job. Or Obama picking her to marry him.
Prove him wrong......I have no problem with him saying that and I do think it was NOT a slam and as usual he was right.....RIP Charlie!
Charlie spoke the truth.
Those mental midgits combined lack the power of a 70’s Texas Instruments calculator.
This is all they got? There are really reaching.
I will not believe that until I see a verified tape.
Where’s the lie?
John 8:44
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