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Answering Charlie Kirk’s Racist Ideas about Black Pilots and Surgeons with Easily-Found Facts
Charlie Kirk was obsessed with whiteness—he said liberal black women had to “go steal a white person’s slot” and the Civil Rights Act “created a beast, and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon.” On Jan. 18, 2024, he said,
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, “Boy, I hope he’s qualified.”… I want to be as blunt as possible because now I’m connecting two dots. Wait a second, this CEO just said that he’s forcing that a white qualified guy is not gonna get the job. So I see this guy, he might be a nice person and I say, “Boy, I hope he’s not a Harvard-style affirmative-action student that … landed half of his flight-simulator trials.” … And by the way, then you couple it with the FAA, air-traffic control, they got a bunch of morons and affirmative-action people.”
On June 3, 2025, he tried to clarify what he meant:
“When it comes to pilots or surgeons, if I see somebody who is Black, as I said on the show, I’m going to hope that that person is qualified. That’s what I said, which of course is legitimate because they’re begging the question, we’re not hiring based on merit anymore. We’re hiring based on race.”
The simple proof Kirk was wrong: The Federal Aviation Administration does not have…
